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Joanna Pegum

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Love arts, science, history, travel, dogs, books, tech, coffee, Europe - the lot! Refugee from the bird site @londoner_007

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10h
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 22h
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is why pervasive use of GenAI by university students is such a problem. (*) We do not set you an essay on the fauna of the lower Carboniferous because we want to read it (*) We do not make you write a computer program from scratch because we need to run that program (1/2)
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MediCyn @medicyn.bsky.social · 9h
By Russia… www.reuters.com/world/drones...
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Drone sinks ship off Bulgaria, as fears grow about hybrid attacks by Russia
The crew of a merchant ship was missing on Tuesday after the vessel sank in the Black Sea off NATO ​member Bulgaria following a drone strike that Prime Minister Rumen Radev described as a gross violat...
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Martin Michaelis (he/him) @martmichaelis.bsky.social · 9h
Revealing, anti-migrant campaigners, who abused their partners... #PoliSky
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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JMay🍁⚖️🏝️🏖️🪖🇨🇦 @bubbles9333.bsky.social · 9h
Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria's coast and one of them sank, with the crew missing, the day after another drone attack sank a ship near Romania's shore in the Black Sea, in two consecutive drone attacks on NATO's Eastern flank countries. www.euronews.com/2026/10/06/d...
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Search for missing crew after drones sink ship off Bulgaria's coast
Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria's coast and one of them sank, with the crew missing, the day after another drone attack sank a ship near Romania's shore in the Black Sea, in two consecutive drone at...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11h
The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Optics & Photonics News @optica-opn.org · 14h
A new digital-optical processor can accurately detect deepfake videos when analyzing 15+ videos simultaneously. The high-speed and scalable system offers a robust and efficient solution for content providers to identify AI-generated visual media. Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4zhV0uL 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 14h
Snail architecture runs on a surprisingly short list of decisions. Here's one of them: how far to slide down your own axis while you grow. Barely at all gets you a flat coil. A lot gets you a tower. 🧪🐌 #SciArt #marinelife
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14h
Kenya has reported its first case and death from Ebola in an individual who traveled to Kenya from the DRC. The ongoing outbreak in the DRC has killed 4000+ people and remains a threat for the region. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province
Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on Saturday
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 14h
Effects of a 3-day simulated heatwave on physiological and functional outcomes in older adults in Canada: a single-site randomised crossover trial - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Effects of a 3-day simulated heatwave on physiological and functional outcomes in older adults in Canada: a single-site randomised crossover trial
Older adults (aged 65–85 years) exposed to a simulated 3-day heatwave showed persistent daytime elevations in core temperature, highlighting the importance of evidence-based cooling strategies and oth...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At one of this Nazi rallies today, the orange felon encouraged Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego whilst his cult cheered him on for that treasonous statement. I’ll say it again, he belongs in a jail cell, not in the bulldozed White House. To hell with everyone who gave this monster power.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 17h
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17h
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18h
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h
If The Times’ political editor didn’t challenge Kemi Badenoch on her banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social can the newspaper of record just make this simple correction?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22h
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If #AI means bad things happening to us, shouldn't we be able to vote if this is what we want? The advance of tech is not unstoppable: we decide where it goes. We don't use radioactivity without due protections despite it's very useful! Why shouldn't this be normal for other tech? 🧪
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/10/2026
i have an essentially endless quantity of stupid pictures i took of famous art and artifacts at museums to post on this website, brace yourselves
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interesting to see how China is regulating AI companions including saying that chatbots cannot create ‘emotional reliance or addiction’. Fines are relatively small but seems like some companies are taking it seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chatbots can't create "emotional reliance or addiction" or induce people to make
"unreasonable decisions". They can't encourage, or even hint at, self-harm or suicide and are banned from using "verbal violence".
Companies can face fines of 200,000 yuan
(E22,000) or the risk that the government
"circulates criticism", in effect publicly shaming them.
A week before the law came into effect, two of China's biggest tech companies, Alibaba and ByteDance, shut down the companion features on their Al assistants.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't bomb Iran, you're welcome.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Air passengers flying into Moscow from Irkutsk where a lab technician died of the plague are now being given mandatory temperature checks by masked staff before they’re allowed to disembark.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 05/10/2026
We are aware of an individual using a UK number on Telegram and WhatsApp under the name “Antony Kevin” to seek assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria. They claim to work for Bellingcat, but do not. Please disregard requests from them and contact [contact@bellingcat.com].
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yemen’s Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh oil refinery.
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johnturner1965.bsky.social @johnturner1965.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses tiny lights to activate neurons in the brain.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/10/2026
Cornell University police spoke to witnesses and received anonymous tips about an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house in the first weeks of its investigation two years ago, but the local prosecutor did not review the additional information before deciding not to bring charges.
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DA did not review witness statements and other evidence Cornell police collected in alleged gang rape of student
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said he based his decision not to pursue charges on the accuser’s initial six-page statement given to police.
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great they can’t keep lettuce safe here but ok
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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is quite painful I must say. I saw it on Friday booked for 4.30. Queue #1 took about 15 minutes (to enter the exhibition space). Queue #2 (to the stairs down to the display) took far longer, maybe +45 minutes; queue #3 (parallel to the tapestry) another +20. I was in front of it by 5.45.
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Mary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestry
Classicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned away
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, for F-'s sake!!! This isn't exactly comforting! [paraphrasing] - 'Sure, a few billion people MIGHT die, but in the end, on-demand porn will be so worth it!' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Reform leader to begin in Yorkshire next week where party sees ‘many Cabinet scalps to be had’ in Labour heartlands

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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If the UK does not opt for EU membership, it has a choice between having its legal and policy frameworks shaped by the EU with seamless access to the EU's trade system and having the UK's legal and policy frameworks shaped by the EU with limited access to the EU's trade system.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Remarkable but I think true statement - "India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Sunday warned that the US was becoming increasingly isolated in the new global order". So much for making a new order... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US, India Officials Signal Trade Deal Negotiations at an Impasse
Top officials in the US and India signaled that negotiations over a trade deal have reached an impasse that’s making it difficult to clinch an agreement.
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Dance Music 🎧 🌍 @thisisdancemusic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meanwhile…we haven’t forgotten…👀 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift
Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s hard to stay positive when just this morning it looks like the lights are going out in Brazil and Spain.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Herein lies one of the biggest recurring, and escalating, issues with hostile anti-asylum policies, they don't tackle gangs. Instead they penalise the victims of gangs. It isn't the gangs piloting boats, it is normally people seeking asylum who are forced to by the gangs. inews.co.uk/news/represe...
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I represented the pilot of a mega dinghy. Why Channel migrants are still arriving
Defence barrister Audrey Mogan has seen firsthand why new legislation is bound to fail
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Project Push @project-push.tk.gg · 05/10/2026
Breaking News Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez: I am calling an early election via Beloud.com
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Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez: I am calling an early election
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
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MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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T @toneg99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is so utterly depressing. They thought the country was well run under Bolsonaro Senior?
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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