Alison Rodger

Alison Rodger

@alisonro.bsky.social

Used to much more interesting...

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We don’t need certainty about an AMOC collapse to plan for its consequences. A weakening AMOC could trigger profound shifts in regional temperatures and rainfall, raise coastal sea levels and disrupt marine ecosystems, threatening stability across continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comAdapting to the risk of Atlantic circulation change - Nature SustainabilityWeakening Atlantic circulation could shift temperatures and rainfall across continents, raise regional sea levels, disrupt food production and marine ecosystems, and erode the ocean carbon sink. Plann...

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The Scene reports here that the “youthful indiscretions” Taylor refers to include unsolicited nude photos sent as recently as 2021 when he was 53.

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There are so many different credible allegations about Donald Trump being a rapist, you can almost understand how The New York Times missed the new charges here, but uh, this is supposed to be The New York Times.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

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*Just went to the post office to post a book & the post office insisted they have to use an Evri service now. The guy said it's because "it's more convenient for the customers" I said "or is it to relieve pressure on the failing Royal Mail service?" He laughed & said "yeah"

David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop)@jambookshopuk.bsky.social

Evri: let's be the worst possible business that's so flawed & badly run that society will hate us for years & nobody will want to use us. Royal Mail: Hey, wouldn't it be a great idea to now outsource everything through Evri because we've become so bad too!

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The woman who was having a go at Stephen Flynn on STV news blaming him for her shop being destroyed by Storm Boelo and not acting quickly enough, well lo and behold she is a Tory candidate and activist, the stv news journalist must have known this but failed to mention it, 👇

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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Hey Font Folks! Got a question... I'm looking for a font that's similar to the MPAA's Rating System font but fun. Think like "Fat Tip" but as a Serif. Maybe it's me & having poured through my collection of fonts for a few hrs but I can't seem to find a decent substitute. -.-

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This is your reminder that you *will* however be stopped if you try to ride a bicycle on the Esplanade.

Love Glasgow Hate Racism@lghr.bsky.social

“Officers attended and engaged with those involved. There were no arrests. Campaigning and demonstration are a legitimate, necessary and vital part of life" Interesting tactic from Police Scotland who routinely kettle antifascist groups while they attempt to peacefully protest. shorturl.at/QCf7N

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Report says AI has been embedded across Home Office in near-total secrecy. AI plays part in tasks like asylum seeker age assessments, spotting sham marriages, summarising interviews, and border surveillance. It calls for regulation and register of govt AI tools. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claimsTasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group

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Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukEmotional reunions as photographer recreates shots 46 years onSam Hill spent months tracking down the "special generation" he photographed as teenagers in 1980.

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Mayor Mamdani and Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso visited the New York Aquarium to meet some seals and celebrate the impact of the administration’s $2 million investment in the aquarium.

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For six weeks, NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair has used his platform to honor Palestinian girls. Today, he honored Fatima Al-Bayook, a Palestinian girl who was shot and killed by Israeli forces two days ago. Fatima was the sole survivor of an Israeli attack that killed her entire family in 2023.

Quite a few licence fee payers* would like a word too.. *for now

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

Journalists are questioning the BBC's decision to broadcast 40 minutes of 'propaganda' from Reform UK without interruption or challenge ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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WALKABOUT! Our first fact-finding exploratory walk around Princes Street Gardens is on SATURDAY (31 October) at 10.00 starting from the Scott Monument. All welcome: members, prospective members, residents and of course tourists. No booking needed — only brightly-coloured scarves!

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The achievements of the Serbian student movement will be studied for decades. This was their blueprint for revolution. The recipe for throwing a corrupt authoritarian from office. Read, learn, implement. (📸 Save and Saclony)

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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UK Establishment Press boosting the Far-Right the exact same way the US media did in the mid-2010's by treating any time Donald Trump spoke as live breaking news

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Replying to @adambienkov.bsky.social

They've only got a handful of MPs, they're in third place and still heading south, they are led by the most unpopular party leader in the country, yet they're still being treated as if they're somehow knocking on the gates of Downing Street

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"Across UK & Europe, tens of thousands of deep vertical coal & mineral mine shafts sit abandoned after the fossil-fuel mining era end — and Scottish engineers at Gravitricity have found a way to turn them into giant mechanical grid batteries .." www.facebook.com/engineeringe... via Engineering Facts

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Israeli company, on UN blacklist for supporting illegal settlements, owns 20% of rosebank field through its subsidiary Ithaca energy. They should be banned form any ownership and sanctioned. We do not want them in any way involved in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2654589...

thenational.scotAndy Burnham urged to blacklist Scottish firm linked to illegal Israeli settlementANDY Burnham has been urged to “blacklist” a company with links to illegal Israeli settlements from a license to drill in the North Sea by a former first minister after the Prime Minister announced sa...
(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland@chaillich.bsky.social

this is what it's really about 👇

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Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

Andrew Fisher@fisherandrew79.bsky.social

What's remarkable about this article is that there's no mention of the police. No mention of a charge, an investigation, an arrest, even an interview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.