Barbara Marks

Barbara Marks

@barbaramarks13.bsky.social

Cats, small red Fiats, reading, knitting (not well), F1, orthopaedic engineering, pub quizzer, occasional hillclimb pit crew, hedgehogs #FBPE #TheArchers #Wordle No DMs

2,169 Followers 3,325 Following 222 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Worldle - Guess the Country A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.

#Worldle #1254 (28.06.2025) 6/6 (100%)
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's termination of hundreds of #NIH grants was illegal, leading the agency to reinstate some 900 awards. The blacklisted projects covered topics from vaccine hesitancy to diversity initiatives.
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Prime Minister to announce largest ever sanctions package targeting shadow fleet as UK ramps up pressure on Russia Russia’s shadow fleet will be hit with the largest ever sanctions package today, ramping up pressure on Putin and protecting UK and European critical national infrastructure.

The UK PM is set to announce the largest ever sanctions package on Russia, targeting the shadow fleet & will increase the economic pressure on Russia and prevent damage to subsea infrastructure.

The announcement will be made as the PM visits Norway for the Joint Expeditionary Force summit.

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When a government is out of control it’s time to say so Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

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Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be.
Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be.
So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room?
It can’t.

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Still in the game … just

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πŸ˜‚ Far Side

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With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition

go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw

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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads β€œno lilies for kitties”.

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

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Photo of red and black buffalo plaid slipper socks over blue jeans. The top is white fluffy lining

All my slipper socks got ruined by the fragrance disaster that sent me to hospital earlier this week.

I had them for years, and the company I bought them from is out of business.

I’m looking for men’s large socks like the photo below… can anyone make a recommendation?

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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

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