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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 18h

Try science communication on social media, they said.

It will be fun, they said.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 18h

Can I ask, is Matilda Fluffy the designer or the jumper ?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 19h

Looking forward to House of Beamish.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 20h

Reminds me of nothing so much as this.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 20h

Let me into an election I've been unable to get the support to enter, based on feels.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 23h

Let no man throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan.

- James Connolly 1908. Recalled in Cork 2025.

Seagull approves.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 23h

I donated because of your repost.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Quality

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Day 3 of photographing clouds has commenced

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Some sort of feeding trough perhaps ?

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

I think I have the world without us somewhere, must dig it out, don't think I read it when i bought it.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that looks great, I'll give that a go next. Am re-reading Sagan at the moment.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Singhs books are universally excellent.
Katie Mac's "The End of Everything" is fantastic too.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Anything by Christopher Hitchens
A Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
One Summer America 1927 or A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Ironic

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Doug 03:16
"That one makes no sense at all"

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

Every other religious book says the same thing. Why is your one right ?

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.bsky.social · 1d

When in the last 2 millennia would this sort of prediction not have been true ? It predicts earthquakes and weather, hardly divinely inspired.

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