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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 20m

Dun, dee, dun, dee, dun, dee, dun, dee
Do, dun, dun, dee ...🎵🏊🏼‍♂️🦈

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3d

okay who did this?

A display of wild swimming books. At the bottom of the display, under all the other books is a copy of JAWS by Peter Benchley.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 33m

Clear classist bias in this philosopher's whodunnit. The investigation ignored Colonel Mustard to focus solely on the butler from the outset. 😄 (It IS accurate on the tedium of some academic writing though.)

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13h

Why is academic writing so boring?

Every now again I like to post my old Guardian columns. This one, from 2007, now counts as an antique.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Literary boredom

Academics love a dull read, says Jonathan Wolff.

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 37m

The obvious framing is awful.

All evidence suggests it was Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a candlestick.

Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 39m

"Thoroughly" interesting, especially the insight on a philosopher's whodunnit and what the butler saw (close up).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 45m

Two takeaways:
- The Flood Re scheme that covers high risk properties ends in 2039; then owners will pay full market rates meaning many will be totally uninsurable (like some hurricane areas in Florida)
- MUCH more has to be invested in "slow the flow" nature-based measures (hear that, Rachel?)

Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 53m

Absolutely terrifying - the government is leaving communities utterly exposed to the effects of the climate emergency. We urgently need a plan with binding targets for how this govt will protect us as extreme heat and flooding worsen in the years ahead.

Screenshot of a Guardian headline: "Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk"

Subheading: "Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds"

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 15h

Sunak saddled us with 25 year contracts with Freeports that's why Labour says we can't join the single market. And my local MP confirmed it. We have been really stitched up. UK Freeports are incompatible with EU ones because companies pay no tax on customs and excise.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 21h

The far right of the Anglosphere is financed by Big Oil

It’s not just #Canada

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 11h

Well, they don't want to go for the Teutonic Order in a single move

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 20h

Enemy of the people...

PeteGulls @gullssinceaboy.bsky.social · 20h

Farage accused of doing the dirty on one of Putin’s enemies. Colour me shocked. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Reform UK faces formal complaint of 'false and misleading' statements

The Ukrainian community in Caerphilly accuse Nigel Farage's party of publishing 'false and misleading' statements about Welsh Labour's Nation of Sanctuary scheme

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

Huda Abu al-Naja has died in Israeli occupied Palestine's devastated Gaza Strip.

Israel didn't allow her medical evacuation abroad for treatment.

#BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine #Zionism

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Carolin Lucas, "The level of disgust and distrust in the population is like nothing I've ever seen before"

"It's really dangerous and scary"

"It's so important there is a voice out there offering hope and solutions and isn't afraid to say what it thinks"

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 13h

Not just Musk.

Far right zionist billionaires aligned with the most genocidal parts of the settler movement have also been generous.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...

An American tech billionaire was instrumental in funding the far-right figure’s rise to stardom – and even paid for his new set of teeth

observer.co.uk

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump managed to insult almost every world leader at the Gaza press conference. Erdogan got a thumbs up though.

Canada PM Mark Carney: “I am glad you upgraded me to President.”

Trump: “At least I didn't say Governor.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco.

Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco even as Benioff softens stance

With Dreamforce about to kick off in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff inserted himself into a national debate about crime in U.S. cities.

www.cnbc.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 12h

Reform Reform!

Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 16h

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 12h

Damn, this is rising rapidly

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14h

W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections.
Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZ2c8B

W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections

The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics.

nyti.ms

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 12h

The rot of democracy sped up from that point. It's now flowing all over UK politics too

RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 19h

Soon after John Roberts and Sam Alito were installed on the court two decades ago, they helped deliver the apotheosis: 2010’s Citizens United opinion manufacturing the legal fiction that spending by

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12h

The fear politics of the European radicalised right: the front cover of 'The European Conservative'. A white European family sit in their home with animated Islamic & LGBT activists outside threatening their sanctuary. All coded signs about the threat to 'Western civilisation.'

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