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Telco watcher. Wildlife watcher. Fernweh is my affliction. COYG.

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Paging John Hawkwood.

28.02.2026 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8095    πŸ” 3436    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 220

Truth bombs @helenhayes.bsky.social

27.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Labour should embrace proportional voting for the long-term good of the country

27.02.2026 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does FPTP favour Reform if the progressive vote keeps a 50:50 split across the country?

27.02.2026 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FPTP will usher in an extreme government the majority won’t have voted for. Labour is mad not to consider proportional voting before it is too late.

27.02.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the lead up to the Nazis having their breakthrough election, one of Hitler’s flunkies organised 2000 town halls.

26.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Must have skipped the moral turpitude question on the visa form πŸ™„

26.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prados were good vehicles but it’s big brother the 80 Series was the best 4WD ever built.

25.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

gizmodo.com/ai-added-bas... - and big tech will spend $700 billion on AI alone this year.

25.02.2026 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These two right wing racist parties would be better being called Reduct and Redact.

23.02.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a

This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

23.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 928    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 31

Wonder what AC/DC feel about being used for this?

21.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Health Rounds: Moderna combo flu/COVID vaccine succeeds in mid-stage trial A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna that targets seasonal influenza and COVID-19 produced robust and durable immune responses without safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial, the company...

More good news on vaccines

A two-in-one mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna targets seasonal influenza & COVID-19. It produced robust and durable immune responses w/o safety concerns in a small mid-stage trial.

mRNA is the future. We can’t afford to lose it.

πŸ§ͺ www.reuters.com/business/hea...

21.02.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 749    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

More impressive than the blackbirds nicking ours

20.02.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lucky you aren’t a tennis fan Phil

20.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
REWIND: On this day in 1988 at Wembley Gus Caesar’s error hands Luton League Cup Layth Yousif was there as he revisits a Wembley afternoon he’d much rather forget…

I’d mix in Gus Ceasar day www.onlinegooner.com/articles/vie...

20.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like AI Nickelback?

19.02.2026 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder how we’d all be thinking if we were chasing down a City lead of some sort. Almost feels worse being chased down.

19.02.2026 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tech destroys journalism, journalism strikes back latest…

18.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men are playing bowling in a bowling alley and one is wearing purple pants ALT: two men are playing bowling in a bowling alley and one is wearing purple pants

Similar vibe

17.02.2026 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was it true he got a standing ovation?

14.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

14.02.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1225    πŸ” 760    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 153

Shame it was Odegaard on the goal scorer. A defender would have also tried to head it rather than kick it.

13.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

12.02.2026 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1074    πŸ” 441    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 49

AI is sucking so much memory out of the market, global smartphone production as now at risk of a sharp decline this year.

12.02.2026 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the sad byproducts of Goodwin winning is that he will live on the BBC and the column inches of the right wing press, mainstreaming extreme positions.

11.02.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a jacket that says macron on the front ALT: a man wearing a jacket that says macron on the front
11.02.2026 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The latest US tourism ad has just dropped.

11.02.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hoping the Therapeutic Goods Administration will use science rather than ideology when looking at this in Australia

11.02.2026 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0