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John Peters
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Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs 'Obvious but wrong' Also JTJ on the other place https://johnthejack.com
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5h
the complete departure of right wing men from actual sex and sexuality for a hallucinatory sexual politics of grievance and whining is really something
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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d
Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 4h
Think this one very interesting
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Bev Gibbs @bevgibbs.bsky.social · 10h
Outside London,not a single UK region is a net contributor to the economy. London's success helps mask a very dysfunctional economy.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 12h
12/17 Poland’s regions are richer than west Wales, poorest part of Britain. Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) in Poland’s southwest is better off than Greater Manchester. Strip London out, Britain’s output/head just 3% ahead of Poland’s.
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Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?
When it comes to investment, particularly in its regions, perhaps Britain is the country that needs to keep up
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 5h
The parliamentary democracies of pre-colonial Tswana kingdoms and their evolution are the subject of my latest Patreon article:

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Parliamentary democracies in pre-colonial southern Africa: the Kgotla of the Tswana (ca. 1800-1966)
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Parliamentary democracies in pre-colonial southern Africa: the Kgotla of the Tswana (ca. 1800-1966) | Isaac Samuel
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 6h
Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

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Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa
The political history of several African kingdoms included systems of governance that were variously referred to as national “assemblies”, “councils,” or “parliaments,” which limited the power of King...
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 5h
We're about to start on a period of dunkelflaute - dull (cloudy) and windless days in the UK - v. bad for renewables. If the GB grid had more wind turbines in the Celtic sea this would have been ameliorated. North of France and Baltic windy enough it seems, but ... only so much interconnection
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 5h
I’m sorry for this in advance but I have this thing where I compulsively take sunset photos like a basic bitch so this is a sunset dump, or my life in sunsets.

First, Pearl Harbor with the light looking like a cross.
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 5h
I ❤️ Viz
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina says a coup is underway after soldiers joined the Gen Z revolt.
Madagascar army unit claims control as president alleges power grab
Elite troops join youth-led protests over utilities that have swelled into gravest threat for President Andry Rajoelina.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 5h
It's curve fitting all the way down
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7h
Theory testing is all curve fitting. Whatever evidence you have to the contrary is curve fitting.
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Cosmoiselle @cosmoiselle.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, that is true. Although, he's perhaps not inherently malignant in a way that Speer arguably was (but convinced people he wasn't). Anyway, that's my limited take on the situation 😁 I thought this accompanying programme was excellent: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Albert Speer - Hitler’s Architect of Lies
Leading German historian Heike Görtemaker introduces a never-before-broadcast interview conducted in 1971 with Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 5h
'We're all waiting, we're all hoping, but the reconstruction, the recovery, the physical recovery, the psychological recovery, the coming to terms and processing with everything that everyone has lost over these past two years is immense.' Sam Rose, UNWRA, to @krishgm.bsky.social #c4news
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h
This is a truly remarkable programme from the BBC archives.

A 1971 interview/interrogation of Albert Speer the leading Nazi who apologised and as a result survived - by Michael Charlton, Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Ball whom he had last met at the Nuremberg trials.

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BBC Four - Albert Speer, The Unseen Interrogation
Hitler's architect Albert Speer is cross-examined in an interview conducted in 1971.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7h
Nigel Farage should tell the people of #Caerphilly about how he wants to abolish the Senedd.

Actually, no need, we have a video of him saying it.

(Also about how Fox Hunting turns him on).
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h
Portland, OR, 2025
Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)
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Wizentertainment @wizarddk9000.bsky.social · 12h
That face on these coins is Odin.
Next to the Swastika sun symbol.
these exact coins puts the belief in Odin back in time almost 400 years from around year 860-460.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 12h
It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15h
New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right
Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h
How good (or bad) are good (or bad) words? @yougov.co.uk includes comparing how Americans and British people hear these words
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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 12h
Oh sweet chestnut, what hath you brought forth for me this year?
More disappointment, I’m afraid.
A spreading sweet chestnut tree from below. Three prickly chestnut fruits on the brown soil, but all have tiny nuts with no kernel.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 12h
From Sunday, October 12, the EU’s new digital entry/exit system — EES for short — will begin.
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EES starts today: full guide to the EU’s new entry/exit system
Brits now need to register their details at new kiosks before entering Europe, although not all ports will be ready at once. Here’s what you need to know
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 12h
“Nobody will shed any tears over Watkins, but that’s not the point. A high-profile prisoner in one of our highest-security prisons stabbed to death with a bladed article.” Ian Acheson quoted in
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Ian Watkins: two held after Lostprophets singer killed in prison
Th child sex offender was stabbed to death on Saturday at HMP Wakefield, the high-security jail where he was serving 35 years
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 12h
12/17 Poland’s regions are richer than west Wales, poorest part of Britain. Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) in Poland’s southwest is better off than Greater Manchester. Strip London out, Britain’s output/head just 3% ahead of Poland’s.
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Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?
When it comes to investment, particularly in its regions, perhaps Britain is the country that needs to keep up
www.thetimes.com
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18h
Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
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