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IT Consultant, Naturalist and Drone Pilot. Advocate for clean air in schools and vaccines for all.

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Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

12.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 5069 πŸ” 1497 πŸ’¬ 252 πŸ“Œ 105

If you choose to live in a brutal dictatorship built entirely on the blood of slaves, you can't really complain when this shit happens.

12.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles Foreign Office officials are understood to be supporting his family.

British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Imagine being the Lloyd’s underwriter who has to explain maritime insurance to a Trump appointee

12.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

How fascinating. Because they started this s*** in August. And suddenly, within a week, they deactivate it.

Quite the sign of how experts don't actually use Grammarly and thus hadn't noticed until last week? And how stressed Grammarly is about potential law suits now that we do realise.

11.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 14
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How a Deadly Strike Hit an Elementary School in Iran A targeting mistake by the United States was responsible for the strike, a continuing investigation found.

A continuing military investigation has determined that the U.S. is responsible for a strike that hit an elementary school in Iran, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. Listen to "The Daily."

12.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7
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If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you.

They built a whole-ass crusade around β€œDEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it.

Justin Fox’s and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath. πŸ₯΄

12.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 1987 πŸ” 944 πŸ’¬ 229 πŸ“Œ 103

It's absolutely bonkers that we learned with clarity that we can dramatically reduce or even possibly eliminate many respiratory viruses & we choose to embrace them instead.

11.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My son's school doesn't even have a sign... I've given them evidence, I've shown them papers, I've shown them everything. Nothing's been done.

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

Weird how the increase in ADHD meds and increase in adults with a disability follow the same sharp, upward trajectory since we started infecting everyone with a neuroinvasive, vascular, immune damaging virus.

H/T @gosiagasperophd.bsky.social

12.03.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Meanwhile, in Vermont…

People are getting gassed for protesting ICE. Yep, that’s still going on. America sure is great, isn’t it?
#Vermont #ICE #SouthBurlington

12.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 5090 πŸ” 2434 πŸ’¬ 264 πŸ“Œ 142

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

11.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 1614 πŸ” 423 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 19
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BBC News, "Newly released documents reveal that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was warned of reputational risk over Mandelson's links with Epstein"

Should Starmer resign the same way he and Mahmood made the former Chief Constable of West Midlands Police Craig Guildford resign?

11.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2

Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.

11.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 13

Remember these words as he engineers a humanitarian disaster the scale of which nobody in this hemisphere has seen in living memory.

11.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 571 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2

i genuinely cannot process how debased our ruling class is. these guys will walk around all day in shoes that don't fit rather than tell their boss he's wrong. this whole thing where they pretend a stupid evil guy with brain damage is qualified to run every aspect of everyone's life is unacceptable

11.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 2813 πŸ” 497 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 15

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

11.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 2147 πŸ” 334 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 26
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Watch this moment from Parliament as MPs debate whether the UK should move toward proportional representation during discussion of the Representation of the People Bill.

11.03.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I have a Studio Ghibli "Kiki's Delivery Service" tote... How feminine am I?! 🀣

11.03.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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That's de Adder's take: #cdnpoli

www.hilltimes.com/cartoon-dead...

11.03.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Police in Britain Repeatedly Declined to Investigate Epstein. Why?

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew

But they did not launch an investigation
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

11.03.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 1840 πŸ” 943 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 56

Can't quite believe this needs repeating, but:

If you're using commercialised LLM extruders for any reason - whether it's rewriting an email, deploying a "thinking partner" or doing "research" for your next book...

You are handling stolen goods

You are sanctioning plagiarism

Stop

11.03.2026 06:37 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

So... Iran is not firing "indiscriminately", they're deliberately attacking countries with US bases.

All of this was foreseeable, but nobody bothered to actually think about it

Starmer has made us a target.

11.03.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Three US bombers took off from Gloucestershire yesterday to 'defensively' bomb Iran

Darren Jones explains how you bomb a country defensively (after you've launched an illegal and unprovoked attack on them)

11.03.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 19

The immune system is not a muscle.

It is a cleansing fire.

It causes collateral damage.

It has a limited supply of fuel.

It can get out of control.

Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.

11.03.2026 07:28 πŸ‘ 539 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 3712 πŸ” 1479 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 219

Not content with the genocide in Gaza, Israel now seems to be planning the same thing in Iran.

There's certainly no other plan... Just endless bombing by them and the complicit US.

So why are we involved?

11.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 17608 πŸ” 7077 πŸ’¬ 512 πŸ“Œ 945

I really just do not understand how this could be possible

11.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 1342 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 8
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SΓ‘nchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

01.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 1311 πŸ” 474 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 49