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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 7h

Here is the long and short of it.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6h

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906.

I think we all know how that turned out.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 11h

I’m told Labour MPs have been told by whips to *abstain* in the vote on Nigel Farage’s ten-min rule bill on leaving the ECHR, which has left some furious. Whips’ arguments seems to be to just ignore it. Labour MPs worry it leaves Lib Dems/Greens looking like only they care on this.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 11h

They blatantly lie. Lots of people see it. Then later they print a correction that hardly anyone notices. It’s how much of the media operates routinely

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 11h

Another 'happy to correct the record' coming.

Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12h

FACTCHECK: The frontpage of today's Daily Telegraph has a very confused story about offshore wind, which is all sorts of wrong

It says a technical change means higher subsidies & fewer new windfarms from the upcoming AR7 auction

Oopsie!

This is the opposite of the truth 🧵

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 11h

1-3 & the 1 was a wide. Not the best start by England, chasing 320…

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 1d

Also, just how many world faith leaders are Americans now? We've got the Pope, the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Antichrist by my count.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody makes enemies by finishing their talk early…

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13h

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 1d

But there's no alternative: the government *has* to keep going with these measures or rapidly run out of the few prison spaces we've got. Indeed, they have to go further, as they are with the Sentencing Bill - and even then it will be touch-and-go if there's enough capacity:

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

I thought you were joking. Might go to that…

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German Wondering @germanwondering.bsky.social · 1d

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Other insightful statements from Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" captured in thread below. Who would have thought how relevant her work would become > 70 years after initial publication.

bsky.app/profile/germ...

German Wondering @germanwondering.bsky.social · Mar 16

Sunday book recommendation:
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Jenny's House Music @uncleshady777.bsky.social · 2d

Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

A lot of people on social media like to point out that when people die the tributes are often accompanied by photos of them when they were young and beautiful (as opposed to old and beautiful). So let me just say that I’m posting this because it’s one of my favourite portraits full stop by one of the greatest ever British portrait photographers. And fuck off.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 1d

One for the BBC.

#r4today #FalseBalance #Science

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence.
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
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'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

www.livescience.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting article by James Bloodworth in the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social dissecting the media obsession with & promotion of Farage and the disastrous decline in standards of especially the BBC.

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Hardly surprising when the major parties have decided to target, scapegoat and persecute them. Particularly disgraceful in Labour’s case. Only to be expected from Tories/Reform.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe

YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

goodlaw.social

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

Sick of opinion polls, mind you. They distort democracy.

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

This screams “none of the above”. Somehow, for too many people, Reform are seen as a ‘none of the above party’. They are, of course, the most billionaire friendly of all & would make everything bad even worse. Ho hum…

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Labour hits their lowest ever poll rating with YouGov, level with the Conservatives on 17%. Greens at their highest ever.

Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens now all essentially within margin of error of each other

Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 1d

This screams “none of the above”. Somehow, for too many people, Reform are seen as a ‘none of the above party’. They are, of course, the most billionaire friendly of all & would make everything bad even worse. Ho hum…

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Labour hits their lowest ever poll rating with YouGov, level with the Conservatives on 17%. Greens at their highest ever.

Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Greens now all essentially within margin of error of each other

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

www.theguardian.com

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Craig Winstanley @cwinstan.bsky.social · 3d

We will be playing live on 14th November near you!*

(*if you’re near Northwich)

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 2d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 2d

Farage: epic grifter

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 2d

📢🎉 Celebrate #WorldPhageWeek with us! Learn about how the Microbiology Society has informed the UK Parliament by...

👉 Contributing to a House of Commons report: microb.io/42Veqrv

👉 Prof Chloe James hosting interactive sessions bringing together experts and politicians: microb.io/4hoO8nE

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 3d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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