batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Prediction. Cot cams will result in many more false accusations of nurse malfeasance and no actual detection of true harmful actions. 010
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I suspect James Orr’s Cambridge doctoral thesis would make Arday’s work look relatively sane. search.worldcat.org/title/155462...search.worldcat.orgDivine lawmaking : a conceptualist account | WorldCat.orgDivine lawmaking : a conceptualist account | WorldCat.org 000
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I've brought my downstairs roomba upstair to meet my upstairs roomba. They appear to be getting on. Will they breed? 000
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Dear Radiohead. Represent us at Eurovision or face a seven year gaol term. 030
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children! If you want to view the solar eclipse later today but haven’t got proper, safe viewing glasses, you could make one of these:letstalkscience.caThree Ways to Make a Solar Eclipse ViewerSafely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer. 54136
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If this review is done by anyone with a humanities education it will fail to examine the total intellectual bankruptcy of huge swathes of postmodernist sociology etc. Cambridge review into Jason Arday post will be independent, university says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCambridge review into Jason Arday post will be independent, university saysVice-chancellor Deborah Prentice in a letter to staff says she shares concerns raised about Jason Arday's appointment as professor. 000
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Eclipses foretell the downfall of leaders. 010
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 12/08/2026There is a reasonable case that Oxbridge colleges should elect their masters from a list of crusty internal fellows. And probably avoid non academics. The Master of Jesus. Where that Walter Mitty chap was employed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonita_...en.wikipedia.orgSonita Alleyne - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialDr Jekyll and Mr Hyding to Nothing @aylwin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Sucks that all the tree protesters in the 80s and 90s spent all that time chained to trees and burrowing underground when they could just have said their favourite womble was buried there. 232787
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My deepest contempt in the gender wars is for the sceptics, rationalists and science communicators who have blithely and doggedly kept going without ever mentioning the controversies once. 200
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is is exciting that they are introducing eagles again to Exmoor, but I am not sure the wisdom of putting one of the eagles in charge of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhite-tailed eagles released onto Exmoor National ParkUp to 20 additional young birds will be released over the next three years. 010
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialTollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don’t like country music, but I don’t denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means 'put down' 🐢💨 4004798438
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialScott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It was preposterous that amnesty characterised a trauma informed service to support women who have been subject to sexual and domestic violence as anti rights. There was an impact on service users and this shows an impact on staff. No wonder those involved were and remain so angrytelegraph.co.ukInside JK Rowling’s rape support centre that took on Amnesty – and wonAfter defeating ‘anti-rights’ claims, Beira’s Place is standing firm against the trans lobby by providing female-only support 1912535
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In case you missed it, the Green Party in Hackney spearheaded a cancellation of the borough's twinning agreement with Haifa, which is one thing, but the Mayor of Hackney has now written to the Mayor of Haifa requesting a reply by *October 7*, which is either stupid or pretty evil, take your pick. 1111932
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Not identities. Respect fpr people's *sexualities*. No one gives a flying fuck how you identify as that is meaningless twaddle. But you do need to respect if someone is gay or lesbian and not shame them into sleeping with the wrong sex. 340
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 25/05/2026"can you get my opponent in Makersfield to tweet he wants to "smell and lick" Carole Vorderman's bum?" "strange first request, but as you desire my new northern master" "nice one, and get us a pint of gravy 'n all" 313829
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Jupiter 100
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Fear and Gibson is a very marketable brand name. 000
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialLeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Imagine there is a trend of increased diagnoses of cancer, or dementia, or asthma, or arthritis or whatever and when the government announce an expert review into it a whole bunch of people start shouting about how bad and cynical an idea this is. Well that's happening for mental health. 283
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 03/12/2025When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental. 417434
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialBen Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I bought a £150 thing from France. I'm truly delighted to pay £40 tax on import: that's for schools and hospitals. The £11 handling fee for DHL, on the other hand, is purely to cover the expensive slow additional bureaucratic admin needlessly created for us all by Brexit voters. Merry Xmas! 77417
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 26/11/2025My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial: "Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could." www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11... 43312
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My thoughts on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial. www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...quackometer.netPATHWAYS: A Trial Built on Missing Data, Pseudoscience, and Quiet Cruelty – The Quackometer Blog 220
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Oh god. The BBC's Civilisations is written for imbiciles, isn't it? Or maybe Americans. 100
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 22/11/2025At the gig. I’ve just worked out Radiohead’s Creep is closer to The Beatles Love Me Do than it is to now. I have crumbled to dust. 020
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialJo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social · 21/11/20251. Don't ever let a chiropractor near your neck. 2. I'd also recommend not letting them anywhere near the entirety of your body. 3. Or your wallet. 1159
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025So many well-educated people I know are unaware of this about chiropractors and I’m always too embarrassed / polite / English to mention it. Like when I bite my tongue when people talk about “alternative” medicine for serious, terminal illness 810627
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025@ldfreedman.bsky.social demolishes the rumors of a peace plan. This makes more sense than anything else I've seen on the plan. Nonetheless, Witkoff's ignorance shines through. He probably got rolled again. 1/open.substack.comYet another peace plan?What's going on with leaked proposals for a new US/Russia deal 27329
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The BBC write as if assessing if someone is male or female "by appearance" is a bad thing. But that is how we do tell if someone is male or female every day. Humans are very good at it. It does not depend on clothes and social stereotypes - but body/face shape/size... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrans people could be barred from services based on appearanceThe new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers. 4163
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/11/2025THREAD. I love old Habitat catalogues & managed to get hold of all the 70s ones before they got v pricey & collectable. Flicking through them, I wondered: "What are the true stories of the lives of the people in these photos?" So I decided to write those stories. You'll find them in the alt text. 413440
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Occult school closes for good. Bristol Steiner School, like all Waldorf schools, is a threat to the physical, mental and educational needs of children and it is a good thing it has now folded. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...bristol247.comSchool to permanently close after 50 yearsThe news follows several tumultuous years of efforts by parents and alumni to keep it open 030
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Was there no relative who could have taken power of attorney? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed' 020
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Show us the last four albums you listened to 010
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 02/10/2025This woman is so absolutely terrible. Blaming the medical staff for her daughter's completely unnecessary death when it's totally on her. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comUK woman who refused cancer drugs was influenced by mother, inquest findsPaloma Shemirani, 23, died after refusing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma despite doctors’ concerns 1017928
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialStephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community. 28639
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialLeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 01/10/2025You can be an explicitly racist, far right agitator and that's acceptable for the Royal Society. Wonder how many Fellows are happy in such company. Most I would imagine. Another western institution full of weak, cowardly people. 063
Reposted by @batakali.bsky.socialLeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Fuck off with this woke shit www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...theguardian.comSock it to the shoes: why more offices are going footwear-freeBritish companies are trialling no-shoes policies as a way to improve focus, comfort and morale – but not everyone is convinced 331
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 28/09/2025From the archives: www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/03... Top Ten Tips For Creating Your Own New Alternative Medicinequackometer.netTop Ten Tips For Creating Your Own New Alternative Medicine – The Quackometer Blog 010
batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Thanks to the BBC today for telling us that Cillian Murphy is not a psychopathic gangster but is in fact just an actor. 130
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Dear Sir Adrian
I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct.
In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030.
The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jviud2kbpxo3lwd3do4mqepg/bafkreiev6nrcxar4eabbnj3t2p5tfi4icoeagakrqrtc5jhcq6op3424me)
