🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Stuart
@stuartmanderson.bsky.social
RIP Twitter account (2009-2024). Hello Mr Bluesky... UK citizen #823,823
Literally incapable of not making every single thing about himself.
Trump Just Dubiously Claimed That Dolly Parton 'Really Liked Me'—And Even Glenn Beck Laughed
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I was just thinking about the fact that Dolly Parton and Donald Trump were the same age
Timed beautifully to coincide with the RFK-inspired explosive diarrhoea epidemic. Well done, the writers room.
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated.
Zuckerberg pays $16.7Bn to deny wrongdoing in online child safety case. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meta agrees to pay up to $16.7bn to settle social media case
The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by 29 states.
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Foreign students don’t get UK student loans. Stupidest party in the world with the most gullible followers.
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
Absolute kuntz... Jeffrey Kuntz was nominated as a federal judge by Trump in April. BBC News - Judge swapped in Trump's defamation case against BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Judge swapped in Trump's defamation case against BBC
A judge who was recently nominated by the US president to serve in Florida's federal court will now preside over his $10bn defamation case against the BBC.
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29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
My article about @jodrellbank.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today: bit.ly/3UneUVN
Jodrell Bank isn’t a museum – it’s a place where science ...
The funding cut threatening the observatory has caused a public outcry and reinforced the site’s image as the spiritual and practical home of astronomy
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Another fantastic news production @channel4news.bsky.social . Thought provoking and such a contrast to the news from the other main channels.
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Reform councils in action. Selling the country's lungs that keep us cooler. I'm sure Kent will be fine even hotter and drier. Paying attention #Clacton?
Campaigners rail against ‘plundering’ of ancient Kent woodland to make way for quarry expansion
Latest blog now out, keep an eye out for more information upcoming to help respond to the first stage of the local plan consultation savedanesmoss.com/is-danes-mos...
Is Danes Moss Saved Yet? - Save Danes Moss
Save(d) Danes Moss?
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Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.
This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.
Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline of area burned in 2025
The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.
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"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."