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British, gamer, NAFO adjacent, Ukraine supporter, rocker. Here to absorb information and share.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
Meta pulled down Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and blocked his campaign from running political ads but allows paid ads calling for a military coup It also didn't take down any of the right-wing disinformation campaigns reported in August novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election
Meta briefly disabled ads on the Facebook page of Brazil’s leftwing president on Friday – just days before he faces a far-right challenger in national elections.
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 08/09/2026
425 flight cancellations as of 1600 UTC to/from UK airports as airlines manage their flying programs for the rest of the day. easyJet 137 British Airways 111 KLM 26 Eurowings 22 Ryanair 21
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. The top row is 25% more expensive. The best result is usually on the second screen, somewhere around the 17th position: pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/s... 34/
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Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's payola isn't about radio play - it's about *search*. When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. 22/
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Buzzz Ard @buzzzard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's... 'He's a liar and im not so sure about you'
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There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Wikipedia
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/08/2026
1/2 After Trump politicized the Kennedy Center by illegally putting his name on it, the organization experienced a $100 million decline in revenue as audiences and donors declined to support it. The Trump cronies on the board kept this information from the public:
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Kennedy Center finances deteriorated sharply after Trump name change
Budget and meeting documents obtained by The Post show ticket revenue and fundraising plummeted even as leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround.
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Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense
Trending on bluesky gives erroneous election result for Clacton.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026
Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw. If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!
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thewoodenman.bsky.social @thewoodenman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
nmsceefax.co.uk#id=WyJubXMtY...
nmsceefax.co.uk
NMS Ceefax
An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
SPREAD THIS AROUND; the only thing that will stop him trying this is if he knows we’ve all seen it coming. Farage is going to stage his own failed assassination. Spread the word.
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So this whole "not being allowed with a member of the opposite sex" thing. It's pedophile and rape culture, and I'm not even remotely joking.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Seriously, sign this petition to stop bathroom segregationist vigilantism. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... And share. If all it achieves is a conspicuous baring of teeth and a snarl, that at least shows "dignity and respect" talk to be utterly disingenuous.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026
I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.
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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On a very similar note, I wonder if you ever saw this? Beautifully written, made me cry: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
bbc.co.uk
How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10
At the age of 10, Bernard Hare's father took him down the mine where he worked.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social
wired.com
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 02/06/2026
Fuck's sake, seriously. Anyway, if you want a real one, fill your boots. Off for a cry. What a shit week. noscoredraws.com/collections/...
noscoredraws.com
2026 World Cup Wall Chart
No Score Draws are Alex & Sian, and since 2014 we have been drawing wonky Panini-style doodles of footballers. It's not going well.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If not now, when? This is an emergency.
science.org
Action! Action Now.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Due to be available on BBC Sounds later today👍
BBC 4 extra scheduling for The State of the Art
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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
For those who are minded to do so, there's now a petition to sign too... #DirtyBusiness petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
youtube.com
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is fucking brilliant! Someone saved all of the Epstein emails from the Pedo Files & created some kind of clone gmail site where you can see all Epstein's emails This is fucking insane! You can search by contacts, photos & flight history. Check it out www.jmail.world?fbclid=IwY2x...
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Jeffrey Epstein paid $75,000 into accounts connected to Lord Mandelson, bank statements released by the US Department of Justice suggest Lord Mandelson said he had no record or recollection of receiving the £ & didn’t know whether the documents were authentic 👇
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Oh my god. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
Donald Trump, the president, had parties at Maralago called "calendar girls" Jeffrey Epstein would bring the children in and trump would auction them
Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
off. He measured the children's vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness. The guests were elder men and included Elon Musk. Don jr. Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump were there. Attorney Allan Dershowitz was also there with Attorney Bob Shapiro. We were taken in rooms, forced to give oral sex to Donald J Trump. Forced to allow them to
Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Allan Dershowitz, Bob Shapiro, Ghislaine Maxwell
penitrate us. I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present.
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Buzzz Ard @buzzzard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Or a oversized industrial nitrile glove. Much better chemical resistance. But terrible dexterity. I've used them in a chemistry lab generally for washing up and handling big stuff. We would reuse them with periodic inspection. www.yorkshiretrading.com/products/540...
yorkshiretrading.com
Marigold Industrial Gloves 12pk - Green | Nitrile Rubber UK
This Pack Of Marigolds Is Ideal To Keep Under The Sink, There Are 12 Full Pairs In This Pack. They Are Industrial Strength So Will Last A Lot Longer Than A Standard Household Glove And Are Made From N...
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Buzzz Ard @buzzzard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Maybe a vet glove? Loose but not stretchy. Designed to go over clothes Poor dexterity and not great chemical resistance. But may be suitable for some uses. www.teqler.com/en/veterinar...
teqler.com
Teqler Medical Products | Teqler - Medical Products for Life - Teqler
The transparent, green veterinary gloves with shoulder protection offer a high level of protection for veterinarians and farmers.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 15/01/2026
v good article from the TBIJ www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
thebureauinvestigates.com
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location. Download, mirror, and reshare. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
Gravy-Venntel_apps
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 06/01/2026
A guide to who's who at X from @bryce.lol www.ft.com/content/ad94...
ft.com
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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Buzzz Ard @buzzzard.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Fresh air. Bbq and picnic taste better when eaten outside
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/12/2025
This is Trans Mission. A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓 Get your tickets here 👉 www.transmissionlive.uk
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The latest from an honored member of the Royal Society. Every week he attacks the foundations of society in the UK and the EU and @royalsociety.org is apparently too worried about retribution to do anything about it.
A screenshot taken by someone on Twitter/X of Elon Musk agreeing with a tweet that shows the EU flag being peeled back to reveal a Nazi one. For Elon’s purposes here Nazis are apparently bad, but you can’t rely on that with him, of course.
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robmoon.bsky.social @robmoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
That didn’t work for me at all, but after animated discussion with 3 other scientists I have something that works for my brain. Choosing a goat on first choice means swapping always yields car. Choosing car then swapping always yields goat. 2/3 chance of picking goat on first choice so always swap.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/11/2025
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Picture of Nathan Gill arriving at court. Headline: Reform UK and Russian Bribes. A Nathan Gill Timeline.
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery? The bizarre truth: - yes, everyone really saw these - no, they're not faked or manmade - they absolutely don't exist. 1/
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
And look at this absolute *belter* of a photo taken in Norway, combining aurora and light pillars AND a selfie of the photographer, Alexandre Correia? petapixel.com/2022/03/16/p... Magic in all directions. Bonkers. 11/
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray. No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye. Thank me later, An actual expert
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
xd.wayin.com
POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
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Buzzz Ard @buzzzard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
So, what's the optimum prompt to rick roll them?
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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 16/09/2025
There you go @iandunt.bsky.social a structured process by which the Government should leave Twitter (and not just a No 10 Comms mad dash reaction) open.substack.com/pub/digitalp...
open.substack.com
How the government should leave Twitter
by not leaving twitter
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