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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · Jan 6
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Trump’s Monsters’ Playbook: Lies, Fear, and the Cult of Dehumanization
This is exactly the sort of environment which can turn normal people into monsters who then seize control and ultimately destroy nations from within…
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 3m
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In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo
Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be allowed to attend Aston Villa match amid safety concerns
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be able to attend their side's Europa League match with Aston Villa because of safety concerns, it has been announced.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 1h
OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.

We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o & found that GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.

Our research in @theguardian.com 👇
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ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find
Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 1h
European Union defence priorities plan upto 2030. The European Drone Defence Initiative, the Eastern Flank Watch (initial capacity by end 2026), the European Air Shield and the European Space Shield
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 1h
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Russia suspected in JLR cyber attack
Russia is being investigated as the possible culprit behind the cyber attack that crippled Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 5h
RFK Jr has commissioned working groups drawn from his hand picked ACIP to look at the childhood vaccine schedule but there is no evidence that supports a need to change the schedule 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy
Updates on the the latest attacks on vaccines in the USA
Attacks on MMR are gaining pace- could this threaten access to the MMR vaccine?
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 3h
I've decided to stop trusting experts.

Really looking forward to my forthcoming surgery being carried out by my mate Dave.
He's not an expert surgeon, but he is quite good with a chainsaw and has watched several series of House.

Who needs experts?
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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 18h
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2h
Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

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Very quick update on Covid in England
Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 1h
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Federal immigration officers in Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, judge says
A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 6h
All very amusing, but especially this:

"The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support."

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Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 4h
Stop demonising migrants, Keir Starmer

Despite denouncing Farage’s views, there’s little difference between the rhetoric of Labour and Reform UK | Vov Griffiths
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Stop demonising migrants, Keir Starmer
Despite denouncing Farage’s views, there’s little difference between the rhetoric of Labour and Reform UK
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 4h
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Inside Ukraine's drone campaign to blitz Russia’s energy industry
Ukraine has used long-range drone strikes against Russian energy infrastructure to undercut Russia’s economy and try to bring Moscow to the negotiating table.
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 5h
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MI5 chief ‘frustrated’ at failure to put men accused of spying for China on trial
Ken McCallum, the domestic spy chief, says he will ‘never back off’ from confronting threats from Beijing
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 16h
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"Did You Ever Know That You're My Frodo?" - Bette Midler Serenades Stephen Colbert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol.

Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 20h
The latest from Trump world in under 2 minutes.

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5 things that have happened since Monday to undermine democracy in Trump's America
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 1d
Nasser Hospital is still expecting 405 more Palestinian hostage bodies who have been abducted and killed in detention since October 7th 2023. The hospital said the bodies showed signs of torture and had their hands bound. It was not immediately clear when or how they died.
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 1d
This poses basic questions eg: what is the overall correlation & causality between news consumption & political knowledge? And if the media does misinform folk, isn't the instrumental case for media freedom weak, given that ignorance is a negative externality?
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GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds
Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d
Russia, which is referred to as a 'gas station,' stands in lines for gas and exports it from Belarus and China.

📹: line for gasoline in one of the cities of Russia's Irkutsk region
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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#climatecrisis
Story by me
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 1d
So so many aspects of this have repeatability occurred in our human history.
The last time, which is well documented, was the early 1930s.
For example, the situation in Germany was so toxic that the opposition voted to suspend democracy.
By then all the companies had kissed "Hitler's" arse.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Here, via Washington Post, is the up to date list of which media outlets have signed the Pentagon’s new press policy and which haven’t.

Resistance matters.
Where news outlets stand on the Pentagon's new media rules Signed: • One America News Refusing to sign: • ABC News • AL-Monitor • Associated Press • The Atlantic • Aviation Week • Axios • Bloomberg News • Breaking Defense • C4ISRNET • CBS News • CNN • Defense Daily • Defense News • Defense One Continuing the list of those who have refused to sign are: - The Economist • Federal Times • The Financial Times • Fox News • The Guardian • The Hill • HuffPost • Military Times • MSNBC • NBC News • The New York Times • Newsmax • NPR • PBS Newshour • Politico • RealClearPolitics • Reuters • Task & Purpose • The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Examiner • The Washington Post • The Washington Times • WTOP
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 2d
New figures out today show an increase in unemployment, as well as a decrease in employment and economic inactivity in June-August compared to May-July.

Our updated explainer has the figures 👇
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Unemployment and jobs: what’s changed under Labour? – Full Fact
Labour and the Conservatives have made seemingly contrasting claims about the state of the labour market—here’s what the figures show.
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 2d
The power of words. The court did indeed hear this but only, if you read the article, because Robinson’s lawyer claimed it. And yet anyone reading the headline would think Robinson had been vindicated.

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Tommy Robinson police stop at Channel Tunnel unlawful, court hears
The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.
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Bernard @adrianbernard.bsky.social · 2d
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Mapping the rise in Israeli settler attacks across the occupied West Bank
With more than 1,000 settler attacks in the first eight months, 2025 is on track to become the most violent year yet.
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