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Fabrizio Scarpa
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Academic at Uni Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... 🧪⚙️🤖👾♻️🚤✈️🏋️‍♀️🏛🐈
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Just to stress: if you are a civilian killed by a bomb it doesn't matter what was in the heart of the person who dropped it.

There are a thousand decision points that lead up to a Reaper Drone firing a Hellfire Missile and the procedures and values guiding those decisions matter.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Rigid and joyless teaching for the masses, seems to have becoming increasingly normal (I'm lucky, my very ordinary 80s state education came before the point where we'd been trained *not* to expect the state to do some good things, that has definitely worsened) blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The chronic miseducation of working class children in the UK
A regime of “teaching to the test”, harsh discipline and a narrow curriculum is robbing working class children of a good education and tools for self-expression
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Best thing the UK can do for global trade is maintain openness and focus on services strengths. Unfortunately that clashes with domestic politics with regard to immigration.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM