Gaye Murray
@tortymurray.bsky.social
European Scot. Located Alto Alantejo, Portugal. Prof career in psycho- therapeutic services. No more crofter, Isle of Skye.
Owned by Moça 🐕, a PWD.
Interests: thinking, learning, books!
Arts, past & present, r 🪟 to humanity's now.
Chronic pain.
Owned by Moça 🐕, a PWD.
Interests: thinking, learning, books!
Arts, past & present, r 🪟 to humanity's now.
Chronic pain.
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If there's any justice in this world, this post will end up as evidence in The Hague.
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If there's any justice in this world, this post will end up as evidence in The Hague.
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Ukraine is handling its corruption problem.
The United States is lost in corruption with no way out.
The United States is lost in corruption with no way out.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ukraine is handling its corruption problem.
The United States is lost in corruption with no way out.
The United States is lost in corruption with no way out.
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They are calling him the 'cost-of-living president'
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
They are calling him the 'cost-of-living president'
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"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal"
"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal"
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There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
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On no one’s Christmas wishlist
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
On no one’s Christmas wishlist
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Interesting dilemma for the Russian navy. Until now, tankers could avoid long-distance weapons by leaving the whole Black Sea between them and the Ukrainian coast.
Now that’s not sufficient any longer so two equally unpleasant options:
1) close the southern oils export route and lose billions daily
Now that’s not sufficient any longer so two equally unpleasant options:
1) close the southern oils export route and lose billions daily
🛳️ One of the tankers of the Russian shadow fleet that burned off the coast of Türkiye - “Kairos”. Probably no longer operational.
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Interesting dilemma for the Russian navy. Until now, tankers could avoid long-distance weapons by leaving the whole Black Sea between them and the Ukrainian coast.
Now that’s not sufficient any longer so two equally unpleasant options:
1) close the southern oils export route and lose billions daily
Now that’s not sufficient any longer so two equally unpleasant options:
1) close the southern oils export route and lose billions daily
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Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised
The former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard.
A senior special forces whistleblower said the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of two small children, after the alarm was first raised in early 2011. That failure allegedly allowed them to continue until 2013. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
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"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself.”
Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835
Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself.”
Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835
Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835
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Mark Kelly is sounding presidential.
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mark Kelly is sounding presidential.
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And scabies has been with us continuously from ancient times.
It's also more of an infestation than skin disease per se.
It's also more of an infestation than skin disease per se.
Sigh. So, scabies has been around since before Aristotle. It is not a “medieval” disease and this rhetoric contributes to the idea that the Middle Ages was unclean. The Roman physician Celsus is the 1 who named it—from the Latin scabere (“to itch”). Stop making the Middle Ages into a backward period
Medieval skin disease outbreak in the UK leaves patients’ skin ‘crawling’
Several cases of scabies have been reported in schools in Devon
www.ladbible.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And scabies has been with us continuously from ancient times.
It's also more of an infestation than skin disease per se.
It's also more of an infestation than skin disease per se.
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“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.”
— Judith Butler
— Judith Butler
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.”
— Judith Butler
— Judith Butler
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frikkin amazing stuff.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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With my next SCOTUS argument little more than one week away, I will be writing less often between now and the 9th. In the meantime, subscribe to Democracy Docket to support the team's invaluable work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
With my next SCOTUS argument little more than one week away, I will be writing less often between now and the 9th. In the meantime, subscribe to Democracy Docket to support the team's invaluable work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Ever the fucking coward and stupid with it. Cute enough to grasp that second strike is indefensible but hopes his obfuscation will provide a shield.
Dumb enough not to grasp that the first strike was also indefensible.
Dumb enough not to grasp that the first strike was also indefensible.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ever the fucking coward and stupid with it. Cute enough to grasp that second strike is indefensible but hopes his obfuscation will provide a shield.
Dumb enough not to grasp that the first strike was also indefensible.
Dumb enough not to grasp that the first strike was also indefensible.
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"Will OpenAI and others hit the profitability before the debt bubble bursts? It'll be interesting to see what the next five years brings."
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Will OpenAI and others hit the profitability before the debt bubble bursts? It'll be interesting to see what the next five years brings."
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
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Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he will support Netanyahu receiving a pardon for his corruption trial if he signs a binding agreement to leave politics.
Pope Leo: Palestinian state 'only solution' to conflict, 'Israel still does not accept'
RECAP: Former PM Bennett Supports Pardoning Netanyahu if He Agrees to Step Down. Syrian, U.S. Forces Destroy 15 ISIS Weapons Caches in Week, CENTCOM Says. IDF Says It Detained Palestinian Weapons Deal...
www.haaretz.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he will support Netanyahu receiving a pardon for his corruption trial if he signs a binding agreement to leave politics.
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We have to be careful with this. Jeremy Warner, who wrote the article, voted Remain and he's written a few such articles since 2016. Also, he quotes a study supporting his line of thought but in the same breath questions its credibility (to keep Telegraph readers semi-happy). It's not Saul/Damascus.
The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We have to be careful with this. Jeremy Warner, who wrote the article, voted Remain and he's written a few such articles since 2016. Also, he quotes a study supporting his line of thought but in the same breath questions its credibility (to keep Telegraph readers semi-happy). It's not Saul/Damascus.
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When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
Hard agree 👇
Also do consider the "Living Will" option - can visit Dignity in Dying site for info + templates.
Also do consider the "Living Will" option - can visit Dignity in Dying site for info + templates.
Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hard agree 👇
Also do consider the "Living Will" option - can visit Dignity in Dying site for info + templates.
Also do consider the "Living Will" option - can visit Dignity in Dying site for info + templates.
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Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
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You’re dethpicable! 🔊
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
You’re dethpicable! 🔊