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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations to the excellent team @leigh-day.bsky.social and their courageous client for pursuing and winning a case that we were delighted to fund @lawforchange.uk

Leigh Day @leigh-day.bsky.social · 20h

Documents show that for nearly two years Sheffield Hallam University complied with a demand from a Chinese Government foreign intelligence service to halt research about human rights abuses in China.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

www.theguardian.com

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 1d

This morning while cycling through single file traffic suddenly an SUV was speeding head on through the red light: massive poppy at the front and after not managing to flatten me the gammon showed me the middle finger. I guess he was late for the flute practise at the orange order down the road.

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

the relative who's visiting turned up with a huge poppy badge on his shirt collar and i kept looking at it like

a do not press sign next to a yellow button

Alt: a man looking at a "do not press" button as if he wants to press it

media.tenor.com

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 2d

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RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 2d

LANCASTER BOMBER POPPY GOODNESS

Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 2d

Local church is carpet bombing poppies for Jesus @remembrancewatch.bsky.social

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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 4d

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 5d

The "Kids" are alright!

Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 5d

The Green Party (England and Wales) continue their surge in the polls

With the under 50’s they now lead

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 6d

Babe, what's wrong, you haven't touched your remembrance day pizza

Hip Priest @hippriest.bsky.social · 7d

We will fight them on the quiches

Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up.

Regurgitated from my Twitter account

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 7d

I literally had to tell them in my last class that teaching is:
I teach X and we test X. (not chatGPT's Y, U, W, or Y*U)

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 7d

My students now basically ignore my teaching and just paste the coding exercises into chatGPT. That then results in the best case in super convoluted code and in the worst case some off topic "solution". When they then get a low mark they challenge it.

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 7d

It started with "too many polish plumbers". Apparently Brexit should have put a lid on all of that isn't it?

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 8d

#albania telling it as it is...

Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 9d

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."

Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 9d

Evergreen cartoon.

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 9d

>> ...although an investigative panel had found signs of improper image manipulation in scores of Wang’s studies, the school had concluded he had not engaged in scientific misconduct, based on what it called the “heightened evidentiary standard” the investigatory panel used. <<
🥳

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 9d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Justice Department unexpectedly drops fraud case against Alzheimer’s scientist

Decision comes after disclosure of university letter concluding Hoau-Yan Wang did not engage in misconduct

www.science.org

Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 9d

It always boils down to "What I don't like". "woke" = don't like. "fake news" = don't like. Or in the UK here the brexiteers call everything "Anti-democratic" what they don't like (coming from the brexit vote).

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 10d

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 11d

But, but AI is superhuman??? The tech bros say so.

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 11d

As somebody said here: "The whole sales pitch of AI is: you are a moron but we'll help you to wing it!"

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 12d

The American Heart Association is reviewing its decision to give an award to the architect of a controversial theory that is the subject of eight retracted papers, Retraction Watch has learned.

Exclusive: American Heart Association reviewing award to rocket scientist with eight retractions

Source The American Heart Association is reviewing its decision to give an award to the architect of a controversial theory that is the subject of eight retracted papers, Retraction Watch has learn…

retractionwatch.com

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 12d

"Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which makes it an offence to deposit or dispose of waste in a way likely to pollute land or water, including pouring liquids into street drains." because of some takeaway coffee poured into a drain. 3 officers involved. 🥳

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 12d

I feel Thames Water should have been asked to comment.

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond

Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is "disproportionate" while Richmond Council say it is in line with its policies.

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 13d

And there is the problem right here. My fuse-box is right behind that wall but there is the pavement... @glasgowcc.bsky.social. A cable gully would solve it but not allowed. Instead I can walk 10mins to the next charger which is often blocked by combustion engine drivers and never enforced.

Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 13d

While I've seen the first @ukri.org projects about "Beyond Net Zero!" bullshitting away the reality is: councils preventing home charging, blocking wide adoption of EVs and trying to cash in by forcing people to use their premium chargers. Via @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

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Eric J. White @ericjwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Just posting because everyone needs to see a walking moai. 😝

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14d

📰 Experimental archaeology confirms the theory that Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s moai could have been 'walked' using ropes and as few as 15 people!

#ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 13d

As somebody who is not following this mainly I could have easily fallen into this trap. After all it's not about smartphones but hijacking this for political gain. Just awful. See the replies to this which are quite revealing.

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 13d

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 14d

Well there goes that one

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Bernd Porr @berndporr.me.uk · 14d

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 14d

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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