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Do we think M'cr City Council (unlike the FA) would care whether the money is coming from ADUG, the Abu Dhabi state purse, or from Mansour's personal assets? Even assuming those are separable, given Mansour owns ADUG & is one of Abu Dhabi's ruling family? The Council's priority is the redevelopment.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 7h

Cell Press giving a rather biased, pro-eugenics platform to self-proclaimed "Biotech Barbie", former a Thiel Fellow who briefly married He Jiankui, and fails to properly frame the debate on germline editing. Partly bonkers, partly important, check out this thread 🤯

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

As well as the ranting Islamophobia here, the basic facts are wrong - the Foreign Secretary explicitly disagreed with BDS.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 7h

Six days ago I wrote the thread linked below. Times Higher Education's lack of interest in James Orr had bothered me for weeks. Today Byline Times published the investigation that explains this very British scandal at length. Corruption, racism, sycophancy & graft bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 17h

These books are great but sadly, science is Kynaston’s blind spot - it doesn’t get mentioned in any of his books. Not even the 1962 award of 4 Nobels to Brits (and 1 to a USian who did the work in the U.K.).

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15h

Invitation to discuss my half-sacking (or ‘variation of contract’) with HR and the dean. I wonder what it could mean…

A game show with a slogan ‘is that good’, on a neon sign and being chanted by the crowd.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 10h

Henceforth to be known & obligatorily referred to as Eric 'Joe Schmuckarthy' Schmitt.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18h

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11h

The Tories Are Killing Britain

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 16h

#NigelFarage has been named Terrorists’ PR Professional of the Year after once again demonstrating that people can be made to #fear a terrorist attack without terrorists even having to organise one. #ReformPanic

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 10h

Yup. See also the curated rise in anti-rationalist fear propaganda (Trump, Vance, RFK Jr etc) which is used to distract, frighten & blind all the people losing out to the elite.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 10h

Always remember ... Brexit was the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK finally bins Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe — and a decisive strike against Putin-backed populism.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18h

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 11h

Umm… How is it being transmitted please? Remember that in 2011 Ron Fouchier did something “really, really stupid” - he “mutated the hell” out of H5N1 so it was transmitted aerially between ferrets… This scared everyone witless. I presume this is not the case here, but it’s worrying.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 10h

The words no Labour or Tory politician dares to say.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 15h

If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

cnn.com

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 23h

My resident expert on human anatomy says that this is the 'winched in and up' look typical.of a middle-aged gent wearing a corset.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me on GB News where I will be lying about what Andy Burnham said, pretending to give a shit about pensioners and definitely not mentioning any £5m gifts, illegal donations or police investigations.

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets--hospitals, universities, markets--knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And you may ask yourself: So... Why are the Uni management doing this, exactly?

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a non US-ian I'd not come across Schmitt before, but he's clearly auditioning for the role of Joe McCarthy - complete w Joe's keen regard for facts - in the Trumpfenführer's version of the post-WW2 Witch Hunt. A Trump surrogate accuses other people of 'politicizing the judiciary'. Unbelievable.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Noise/useless science rather than AI slop is a current challenge: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage, they should stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

medpagetoday.com

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's a lot of dosh, sure enough.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one person to follow for explaining football financial shenanigans is @cweatherspoon.bsky.social

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Context: Sathi got called out for this in the Letters page of the following issue:

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

Ellison, Musk, and Bezos now own Warner Bros, Paramount, MGM, Twitter/X, 15% of TikTok, and the Washington Post. It's not consolidation, it's capture. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

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Nobody Wants This

When it comes to non-consensual AI deployments and invasions of personal privacy, nobody wants this

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The vans were white... but everything else was Militant Marxist Red'.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SPOILER ALERT: Brexit has done ZERO good. It's caused nothing but harm, and has destroyed lives and livelihoods for millions.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't believe me? social-mobility.data.gov.uk/state-of-the... It's a bit more complicated than simply seizing assets, but given that wealth accumulates as you age because your pension pot increases, your mortgage shrinks then disappears, etc, then perhaps they should contribute a bit more.

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Level of wealth - State of the Nation - Social Mobility Data Explorer - GOV.UK

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, the ONS very clearly show that pensioners are the richest age demographic in the country...

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She could usefully start with the Orange Order in Norn Irn.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Orange Lodges are basically British MAGA. "We know this march is inflammatory, insulting, disrespectful... basically us saying 'F**k You' to every Catholic on the island of Ireland, and ESPECIALLY to our neighbours... but WE say 'F**k your feelings' Yaaay!"

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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh come on … sing it with me 😉😘

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very clear message from science minister at Labour conference that science is "back in the service of industry" South Yorkshire mayor Oliver Coppard also said "the govt and the system more broadly should not be focusing so much on REF scores; we should be focusing much more on commercialisation"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are building a house in a location where it cannot be insured, the problem is not really the lack of insurance

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would argue that it's the government that lacks credibility here: "You're a free market now" *Caps tuition for over a decade despite inflation "Make it up on international students" *Makes country inhospitable for immigrants* "Compete for funding" ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Edinburgh. 'High end' Russell Group civic Uni. Centuries of history. Med, vet & dent schools. In Scottish capital so De Facto 'national Uni of Scotland'. Big draw for o/seas students. 'Crisis' driven by govt policy & useless management. If Edinburgh is wobbling, nowhere outside Oxbridge is safe.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nottingham. Large Russell Group civic Uni, lots of people already signed up for VS. (Incl. longtime pal, still running a lab & publishing papers in an arcane & v technical bit of biosci.)

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