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@fauxpaschick5.bsky.social

Books, science, politics, food, a good dose of nonsense & just random things that grab my eye. A touch wokey.

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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(πŸŽ₯ Vahid Online)

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There’s always a danger of embracing hyperbole when a moment is still unfolding but I do wonder whether, for many past admirers, Tony Blair has just destroyed every last vestige of the β€˜legacy’ he cares so much about. Traditionally, Mandelson would now be advising him on how to turn things round…

08.03.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 869    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 6
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In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon

08.03.2026 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5831    πŸ” 709    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 14
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Nigel Farage is celebrating Reform UK shady donations, whilst jetting off to Washington.

On the day MPs head to their constituency to do the job they were elected to do.

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UK strangely reluctant to follow an adjudicated sexual abuser and convicted felon into another illegal war The United Kingdom has reacted with what Washington insiders describe as β€œdeeply unhelpful hesitation” after the United States and Israel began attacking Iran, with Britain apparently unwilling to …

UK strangely reluctant to follow an adjudicated sexual abuser and convicted felon into another illegal war

08.03.2026 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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What a shameful exercise in performative religiosity and piety 😳

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a happy international women 's day greeting from google ALT: a happy international women 's day greeting from google

Happy #InternationalWomensDay
In times of war, women are often the ones holding communities together while also leading movements for peace and justice.
Today, we honour their resilienceβ€”and the fight for a world without war or oppression. ✌🏻✊🏼
#SocialistSunday

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Kuwait declares force majeure, cuts crude oil output due to Middle East conflict The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation cited explicit threats by Iran against the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, attacks by Iran ​on Kuwait and the "almost ​total absence" within the Gu...

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation began cutting oil output on Saturday and declared force majeure, adding to earlier oil and gas reductions from Iraq and Qatar as the US-Iran war blocked shipments from the Middle East for the eighth consecutive day bit.ly/4aW0amL

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Poll: Reform UK is most disliked party in Britain Reform UK is now the most disliked party among British voters, according to new polling. A More in Common survey asked w

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https://unherd.com/newsroom/poll-reform-uk-is-most-disliked-party-in-britain

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Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.

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We bombed a girls elementary school.

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Justice Department releases Epstein files related to allegations against Trump The Justice Department released documents from the Epstein files relating to a woman who made allegations against President Donald Trump. The woman had alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1...

The Justice Department released documents from the Epstein files relating to a woman who made allegations against President Donald Trump.
The woman had alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was between the ages of 13 and 15
www.nbcnews.com/now/video/do...

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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credibleβ€”and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.

🚨 Pedo Trump DOJ just released FBI documents detailing sexual-assault allegations involving Donald Trump.

The same man lecturing America about β€œlaw and order” now has federal files outlining accusations against him.

Transparency matters. The truth always surfaces.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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β€œThe transparent β€˜Israel First’ impetus has never been so visible.”

Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy argues that U.S. incoherence under Donald Trump has enabled Benjamin Netanyahu to advance a strategy of regional domination.

Read more: zeteo.com/p/netanyahu-...

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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

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How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:

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05.03.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9001    πŸ” 2385    πŸ’¬ 251    πŸ“Œ 94
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The Dow is currently down more than 1,000 points

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Looks like The Express wrote the headline before the conference happened.

It’s clear now that they were due to announce someone like Kate Hoey, and it didn’t happen, leaving them with a defector that no one knows.

It’s embarrassing.

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictβ€”and 9000
miles from North Americaβ€”makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

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Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

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GB News loses Β£22m, taking their total losses to over Β£130m. Except it's not a 'loss', it's an investment by Paul Marshall in providing a propaganda service to platform right wing grifters, gobshites, conspiracy nutters and contrarian fuckwits.

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More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.
No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave. No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

Very obviously but if you said this ten years ago, you got wall-to-wall screaming and finger-pointing for being divisive, insulting, ideologically purist and tribalistic. But it was plainly horrible National Front stuff then, just as it is now.

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Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests It is time to move beyond the β€œbaby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.

The Incredible Shrinking Brain of the Mother-To-Be. Please do your stuff, feminist BlueSky. πŸ§ͺ

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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