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Get Me Zarniwoop

@martinmorrey.bsky.social

Atmospheric Physics PhD, working in IT during the day, climate intervention in the evening. Centre-left, green, parent, songwriter, joiner of dots. #RejoinEU #ClimateEmergency. Edinburgh, UK. Normally FB

2,561 Followers 3,032 Following 4,373 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Thankfully we don't have a Reform-packed Supreme Court

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says a total of 14 health workers have been killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/u9tuem

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5 hours ago

"A team will not be participating in the FIFA World Cup, because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner" 😂🤪🤦‍♂️

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7 hours ago

Stunning that we have clear intelligence that the Russians are aiding the Iranians to target US forces, and we are benefiting them by lifting oil sanctions to the tune of $150 million per day 3/

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Well, it is in the DOJ records that Epstein was advising Russian officials how to handle Trump after his 2016 election. If he had kompromat, there were many routes for sharing it

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United Nation's Ben Saul says the US and Israel's attack on Iran is not legal,

"Under intl law, launching a pre-emptive war is not lawful"

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9 hours ago

I guess you are referring to the leadership pledges ... which Keir Starmer is busy delivering? 🤷
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Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!"

Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.

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9 hours ago

Tell that to Zack

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Ecocide : a Soviet legacy One of the most harmful and potentially long-lasting legacies of communism in the former Soviet block is that of ecocide -- widespread pollution, over-consumption of resources, and general destruct...

I'm afraid in practice that has turned out not to be the case:

"In a system where the state was the manufacturer and production quotas were paramount, environmental concerns were consistently subordinated to industrial goals"

repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822...

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Worth mentioning here that although the Tories continued to sell oil licenses Labour have just confirmed that they will refuse to do so. Norway however every year continues to develop new oil licenses, known as the APA. I'd rather a healthy planet than a wealth fund.
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Ethics adviser rejects Tory call for inquiry into PM over Mandelson appointment Sir Laurie Magnus said the relevant process appeared to have been followed when Lord Mandelson was made ambassador.

Oh. Due process followed perfectly. The Tory politicians & client journalists lying desperately about all this were, of course, cheering & chuckling away when *two* of Boris Johnson’s ethics advisers resigned in disgust at his staggering contempt for ethics.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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15 hours ago

Presumably the boundary is formed by surface tension in the water. It seems to be surprisingly strong anyway, like when the small bubble hits the end of the tube and just bounces off.

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16 hours ago

So who is putting this 💩 out?

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1 day ago

Seems that way unfortunately

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Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

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Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

Yes, Labour needs peers to redress the balance in the Lords, while it still exists.

Unfortunately legislation to reform the House of Lords, actually needs to get through ... the House of Lords.

It's taken 18 months just for them to agree to remove hereditary peers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1 day ago

Fair enough. I was thinking more of the pro-European wing of the Tory party that Johnson ex-communicated.

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Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia

"deranged scumbags" - it takes one to know one Donny.

"at least 28 women have accused #Trump of sexual misconduct for acts that have included rape, kissing & groping without consent; looking under women's skirts; and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relatio...

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1 day ago

And also says the sooner the better.

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Changes to air passenger duty (APD) for private jets The UK government has confirmed that from April 2027, all private jets over 5.7 tonnes will pay APD (Air Passenger Duty) at the higher rate. This follows a government consultation on extending the sco...

Also, Rachel Reeves has already significantly increased tax on private jets

"from April 2027, all private jets over 5.7 tonnes will pay APD at the higher rate"

"existing higher rate of APD for private jet passengers is set to increase by 50% from April 2026"
smart-aviation.co.uk/changes-to-a...

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The killing of schoolchildren should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror.

A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair. 

There must be accountability and lessons learned from this tragedy. And we must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God.
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Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

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1 day ago

There's definitely a vacancy for a trustworthy and rational, i.e. pro-European pro-NetZero centre-right party.

Who would lead such a party, the ghost of Ted Heath, or Rory Stewart maybe? 🤷

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2 days ago

Does feel like we're already at 1.5°C warming, in almost every practical sense.

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2 days ago

This👇🏼from Warren great news for children in poverty thanks to this Govt👌🏼

Tories left millions of children in poverty, Reform have no interest, as for LibDems & Greens to be fair I don’t know their policies

This Govt isn’t perfect but only it’s failings are leapt on by MSM not its successes

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1) Trump spends his first year, making America more energy dependent on oil

2) Then he starts a war to drive up oil prices even more.

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A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior.

For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds. Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too. 

In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.

I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...

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US data shows Arctic winter sea ice could break last year's record low Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as climate change shrinks the region's frozen cover and heightens geopolitical ten...

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: The end of ice.

"The sirens are blaring that we're headed for a hothouse planet with massive devastation around the world..."

phys.org/news/2026-03...

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NHS Connecting for Health - Wikipedia

Yes, unfortunately national NHS computer-system procurements do not have a great history

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Con...

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Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal: Everything you need to know | Computer Weekly Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008. In this guide, we look at the part Fujitsu played in what is commonly referred to as the largest miscarriage of justice in ...

I'm sure Fujitsu would be up for it 🤦‍♂️

www.computerweekly.com/feature/Fuji...

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