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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧

@secollins.bsky.social
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Canadian immigrant in the UK. Lover of food, science, music and geekery. I write about science and tech at @cam.ac.uk. She/her

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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Immigration is good, immigrants make this country better, and this is something to celebrate.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Immigrants are cash cows, with the added bonus of being demonised by the press and the overwhelming majority of people in politics.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This Canadian/UK dual citizen's dream of retiring in Italy may come true yet! www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
politico.eu
Ursula von der Leyen invites Canada to be first ‘associate member’ of the EU — live updates
European Commission president makes unprecedented offer to Ottawa, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in attendance.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
theonion.com
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I remember the day the fishery was shut down very well, and I honestly didn't think this day would ever come. We can fix things!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
samf.substack.com
Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NOT AGAIN, UNIVERSE.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton is proof that you can be a superstar with grace, kindness and generosity, and people will love you for it. Truly she was the best of us.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh noooooo. 💔💔💔💔
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Petition to change the name of Lake Superior to Lake Gordon Lightfoot.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My column this week is the product of my frustration at a series of myths that I think have grown up at Westminster that provide comfort to the various parties (not all of which I had space to grumble about) to avoid confronting the real choices we actually have:
ft.com
Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain’s shrunken state
There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dream ending: Canada joins the EU, and I have an EU passport again.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Girl, you know it's true: the Spectator desperately looking for new angles on the Arday story.
Screenshot of a truly unhinged headline from the Spectator, which reads "What Cambridge should have learned from the Milli Vanilli fiasco."
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A shiny penny for anyone who can guess the answer arrived at
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lovely time eclipse watching with the in-laws and the good people of Downham Market.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Disposable BBQs are truly one of the dumbest things about the UK. I continue to be baffled by their existence.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As someone whose job is mostly media relations, this...isn't good.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Paper of record", indeed.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
BBC found some cash down the back of the sofa to fly the guys to the States!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My husband is commenting on the game while I call out celebrities I spot. #FraEsp
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I SAID MAYBEEEEEE
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I just want to see Ronaldo crying again. #PorSpa
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Oh, Canada. 🇨🇦😑
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If Canada makes it farther than England, then that is objectively hilarious. Happy Canada Day!
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
HOLY SHIT #CanRsa
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The place we're staying at in the Dolomites not only doesn't have AC or a fan, but the kitchen vent is directly below our window, so we're having additional hot air blown into our hotbox of a room 🫠🫠🫠
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This...seems good? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Plans to end gazumping with binding agreements in house sale reforms
Sales agreements will be legally binding sooner and making sellers provide more home information up front are part of the planned changes.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How big a dork am I? I keep thinking those cowbells sound a bit like the anvils in Das Rheingold. #SuiBih
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I can feel it burning the skin off the roof of my mouth now.
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Jyoti Mishra @jyotimishra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Well, that was a fucking ride.
A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall. 

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Gary Larson cartoon incident

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 In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128] 

She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130] 

Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. 

In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The best summary I've read yet about how the EHRC code is utterly unworkable and helps absolutely no one.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I haven't cleaned a pool since my mom had one when I was in grad school, but uh, this ain't gonna fix your problems, my dudes.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Still find it weird the World Cup is using the Bulls theme song?
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The older I get, the more I realise that Donald Rumsfeld was onto something when he spoke about 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns'. What a world!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Emma Hayes: "this is a victory for immigration" (because the team are all disaspora). I thought I couldn't like her any more.
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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
That was awesome. 🇨🇻
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A POINT! A POOOOIIIIIONNNNT! #CANBIH
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Can Canada get a point this time? TBD! #CANBIH
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
World Cup refs be like.
Lobot from the empire strikes back
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Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @secollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I know Fifa are cartoonishly corrupt and the answer is money, but I can't believe they're not having the final in the Azteca.
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