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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 54m

Right, I have read the three published witness statements closely, and...

...well.

I have spotted some rather interesting points.

I may also have worked out how the CPS thought the evidential test was somehow met at charging stage but not on the eve of prosecution.

Post will be up about 10am.

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 59m

It’s striking what a professional job Matt Collins did in these witness statements. The first describes in forensic detail the threat from Chinese intelligence operations and how this was ‘prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state’. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Witness statements in relation to alleged breach of Official Secrets Act on behalf of China

As the Prime Minister said in the House, he has carefully considered this matter and, following legal advice, the Prime Minister decided to disclose the witness statements in full.

www.gov.uk

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 45m

Citizen science opportunity to help with recovering historical weather data ⬇️

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 2h

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

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Nick Ridpath @nickridpath.bsky.social · 2h

With a fiscal “groundhog day” of discussions about how the Chancellor could keep meeting her fiscal rules for the second time this year, we were wondering: what are the chances we could be doing all this again in Spring? The answer: pretty high. Particularly nerdy thread:

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 1h

We're off to see them in concert tonight in Sheffield.

annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 1h

Has anyone done a study on the correlation between political ignorance (low information voters) and support for a particular party?

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 3h

The China spying case

The PM has published the witness statements as promised yesterday.

Definitely worth reading through them...the first statement is by far the longest.

Some interesting revelations. But nothing suggests to me that the current government has done anything wrong.

Witness statements in relation to alleged breach of Official Secrets Act on behalf of China

As the Prime Minister said in the House, he has carefully considered this matter and, following legal advice, the Prime Minister decided to disclose the witness statements in full.

www.gov.uk

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Sawn Bones KC @seanjones.org · 1h

Experts are such a drag! You propose a nice simple answer to a big problem and they’re all like “that approach has been tried many times and invariably failed” and “the problem is more complex than that” and “what about the disastrous unintended consequences?” and blah blah blah.

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Emyriad @emyriad.bsky.social · 6h

These are up all over my city tonight <3

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Mel 🍂🍄 @thequietplace.bsky.social · 20h

Over on the the old bird app people seem to be claiming that girls can’t like Star Wars which is totally ridiculous. I like it so much I even grow the “Star Wars” dahlia! Take that guys 😝😂 🌱 #StarWars

The Star Wars dahlia with twin sun blooms

The entrance hall in Rise of the Resistance at WDS in Florida

The sea front of Niamos from Andor (Cleveleys Lancashire)

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Stillngam🌱💐🌿🦋🌱 @stillngam.bsky.social · 19h

After the three days of noreaster

Fall leaves of various types and colors in back of pond & blue skies

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Bill Roorbach @billroorbach.bsky.social · 16h

Woolly Bear! Saddle shoes, my mother used to call them… 🌱 #insects #caterpillars

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GardeningWell @gardeningwell.ie · 13h

If you like gardeningWell, you’ll love FreeTrees.

Because who doesn’t want free native Irish trees?
🌲 🌱🦋

gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/freetrees-ie

Zack holds a bundle of native Irish trees as he prepares them for free distribution to people in the local area. Zack is only one of hundreds of volunteers who organize 3 to 3 distribution for freetrees.ie.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 12h

🌱 Good picture/bad picture. Happy to catch this beauty even though the lighting is harsh and the background is weird.

Fritillary butterfly fully open among orange cosmos. Some drying stuff mixed in, and a pole section with weirdly wrapped hardware cloth that, though ugly, does nothing to deter squirrels from climbing up to the birdfeeder (not shown.) A section of brick wall in the background with a pattern of leaf shadows on it.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11h

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️🧡⚜️🍁⚜️💛⚜️🍁⚜️🩷⚜️🍁⚜️💜⚜️

All the colours of autumn in just one tree

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zzorgon.bsky.social @zzorgon.bsky.social · 11h

Timeline Cleanse

Drone photographs of polar bears just chilling at an abandoned Russian research station in kind of a reverse Goldilocks

apnews.com/photo-galler...

Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station

Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov.

apnews.com

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 11h

Tonight's sunset reflected off of trees with fiery orange & red leaves against a gray sky.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Journalists at the Pentagon have handed over their badges and walked out after refusing to submit to repressive new press access rules from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

I just saw these two baby gators at the edge of a lake near our home in Florida. They’re so cute — from a distance! 🐊 😂

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annekin1.bsky.social @annekin1.bsky.social · 11h

I like that Miliband essentially cast shade at Reform by approving the Solar farm where they control the council.

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 14h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 12h

The simple fact is that the Government is going to have to find a way of rebuilding local government finances systematically. The decay of public realm and social infrastructure is deeply corrosive of public trust. Everyday, people can see the state not working all around them.

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 14h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 12h

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees

Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results

If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 1d

“This is unprecedented – we’re nearing a third of all new vehicles sold in the fourth-largest economy on the planet being clean cars,” — @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom

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