Biggerthanfrogs
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Lurking, learning, maybe commenting. "Conscientious objector from the culture war." Reposts ≠ 100% agreement
"The report found a “deep-rooted lack of trust” within Deaf and Deafblind communities following repeated experiences of exclusion from services, which often left them “traumatised” by a lack of access to health and social care."
Deaf people who use British Sign Language face “entrenched” and “systemic” exclusion from health and social care services across Britain, according to a new report by government advisers.
#BSL #Deaf #Deafblind
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/deaf-people-...
#BSL #Deaf #Deafblind
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/deaf-people-...
Deaf people who use BSL face ‘entrenched’ health and social care exclusion, say government advisers
Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) face “entrenched” and “systemic” exclusion from health and social care services across Britain, according to a new report by government advisers. The…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The report found a “deep-rooted lack of trust” within Deaf and Deafblind communities following repeated experiences of exclusion from services, which often left them “traumatised” by a lack of access to health and social care."
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“Australia just quietly made medical history... because we listened to science
ZERO cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Aussie women under 25 in 2021... the first time since national records began in 1982
Thanks to HPV vaccination & better cervical screening”
H/t Snarky Gherkin
ZERO cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Aussie women under 25 in 2021... the first time since national records began in 1982
Thanks to HPV vaccination & better cervical screening”
H/t Snarky Gherkin
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“Australia just quietly made medical history... because we listened to science
ZERO cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Aussie women under 25 in 2021... the first time since national records began in 1982
Thanks to HPV vaccination & better cervical screening”
H/t Snarky Gherkin
ZERO cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Aussie women under 25 in 2021... the first time since national records began in 1982
Thanks to HPV vaccination & better cervical screening”
H/t Snarky Gherkin
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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?
The answer is simple.
#Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books
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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?
The answer is simple.
#Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🎉HUGE WIN: Deep sea mining stopped in the Arctic!
The Norwegian government ruled out new licenses after public pressure from around the world.
People power wins again.
The Norwegian government ruled out new licenses after public pressure from around the world.
People power wins again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🎉HUGE WIN: Deep sea mining stopped in the Arctic!
The Norwegian government ruled out new licenses after public pressure from around the world.
People power wins again.
The Norwegian government ruled out new licenses after public pressure from around the world.
People power wins again.
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Shark Tank but you just put all the billionaire AI tech company executives in a tank full of sharks
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Shark Tank but you just put all the billionaire AI tech company executives in a tank full of sharks
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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The thing about Hitler's rise to power is that we have known how it was done for a long time and that the constitutions of other western democracies are vulnerable to the same methods, but nothing at all has been done to raise our defences. Why ?
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The thing about Hitler's rise to power is that we have known how it was done for a long time and that the constitutions of other western democracies are vulnerable to the same methods, but nothing at all has been done to raise our defences. Why ?
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This belies the fact that *even if it were in a theater of war, what they are doing is still considered a war crime*. We shot three Nazi submarine officers for machine-gunning US & British shipwreck survivors in 1944, which is essentially the exact same thing these assholes are doing.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This belies the fact that *even if it were in a theater of war, what they are doing is still considered a war crime*. We shot three Nazi submarine officers for machine-gunning US & British shipwreck survivors in 1944, which is essentially the exact same thing these assholes are doing.
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The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test
Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test
Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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(Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini - on X)
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⚡ I salute the overwhelming vote by the @UN General Assembly to renew @UNRWA's mandate for three years.
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⚡ I salute the overwhelming vote by the @UN General Assembly to renew @UNRWA's mandate for three years.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
(Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini - on X)
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⚡ I salute the overwhelming vote by the @UN General Assembly to renew @UNRWA's mandate for three years.
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⚡ I salute the overwhelming vote by the @UN General Assembly to renew @UNRWA's mandate for three years.
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Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
"Soil is a fantastically complex biological structure, like a coral reef, built and sustained by the creatures that inhabit it. It supplies 99% of our calories. Yet we know less about it than any other identified ecosystem. It’s almost a black box."
December 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Soil is a fantastically complex biological structure, like a coral reef, built and sustained by the creatures that inhabit it. It supplies 99% of our calories. Yet we know less about it than any other identified ecosystem. It’s almost a black box."
"It’s merely the latest example of the Post editorial board aligning itself with Bezos’s interests and causes without disclosing any potential conflict of interest to readers. "
The Washington Post editorial board railed against a wealth tax without noting its owner, Jeff Bezos, stands to benefit more from its tax policy prescriptions than nearly anyone else on the planet.
Read the full article about how the Post serves Bezos's interests: zeteo.com/p/washington...
Read the full article about how the Post serves Bezos's interests: zeteo.com/p/washington...
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"It’s merely the latest example of the Post editorial board aligning itself with Bezos’s interests and causes without disclosing any potential conflict of interest to readers. "
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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional. n.pr/48vTzgl
Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP 5 more House seats
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that may help the GOP win five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms. A lower court found the map is likely unconstitutional. n.pr/48vTzgl
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
"FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport ..."
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport ..."
"More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found."
Warming seas and the changes they cause in salinity are leading to the starvation of the African Penguin.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found."
"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
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“I’m disgusted, because it wasn’t only myself— it was my elderly mother in her 90’s and my sister too. It makes no sense. Who bought him off?”
A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion
A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
“I’m disgusted, because it wasn’t only myself— it was my elderly mother in her 90’s and my sister too. It makes no sense. Who bought him off?”
A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion
A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion
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A tale of media shenanigans today, because it’s the 17th anniversary of the historic day the Facebook Republican Army was EXPOSED in the media in a SHOCKING story which APPALLED the RESPECTABLE people of BRITAIN
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A tale of media shenanigans today, because it’s the 17th anniversary of the historic day the Facebook Republican Army was EXPOSED in the media in a SHOCKING story which APPALLED the RESPECTABLE people of BRITAIN
"In the end, language shapes both policy and practice. In this political era, ideas that were once insulated from co-option are now vulnerable. Linguistic discipline is therefore essential."
Mind your Language.......We’re not 'over-diagnosing mental health problems' - we’re 'over-medicalising human suffering'. The distiction matters! - My new blog on Mad in UK 👇👇
www.madintheuk.com/2025/12/over...
www.madintheuk.com/2025/12/over...
Over-Medicalisation, Not Over-Diagnosis: Reclaiming our Critical Language in a Shifting Political Climate. - Mad in the UK
Linguistic discipline keeps the dialogue grounded in reality: suffering is real, extensive, socially produced and deserving of intervention.
www.madintheuk.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"In the end, language shapes both policy and practice. In this political era, ideas that were once insulated from co-option are now vulnerable. Linguistic discipline is therefore essential."
"America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence ..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official
Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence ..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...