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Peter Ellis

@pjie2.bsky.social
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Father, husband, scientist, singer. Prone to getting over-excited about molecular genetics in public. Pronouns: He/him. Adjectives: noisy/nerdy. Noun: cheese.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, so i wont repost the massive Sandie Peggie V RCN tribunal thread again, i'll just add a few choice nuggets from GC Lawfarepalooza here. The last couple of days brought the actual RCN rep out for evidence. It was clear, concise and simple to follow.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 15h
Daniel Hannan has been spectacularly wrong about everything to do with Brexit, so this is hugely encouraging for all #RejoinEU voters. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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COOLJEN @cooljenim.bsky.social · 9h
KING OF THE BEASTS, MY ASS...
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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 10h
It’s just more kitsch.
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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sorry, but there's no way to describe this but as a pro-eugenics Op-Ed disguised as a scientific review, and is a complete failure of editorial and ethical standards at @cellpress.bsky.social . This article should be retracted. 5/5
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve listened to AI music and it’s very good. My favourite songs are I want to hold one of your three hands HLEP! 5-3-4-2-1 I don’t know the way to San Jose bsky.app/profile/down...
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Martin Michaelis (he/him) @martmichaelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is really no logic in this. A profit-oriented company that holds a monopoly is fined for breaches of regulations and industry standards. This will be paid by the customers. Where is the accountability of those who are responsible for the breaches? #EconSky #PoliSky
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South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OK, who had three days on the “How long until Trump forgets he wants to call it “super intelligence” sweepstake?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'This year, more than 81,000 UK 18-year-olds said in their accepted university application they intended to live at home, according to Ucas figures.' That's nearly a third of the new intake.
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Kent 'commuter students' are swapping residential halls for home
Some young people are staying at home while attending university as they cannot afford to move.
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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 29/09/2026
Imagine the screaming if there was a triple lock and no means testing on universal credit.
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WTFNOPE
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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.
Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
eu.evocdn.io/dealer/1718/...
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026
The degradation of British politics has either made Suella Braverman – a former *attorney general* – this stupid and irresponsible, or else entirely indifferent to appearing as such to those who know the law if it gets her applause from her online fan base.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Beelbeebub @beelbeebub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also possible. There *was* a plot to bomb the base that the security services were aware of. 5 delivery drivers unwittingly triggered the response. Trump then shoots his mouth off about the classified intelligence thus tipping off the real terrorists that they were blown.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really weary of how UK reporters are tiptoeing around the fact that the US president talked absolute shit about the RAF Fairford incident and arrests. "It's possible Trump was talking off the cuff" - no, it's in fact very clear that Trump was just lying compulsively because that's what he does.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Counterpoint: Fuck right off.
Oxford station's Platform 5 'should be renamed Platform 9¾'
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
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'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, the classic “Equality / Equity / Espionage” diagram…
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Animals are really a great analogy, we have a legal construct already for "thing that you own which behaves unpredictably" and the standard is "you are responsible for the damage it causes so make sure you restrain it appropriately."
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Volition is irrelevant. If the headline was "vicious dog breaks out of OpenAI office and bites man" there would be no question who was responsible. "But the dog is its own entity making its own choices!" Fuck off, either it's property you own or not, you can't have it both ways.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ruh Roh
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elgar’s Cello Concerto
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ZW Top
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Skywalker Saga my entire fucking arsehole. The last time they gave those sexless fanboy wankers what they wanted it was a creative abomination. Please, I am begging you, learn from your mistakes.
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Grumpy Muppet @grumpymuppet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The overarching theme is: don’t fucking start making a movie trilogy that tries to continue a story that is already concluded, especially if you don’t actually have any story to tell. And definitely don’t think you’re so clever that you can just wing it and make it up as you go. Assholes
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/09/2026
That JJ Abrams traced the original film, got angry at Rian Johnson doing something new and interesting so threw away any sense of narrative for a finale of disjointed and ridiculous callbacks.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
HOW THE ANTI-GENDER MOVEMENT SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE “From 2017, a new and distinctly British phenomenon emerged: a well-resourced so-called “gender critical” movement, framing opposition to trans inclusion not as religious conservatism but as feminist defence of women’s “sex-based rights””
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The Hate Review: United Kingdom
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???
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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Isn't it wild that we've reached a situation where people who are most ❊pro❊ AI say “this technology we love and build has like a 10% chance of killing us all” and the people who are ❊anti❊ AI reply “there's no way this figure is correct, it's inflated out of proportion”? 🤯
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The expression is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel", so when you say "it's just a few bad apples", you're admitting your entire operation is rotten, Chief Constable.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Steve Batty 🟢 @stevebatty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/09/2026
More broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One for the geneticists: Harvey-Weinstein equilibrium
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