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"I do not think therefore I am a moustache" Sartre, La Nausée, 1938 Interests: art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs. * adferoafferro.wordpress.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5h
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
◻️ #Palestine Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjv9... ⚪ webinar 2 hrs 21 mins in which Rashid Khalidi gives a distillation of new to be published book
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Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel"
YouTube video by Scientific Webinars in Solidarity with Palestine
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights Calling wood “renewable” doesn’t make the CO2 released when it’s burned disappear. If forests take decades or more to recover that carbon, how should we count those emissions? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
◻️ 😼 Quads
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
◻️ #Miliband “We Hear You. You Were Right.” New Words, Few Actions. Notes from Plague Island, 3 Oct 2016 www.plagueisland.com/p/we-hear-yo... ⚪ Forensically dissects Labour Conference speech and how it still lets UK off hook for complicity in genocide of Palestinians to sell arms
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“We Hear You. You Were Right.” New Words, Few Actions.
Ed Miliband told Labour conference that the public was right to be outraged by Gaza. His government continues to proscribe Palestine Action, arrest people who make that stand, and keep British weapons...
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
◻️ Top shelf
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
◻️ Maybe the UK GOV thought it a nice gesture for recent arrivals to be able to send one to granny back home in Syria.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
◻️ #TheGreatReplacementTheory #Remigration "Change what can be said, and you change what can be done." The World That Outlived the Movement: The Permission Sstructure, Part Four Notes from Plague Island 25th of July, 2026 www.plagueisland.com/p/the-world-...
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The World That Outlived the Movement
A decade of counter-extremism destroyed every vehicle and never touched the cargo. France dissolved Génération Identitaire. The platforms banned the network. Britain turned the leadership back at the ...
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Chinese company Unitree reveal their "all terrain" wheeled robot.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
◻️ #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... ⚪ Therein, Israel is destroying the rock pools that are created for children to swim in.
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Reclaiming stolen childhoods: swimming classes resume in Gaza after three years of war
In sea pools built with sandbags and rubble, Amjed Tantesh gives traumatised children brief respite from their daily lives
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
◻️ #Moneylaundering www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... ⚪The City of London Is already the money laundering capital of the world. The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Jh... 1 hr 17 mins
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How to Launder Money But Not Like Me, by George Cottrell (as imagined by John Crace)
The Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer imagines Nigel Farage’s right-hand man’s thinking behind his book, How to Launder Money
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
◻️ #Burnham #Iran Letting B1 bombers fly out of RAF Fairford to bomb Iran is Burnham's first big mistake. Starmer was weak and now we see so is Burnham. The UK is not at war with Iran. It does have military assets in the Gulf, but they will now be more vulnerable to attack by Iran.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
◻️ #FergalKean fergalkeanereal.substack.com/p/the-keane-...
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The Keane Eye: Farage and his gang are not finished.
There's a little too much glee, not enough realism, but Burnham can win.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
◻️ #Gaza www.plagueisland.com/p/the-line-t... ⚪ Some pop the link to PM Burnham for some weekend reading at Chequers.
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The Line That Stalks the Land: The Ceasefire as Land Grab and the New Architecture of Dispossession
The ceasefire was a lie. While the cameras looked away, Israel seized two-thirds of Gaza, drew a moving kill zone, and called it a peace deal. This is the land grab in plain sight.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
◻️ A Tale of Two Adaptations Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas open.substack.com/pub/rupertsr... ⚪ transformative adaptation
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A Tale of Two Adaptations
Reflections on the Climate Change Committee’s Well-Adapted UK report, in the light of this summer’s heat storms and the Burnham ascendancy
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
◻️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeA1...
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EXPOSED: What Andy Burnham Really Thinks About Palestine | Matt Kennard
YouTube video by Palestine Deep Dive
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
◻️ #Burnham #MattKennard www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeA1... ⚪ 37 interview laying out Burham as Starmer 2.0
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EXPOSED: What Andy Burnham Really Thinks About Palestine | Matt Kennard
YouTube video by Palestine Deep Dive
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
◻️ Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet. #JonathanCook jonathancook.substack.com/p/britains-b...
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or 'Israel haters', the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
◻️ Shall do. but sight not too hot at the mo. Presumably there was a big vote to KH out.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
◻️ AB is very rapidly becoming a cold, soggy sock. Purnell is to be No. 10 CoF. Surely the stupidest suggestion so far.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
◻️ Over 70 m. voted for Trump
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
◻️ #RupertReid "If the Burnham premiership is going to consist of pandering to the ecologically and economically illiterate then our hopes of an improvement from Starmer are lost." rupertsreads.substack.com/p/why-would-...
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Why Would Burnham Drill North Sea Oil?
New PM makes an ecologically and economically nonsensical announcement - why?
