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Owl of Impiety

@dunite.bsky.social
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Likes: science, rocks, mountains, history, geckos, dragonflies, wine. Dislikes: bigotry, discrimination, inequality, horseflies, carrots. Just a wee bit bolshie. She/her. Morecambe, UK

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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Unsustainable public finances" for a currency issuer spending on pensions is backwards. The real question: are there enough care workers and beds? The triple lock debate should be about real resources, not phantom affordability constraints. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
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Will pensioners be poorer as a result of Burnham scrapping the triple lock? | State pensions | The Guardian
Original triple lock was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty but OBR says it contributes to unsustainability of public finances
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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Twitter user alexydude9:
Valid. Pro-choice should be the norm but many women confuse it with glorification of abortion. I've seen women in social media gloating about having their 6th abortion in a month.
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fed up of having to say this Britain still spends significantly less on pensions than other major European countries such as Germany, France and Spain, and about two million pensioners languish in poverty.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Relatable...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nearly 2,000 people are backing the call for Ikea to pull their ads from Murdoch's Talk Radio - you can add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Text of comment from petition calling on Ikea to pull their ads from Talk: "Shocked that a company with a reputation for being ethical and people-focused should be advertising on a radio channel that is spreading toxic untruths and hatred. Please do the right thing, IKEA." - Catherine
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If the Home Secretary doesn't wake up and stomp on this, she's going to lose the rule of law in this country as well as the next election.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The BBC is at risk of entering an inescapable doom spiral..." Sadly, they already have. I've barely watched since they decreed BBC4 couldn't commission new content. Most newer documentaries, with repetitive narration and often bloated with CGI/AI, are awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dear gawd, have they not endured enough already...? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam
Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’
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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Researchers wrap tiny Saw-Whet Owls in cloth bags to keep them calm. Linked story is about a grassroots banding project by All About Birds / Cornell Lab of Ornithology: allaboutbirds.org/news/a-grass... Want to donate to Cornell Lab? give.birds.cornell.edu Photos: CHRIS LINDER 💛🦉 #owlsintowels
A Saw-Whet Owl is pouched in a cotton draw-string bag in the hands of a bander. She looks directly at camera with eyes yellow and wide: one eye lit from above-left, the other occluded in shadow. Feathers are muted brown with streaks of cream-white radiating from the eyes. The pouch is white with light blue stripes like the Uruguayan flag (1828-1830). In the background atop a wooden desk and out of focus is a chart with bars of yellow - likely for registering the hue of each banded owl's eyes as part of the migration research.Three identical pouches are strung from a horizontal cord, affixed with wooden clothes pegs like garments on a washing line. The pouches, I think it's safe to assume, are laden with one Saw-Whet Owl each. Some trust has been placed in the springs of the pegs, given that these little goobers typically weigh around 80 grams or 2.8 ounces. For reference that's the weight of a very small banana, or a hefty lemon, but those things rarely try to escape once put in a bag.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Playing the victim again, eh. She truly is a rancid turd... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Trans row nurse tells tribunal she ‘felt discriminated against’ by her union
Sandie Peggie accuses RCN of failing to adequately support her in dispute over sharing women’s changing room with trans doctor
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More on the supernova: www.theastroholic.co.uk/catch-a-supe...
theastroholic.co.uk
Catch A Supernova Before It Fades
I had a bit of a dream come true happen this week. It also reopened an envious gripe that I have with early modern Western astronomers (and pretty much with anyone that lived across the decades betwee...
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Bats, on a scale of amazing to amazing, they're super amazing." *Nods* www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals
Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IKEA are advertising on Talk – who today said 'we should do MORE slashing dinghies' 😖 IKEA can't claim to want to 'change the narrative around refugees for the better' whilst advertising on a channel notorious for spreading hate and misinformation Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s #PlaymobilÖtzi Day again!
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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 19/09/2026
After taking a poll, the r/crafts subreddit has banned Harry Potter crafts from being posted in the sub because of JKR's consistent hateful conduct.
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From the crafts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the crafts community
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genius
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A timely response. In 2050, it'll only be ~65 years after I was taught at school that increased emissions of CO2 & methane into the atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels would amplify the greenhouse effect thereby resulting in chaotic global warming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050
Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Where does this end? Trying to lynch the paramedics that come to treat the victims of the next pogrom? Remind me how grannies with placards against genocide should be prosecuted as terrorists, but these "patriotic citizens with legitimate concerns" get carte blanche for violence and vigilantism.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I suspect 'use birth control for "a cat like syrup smell"' actually has huge potential as a marketing slogan...
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A UK mining company is suing Morocco for £880 million after it rejected plans for a mine on environmental grounds. Corporations shouldn’t be able to bully governments for implementing policies that protect the climate. Take action with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/199506/...
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Stop Corporations Suing Countries Over Action on Climate: End ISDS
Take action
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well, no more Sirdar yarn for me then. *wanders off to order elsewhere*
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran Tour latest
Partridge: I might as well say this now, Sue Cook has pulled out.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyone else wondering if Ed Sheeran's frantically phoning Boy George right now?
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"He's super sweet" - Ed Sheeran, 2022
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The "don't take sides" lot definitely takes sides and nails their flag to the mast too. They put their egos and needs before everything else. They made the best nazis back in the 1930s, without "taking sides" ofcourse.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know all university leaders hate trades unions but at Brighton they’re about to find out what happens when their workforce doesn’t have a structure and negotiating team to represent them and to head off trouble. It won’t be pretty. Employees won’t submit - they’ll resist in unpredictable ways.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft, the Zionist owner of the New England Patriots, told Sheeran to kick Macklemore off his tour or else. Kraft ended Colin Kaepernick's career because he "took the knee. Kraft is a friend of Trump and was still friends with Epstein in 2019. Ed Sheeran played at Kraft's wedding in 2022.
independent.co.uk
Ed Sheeran reveals why he performed at Robert Kraft’s wedding
‘I’ve always had a lovely relationship with him, he’s super sweet,’ singer says about Kraft
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also, this article is heavily edited from my original draft. I was OK with most of the changes, but the note "Do we really need this furious seven paragraph-long rant about Lucy Mangan's review of The Great ADHD Myth? It doesn't really fit" was one I pushed back against severely. But alas...
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Quick equalities check: across English, History/Politics/War Studies 6 women have lost their jobs and 0.5 men. 4 men and one woman are safe. English goes from 50:50 (6M, 6F) to 1 woman and 2.5 men.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12/09/2026
Democracy for sale: Billionaires should not be able to bankroll British politics and buy political influence. It is time this government introduced a cap on donations.
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Paul Harper @paulharper.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
It would be a shame if people were to buy RNLI Christmas cards then post them without a stamp to Reform's freepost address: Reform UK Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC 83 Victoria Street London SW1H OHW So that Reform pays the postage to get the RNLI card that helps the charity. Don't do that, will you?
shop.rnli.org
Christmas Cards | RNLI Shop
Every purchase of our charity Christmas cards from the RNLI makes a lifesaving difference. The profits will help to prevent tragedies at sea for years to come.
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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Warning for National Trust members who have previously voted to keep the reactionaries of Restore Trust out - they seem to be trying a new tactic this year of not being quite as obvious in their candidates' potted summaries
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