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Zoroastrian

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X-odus under way. So much wrong in this world, I don't know where to start. Scatter brained antifa, anti brexiturd, anti genocide, anti climate change denial, you know the drill, fire hose of BS out there. Bit of science, economics, and fun. #FBPE

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Yeah, they're currently very silent on the Oxford academic standing trial for possessing indecent child images But then she's shared their platforms, spoken at their events, written for their publications... Funny how the Free Speech Union have nothing to say about the vanishing media coverage?
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe an FOI will get to the bottom of why LBC, the Telegraph, GB News and the Daily Mail all pulled their reporting on this? Why only the BBC and now the Daily Mail are covering it? Why Hopwood-Phillips - now a registered sex offender - barely gets a mention? Who knows🤷‍♀️
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
And in a surprise to no-one, the Critic is funded by multi-millionaire Jeremy Hosking. Founding donor to Laurence Fox's Reclaim party Reform donor Vote Leave donor no-Deal Brexit campaigner Anti-vax conspiracist, Andrew Bridgen donor And on and on it goes...
Headline: Revealed: Brexit donor behind net zero backlash has $130 million in fossil fuels. 
Jeremy Hoskin, who is bankrolling campaigns to scrap UK emissions targets, has given millions to parties led by Nigel Farage and Lawrence Fox. 
Text from a document discusses Jeremy Hosking's political donations and activities, including support for Brexit, various political parties, and funding interests.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Eventually, LBC publish the story (no mention of Gove or her media links), as does the BBC (likewise). And then the LBC story ALSO vanishes!! 🤷‍♀️😱 The BBC story remains up - as a local Oxfordshire story... You have to know to look for it.
LBC headline: Oxford University tutor faces trial accused of possessing indecent child imagesHeadline on a news platform regarding an Oxford lecturer denying possession of indecent child images, with a photo of Oriel College.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Anyway, 2 days after her pre-trial hearing in September, the Daily Mail quotes a "chum" saying the relationship ended "some time ago" I wonder who the "chum" was?!🤔 9/
From the Daily Mail article:
They’ve parted,’ a chum tells me, adding that Gove has moved out of the west London flat they shared. ‘The split happened some time ago, but all parties have been tight-lipped about the reasons.’

They first publicly emerged as a couple in 2024 when they were pictured arriving at The Spectator magazine’s summer party, with Gove gallantly shielding Lola from the rain with an umbrella.

Gove was later photographed leaning in to kiss her at a London restaurant.

Not long afterwards, Gove, who had just stood down as an MP, was appointed the Spectator’s editor and, though discreet about his newfound love, he didn’t try to keep it secret.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 4h
Somehow the press didn't think it was in the public interest to report on an Oxford academic who was, at that point, as far as they were concerned, also Michael Gove's girlfriend, being charged with possessing indecent images of children 🤷‍♀️ 7/
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 7h
Direct fossil fuel propaganda from @lbc.co.uk in support of oil and gas extraction. Using Adura's own marketing as your headline goes beyond malfeasance.
An LBC headline that reads "Rejecting Rosebank and Jackdaw could cost UK economy £10.8 billion, study warns". The subhead reads: "Adura, the company behind both projects, commissioned research on their impact for the UK"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
The Polish Foreign Minister responds to claims that Musk strangled Starlink access to Ukrainian forces costing Ukrainian lives.
Radosław Sikorski
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Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10h
Nick Robinson on Today just said the Falklands War was “more than 50 years ago”. Glad he’s all over the details.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h
“Reform has to take ever more extreme positions to keep winning headlines. As horrific as Jenrick’s comments are, they should be understood less as a policy proposal than as the political equivalent of a toddler acting out for attention.” Cruelty is weakness. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...
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Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage
Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he’s brave to say what he does – he’s actually just got no humanity
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 8h
Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.
Screenshot of a Facebook post recording the fact that on this day in 1920, women were awarded Oxford degrees for the first time. Image of graduating women.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h
Two weeks until the budget and here's what we're facing: The worst squeeze in living standards since 1961. The cost of renting to rise by 4% or 5% a year Household energy prices set to jump by £276 We need serious action not tweaks or half measures. That means 👇
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 19h
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18h
2°C by 2040. That's where the trend lands if warming keeps running at its post-2011 rate of 0.39°C a decade. The CMIP6 climate models in this chart land there too We're crossing 1.5°C as we speak: 2024 cleared it, 2026 will too, and next year's record #ElNino points at 1.7°C

