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Pratab Ali

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Amateur photographer. landscape, insects, wildlife, stars. 20 plus years software engineer in telecoms. Sci-fi: BSG, Startrek, Expanse, some Starwars. Mando and Grogu! (Sorry, Large profiles with thousands of followers, I'm unlikely to follow you back)

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Food prices could rise within weeks - but the 'big worry' is that they won't come back down The Iran conflict is creating supply issues that could lead to consumers paying more for their groceries in the short and long term - here's why.

Food prices could rise within weeks if the Iran war continues and there is a "big worry" that they won't come back down, a trade expert has warned

news.sky.com/story/food-p...

12.03.2026 11:39 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 7

They should issue a new £25 note with a pony on it. 🀣

12.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Middle East crisis live: Iran steps up campaign to disrupt energy markets as oil price hits $100 a barrel Iran has set ablaze two tankers in Iraqi waters as it increased attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Trump, entitled & not very intelligent, clearly took no advice from anybody sane or sensible when starting his illegal war. This catastrophe is ALL on him, he should pay a very heavy price.

12.03.2026 07:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maxine Fothergill
Ian Cooper
Edward Harris
Isabella Kemp

➑️ Defected
Amelia Randall
Nicola Brown
Christopher Marriott
John Roddy
Peter Colley
Dean Burn
Jack Goncalvez
Charles Whitford

12.03.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated

Tony Hill has resigned.

➑️ Kicked Out
Brian Black
Oliver Bradshaw
Paul Thomas
Bob Ford
Bill Barratt
Ed Hill
James Regan
Mark Broadhurst
Paul Bean
Adam Smith
Daniel Taylor
John Allen
Nicole Brooke
Patrick Lambert

12.03.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10
🚨PARLIAMENT TO DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT
🚨PARLIAMENT TO DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

🚨ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT

Contact your MP NOW and ask them to attend and support the petition

youtu.be/LPO_ZWlyb7Q?...

12.03.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

The absolute dross that falls out of Trump’s mouth…

"Oil will be coming down. That's just a matter of war that happens. You can almost predict it. I would say it went up a little bit less than we thought. It's going to come down more than we, than anybody understands."

12.03.2026 08:33 πŸ‘ 337 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 1
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Long COVID Treatment Guide An evidence-supported guide covering treatments addressing multiple Long COVID symptoms & mechanisms β€” focused on prescription medication, with a limited set of supplements, OTC medications, procedure...

We're thrilled to release the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! This is a collaboration with @rthm.bsky.social to help patients & providers explore treatment options together.

The guide focuses on 24 medications, but includes a few other interventions for breadth /1

11.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 243 πŸ” 146 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 24
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12.03.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more.
And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share!

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

12.03.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 465 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6

NO!
WTAF!!
NO!
This is INSANE!

12.03.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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What We Don't C: Manifold Disentanglement for Structured Discovery Accessing information in learned representations is critical for annotation, discovery, and data filtering in disciplines where high-dimensional datasets are common. We introduce What We Don't C, a no...

New paper day! A longer version of work by DPhil student and superstar Brian Rogers on applying a new sort of Machine Learning for astronomy: arxiv.org/abs/2511.094... (1/n)

12.03.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
The edge of a glacier seen from a drone, directly above. There are many pieces of intensely turquoise ice, som attached to the glacier with crevasses, some having broken off. There is some brown water around.

The edge of a glacier seen from a drone, directly above. There are many pieces of intensely turquoise ice, som attached to the glacier with crevasses, some having broken off. There is some brown water around.

A turquoise iceberg seen in a frozen lagoon from above.

A turquoise iceberg seen in a frozen lagoon from above.

Turquoise icebergs seen in a frozen lagoon from above.

Turquoise icebergs seen in a frozen lagoon from above.

The edge of a turquoise glacier with deep smooth crevasses, and some brown meltwater around.

The edge of a turquoise glacier with deep smooth crevasses, and some brown meltwater around.

