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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 17m

Another idiocy from Starmer's austerity drive: cutting research against drug resistant super bugs. 🙄
"Cuts in international development support, such as UK government’s recent closure of its flagship Fleming Fund, had forced the WHO to reduce its AMR work"

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1h

Nightmare fuel.

“One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO”

on.ft.com/46Zv7Dq

One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

on.ft.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1h

About 2 months ago it was kinda edgy to call this a bubble and now...

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 2h

Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1h

“Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate.” @vanbadham.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

www.theguardian.com

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 11h

Is the "Green Giant Sweetcorn & Peppers" you can buy in Morrisons, Ocado etc the same thing?

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 11h

Along with war crimes, racism, flag-shagging, AI, nuclear power stations to power data centres, renewed PFI, not taxing wealthy people, being Reform's sock puppets, not being coherent about the EU, relaxing planning law & nature protection to appease developers, ID cards, pandering to Murdoch etc...

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 11h

You import it from the US or have to buy "Green Giant Sweetcorn & Peppers" here?

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 13h

Remembering the ‘Great Storm’ 38 years ago tonight….

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 16h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been tutted at for being a dickhead by three Nobel laureates with four prizes between them. How many eminent scientists have treated you with disdain?

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 17h

"...and Fox News." 🤔

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17h

🔵 International and US news outlets including AFP, AP, The New York Times and Fox News have refused to sign new restrictive Pentagon media rules, meaning they will be stripped of their press access credentials.

AFP's statement ⬇️

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 17h

Did I mention "Bleah"?

Mawgan Porth beach under very grey clouds.

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 18h

Bleah.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22h

Jesus, no wonder we take all your jobs and all your kids' jobs if you feed them with shit like this

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 22h

How the French PM caved in on the retirement age to save his government

Sébastien Lecornu pledged to suspend the gradual raising of the retirement age, part of the flagship reform of Emmanuel Macron's second term. In return, Socialist MPs said they would not back a vote of no confidence.

www.lemonde.fr

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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in Norway

Norway pulls plug on world’s first ship tunnel amid spiralling costs share.google/EO39HF9x5ayh...

Norway pulls plug on world’s first ship tunnel amid spiralling costs

Pioneering project is just too expensive, prime minister says

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

YouTube video by Vadrigar

www.youtube.com

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Marl Karx @bareleft.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sure the famously proactive and infrastructure-minded UK government will get on this immediately, and not just kick the can down the road forever until London becomes Atlantis-on-Thames.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate Britain must prepare for global heating far in excess of the level scientists have pegged as the limit of safety, the government’s climate advisers have warned, as current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate. Heatwaves will occur in at least four of every five years in England by 2050, and time spent in drought will double. The number of days of peak wildfire conditions in July will nearly treble for the UK, while floods will increase in frequency throughout the year, with some peak river flows increasing by 40%. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

This thread is…concerning.

(I get more understated the more alarmed I am.)

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 1

In a two week period:

Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 23h

Levels of bad faith on the right must be really high for Fraser Nelson to break ranks.

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 23h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think a resolution of the war in the West Bank and Gaza is highly unlikely. That murderous old bastard Netanyahu and the illegal settlers do not want peace as long as they can steal land with impunity

Trump’s role in halting Gaza’s suffering was driven by self-interest. Will that be enough for him to finish the job? | Kenneth Roth

The US president’s Gulf allies and supporters at home might just persuade him to pursue lasting peace. And then there’s always next year’s Nobel prize, says writer and academic Kenneth Roth

www.theguardian.com

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 23h

All that bombing and war crimes and death - but still plenty of Hamas members.
No one predicted that did they. 🙄

FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 23h

#Hamas has tightened its grip on #Gaza's ruined cities, launching a crackdown and executing alleged collaborators of #Israel, as seen in videos now circulating online.

FRANCE 24’s @Morgan_Ayre has the details ⤵️

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

The real challenge for tech bros is striking the fine balance between completely destroying humanity and retaining enough of it that their billions are still worth something.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 23h

UK must be ready for ‘unprecedented’ heatwaves and flooding, climate experts warn

Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding will all become more regular and intense, experts say.
@alb-toth.bsky.social

UK must be ready for ‘unprecedented’ heatwaves and flooding, climate experts warn

Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding will all become more regular and intense, experts say

buff.ly

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 1d

*imagines the squealing from expat Spain if they did the same to us*

Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in the UK under new rules

It "is unacceptable for migrants to come here without learning our language, unable to contribute to our national life" said Shabana Mahmood in a marked shift to the right in her rhetoric.

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

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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