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Laurence Pearl 🔥
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Has-been structural biologist FRS (no really) reinventing himself as a computational cancer geneticist in the post-AlphaFold world. Hooked on boats. Picture - outside Leonard Cohen's house on Hydra after sailing there. ORCID 0000-0002-6910-1809
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d
On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4h
15 October 1910 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hildegarda Nettlová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Vintage portrait of a woman, smiling, in a white dress with a necklace.
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 6h
I think that book 1 was so totally different/unrelated that it’s not necessary to refresh that one. It’s kind of like an apocryphal prequel. But 2 leads directly onto 3 - there might even have a cliffhanger IIRC. So I’m gonna reread 2!
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 6h
I seem to share your amnesia - will have to start again
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h
Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges
The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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Coach Mark (for now) @coachmark25.bsky.social · 11h
News flash - as long as there is the existence of organized religion (and the greed and lust for power that goes along with organized religion), there will be no true peace in the Middle East. It's just not gonna happen.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 18h
Hello @theguardian.com - any chance you could remove the banner from my face?
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 9h
I fell asleep
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 9h
A boat featured - Or was that book 1 ?
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 10h
Civil war is on the cards
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now? | Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now? | Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with what they could accept
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20h
13 hrs later the answer has occurred to me. “What I’m afraid of is not getting old.”
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d
Back in A&E (kidney problems this time).

A woman turned to me earlier and said - out of nowhere - "are you afraid of getting old"?

I'm in a Beckett play.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 10h
Yep - a bloody civil war is definitely what Gaza needs now …

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaza City clashes between Hamas and clan members leave 27 dead
At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.
www.bbc.com
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10h
14 October 1922 | A Polish woman, Helena Panek, was born in Dąbrowa Tarnowska.

In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6892
She was evacuated to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12h
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Borlotti are not only one of the tastiest beans to eat, they are defo the most attractive to grow and harvest. Won’t
keep us through winter, but a few good meals here.
A tray of raw borlotti beans
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
They seem to be more intent on drowning
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Moribund wasps coming to the end of their time are sheltering under the rim of the toilet bowl. Very disconcerting when you flush - looks like you are passing insects.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d
The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
I am going to learn how to splice loops in dock ropes - a man needs a hobby
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d
Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
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ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d
Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.
Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show
Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.
www.ok.co.uk
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 1d
Celebrate with me. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🪶✊🏾
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Laurence Pearl 🔥 @laurencepearl.bsky.social · 1d
Both can be true
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