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Atul Haria (immigrant)
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Former environmental scientist: soil water processes; catchment hydrology Apparently, I represent a squalid chapter in UK history doing incalculable damage to the country; I've turned it into an island of strangers ~ Keir Starmer Little ol' me. Who knew..
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · May 4
Carl Sagan:
Carl Sagan: "WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Politico @politico.com · 1h
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h
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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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1h
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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charlie 'BATbrain' SPOOKghetti 🐀 @chrrlie.bsky.social · 1h
my MOM talks to me about the frog

every time i talk to her she will have some new story about the portland frog man she saw on Facebook or something

and then she'll turn her phone around to me and there is a video of the frog dancing under a hail of pepperballs
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h
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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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 1h
His pinboard was hacked... something something...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h
But sure, we can pretend it's just a "college group chat" that's using Nazi language. We can pretend that the staffer-class of the GOP isn't proudly supporting Nazism.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h
All Western governments will abandon their citizens for Israel. If that isn't clear by now...we are truly lost
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 11h
Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 2h
Start a war and distract from the authoritarian takeover at home.
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 3h
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14h
A small gripe in the grand scheme of things but this shows what's increasingly obvious to people attending UK party conferences

Many fringe events are not open discussion of policy & political options, but *adverts* for whoever is paying for the event

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy
Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other
www.theguardian.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h
Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.
Red suitcase scrawled with graffiti
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 4h
For your Wednesday, friends, have a deep-field image from #JWST taken late 2023 and early 2024.

The six-sided features are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else you see?

A galaxy.
A few bright, blueish star-shaped features are dotted throughout the scene. The remaining features are smaller, a little less bright, and of various shapes. The background is darkest black.
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bestforbritain.org
Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h
We're running out of time. 🚨 🌎

Douglas Parr, Greenpeace UK’s chief scientist: "Alarm bells should be ringing in government that doubled chances of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires will make life in the UK look very different, very quickly."

https://bit.ly/3WCmrOn
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
www.theguardian.com
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theguardian.com
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society A retired British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation. John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, who, as treasurer and chair respectively, were signatories to the Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine (GMFP) account with Virgin Money, said their account with Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) was intended as a nest egg. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 6h
If we don't get on top of wealth inequality, our society, as we know it - a place with decent infrastructure, decent wages, decent housing, decent healthcare, and decent life expectancy - is over.

This is a fantastic and very necessary fundamental step to achieve that.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 7h
The Green Party want to Abolish Landlords and the media are losing their minds about it!

Anyone can see this policy is desperately needed.
We need to build millions of council houses, cap rents, make homes fit for the future and we need the end landlord profiteering.
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: Net migration almost halved last year. But 84% of regular GB News viewers believe it went up.

More importantly, new research revealing this also suggests the public opposes politicians presenting shows - contradicting Ofcom.

Lisa Nandy now taking note:

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
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
www.theguardian.com
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atulharia.bsky.social
Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 6h
"If you’re a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you’re not really a journalist, you’re a courtier."

Frankie Boyle
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h
trust fund brunchlords are not allowed to fail

it's a big club

and you ain't in it
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h
Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Have I Got Nuzzi For You
Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.
www.status.news
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atulharia.bsky.social
Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 8h
This is brilliant.
sardonicus.eu
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 8h
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952 A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 8h
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952 A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 9h
Just had a manuscript submission (to a Springer Nature journal) bounced because I had not provided a 'State' in the address of my affiliation.

1) We don't have states in the UK
2) Why is this kind of utterly trivial time-wasting bullshit required before peer-review?
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atulharia.bsky.social
Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 9h
Bloody hell, this is astonishing.
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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d
This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...
UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News
UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
news.ubc.ca
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 10h
Speaking generally.
Or would u prefer creating an under class of British citizens abroad?
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 10h
Now show me your post asking all Brits living in foreign countries, who don't speak the language, to come home.
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