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Just Natting

@justnatting.bsky.social
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Has the world gone insane? Brit in France. Ex-scientist. DPhil. Owned by cats. ME /CFS. Avatar: Proud Goose, Tui Sankamol

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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 5h
I'm liking this 😊
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 5h
Well this didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped! Wordle 1,931 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 5h
@hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social if you're coming down from the mountains after dark wearing this hat you'll have the villagers chasing you with pitchforks!
Man trekking in mountains wearing reflection sunglasses and a cap sporting massive rams horns 😈
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 6h
Life changing!!!!! 😋
The most delicious bar of Lindt Caramel Pointe de Sel Noir Chocolate! Delicious!
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Think the 4 min to midnight time pressure helped! Wordle 1,929 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has broken the taboo on prime ministers being open to the UK rejoining the EU. It's a really important moment for our country. The inescapable truth is that the UK cannot achieve decent growth and fund the public services the public demands without EU alignment.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well that freaked my cat out!
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Something I wish got more attention: Researchers found specific blood proteins change in nearly 200 Alzheimer's patients treated with lecanemab. This could lead to simple, less costly blood tests to see if the drug is clearing toxic brain plaques, instead of expensive brain sc...
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Blood proteins reveal effects of Alzheimer's drug
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered dozens of blood proteins that change in patients receiving the Alzheimer's drug lecanemab. This finding could lead to new, less
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵⬇️
ABSTRACT
A key challenge in addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis is identifying new antimicrobial compounds.
Although natural products produced by fungi and bacteria, particularly actinomycetes, have been the
years, they have fallen out of favour owing to the frequent rediscovery of known drug scaffolds. The current perception is that antibiotic-producing actinomycetes have been over-mined and possess little novelty left to yield.
Here we demonstrate that by using improved fractionation approaches that enrich previously overlooked minor products, even well-studied strains of antibiotic-producing actinomycetes can provide new chemical scaffolds with unique modes of action. By fractionating a library of natural product extracts from soil bacteria, we show that Streptomyces rimosus, the source of the well-known antibiotic oxytetracycline, produces a cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic that we call manikomycin.
Manikomycin can kill multidrug-resistant
binds in the E-site of the large subunit of the bacterial ribosome, preventing entry of the 3' end of the tRNA into the E-site and effectively hindering the translocation step of protein synthesis in a sequence-context-specific manner.
Manikomycin is the first antibacterial agent, to our knowledge, to target the critical but underexplored E-site in the large ribosomal subunit, highlighting its value as a lead for developing new antibiotics.
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Peter Keen @pk054.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wake up to find myself in bed with a dog. I don't have a dog #onlyinfrance
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So tired 😩 Someone feed me & carry me to bed please!
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*Mouse-chewed sleeping bag anyone? @hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social any good for your hikes? *May come with mice
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fucking hell! What a jammy git 😆 Wordle 1,925 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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DJ Markymarc @djmarkymarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Drop some NUMBERS 3.14159..
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Life of Pi: Be Patient Tiger
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump keeps letting the mask slip to give an insight into his true evil self. But is it dementia causing him to lose control of the façade or just that he doesn't care what the public thinks about him anymore?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brexit and Trump have combined to be an absolute disaster for UK food and drink exports. Deficit worst in a quarter of a century and sales have plummeted ever since we left the single market
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Arlie @arlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning, Ray! Happy Punctuation Day!
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 24/09/2026
Good morning, Foxy.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#BlueWaveIn40Days #momsky#sheshed
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
Offered without comment.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pulled that out of nowhere! Wordle 1,923 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pigging shit today!! Wordle 1,922 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23/09/2026
Our Ocean changes rapidly. And it impacts our planet, our economies, and our communities. Today, @mark-carney.bsky.social and I are rallying the world in support of ocean observation. Which gives us eyes and ears beneath the waves ↓ link.europa.eu/r4XPwy
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The crisps that smelt of urinal cakes did not even rank as the worst! www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘They smell of urinal cakes!’: 100 unusual crisp flavours, ranked – from truly awful to totally scoffable
Move over ready salted, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion. Gourmet crisps are everywhere, but which are actually worth trying?
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pretty rubbish.. wasn't really in the mood!! Wordle 1,920 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What a fucking day! I deserved that delicious chicken tikka masala. The additional chocolate Whole Nut may be a little excessive though for a Monday night!
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The obligatory I've-grown-stuff photo. Maybe not that many but everything went in months late so I'm still happy 😊
Sieve with few homegrown tomatoes
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone seems happy here today 😊
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CT (like a MOT) first thing, then work, then visiting the parents.. busy day for me! 200 km plus to cover for my 'pottering'
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 19/09/2026
Any questions? Many thanks to snarkypoliticoguy (TT) for this accurate summary.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Meganleigh Please
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The promise of rain
French vineyard with stormy looking skies...  thirsty plants, dried earth but alas no rain!
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If it doesn't rain in the next 6 weeks we will run out of water in our taps. Forecast for next 15 days .. hot sunshine. No rain. Situation rated CRITICAL www.ladepeche.fr/2026/09/17/s...
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"S’il ne pleut pas, nous ne sommes pas sûrs qu’il y aura encore de l’eau dans les robinets" : dans le Gers, la sécheresse historique fait craindre le pire aux autorités préfectorales
Après un été marqué par une sécheresse historique, les réserves d’eau du système Neste ont fondu à vue d’œil. Face à des barrages qui ne seraient plus remplis qu’à 10 %, selon le préfet du Gers, les r...
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
S'alright I suppose 🤷 Wordle 1,914 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🤷. Some lucky guessing going on here 😆 Wordle 1,913 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A historically significant incident reportedly took place in the Black Sea yesterday, as Ukrainian and Russian unmanned surface vessels (USVs) engaged each other. Ukraine's Sargan 3000 reportedly prevailed against a Russian surface drone using its onboard heavy machine gun.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ah man, so nearly a two! Wordle 1,911 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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The secret to longer life may be hidden in bat DNA
Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these ...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OH's birthday today. Already had a 'Fuck! I'm 60!' When do I start feeding him JD & coke?
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today's cartoon by Dennis Goris:
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Mornin’ folks. Notice #bumblebees asleep on #flowers recently? Want to know what’s going on with them? Well here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining the bumblebee flower-sleeping phenomenon. Please #repost / #share so more people are more informed. Thank you. #bees #nature #education 1/16
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Just Natting @justnatting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stressed today ... is it too early for wine?
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Woman Drinking from Giant Wine Container
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢
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