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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 1h

Quite the intro, this: A Reform UK councillor has been accused of "lifting his arse cheeks and farting" at another politician during a meeting at Blackburn with Darwen Council.

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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 4h

“When you’re going through injustice and bad disciplinary procedures, you’re not practising at your best and that impacts patient care. “Patient safety is what matters in healthcare. That’s the reason we’re all there.” Dr David Sellu previews his conference lecture tinyurl.com/ykmt2axn

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy birthday to Henry the vacuum cleaner x

screen grab of Henry the vacuum cleaner's wikipedia page

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Harry @harry-is-human.bsky.social · 5h

Lots of fuss in the UK atm about drinking water reservoirs, but probably just as important is the need for a mass increase in agricultural reservoirs. Frankly whether your car is cleaned by hosepipe matters less than if you can afford bread.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 5h

It's the nature of democracy that ministers will often be in charge of areas they don't have a history in. But it's their approach to expertise that is a worry. NHS staff are seen as a vested interest to be taken on, while contractors are trusted advisors. This is pure Thatcherism and very silly.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 6h

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 6h

For example bsky.app/profile/edpo...

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 6h

I do often get the sense from new Heath ministers that they don't really understand Healthcare. They often announce schemes incredibly similar to stuff that been announced by processors, in response to on-going problems and seem surprised by well known info.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 6h

I sometimes wonder how much the fact that Health ministers are usually drawn from the demographic that uses the NHS the least (able bodied, white men, young-middle aged) is a factor in it's issues. It probably plays a part in the obsession with apps and convenience over continuity and human contact.

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 6h

Where is the requirement for education & training providers and employers to practice equitable recruitment, accessibility and reasonable adjustments? Where are timely diagnosis, healthcare, therapy and (hello, new Covid wave) preventative health? Where is Access To Work? Where is UNCRPD in UK law?

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 6h

The more you read this, the more it beggars belief. Do politicians and civil servants think disabled young people get magically un-disabled (and un-discriminated against) if you take away social security? That cutting Motability would help get them to work? How? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 11h

In a small kidney cancer trial, nine people received an experimental vaccine tailored to their own tumors. None experienced a recurrence during a median follow-up of roughly three years and four months after surgery. www.sciencealert.com/nine-patient...

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Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.

How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments and putting them into a vaccine.

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Current Medical Science @currentmedscience.bsky.social · 11h

Can #Microglia hold the key to stroke defense? Casr-related neuroprotection induced by ischemic preconditioning is linked to M2 microglial transformation, offering insight into #IschemicStroke defense. #medsky Read: doi.org/10.1007/s115... #currentmedicalscience #Neuroscience

The Role of Casr Inhibition-Mediated M2 Microglial Transformation in Ischemic Preconditioning Against Stroke

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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 9h

The story of modern languages in English schools is one of teachers making things work in desperate, desperate circumstances in a system that just keeps getting worse: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/05/coul...

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Could you design a worse system for making sure people don't study languages?

If you wanted to design a system for making sure as few people as possible learn a language, our school system is perfect: "Transition" fro...

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Anyone who can watch one person take the life of another and not suffer permanent damage to their soul likely didn’t have one to start. To do it in the guise of “justice” is especially damning to the soul.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

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James Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social · 19h

Fires, fireworks, and crumbling classrooms. Student blockades continue to spread across France as they protest against state funding and studying conditions. With 🎥 Lea Guedj & Paul Pradier

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17h

Frontotemporal dementia turned her husband into a violent stranger. Inside a Toronto family’s nightmare. Steve Dawson's four children have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the genetic mutation responsible, by @kjiang.bsky.social www.thestar.com/life/health-... via @thestar.com

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Dementia turned her husband into a violent stranger in his 40s. Her kids' risk is 50/50. But this Toronto family's nightmare could bring hope

Steve Dawson’s four children have a 50/50 chance of inheriting his genetic mutation and undergoing the same changes in middle age.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 17h

We taught special rocks to project illusions when we etch them with special symbols and inlay them with metal and run precisely controlled lightning through them.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 17h

An estimated 2.3 cancer cases worldwide—or 1 in 8—are attributable to infections, according to study results published in The Lancet Oncology. Fortunately, infection-related malignancies are largely preventable through vaccination and treatment of underlying diseases.

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1 in 8 Cancer Cases Worldwide Are Due to Infections

Most of the more than 2 million cases were attributable to Helicobacter pylori, human papillomavirus, HBV and hepatitis B and C.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pope waded into the red-hot debate over regulation of artificial intelligence on Monday, stating that the concerns expressed by tech industry leaders over the catastrophic risks to humanity posed by the technology are not "fake news" and "should be taken seriously." www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

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Pope Leo says alarm over AI is not 'fake news,' but remains optimistic

Pope Leo XIV spoke about the regulation of AI during his return flight to Rome, stating that concerns expressed by tech industry leaders over the catastrophic risks to humanity posed by the technology...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pope Leo: “Rather than treating every used object as mere waste, we need to change our behavior and commit ourselves to taking a different path. Essentially, this means moving beyond the consumerist model and toward a production system capable of preserving the limited resources of our planet.”

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Rick Lehane @ricklehane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was sound engineering in a fancy hotel bar by Waterloo. I remember saying to the French bar manager "we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get where we were yesterday"

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Citizeness Kane-saw Massacre @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As someone who has worked in the exhibitions/conventions industry (& specifically in international art fairs), I'm truly baffled. There are experts whose job it is to calculate crowd flow, ticket-sale ratios & the like; why such a high-profile event didn't apply this kind of know-how is beyond me.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

men should ask themselves if they have friends who will tell them to shut the fuck up or question them when they say something weird or fucked up about women and if those friends won't say anything then they are Not Friends You Need to Hang Out With.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 01/10/2026

pleased to announce that the entry time for "ten-minute twix" is being extended by a further ten minutes. you have until 13.26....... "good luck"

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 01/10/2026

Interesting: “Raise the Colours” are citing the European Convention on Human Rights in defence of their flag-raising campaign👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.com The ECHR protects us all.

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Raise the Colours' members in court for Birmingham injunction evidence

Birmingham City Council is seeking an injunction to stop the Raise The Colours group's activities.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There used to be a theory - broadly associated with Marcuse I think - that it was better a tactic for authoritarian states to tolerate liberal positions rather than ban and draw attention to them. We will see. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is very very disturbing.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was proven, without doubt and to massive global fanfare, that even the best chess player who ever lived could not beat a machine. Totemic, worldwide news! And then everyone immediately realised it was about as meaningful as realising no one could beat a wall at tennis, shrugged, and moved on.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Dr Nick Hawkes @nchawkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I remember an Eddie Izzard bit about like ok there's a bomb scare at Victoria but I could get the Jubilee line, change at Green Park...

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder that this was not a question of 20/20 hindsight, or a legitimate scientific dispute. The N95 respirators that likely would have saved these workers' lives were required under the national standard (CAN/CSA-Z94.4),...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Non24 Sleep-Wake Disorder and Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder can seriously harm mental health, especially if someone doesn't know they live with a Circadian Sleep Disorder. And even if one does, the strain of pushing through work, school, &/or parenting on a mismatched schedule can take a toll.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that the BBC has picked up this story, it has gone "viral" and gone beyond the bubble of experts on German politics and society. www.bbc.com/news/article... I thought I would add some more context that isn't in the article. #Stoplersteine #Germany #HolocaustMemory

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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees

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Anne Murphy @drannemurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Methodists have spent years preparing for this moment. media.methodist.org.uk/media/docume...

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