https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#models
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18h
Plot from here... dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#models
dashboard.theclimatebrink.com
Climate Dashboard
Daily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h
Don't hide behind your followers Matt. Tell us what YOU think about it
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h
I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running" They just smile, cut the check, and keep on polluting and poisoning people. Fines are a joke. Performance art for the industry and regulators.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My feeling is that Burnham won’t win the "Breturn" (sorry) debate be relitigating 2016. The case for Europe has to be about our future security, growth and a world that’s changed, not who lied on a bus. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Burnham has opened the door to Europe. Now he has to stop looking back
Burnham’s EU pivot is long overdue realism. Now he needs an argument about security and growth, not a rerun of the referendum
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 13/10/2026
We have less than 2 months. This is the last push Tell your NHS Trust: Say no to Palantir! notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says Russia, Iran and emerging threats from AI were increasing the risks to Britain.
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Zoroastrian @zoroastrian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
2028 is our last best hope of a sub 1.5°C above 1850-1900 baseline. A meaningless milestone right now. At some point in a future where large parts of civilisation still exists, records, and shares its histories maybe some will remember.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/10/2026
Some say early 2030s. Others say 2028. But the math says it already happened in February, 2026. The Climate 8-Ball says there will not be a year in the next 100 years with a temperature anomaly less than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/10/2026
Breaking News! Code Yikes! Global total column precipitable water just set a new record high for the month of September. Upshot? More droughts. More floods.
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Zoroastrian @zoroastrian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There's a bunch of crows nearby preparing.....
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The IDF beating Orthodox Jews who are protesting being forcefully conscripted into the IDF to commit War Crimes. I can't imagine the Media response if any other country did this to Jews to force them to serve in the army. But it wouldn't be silence.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Israel is the most negatively viewed country in the world, beating North Korea and Afghanistan, despite the massive positive propaganda for Israel.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Realized I forgot the European model. Added it. Worth mentioning that the AI models are built upon decades of dynamic physics model research/ researchers and the AI models simply could not function without traditional observation & forecasting methods.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
Uhhh hey man quick question, how is OpenAI going to pay for those chips?
= Bloomberg
Chip Wars: US Levy Threat
Enflame's IPO
Technology
Broadcom Holds Early Talks About Financing for OpenAl
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India's Manufa
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In addition to his lavish homes in Los Angeles, DC, and Argentina (and maybe elsewhere), Peter Thiel also “chose eastern Uruguay to build a USD 10 million residence in an exclusive complex in Maldonado” 5/20/26 … 1/
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Peter Thiel eligió el este de Uruguay para construir una residencia de USD 10 millones en un exclusivo complejo de Maldonado
La propiedad se desarrolla dentro del complejo Fasano Las Piedras e incluye medidas de seguridad reforzadas y espacios orientados a la autonomía
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/10/2026
The more you know. Yesterday marked the 130th consecutive day of record global sea-surface temperatures, with yesterday's temperature 0.21°C warmer than the previous record for October 9th, set way back in 2023. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on total 2027 fuckery.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/10/2026
The rate of methane growth continues its decline towards pre-pandemic levels, with the impact of Covid-19 on methane lifespan showing up very clearly. Google it! Brightspot -- the ESAS/Permafrost methane bomb is not going off ... yet. Stay tuned!
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 11/10/2026
Full interview here: youtu.be/TKwfEs71VQI
youtu.be
Corruption and Regime Change with Anne Applebaum and Tim Snyder
YouTube video by Timothy Snyder
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/10/2026
You know it’s bad when even the bloviating sack of lies that was our Prime Minister becomes a sensible voice in a conversation.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/10/2026
Breaking News! Code Yikes! As of Oct. 8, Antarctic sea-ice extent is more than 4.5 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily mean, ranking second lowest for the day behind Oct. 8, 2023. Data: ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/ext...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/10/2026
The long-term rate of CO2 growth is currently at a record 24.35 ppm per decade. Net-zero by 2050? 2070? Ain't gonna' happen. Well, it might. But for another reason.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"America First" has, strangely, become Greater Israel. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Does America First Really Mean Israel First?
Mike Huckabee’s aide shows how an extremist agenda dominates Trump’s Middle East policy.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This medical facility in Indiana got a #solarpower upgrade. It's the first carbon neutral medical facility in the state. RT if you think more parking lots should go #solar. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #panelsnotpipelines
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Current mood reading this utter bullshit.
static.klipy.com
Intense Angry Rage
ALT: Intense Angry Rage
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In some ways this is even more enraging than the original error. It wasn’t a printing error and previously the Tories’ justification for ditching clean power targets was it would supposedly cut the cost of electricity and support the roll out of the very EVs and heat pumps they’re now sneering at.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's Genocide. The Nobel Prize Committee and winner agree.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be clear I’m not calling on Zack to step down. Today he's indicated he shares some of my concerns on the Zionism motion & I welcome that. Now the party needs to come together to urgently make our processes more robust & inclusive & take action to show Jewish members our party is safe for them
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/10/2026
The more you know ... Your Friday water-cooler update, because even if you know all the facts, they still don' t care:
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tom Watson on phone hacking "Consumer boycotts do impact [and] it's up to the public to decide whether they want to put up with that kind of nonsense" www.abc.net.au/pm/archive/a... So it's legitimate for the public to want boycotts when it's The Sun, but "mob rule" when it's Palantir.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congrats to all for a great campaign. So sorry it wasn’t enough this time, but tripling our vote share was huge. On Zack’s next steps - his leadership has led to huge party successes. I hope he can now bring same leadership to help resolve huge issues we face & transform our internal structures too
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