(Frenchly) actually they are called vegAIns
P I Jakobsson
@protik.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am.
Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination.
Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets.
we stan Kant
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Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.
The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places
Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories
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Harder and harder to distinguish North Korea and USA.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
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Thanks to JK Rowling I am now officially on the side of black mold
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
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national newspapers outside the US should start covering this stuff like it's happening in Turkey
The ruling party wants to arrest members of the opposition party who are trying to stop them from rigging the mid-term elections.
This is not something which happens in a democracy. MAGA is trying to create a one party dictatorship.
F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats
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One of the OG online radicalization machines. I think how this plays out depends on what initially draws a person to atheism, esp. the strength—and quality—of our social & emotional connections to other people. Without healthy ties to humanity, it's easy to be drawn into these cult-like subcultures.
I used to wonder if this was mainly a british thing but I've recently encountered an american philosopher who made a big deal about becoming an ultra rational atheist after being raised mormon and he went on to write some really islamophobic shit in quillette as well as being a massive transphobe
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People are rightly criticizing the BBC but the reporter in question is also personally responsible
PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday
We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.
A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔
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I know, right!?! Worth reading the BBC piece and noting that there's no source quoted for the 'more than £30,000 figure' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(The full FOI is published on our site)
Ministers tried to block publication of financial interests form
The Cabinet Office spent £30,000 on a legal battle to prevent publication of a questionnaire for ministers.
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Lawyer @danneidle.bsky.social who first exposed Zahawi’s tax affairs:
“There seems to be zero legal basis for refusing this FOI. A huge amount of taxpayer money has been wasted because of an obsession with secrecy.”
In all we’ve found £1m spent by govt on legal fees to fight FOI cases
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After Nadhim Zahawi was sacked for failing to declare a tax investigation, a BBC reporter asked to see the blank ministerial form he should have filled in.
Not his answers. Just the empty form.
The Cabinet Office refused sayings disclosure could harm “the effective conduct of public affairs." 🤯
