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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18m

“You could avoid more than half of today’s energy inputs just by swapping inefficient combustion for efficient electric tech.” That’s what I told @Foresight_CE @SamJamesMorgan

Too few people know this and get tripped up by the “Primary Energy Fallacy”.

foresightmedia.com/story/sIGNpl...

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 2h

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.

Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 4h

And let’s not forget the enormous wages of the CEOs and business managers in the NHS, social care, and in England, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs). Why should such institutions even need business managers? 🤯

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 3h

The saucy juxtapositions

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 3h

What taxes will they increase at the Budget next month?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3h

"Our polling shows a majority of voters - including Labour's own winning coalition - increasingly view Brexit as a failure for the country, and rightly expect ministers to urgently work with the EU to find a pragmatic way to fix the damage."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 16h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Teresa M @teresasm.bsky.social · 5h

Also most of the time as I tey a d do that another more messed up idea will be transmitted or created alongside. It's important to keep having messed up ideas out there.

(Like that time I wanted to draw Barbie but and ended up drawing a badass Megatron in pink instead, as a kid.)

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 5h

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 6h

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Part of a page from 'The Cycling World Illustrated', 26 August 1896. It includes photos of a tricycle for collecting cats (complete with uniformed driver) and the Cats' Infirmary, Hampstead (a pen of cats of varying sizes in someone's house, one of the cats is being cuddled by what appears to be the tricycle driver). The accompanying text reads: "A philanthropic lady in the North of London has established an infirmary for cats. On receipt of a postcard she will send for the ailing animal, the tricycle which collects them being provided with a box resting on springs to avoid all jarring and jolting. The cats are carefully tended at the infirmary, where their quarters and most comfortable, and when cured are returned to their owners, no charge being made."

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 13h

Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 16h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 13h

This is how it’s done

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d

From war-ravaged Portland

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve exposed “Crisis Pregnancy Centres”. These centres use misinformation & stigma to try to stop you from having an abortion.

These centres are just 1 part of a rapidly growing network of organisations that want to take away the rights of women & LGBTI people.

amn.st/63320AInXy

What is the truth about crisis pregnancy centres in the UK?

Crisis pregnancy centres which have been known to “misinform” women around abortion have become increasingly “professionalised” in the UK.

amn.st

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Sarah Lister @abouttheadventure.com · 1d

I'd like you to meet this special tree

What a beauty, standing golden in the mist. Shedding her leaves gradually, catching some in her own trunk.

She imparts her wisdom with me each time I visit. I can't explain it - I just touch her and I feel it.

#PeakDistrict

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12h

In that case I have a sensible suggestion for you, Rachel. 😒

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Mar 21

so proud of him

Photo of a bookmark featuring a grumpy frog. Text reads

Need to remember dis page?
FROGETTABOUTIT
I’ll have my boys look after your spot
Ey!
I’m in da freakin mafia!
Yo!

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 20h

Sora flopping, bleeding cash on pro subscriptions, lawsuits left and right accusing the company of inventing the emotional torment nexus, age verification lobby with a stranglehold on the adult internet... pivoting to porn is masterful gambit www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21h

Aloyce Mwakisoma, a renowned plant expert from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, was struck and killed by a bus on Oct. 6 near the village of Sanje.

Mwakisoma, who was born and raised in the Udzungwas, had an encyclopedic knowledge of the plants and animals found in his home in the Eastern Arc.