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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 8h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 20h

Research in Nature: "Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions source due to increasingly extreme temperatures and drier conditions. The change... began about 25 years ago" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 2d

"Those profits going to shareholders is not necessarily the best way to stimulate the economy."

Good to see @ippr.org echoing our calls for the Chancellor to #TaxTheBanks in the Autumn Budget.

If you haven't already, add your name to the petition here 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1d

Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved

The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 2d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale.’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 1d

" Here we present a large-scale longitudinal analysis of health records from more than 100 million individuals in the U.S that demonstrates a consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics."
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine

Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

www.nature.com

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Join mycorrhizal ecologist, David Satori, as he showcases the fascinating fungi that thrive within our remaining temperate rainforest here in #Cumbria. 🌳

📅 28 October 2025
⏰ 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Book ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2025-10-28-unearthing-fungi-british-temperate-rainforests

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 1d

It is extraordinary that it is apparently cost-effective to vaccinate millions of clinically vulnerable people to prevent them becoming seriously ill with influenza, but somehow not cost-effective to vaccinate against a SARS virus which is known to have more serious outcomes for more people. (4/4)

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 1d

Covid is not a routine winter virus, and we are shocked by the naked political attempts by the NHS and UKHSA to minimise the impact of Covid and pretend Covid is just another ‘winter virus’. The present Covid wave in England is being driven by new variants of the Covid virus. (1/4)

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 1d

The Covid wave in England has reached Very High levels of risk, with around 1 in every 103 people in England infected as of 12 October. Now is the time to take maximum precautions against catching Covid.

buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 12 October 2025

buds.org.uk

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

"Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday."

Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

UN agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 1d

Three words ….
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 1d

Viruses will be found to be the single main driver of all diseases.

🧠 #DEMENTIA PREVENTION—Almost everyone needs to go out now and get the #shingles vaccine ASAP. Don’t wait until age 50 for standard eligibility—ask your doctor for singles vax. MULTIPLE large studies worldwide now.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 No notes, @dalupton.bsky.social!

Bhattacharya tweets Blacklists silence minds over image that says "Write a horror story using only 3 words.". Lupton QTs him with Great Barrington Declaration

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 1d

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of rich men using a technology that’s ruining the planet to exploit the dead so they can avoid paying the living is so viscerally vile it made me shudder.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social · 1d

I came across this wondrous image of a giant strangler fig on the Samoan island of Upolu — drawn in 1841 by Alfred T. Agate. Look how small the people are in comparison. If strangler figs entice you, check out Planet Ficus for stories about these mind-bending plants. planetficus.substack.com 🧪🌏

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Katie As @katieas.bsky.social · 1d

I still want to know this. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social or does anyone else know? I feel like it would be useful to know.

Katie As @katieas.bsky.social · Oct 18

George, have you seen anything about why the SMC was set up? Was it literally as a front to “disappear” ME, or was that just happy timing in a wider set of (presumably financial) interests?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Making life more difficult for migrants helps nobody.
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

We can all bitch and moan and call out the utterly contemptible policies suggested by the likes of Reform and the Conservatives, but if that same condemnation is not applied to Labour then it shows it is not about supporting migrants, it is about being party political. 2/

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 1d

"HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction."

#LongCovid

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag.bsky.social · 5d

"Rewilding is not just about protecting individual species. It’s about re-establishing the relationships between them, many of which are complex and poorly understood."

www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...

Why rewilders shouldn’t forget about fungi

These mostly hidden life forms have a big role to play in rewilding – and need its support, too.

www.rewildingmag.com

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Xena3 @xena3.bsky.social · 1d

CovAIDS is my description of this autoimmune nightmare.
Just as destructive and socially obstructed as the HIV crisis. Although, no one expects you to get HIV twice a year. Time will tell.
😷 #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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