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Stefan Siebert

@stefansiebert.bsky.social
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Professor at University of Glasgow in beautiful Scotland. Views obviously my own and not medical advice or representative of my employers. Hate injustice and worried about the future of healthcare (and humanity)! ☮️

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1h
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such a relief to know that our PM has his finger on the key issues of the day will be tackling the "discrimination" preventing fans drinking alcohol while swearing at players/refs. (the only mitigating factor for this idiotic story would be if this is a plan to try get the fash off the streets!)
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ChristopherLinnYoung @phoenoxanapher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In case you haven't been following (hard to keep track with the insanity here in the States), Britain has been seeing the rise of their own "Turd Reich" -lately in the form of goon squads... Brilliant Marsh Family parody,so necessary in these dark times. (& yes, we're still remembering Tim Curry!)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.
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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The RNLI is under enormous pressure from fascist thugs wearing black and masked. Please support them in any way you can. Their role is to save lives, not sit back and watch refugees drown in the English Channel.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026
Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...
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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More proof of the truth of this everyday now...why is this so obvious to all except UK govt? The media is also utterly complicit, but similarly seem to know no history or how this ends for them...they are just useful tools (all meanings) ATM but will soon become the target (and then cry for help!)
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What happened to Steven Pinker? I only felt free to write this because he blocks me: www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New advert for Scottish independence just dropped!
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Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Having worked in a wide range of LA services that supported asylum seekers /women fleeing DV, my observations was that the vast majority of reported incidents were caused by men known to the women and not asylum seekers. To conflate the two is preposterous.
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All women in society are unsafe, minister says as Piddington locals raise fears
Plans to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers at a former military site near Piddington sparked anger in the village.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes unimpressed. It's not difficult to actually stand for something. Artists have a platform to do so. The crocodile tears are not washing.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right.
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Mike @2adult2person.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Twitter user dawnedEUW quote tweeting a "picture" of a white dragon laying on the ground: i can't help but notice that i am seeing a lot more dragon sighting videos since the advent of generative AI.

Could it be that AI's adverse effects on the environment are leading to a change in their behavior, e.g. lack of water sources that causes them to move closer to cities?
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Famously kids behave better when their parents are in jail
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Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravery.
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Norah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😑😂
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Daily Rothko
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not only does Sheeran have no integrity to stand up for what is right, or even the humanity to know what is right, but he is not bright enough to do the simple thought experiment to see how this ends for him. It would be hilarious if it was not so depressing. Oh well, consequences…
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Paul Nowak from the @tuc.org.uk : "I think these donations stink & the British public will be rightly asking.. what they want for their money" Wilfred Frost: "Is it a fair question what the unions want for the money you give?" "Absolutely.. decent employment rights.. investing in public services"
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no one sees me anyway @dhighl5184.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
via Peter Jenkins
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Nature’s Eye🌱 @see3trees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A Tufted Duck wading through surrealism. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInAbstract #blueskyartshow #undulating
A stark black and white duck with bluish gray beak wades through highly reflective water featuring orange wavy lines
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davidonstrike @davidonstrike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The second I opened it, I had to send a pic to my friends. I was astounded.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
MSF may reasonably be one of the greatest modern-day humanitarian organisations to have been created by humankind, alongside Red Cross/Red Crescent, and for anyone to campaign against them on these grounds is immediately discrediting of said campaigners
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I find fascinating/terrifying is do they really not understand, or do they understand but don’t know what to do and don’t want to admit it? It’s an important distinction, but the failure of much of the mainstream means no one seems capable of interrogating what they really think.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Bit of a tip off: RNLI are running a sale on Christmas cards. It’s never too early to get ready to send any Reform UK supporting friends and family a greeting that will really touch them: shop.rnli.org/collections/...
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Christmas Cards Sale | RNLI Shop
It's never too early to stock up on Christmas cards, and there are some great savings to be had now at RNLI Shop.
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👇This is exactly what I have been saying for sometime, articulated far better by @ceaubin.com These men (yes, almost always men) don’t believe in, or care about, “after” so have to be stopped now - inaction or redistribution later are not options! Feudalism and indentured labour lie on that path.
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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’ #NoGoodBillionaires www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/09/2026
two button meme labour politicians choose between:
Outlaw £36m party donations
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Figure out how to get their own £36m donations
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A small memorial nestled amongst fallen leaves in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens dedicated to the firefighters who died in New York twenty five years ago today. It stands next to a tree planted in their memory by Scottish members of the Fire Brigades Union. #glasgow #memorial #firefighters #newyork
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merritt @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026
i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 11/09/2026
Nothing would do more to restore local economies in rural areas than universal basic income. Main streets across the US would be revived as new businesses started, and customers immediately spent money there, prompting those businesses to hire workers to meet demand and fuel more local spending.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tax the width of cars, as they used to in Japan. Road width is a fixed public good, we can’t make more of it
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interested how much pain the government, oil companies and the supermarket chains think the public can take before they revolt about the “record profits” and even more austerity (for weapons etc). We really, really are not in this together! History tells us fascists thrive in this scenario.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Basically, the UK needs to decide whether it is planning to continue to have research capacity at all. Currently we are on track for "no," and fast.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 10/09/2026
On this day in 1897, the foundation stone of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery was laid by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Mary). #Glasgow #otd #history #westend #architecture #photography #aerialphotography #drone
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Literally *years* of research on AI in education - *reams* of it by now - just does not support such sweeping proposals for mass AI access for students or educator "AI trailblazers", and it's maddening to see such uninformed, industry-friendly, research-free ideas from key sector bodies
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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great to see @tuc.org.uk speak out against earned settlement You don't beat the far right by pandering to it, but by tackling what drives people to them Scapegoating migrants won't fix the cost of living crisis. We need solutions for our communities, not more hate www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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