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@carlat.bsky.social

psychology graduate, now working in HE (chemical, biological and materials science engineering) πŸ¦‰πŸŒΉ

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There's more information in this one post than in most news programmes on the situation.

01.03.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

01.03.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3377    πŸ” 888    πŸ’¬ 244    πŸ“Œ 86

You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.

28.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 360    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

28.02.2026 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8393    πŸ” 2543    πŸ’¬ 301    πŸ“Œ 232
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This is racism, pure and simple. It’s also a test. The UK press needs to describe it for exactly what it is: that Reform’s candidate made a racist and inflammatory losing statement

27.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 11

If Nigel Farage is angry about voter fraud, wait until he hears about the millions of pounds Arron Banks paid Cambridge Analytica to influence the Leave EU campaign, fronted by *checks notes*

Nigel Farage…

27.02.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 535    πŸ” 179    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
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In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

28.02.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6562    πŸ” 2211    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 166
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BREAKING: Angela Rayner response to Gorton and Denton by-election result

27.02.2026 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 852    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 24

The most hilarious thing about today is Reform blaming their loss on Islamists…

…who famously always vote in their masses for women and gay Jewish men.

27.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1453    πŸ” 247    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 10

What is happening about Johnson Farage and Rees Mogg working with Bannon and Epstein to bring down May?

I expect to be told. And quickly.

25.02.2026 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
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Look.

People get divorced for all manner of reasons, and it's nobody else's business.

However.

When a politician is using the slogan:

Family. Community. Country.

It's perfectly reasonable to point out that they are recently divorced and live in the SE of England miles from Gorton and Denton.

24.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 771    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 4

Nazi supporting paper says what?

25.02.2026 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 18

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.

10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

22.02.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3006    πŸ” 635    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 37

Take care of yourself Alex…everything else can wait xx

22.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump is placing a 10% Global Tariff on all goods to the USA, which will be paid by American citizens.

I remind them, you literally had a Revolution because you didn't want to pay a tax on tea.

20.02.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
photo of a man, Trevor fisher, in his hospice bed this week, filmed by channel 4 news

photo of a man, Trevor fisher, in his hospice bed this week, filmed by channel 4 news

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week.

As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧡

04.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 14

Wes Streeting, Health Secretary: "Farage has announced his Shadow Cabinet, with no Health Secretary.

Presumably because if he becomes Prime Minister, there’ll be no NHS."

18.02.2026 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 818    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 15

The patent for Insulin was sold for $1 by its inventor so it could be provided almost for free.

Insulin costs $2 to make in the USA.

The average price of insulin in the USA is now $1500 a month.

17.02.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 12
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Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies.

Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever.

So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.

14.02.2026 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 929    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 22
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Bill Clinton fighting back. I like it.

07.02.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8714    πŸ” 2139    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 147

I’m in the UK. One of our international PhD students was invited to present at a conference in San Diego in March. He applied, was interviewed and received a US visa prior to Christmas. Last week his visa was suspended because he is from Nigeria with no route to appeal. This is what the US is now. 😞

07.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting data point from Gordon Brown's interview on R4 Today this morning

91 sitting Lords are paid lobbyists

07.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Read the comment below, printed in the Sun 31st January 2026, where JEREMY CLARKSON critiques REFORM UK and Farage's appeal to voters.

02.02.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…

And the usual voices who claim to care about β€˜women and girls’ have nothing to say.

We see you.

01.02.2026 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7391    πŸ” 1863    πŸ’¬ 197    πŸ“Œ 49

Β£3!! Geez! Haven’t bought a newspaper in years; had no idea this trash was so expensive!!

30.01.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

27.01.2026 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12018    πŸ” 5917    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 345
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AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

24.01.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11882    πŸ” 3801    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 179

Thank you!

24.01.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Remembering the day Buddy Holly walked Chesterfield’s streets before Sheffield concert Sixty years ago today, Buddy Holly died aged 22 in a plane crash in Iowa.

Buddy Holly? www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/remembe...

24.01.2026 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NATO Article V has been triggered only once: by the US after 9/11.

When our ally called, we in the UK didn't hesitate to stand with them.

636 British men & women paid the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan, with many more living with their injuries today.

23.01.2026 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4