alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ordered. Glad there’s a non-Amazon option now. Unfortunately, ordering process not straightforward. Why is it mandatory to supply my phone number? 100
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 10/04/2026So, does this also leave Israel weakened? 100
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it. 884180530
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Is a GP currently obliged to refer a patient to a specialist if the patient asks to see one? If that’s the case, will patients no longer have that right if the govt goes ahead with its plan? 100
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Er, why the emotion? Do you think 70 year olds are so blind or their moral compasses so askew that they wouldn’t wish for a just, clean world? 110
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Er, an 'older people' (>65y) reporting. Defected to the Greens just before the last GE. Happy to hold out a shaky hand to younger people. 010
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 03/11/2025www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comMan charged after mass stabbing on train in CambridgeshireSuspect was arrested after incident on Saturday evening service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Wonder what led the police to hold the 35-year-old who then turned out not to be involved 110
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025They probably did. But responsible media would not have amplified the information. Usual practice is to wait for official statement if there are sensitivities involved. The official statement gave licence to broadcast ethnicity 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025C. Why speculate? Why not wait for all the evidence to be gathered and properly examined? Uninformed speculation only feeds into unwarranted hate 100
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025A. Reporting of a single crime does not provide an understanding of any correlation between crime and ethnicity B. Er, both British-born. How deep do you have to dig into parentage to work out if a person is an immigrant? Grandparents, great-grandparents … 300
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Good to hear better phrasing beginning to be used: ‘British-born, British nationals” 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Why is the skin colour relevant, except to allow some to say that they weren’t really one of us. Does the skin colour give an indication of motivation? 10242
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 07/10/2025It’d be interesting (and possibly surprising) to see how a train inspector ‘of colour’ deals with the situation. 000
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialKDaver @kdaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Another hero that does not wear a cape. Please share to show this paperreading constable that should get a clue by doing this to an completely peacufull young lady. 69952
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The UK government promised to phase out animal testing. A promise isn't enough. We need an ambitious roadmap with firm deadlines, not more delays. Sign the petition demanding a real plan to bring UK science into the 21st century. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...you.38degrees.org.ukA real roadmap to phase out animal testingIt's time for the UK to catch up and focus on modern, human-relevant science. Add your name to the petition calling on the government to create an ambitious and detailed roadmap to phase out animal te... 010
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Hmm … not all that easy even for a subscriber (and a shareholder) 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Great to have you in London. Friends House last night, Parliament Sq this evening. Am I becoming a groupie? 000
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Timeline cleanse 12444811545
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 26/08/2025#Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/humanists.ukThat's humanism!We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts. 041
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 16/08/2025EMA has the network and processes to do good regulation. And at one time MHRA was a very significant contributor to EMA’s work. Whether an emasculated MHRA can apply the same rigour remains to be seen. 100
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Proper evaluation needs huge expertise, curiosity and, yes, time. 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Medicines regulation isn’t about how quickly you can put a product on the market. It’s there make sure our citizens are well served and protected. That means looking into the dark corners and skilfully checking and re-checking data to spot any lurking danger. 010
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 18/07/20255 minutes on a busy Victoria line in London might be a good indicator on where we’re at 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Good to hear an articulate response to the point so many raise 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 23/06/2025And “armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place, and could result in radioactive releases with grave consequences within and beyond the boundaries of the State which has been attacked”. 000
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 23/06/2025www.iaea.org/newscenter/s...iaea.orgIAEA Director General Grossi’s Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran | IAEAIAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi provided a statement to the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Iran on 20 June. 020
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 23/06/2025“The IAEA can guarantee, through a watertight inspections system, that nuclear weapons will not be developed in Iran.” IAEA Director General’s statement 20 June 2025 361
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialStop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 22/06/2025📣In just a few hours we’ve had over 5k signatures on our petition for the UK to oppose Trump’s war on Iran. Share the petition and help us get it to 10k today! stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...stoptrump.org.ukPetition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on IranStop Trump Coalition 02520
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Exactly what a compassionate Labour Party should be shouting from the rooftops. 060
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The BBC v The Ministry of Truth www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukRos Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverageOn Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla... 12918
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025‘They were saying they’d got a deal even before they got into the room’. Do I remember an ‘oven-ready deal’? 000
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialJoni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 14/05/20256/11 The non-profit Partnership for Public Service has estimated that DOGE’s firing and rehiring will cost the US $135 billion in lost productivity this year alone. Musk is not paying that bill — American taxpayers are! 1413
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Shortly before the last general election, I resigned my Labour membership, joined Greens and voted Green. Can’t be untypical … others will also have abandoned Labour for other left-leaning parties. 010
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Columbia University Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs mocks President Trump's failure to understand trade deficits 11348135
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Black lives matter. Gay, lesbian and trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else. Workplaces, and their staff & customers/clients benefit when they accommodate diversity. People should be allowed to follow their religion. These statements reflect basic human rights and a civilised society. 537079
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20258. In short, we feel under attack. I think daily about Russell Vought's plan for bureaucrats. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…We want to put them in trauma.” 2943130
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20253. In 2020, the scientific community came together—remotely, by necessity—in response to the COVID pandemic, to understand how this disease spreads and what that it does to people, to find of returning life to a semblance of normal amidst a pandemic, to develop a vaccine in record time. 374737
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20252. Curiosity-driven research isn't just fun; it led us to develop tools that thousands of scientists use to find meaningful patterns in massive datasets (e.g. www.mapequation.org). Separately, I've had the opportunity to be part of the largest collective intellectual effort in human history. 282462
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20251. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all. 382585927
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.social👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Outside the American Embassy in London.... London rocks......✊🏼 356166443545
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/03/2025"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." 24019
Reposted by @alienintown.bsky.socialLBC @lbc.co.uk · 14/03/2025@mrjamesob.bsky.social calls out JD Vance's 'free speech hypocrisy'. 15344131
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Clothes powerfully represent a country’s struggle. Gandhi’s outraged some in the UK (‘half-naked fakir’, as Churchill described Gandhi). [AI-generated text] 010
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Secondary action might involve picketing the company HQ and manufacturing facilities, and publicising the company’s antisocial record and the action being taken. 140
alienintown.bsky.social @alienintown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025But do it in a concerted way. Arrive at a consensus on which company has the largest impact on society. Name it, write to the company of the upcoming action and robustly boycott all the company’s products for, say, 6 months. 1110
