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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 18h

Been there...

Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 19h

My kid has switched from wanting to spend money on brightly coloured plastic crap that clutters the whole house up, to wanting to spend it on entirely non-existent novelty items in video games, and I honestly don't know if that's an improvement or not.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 20d

Alec nailing the current climate in Trump land

www.tiktok.com/@alecwithpen...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

The USA is having its worst Measles outbreak in nearly 35 years.

I guess those vaccines were for something.

Who knew?

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 19h

Can't wait for the English themselves to also master A-level standard English, to be honest.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 19h

Heil Trumpfler.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 19h

If you like to smack the wife & kids around (but restraining orders), and you've been banned from all the football grounds (fighting), and there aren't enough sectarian riots in your neck of the woods, WHY NOT join (convicted football hooligan) Tommeh Ten Names and drum up a racist riot? GET IN!

Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 19h

Cack Adam and his "concerned parents" at the various protests/riots...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

JD Vance claims Trump is deploying the National Guard because crime in Chicago and Portland has gotten "out of control."

But crime rates were already falling in both cities.

This is all a power grab — and a pretext for something much worse. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8vrfgHqs

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

Robert Reich

www.youtube.com

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

If the kid is anything like most autistic 15 yr olds, the trauma associated with this will affect him profoundly for years to come. The Trump regime is institutionally psychopathic. The cruelty & psychopathy ripples out from the centre through all institutions, just as fascism requires.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

Putin's European proxies.

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 2d

💥Orbán-ally EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi told Ursula von der Leyen he was “not aware” of spying operations against EU institutions at Hungary’s Brussels EU mission, which he led for 4 years, per @politico.eu.

Here's our investigation into Hungarian espionage in 🇬🇧: www.direkt36.hu/en/sulyos-ug...

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, don't forget that she called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, General Pinochet a friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.

30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade.

But you can believe our promises now

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1d

More science being smashed 😔

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

X is quite literally funding the defence of the domestic extremists the government is prosecuting but they still won't stop using it

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1d

The current #NZ government should note*

“Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.”

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 1d

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Screenshot that reads:

The award "underlies the importance in investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth", says economist Diane Coyle of the University of Cambridge. "It's great to see the Nobel prize recognize the importance of this topic," adds innovation policy researcher Richard Jones of the University of Manchester, UK. "It's important that economists understand the conditions that lead to technological progress," he adds. The winners, says Coyle, "have long been on people's list of potential candidates".

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"God killed that fireman in Butler, PA, but He saved my life so I could trick you into sending me more money and buying even more expensive Trump-branded tacky crap I have made for pennies in China. Glory! (To me.)"

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

You've got me feeling like I want to visit the place now (!) Coincidentally I've been amusing myself this w/end trying to learn how to play Led Zepp's 'Hey hey what can I do', which I rather suspect has its musical origins up the road near Machynlleth.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, amid all the austerity, it's been pretty obvious which issues most of the membership is sympathetic to action on (pensions, jobs, casualization), and the ones where most people think 'er... really not the time' (massive 'restitution' pay claims).

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. 56 years as an OU tutor would be right the way back to 1969, i.e OU foundation year, which is... impressive. Can't actually remember whether my late father started work there in '69 or '70, though suspect it was the latter.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

having submitted my dissertation for my Classics MA a couple of weeks ago I have just started a first-year module in maths*.

the tutor is 77 and has been teaching with the OU for 56. we have access to the OU Maths magazine dating back to 1973. I'm very happy.

*I don't know, I'm just like this OK?

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another good reason to kick Elno Smuk out of the Royal Society.

As if any more were needed.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

I would call it torture.

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

I feel OLD.

Well,oldER.

47 years. Good grief.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"At that point, a group of 5-8 civilian-dressed men walked into the garage and just stared at me. No identification on any of them."

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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