Dr Mike Ward

I've just voted Daphne to the top (by one vote as I post)

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Funnily enough, I just received a reply from my MP (6 months on) about Labour's bonkers (and nasty) immigration policies. It doesn't address any of the points I made but says (my paraphrase not a real quote): "don't worry it will probably be watered down" 🤔

I suppose it has happened before: bsky.app/profile/work...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Echoes of Mark Twain giving up smoking 🙂

How long, I wonder, before (in this bidding war of hate) somebody opines that destitution and/or deportation don't go far enough?

Yep! It appears that Brexit was just a taster for the horrors that its fans were hoping to inflict on those dreadful foreigners.

Novo Nordisk’s ‘lottery ticket’: can obesity drugs help treat Alzheimer’s? Results are due soon from two studies using semaglutide to treat thousands of people with the disease

PS This is the article: www.ft.com/content/87a8... or p16 in the paper "Weekend" section.

4) So was the content of this boxout written using AI? Or by a science six-former with an encyclopaedia?

(NB, the @financialtimes.com is an excellent newspaper, and the rest of the article is fine, but this boxout needed work! )

3) Though even that information is rather superfluous.

The salient point here is (or ought to be) that proteins are long chain-like molecules that fold up in certain shapes to do their (good) stuff and which may sometime *mis*-fold and do bad stuff.

2) This text (correctly understood) is true (though potentially very misleading: for example, you couldn't make protein from sugars and nucleotides) but (in this context) mostly irrelevant.

Why not just write "Amino acids are small molecules that bind together to make complex proteins."

1) This in @financialtimes.com Weekend is a bit weird:

"Monomers such as sugars, amino acids, fatty acids and nucleotides are small molecules that bind together to make more complex structures such as proteins."

cc @stephenkb.bsky.social

Eloquence

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Klaus Doldinger also composed the theme music to Das Boot and Never-Ending Story.

A drupe.

You could hide some of your Äggvåfflors in there - like Paddington does with his marmalade sandwiches.

Nachruf auf den Jazzmusiker Klaus Doldinger Klaus Doldinger war eine inspirierende Stimme des modernen Jazz und erlangte Berühmtheit auch als Komponist einprägsamer Filmmelodien. Jetzt ist er im Alter von 89 Jahren gestorben.

Ruhe in Frieden Klaus

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It's certainly true that tax rises can't only be on the very richest, but they can be on the upper half of the income distribution. They were the big fiscal winners from the 2010-24 governments.
(Source: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...)

Who is the Home Office really talking to? Diary of EU citizen in the UK ‘Thanks’ to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning when I first looked at my phone. As a foreign-born Briton, it really sets the mood (not) for the day. I deleted the first version …

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cc @adamrutherford.bsky.social

NB I agree that Sunak doesn't really understand the problem (which I wrote about here: bsky.app/profile/schr...)

"the expert review of prostate cancer" Which review do you have in mind?

A street sign in a new build housing estate in the Midlands. The street is a ‘close’, and it is called Ultra Close.

Driving through the Midlands. Not sure how close I am to my rendezvous point. If only there were a sign…

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"That cannot be the result of leaving the EU five years ago" ? Many of the effects of Brexit are only just kicking in or getting resolved. ESS is only just starting. ETIAS won't begin until next year.

"It may be that Brexit has made us poorer than we would otherwise be" ? I'd say it's as near to an absolute certainly as you get in economics.

? Well 4-5% of our economy is quite a lot of money to have to try and make up.

It'll never happen (& I can see problems with this) but, IMHO, all the SM companies should be forced to release public APIs so that other parties could write tools that integrate the various SM platforms. That would not quite be a single public square, but it would mean a single connected ecosystem.

Yep! I still miss what Twitter used to be (a bit). I don't miss what it has become at all.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

According to Chris Mcmanus www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Hand-L... there are probably no truly ambidextrous people who perform tasks easily well with either hand. But there are people who perform some tasks better right-handed and others better left-handed as you anticipate in the 2nd part of your question