More ice from above in a wonderful frozen glacial lagoon in #Iceland last week.

#DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #AwesomeFoursome

11.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The money that could have given Americans universal healthcare here at home is being spent instead to murder schoolgirls overseas.

11.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 4805 πŸ” 1454 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 54
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www.alternet.org Voters know Iran is about 'distracting' from Epstein: report

Voters know Iran is about 'distracting' from Epstein: report #AlterNet

11.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
A very green sea with the remains of the white patterns where a wave has broken reaching down from the top, where another wave has just broken. There is some turquoise light on the water.

A very green sea with the remains of the white patterns where a wave has broken reaching down from the top, where another wave has just broken. There is some turquoise light on the water.

I love the abstract patterns that waves make after they've broken and are dispersing.

Fauskasandur #Iceland

#DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

11.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Parker Posey as Doctor Smith, Robot standing beside her. Maxwell Jenkins as Will Robinson standing opposite Doctor Smith with his back to the camera.

Parker Posey as Doctor Smith, Robot standing beside her. Maxwell Jenkins as Will Robinson standing opposite Doctor Smith with his back to the camera.

Maxwell Jenkins as Will Robinson, with Robot in Netflix retelling of Lost In Space.

Maxwell Jenkins as Will Robinson, with Robot in Netflix retelling of Lost In Space.

Have you seen the Netflix version of Lost In Space?

11.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering actor, musician, and photographer Anton Yelchin on his birthday. He won our hearts as Chekov in the three J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies and was gone much too soon. He would have turned 37 today.

11.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Israel’s war, supported by the US is a murderous disaster.

11.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hold on a minute...has the Orange Felon with severe mental decline read "Persian Gulf" as "Persian Golf" hence his interest in Iran.

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I discovered a connection between Jeffery Epstein and Playboy Magazine!
I discovered a connection between Jeffery Epstein and Playboy Magazine! YouTube video by Lisa Guerrero

No, we’re not going to stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. Last week I described a connection I discovered between the dark worlds of Epstein and Playboy. After receiving some disturbing tips, I followed up with this video today. DO YOUR JOB, DOJ! youtu.be/F_lQGmjnRGA?...

11.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 280 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump Tells Ships to β€˜Show Some Guts’ in Hormuz as Seafarer Death Toll Rises PresidentΒ Donald TrumpΒ urged commercial vessels to continue sailing through theΒ Strait of HormuzΒ despite escalating attacks on merchant shipping, saying shipowners should not be deterred by security r...

Trump is keen that troops AND civilians risk their lives to make life easier for him whilst he wages war and plays golf.

11.03.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 288 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

This is amazing. The hacker found CSAM in the Epstein file and threatened to report the server to the FBI, not realizing it was a FBI server. That’s as close to an ethical actor as we’re going to get in this mess.

11.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 286 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Interesting, the Epstein Class must be Held to Account….

11.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

Great episode. Personally I would have liked this over 2 episodes. Though they accomplished a lot in just the one episode.

11.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
I Went On The Star Trek Cruise (Again)
I Went On The Star Trek Cruise (Again) YouTube video by TrekCulture

@seanferrick.bsky.social whatever you do stop Ellie from watching the drama Doctor Odyssey on Disney+. It would put Ellie off cruises even more πŸ˜†

Tsunamis rocking the ship. A pod of Orca chase a great white shark that destroys turbine blades stranding them etc 😱

youtu.be/ViVQjXh5G7A?...

11.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What I found ironic, is Farage and his lot always bang on about stopping Small Boats with the full force of our Big Boats (navy). But if we sent our navy to the middle eastern seas, we won't have big boats to stop small boats 🀣

11.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead

Brexit costs the UK Β£90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending

10.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 596 πŸ” 165 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 24

Over the yrs occasionally google searches return that site. Very quickly I learned to ignore article results from that site.

They exude low quality, and an internal rot from hating everything.

10.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: The government is expected to publish some of the Peter Mandelson / Jeffrey Epstein documents tomorrow.

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