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  GCSEs, what are these new fangled things? This is 'O' level stuff.

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  @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green I did get a sight of this. Awful. Same sickening playbook as the 'mainstream' media response to Polanski calling out the police for kicking a disturbed non-white human in the head.

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com @PizzaDemon@mastodon.online @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social strokes are due to blood clots forming and migrating to the brain where the circulatory system becomes to small to pass them so the parts of the brain where the obstruction occurs are starved of oxygen. Yes strokes occur more commonly in people with high blood pressure but not exclusively. "High blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor fo...

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  @FSonder@mastodon.ie or your could try exercising your organic large language model instead. Liberating.

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  Just to note that according to the Guardian, with results in all constituencies and 5/8 regional lists in Scotland, SNP have got 57 seats and Scottish Greens now have 10 which is a majority for Scottish Independence isn't it?

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  "Pound and UK bonds stronger after Starmer pledges to stay on as PM Government bonds rallied after Keir Starmer vowed to stay on despite heavy losses for Labour in the local elections, the Press Association reports." - from the Guardian Politics live. I'm always amazed at the lemmings -like behaviour of the City.

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  @brokenshell @clintruin @SamanthaJaneSmith but the IOC are working very hard to get the Russian back in. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/ioc-president-kirsty-coventry-russia-2028-olympics-ukraine-sports-minister-fifa-gianni-infantino And let's not mention Israel, currently still competing.

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  @NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot @Geri@mastodon.online from the independent: "In the wake of reports in The Guardian, the government admitted that officials in the Foreign Office had overruled the recommendation and granted Lord Mandelson what is known as “developed vetting”. But a government spokesperson insisted that neither the prime minister nor any government minister was aware that this had happened until earlier this week". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mandelson-se...

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  @hermitofalba@mastodon.scot the problem isn't with having to alter our external time-pieces - most of the important ones, such as alarms and heating controllers, now make the change automatically. The problem is that the change scews up our biological clocks. Time to get rid of this ridiculous tradition.

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  @GeofCox@climatejustice.social these estimates of whether someone is still living a healthy life and derived estimates what their healthy life expectancy wil be are based on people's responses to direct and entirely qualitative questions eg in the census, and are hence use entirely subjective assessments. There have also been some changes in the wording. I'm not convinced they can be entirely relied upon when comparing healthy life expectancies through time. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peo...

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  @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I have a "reader viewer" icon (eg visible on my Mastodon website) but it doesn't appear on the FT site. No doubt they have patched that loophole so I don't have an ethical dilemma as to whether I breach the paywall or not. So if Swindells has some sort of 'pay for advice' contract with Palantir then between their calls for advice he is entirely free to shill for them? Or did he explicitly end the contract before shilling and declare that he had a c...

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  @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Article is behind a paywall so have to ask, isn't this "corruption in public office" and when is he going to be dismissed or at least suspended from his current posts and prosecuted?

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  @GeofCox@climatejustice.social and now completely overturned - UK now have two Olympic gold for sliding down a hill standing on a plank (Snowboard mixed team Cross).