This is The Telegraph - don't rely on it as a source for reliable information, especially when they have a story that makes Labour look bad. That doesn't mean it isn't true, but wait for confirmation elsewhere first (as you would, for example, with Fox News).
04.08.2025 11:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
04.08.2025 00:02 β π 4997 π 1660 π¬ 48 π 33
Trump reduces surplus from one of Americaβs most successful export businesses
04.08.2025 11:32 β π 226 π 47 π¬ 2 π 2
Surely NASA's toughest current problem is how to survive the Trump administration as anything that even vaguely resembles its current structure and activities?
04.08.2025 11:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
04.08.2025 10:30 β π 8239 π 2232 π¬ 131 π 253
Same thing I do every Monday - trying to push back the frontiers of human knowledge.
04.08.2025 09:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New analysis of data from almost 30 million people in 51 studies across Asia, Australia, Europe & North America highlights the role that air pollution β including that coming from car exhaust emissions β plays in increased risk of dementia.
Read The Lancet Planetary Health buff.ly/7gu1BKN
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25.07.2025 08:01 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
#Medskyπ§ͺ #IDsky #pedsky #publichealth The MenACWY vaccine helps protect against life-threatening illnesses like #Meningitis & #Sepsis. @ukhsa.bsky.social
It's offered to teenagers in school, but can be given up to the age of 25 if it's been missed.
04.08.2025 06:22 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Eels canβt take flights back to the Sargasso, so this Heathrow expansion seems pretty bad
30.07.2025 16:42 β π 141 π 50 π¬ 1 π 0
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students
Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
Wow. Had not realized that Columbiaβs settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help βcombat antisemitism,β which is supposedly the administrationβs objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
03.08.2025 14:50 β π 2781 π 934 π¬ 164 π 131
I've been to some small airports that do something like that - La Serena in Chile used to have a nice rooftop terrace as a lounge - but they're nothing on the scale of Honolulu. I'm guessing Raratonga airport is quite small?
03.08.2025 22:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Trumpβs Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.
Trumpβs tariffs could be one of the biggest contributors to economic inequality in American history.
The money raised by them will allow Trump to achieve his aim of slashing taxes for the wealthy. Meanwhile the cost of the tariffs will be paid by working people through increased prices.
03.08.2025 18:19 β π 396 π 141 π¬ 33 π 8
One of the nicest aspects of the Honolulu airport is that many sections are open to the outside air. It's not exactly fresh air, but it's a lot nicer than the over conditioned recycled air at most other airports.
03.08.2025 21:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trumpβs Pay-for-Access Operation
The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
03.08.2025 11:18 β π 4610 π 2218 π¬ 165 π 90
When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity.
Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trumpβs orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million.
The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay.
At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called βU.S.A. Tokenβ that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su
Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administrationβs dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump familyβs financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump familyβs crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trumpβs inauguration.
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
03.08.2025 14:09 β π 2312 π 893 π¬ 49 π 80
This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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03.08.2025 08:34 β π 995 π 472 π¬ 49 π 58
[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, βtoday I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circlesβ]
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
02.08.2025 18:19 β π 14069 π 4371 π¬ 228 π 298
Ellen Ripley and Facehugger in American Gothic by Grant Wood.
making great art even better: thread
02.08.2025 12:14 β π 1254 π 284 π¬ 25 π 26
If youβll recall, the βantisemitismβ at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.
02.08.2025 14:13 β π 545 π 197 π¬ 2 π 3
Motherfucking wind farmsβ¦
30.07.2025 17:02 β π 45724 π 17262 π¬ 1139 π 2289
Especially disappointing given that Muskβs Starlinks are messing up ground (and some space) based astronomy. I guess this is what happens when a space scientist is made astronomer royal - they ignore astronomy.
02.08.2025 14:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Agreed. She would have been wise not to express a view. The real point here is Musk is not a scientist, and latterly has become a destroyer of science.
02.08.2025 13:41 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...
01.08.2025 19:10 β π 369 π 165 π¬ 25 π 36
Really glad that our most prominent public intellectuals are still doing the "It's not fascism unless it comes from the Champagne region of π«π·" thing, while Trump is setting up concentration camps, extorting universities, & doing this textbook dictator stuff π€·ββοΈ
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
01.08.2025 18:53 β π 274 π 67 π¬ 12 π 4
Hmmm - if martian brain washing got turned on in 2015 it could explain a lot.
02.08.2025 09:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If Biden did this FOX News would have breaking news old mans brain is broken
01.08.2025 23:05 β π 34 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.
01.08.2025 22:12 β π 37674 π 8053 π¬ 855 π 411
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