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Mark Pattle

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
New substack: Westminster politics is something which no intelligent person can look upon with anything other than revulsion. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-stupid...
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The stupidity of politics
No sane person would run a household or business with the lack of thinking that the government devotes to its affairs.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is
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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous'" www.space.com/astronomy/uk... 🔭🧪
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UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous'
"You can't have a cut of that scale and not expect to see a massive impact."
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026
Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
and the EHRC aren’t commiting an ‘error’ they’re led by an anti-trans ideologue who is seizing the opportunity to drive trans people out of public life by issuing the guidance she had previously been unable to due to the commonly understood interpretation of the Equality Act bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Necro Supernaut XIII @necrobutcher187.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
every few weeks we learn about a new exciting american bloke
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Mark Pattle @pattlezone.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hate when it's a week that decades happen
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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @broadwell.eu · 11/02/2025
Nuclear thoughts time again: the biggest enemy of a nuclear plant (and any large infrastructure, honestly) is private finance. This, from 2019, perfectly illustrates the absurdity. The finance to build the plant is double the cost of *everything else combined.*
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