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Dr. Steve Picksley

@smp5577.bsky.social

Retired cancer researcher and academic, now to be found waving sticks on rivers and golf courses in North Yorkshire.

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It would be a shame for their backers to waste their money on such unreliable misinformation.

05.11.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk deleted this Tweet.

You wouldn't want to repost it... oops.

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Caught in an unpleasant middle Activists in Diss tell of their counter-demonstration in solidarity with migrants in the Park Hotel, and their plans for the future

"I've never seen so many people with these awful, contorted faces … They were shouting 'Refugees, go home!' and 'Get rid of them!' and 'Paedos!' We're all rather shaken because we're a small market town, and we just don't have aggro like that."

22.08.2025 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 607    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 14

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

22.08.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2187    πŸ” 587    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 8

Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.

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It would also address intergenerational fairness with pensioners free bus passes.

13.08.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Guess who the tax system is really supporting In this second article on wealth accumulation, we explain who our tax system really supports

"As the table shows, the answer is, mostly to the richest.

The people in the top decile receive 40% of all the pension relief, a third of the relief on the sale of domestic properties, and half of the ISA relief."

04.08.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 414    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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β€˜Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban? Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage

Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership nowπŸ‘‡

20.07.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
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Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

β€œMonths later, when Mr. Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago for young women in a so-called calendar girl competition, Mr. Epstein was the only other guest.”

Hmm … you don’t say!

20.07.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2909    πŸ” 1216    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 47

Israel butchers people every day while starving them to death and building a concentration camp.

And the world does nothing or aids them.

This is what it was like during the Holocaust.

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ThisπŸ‘‡

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Water companies have β€˜cheated us out of Β£84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey We spoke to water campaigner and Undertones frontman, Feargal Sharkey.

Water companies have β€˜cheated us out of Β£84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey

www.channel4.com/news/water-c...

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02.07.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12042    πŸ” 3537    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 137
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64 percent.

03.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15508    πŸ” 6561    πŸ’¬ 1380    πŸ“Œ 477
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What a national disgrace the BBC has become.

It is time to fire all the leader, or simply shut it down.

03.07.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10
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"But they'll get over it"

24.06.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3892    πŸ” 1757    πŸ’¬ 941    πŸ“Œ 351

Anyone who followed the way antisemitism was falsely used to smear Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong human rights campaigner and anti-racist, knows how complicit the BBC is.

And Starmer is fully on board with it, having made zero changes to the Tory-stuffed executive.

22.06.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hillary is Always Right !!!

20.06.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8325    πŸ” 2489    πŸ’¬ 219    πŸ“Œ 59

Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.

20.06.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2124    πŸ” 497    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 22

Congress has the sole power to declare war – full stop.

The idea that the US would potentially deploy a bunker buster bomb in Iran w/out Congressional approval not only flies in the face of our Constitution, it would also rope us into another forever war that Americans do not want.

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Up to 170 Labour MP's could vote against the PIP cuts, if they did it would fail, and they may well save their jobs at the next election.

This is not a Labour policy it is a Reform or Conservative one, don't vote for it.

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Union memberships surge in Reform-controlled councils The development comes after Nigel Farage warned council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to "seek alternative careers" - comments some critics have dismissed as political postu...

The UK's largest trade union saw its membership jump by 200% in the 10 local authorities won by Reform at last month's local elections

news.sky.com/story/union-...

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They have got Kneecap's Mo Chara in court for waving a flag in 3 weeks.

But it has been 5 years and Michelle Mone is still wandering about scot-free, while the people who murdered 72 at Grenfell are laughing after 8 years knowing they will never face justice.

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Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts Labour has announced a Universal Credit and Personal Independence Bill, the next stage in making its disability benefit cuts law.

Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts: 'The government is just not listening'

www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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New York mayoral candidate arrested by Ice: β€˜Trump is looking to stoke conflict, weaponize fear’ Brad Lander was manhandled and marched out of the courthouse after trying to shield a man from arrest – but, he tells the Guardian, he’s not backing down As New York city comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was hauled away by masked Ice agents on Tuesday, all he could think about was whether there was anything more he could do for the man he was trying to help, an immigrant New Yorker named Edgardo. Both men ended up detained, but unlike Edgardo’s, Lander’s ordeal was over after a few hours. By the time New York governor Katy Hochul marched him out of the courthouse – after proclaiming, of his arrest: β€œThis is bullshit” – videos and photos of the officers manhandling him had gone viral. The arrest of yet another elected official prompted widespread condemnation of another sign of the US’s steady slide into authoritarianism. A host of New York politicians, along with a swelling crowd of angry New Yorkers, awaited Lander outside the courthouse in downtown Manhattan. (Andrew Cuomo, the former governor and mayoral race frontrunner, was a notable absence, though he did condemn the arrest.) Continue reading...

New York mayoral candidate arrested by Ice: β€˜Trump is looking to stoke conflict, weaponize fear’

19.06.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Donald Trump signed a trade deal with the UK, but he thought he had made a deal with the EU.

Mistakes like that would get you fired from any other job.

17.06.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

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