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Peter Barabas

@peterbarabas.bsky.social
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Retina researcher at Queen's University Belfast but also a cosmopolitan globalist-humanist human, father, husband, son and brother. Well-informed optimist. Politics, science, technology- and anything in between. Known to be friendly with typos. No DM

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 4h
Is this what they call alpha male energy nowadays?
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 4h
me too
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 5h
Don't give him more bad ideas, he got them in spades already
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 7h
I guess the USA is winning so hard, the DOJ has nothing current left to investigate and so now turned to reversing some historical wrongs, like Nixon's political assassination by the deep state. Oh, lordy...
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 13h
Aspirational, though dogs are extremely forgiving, too. So maybe we should try to be a bit like them?
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 13h
This is just ridiculuous for microscopists. There are several very simple ways to ascertain the veracity of a claim, that a particular movie made with a microscope is real and not AI-generated. The BBC is wrong about accepting the issue is with the colours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 15h
This is so messed up. I do not expect anybody from these frat boys to "step up". It's really up to Cornell to see if their reputation is worth anything to them? For me, it will be hard not to think of male Cornell alumni as "potenatially a rapist" and I'll check whether they were in a fraternity.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16h
:D
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16h
And these are just a few of the very visible cases, that should not exist. Having a history of sexual abuse should be automatically disqualifying for any position of trust and power - for life. (Maybe that would be a deterrent, especially for power hungry little men)
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16h
Sok szeretettel a felesegemtol (csak magyaroknak): Egy szuper cica nev: Kaliko Katalin
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16h
I don't know whether Czeslawa was Jewish, but being Polish was sufficient to end up in a Nazi concentration camp - especially if one was an "intellectual". Well over a million Poles, civilians who were priests, teachers, poets etc perished in the Holocaust. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
Polish Victims | Holocaust Encyclopedia
In September 1939, the Germans launched a campaign of terror intended to destroy the Polish nation and culture. Learn more about the German occupation of Poland.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16h
I need to check this place out
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 17h
"Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting" The UK, France and the Baltic countries are excluded from a meeting in Poland. Two similar meetings were already held with Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands in June. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 17h
"Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt after two injections" 1. the death penalty is barbaric 2. why her? 3. they don't even seem to know what the effective dose for women is (it's still a white male's word when it comes to medicine) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt after two injections
Killer Christa Pike's lawyer says she is being given "life-saving measures" in hospital after two syringes of pentobarbital.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I guess if it happens to black people in Africa, than the rest of the world is not that super interested about genocides and ethnic cleansing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgqi...
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TRUE Origin Of The Sudan War (Darfur)
YouTube video by THE MERC
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In general Utah has a ton of beautiful wild places with stunning views. Zion is amazing (watch out for the squirrels, they will eat through your backpack for your food if you leave it on the ground :D), but my personal favourites were Bryce Canyon (and the the drive via Red Canyon) and Canyonlands.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Autumn 🍂 at Multnomah Falls is Oregon's tallest waterfall, plunging 620 feet in two major tiers in the Columbia River Gorge
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not sure how long will English stay the number one second language in the world if the world's most rabidly stupid people will keep destroying the meaning of words in it.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reminds me of a cult that believed light is the purest form of food/energy, calling themselves "light eaters". So, some idiot parents in Hungary killed their child, "feeding" him only light. They went to jail.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a magnificent creature
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And the wee one has some cojones on them :)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Slot Canyons are beautiful but also deadly. Flash floods happen every year due to rain that may have fallen hours before dozens of miles away (and not even a crazy amount, just, you know, normal rain) and these tend to kill people who happen to be there each year. So there is that.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hope I'll have to use "Good Guy" as rarely as my first aider training to save somebody - because that would mean there was a messed up situation. It's best if it just never turns ugly - which means making clear moral standards the basic tenets of our culture.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
love it :D
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull“ by Olga Beliaeva
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The case of an attempted attack against the Fairford airfield is getting more and more curious and paints an unflattering image of UK security services as well as the would-be terrorists, who seem to have fled the scene like scared bunnies because of a farmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Farmer who alerted police to RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot says there was ‘no follow-up’
Woman who spotted suspicious vans and masked men says authorities did not contact her after five men were arrested
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1st amendment AND the rule of law be damned, right?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If these stories feel incessant, and overwhelming… it is because they are. These stories are a drumbeat, telling you, telling America, telling the world that our government is being destroyed. This is indistinguishable from a foreign attack on our country. But the attack is coming from within.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In my opinion, the Daily Mail is keeping it xenophobic - true to their origins and their main propaganda goal.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's much more expensive and less efficient to resuscitate a system killed off by partisan politics - be it a scientific or any other kind. Why? Because the individuals that left it (and the country) won't come back just because "we are nice to you now". Lost trust means lost years if not decades.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is truly extraordinary for me, is not this "entertainment thing". It's that it works on people. That is the bit I never understood and this is the level and kind of stupidity the likes of Trump and co understand and exploit to build their empires on.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How fast, do you think, "AI coder" will become a curseword?
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I reserve the right to not have an opinion on every issue. It does not mean I disagree or agree with one or another "side" of polarizing issues. It means I do not necessarily have a firm opinion and I could be in the process of contemplating or I might be entirely oblivious to the entire issue.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Without knowing the details, I'm interested in the details: A. if there were people on a boat and you try to sink it, is it not attempted murder? B. if there were NO people on a boat (that could not be ever used again anyway) and you try to sink it, is this not a cheap, childish performance act?
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did they not see Orban's blueprint? You tax specifically the targeted media into oblivion, and when their price tanks - you or a friend buys them. Then you throw out the pesky journos and give their jobs to whomever is going to toe the line. Done. Isn't banning literally cancel culture?
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you've managed to get a following that will accept only the reality you present, you can basically state and say anything that is at least partly in agreement with your "alternative reality".
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I do not know if this is AI or real, but defintely plausible. #Startrek 's and Dr King's vision of a better future had some good overlap. youtube.com/shorts/zuv1i...
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Lt. Uhura And MLK | Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols On How Dr. King Convinced Her To Stay On The Show
YouTube video by FoundationINTERVIEWS
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not the barnacles' point of view... :D
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Business economics in a nursery rhyme" rap by Ren. Sound on www.youtube.com/shorts/4fwgl...
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First appearance on Live TV... #renmakesmusic #ukartist #ukrapper #live
YouTube video by Ren
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yes, we all need videos like these
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was hoping Carney's speech at Davos will not fall on deaf ears in Europe. Looks like it probably did not, thank goodness.
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yep, XY women having non-functional testosterone receptors (or no receptors) are the textbook examples of what a VERY feminine body can look like. And yeah, it can look all kinds of different so there you go :D
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have nothing.
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Squid Game Player's Curious Look
ALT: Squid Game Player's Curious Look
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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump had 2 years of absolute control of all levers of power: presidency, senate, house, top court, billionaires. What he has been doing is what he is going to keep doing. So if somebody agrees with all that, than go and vote for Trump's favourites. If not - maybe vote for the other side? Simples.
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