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
◻️ #Burnham His policy on Israel has received a bit of a downer with the news of who he's appointed his chief of staff.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
◻️ #Bunham So it's already "Bollocks to Burnham" and he's yet to step over thre threshold of No.10 www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Burnham hands cruel ex-DWP Minister the keys to No. 10
Burnham is already preparing for Downing Street, appointing the architect of cruel welfare cuts, ex-DWP chief James Purnell, to his team
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
◻️ Because he wants a police force run by a billionaire such as mad as a March hare Peter Thiel or anyone determined to promote cryto. Oh, rhetorical?
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
◻️ #Burnham Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power Jonathan Cook Podcast - a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide. jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bur...
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Listen: Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power
Read by Matthew Alford
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ So there is no forensic paper trail to go back to find out who originally donated the money or banked the money at all.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ So how are doggy transactions hidden ?
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ The immediate reaction Is he would naturally be 100% better than Starmer before you've even read his backstory. This, of course, is a mistake. We can see clearly from looking at his voting record that he's pretty bog-standard.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ Guilty of wishful thinking. And the biggie one he'd have to to grovel on his knees to explain is support for Israel
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ #Speech-to-text #Voicy After some tribulation Voicy is fully operational. For anyone with sight problems, even right down to a tendency to blurry eyes, it's a godsend. Very accurate. It's pay-for but not expensive. ⚪ 3 min explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCI...
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Voicy Speech to Text AI Review: 7 CRUCIAL Things You Need To Know (Best Just Released AI Software)
YouTube video by Dan Thorne
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ Presumably in those cases blockchain is not involved.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ #LhasadeSela Soon This Space Will Be Too Small music.youtube.com/watch?v=82kz... genius.com/Lhasa-de-sel... ⚪ Track 12 of The Living Road ⚪ Lhasa's songs are mostly in Spanish or French ⚪ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa_d...
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Soon This Space Will Be Too Small
YouTube video by Lhasa de Sela - Topic
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
◻️ But he doesn't work like that, does he? His brain just doesn't work like that. He doesn't see the connection between the cancellation of the event and climate change. He sees it as an insult to him personally, because that's how he operates. He's got no other way of operating.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
◻️ 😼 The greatest mystery of all is why Peter Hitchens sticks with X. Nothing will shift him to Bluesky or Threads (or any other soc media).
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
◻️ Indeed can he start criticising I srael instead of supporting it.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
◻️ @kouroshghaffari.bsky.social Hi! Been trying out Voicy. Impressed. No sooner had I subscribed than it's not working! It's not Voicy's fault I feel sure. Just for some reason the mic is not being recognised This is shown in the history "Recording empty. Check your microphone". Any sggestions
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
□ #heatwave The UK govt. has agreed more Mr. Whippy ice cream van to patrol all areas of Britain to provide govt. subsidised No. 99s. Govt. has said it has no immediate plans to stop subsidies to fossil fuel industry.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
■ 25,% for Reform, projected, quite a lorra peeps to set straight
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!
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C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution
ABSTRACT. C.H. Waddington (1905-1975) was a British biologist and perhaps the major figure in developmental biology between the 1940s and 1960s. He is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental bi...
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
◻️ #Starmer A Farewell to Nothing: The Loveless Landslide and What It Always Meant Notes from Plague Island, 22 June 2026 www.plagueisland.com/p/a-farewell...
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A Farewell to Nothing: The Loveless Landslide and What It Always Meant
Keir Starmer won a landslide and squandered it. A farewell to the man who mistook a waiting room for a mandate — and left nothing behind.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If the media had properly explained the damage that Reform UK’s policies would inflict on Britain, would anyone be voting for Nigel Farage’s one-trick party?
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Maybe Labour will be brave enough to change the requirement in GCSE physics to teach the “disadvantages” of renewable energy sources.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
▫️ #Burnham At least Andy Burnham will look like a Prime Minister, which is not quite the case with Starmer, who looks like a world-weary branch manager of a bank. Time now for the To-do lists. A biggie: the de-Zionification of the Labour Party. Followed closely by de-X & the Palantir Problem.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
▫️ #Reform #Makerfield Let's face it, there's only so far a party started by a snake oil salesman can actually go and this is being proved by events.
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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
▫️ Who says he's going to go against trans rights? I see nothing to say that he would be anti-trans rights.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#Octopus founder says climate policies must address energy costs - Politicians should stop telling people to make “sacrifices” to curb climate change and instead focus on bringing electricity bills down by greening the electricity grid www.ft.com/content/f241... via @FT #ActOnClimate
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Octopus founder says climate policies must address energy costs
Remarks come ahead of pivotal English by-election
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Alexander—Thinkin' Texan (I discuss ideas, not people) @alexander001a.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=7coh...
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“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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