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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

Good joke. LOL.

Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

Glad to see the Belfast Telegraph is giving due prominence to Belfast-born subscribers who live in England with a retired teacher spouse. An important market segment.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/obes...

Obesity levels among Reception and Year 6 children in England, by local area

Here is a full list of the estimated level of obesity among Reception and Year 6 schoolchildren in every local authority area in England in 2024/25.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 2h

Journalists, sci-commers, historians, there are still SO many using it - even people who work in, or claim to support, equality and diversity work, feminism, and all the lovely other wokery (woke is good). Organisations addicted to bullshit KPIs. Individuals addicted to Likes. What are you DOING.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Being on X enables Musk and Musk enables the far right. There is no longer any excuse to be there and people need to leave.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

Bentham is pretty realistic tho’ (how he looks now)

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

Surely the sickly smell of any branch of Subway gives anyone who ever goes in some form of sensory trauma?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely, as the energy is proportional to the velocity squared, but only directly proportional to the mass.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 3h

I've seen quite a lot of the media talking about the FTSE 100 / markets 'crashing' over 100 points due to the Chancellors speech today.

Well here is the chart up to 14:59 this afternoon.

Half the drop was in the 5 mins after markets opened, before she spoke at 8:10am.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'

The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.

news.sky.com

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent.

ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7h

Here's German cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" with lyrics written on a blackboard so you can sing along.

J.B.O. - Schule aus (Lyrik-Video)

YouTube video by J.B.O.

youtu.be

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lucygobag.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this a lot tonight - donated items in disaster only make things worse (pretty much without exception and anywhere in the world). There is a long history of this going very wrong particularly after hurricanes www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...

The big idea: in a disaster, bad help can be worse than no help at all

Emergency relief must be about money, not well-intentioned donations of goods

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 20h

I was glad of the reply to the original post who advised that the sketch is at 11’ 51”.
(It was bad enough listening to the rest of the stuff when it was on the tv at the time without reliving it now)

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The harm that the Trump administration is inflicting on the race to avert climate catastrophe is clear and so are the avenues for defiance.

Trump’s rollback of US climate policy requires a subnational, international, and private sector response
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry this has really got under my skin. When threatening mobs turn up in villages they are most often in uniform representing a demented state, such as the Nazi murderers systematically eliminating Jews hundreds at a time in Polish villages and small towns.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1d

What stations do (and do not) work for services to London is in my forthcoming report - to be released on 17th November crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...

#CrossChannelRail Report Launch - 17 November, 12:30 CET (event in Brussels, and online) - #CrossBorderRail

In the research for my #CrossChannelRail project in spring 2025 I, Jon Worth, aimed to examine the future of high speed trains through the Channel Tunnel. That would encompass all the stations in cont...

crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

They need to sack the marketing guy. Virgin should obviously have picked Valencia, Vienna and Venice.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Could you explain what a non-militarised European security framework is and does, please?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Kit Marlowe RIP

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it will drop until it hits that one-third of the Reform supporting population that just like racism and fascism.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Apr 18

‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Reach plc’s ‘Fascism & Racism Director (Express)
Question Time’s ‘Head of Farage & Tufton St‘
Who are these people?
What are their thought processes?
Are they corrupted & amoral, compromised, or just fascist bastards themselves?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

How many places full of *white* blokes, can *you* think of where grievances are often settled by violence?
Me - plenty.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Well done, UKC, for seeing through the dim, racist gobshite and not promoting him.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 1d

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re really interested in this, I suggest you buy this book. But not from Amazon, please.
bsky.app/profile/sjam...

Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · Jun 25

📢 Some news from me: I've written a book with the erudite and eloquent Fintan O'Toole in which we each argue for - and then against - Irish unity, setting out objectively what seem to us each side's best arguments, and the issues people across the island of Ireland should consider.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry ER, this is factually incorrect and improbable in its forecasts.

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