There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
— Bill Nye
Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.
Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.
The system is rigged.
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
For-profit incarceration, with forced labour and backhander deals with judges is - simply put - a continuation of the slave trade.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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Excellent idea. Workers need representation on the boards of the organisations we work for.
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com
Stroud's very own BOSS MORRIS get a mention in the latest BOLD POLITICS podcast with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and Zakia Sewell
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We Deserve Better Than This….
Every day the police, independent of political control in operational matters, exercise choices how to deploy their limited resources.
And their decisions to continue pursuing peaceful protestors for actions that the public don’t view as criminal, simply brings them and the law into disrepute.
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
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Almost as many Young Greens now as there were Green Party members in the entire country at this time last year.
Phenomenal uptake from @younggreens.bsky.social
this is cool because it's a very obvious concept but it's neat to see it laid out in data!
Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.
Lovely People.
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This black-and-white photograph captures Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003), the trailblazing American biochemist who became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States (Columbia University, 1947), at work in her laboratory. Centered in the frame, Daly leans slightly forward with quiet intensity, her gaze directed downward in deep concentration at the scientific glassware she holds with practiced precision: a slender glass pipette in her right hand and a small test tube or vial in her left, as if carefully transferring a liquid during an experiment. She wears a crisp white lab coat unbuttoned at the front, revealing a dark dress or skirt beneath and a boldly contrasting scarf tied neatly at her neck; her short, wavy dark hair is neatly styled, and a pen peeks from her coat pocket. The mid-20th-century laboratory setting envelops her with authentic period detail—white tiled walls, wooden cabinets with glass doors stacked high with books and papers, a cluttered wooden desk, a tall stool, a visible refrigerator, scattered beakers and equipment on the bench, and even a fire extinguisher mounted on the wall—creating a sense of purposeful, hands-on scientific discovery. The composition places Daly as the clear focal point, her figure framed by the ordered chaos of research tools and notes, conveying a mood of focused dedication, intellectual rigor, and quiet empowerment. This historic image endures as a powerful symbol of Daly’s groundbreaking legacy: her pioneering studies on cholesterol’s role in heart disease, protein synthesis, and nucleic acids helped shape modern biochemistry, while her lifelong advocacy opened doors for women and people of color in STEM fields.
Biochemist Marie M. Daly (b. #OTD in 1921) was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in #chemistry in the US (Columbia 1947).
Overcoming the dual hurdles of racial & gender bias, her pioneering studies included cholesterol’s role in heart disease, protein synthesis, and nucleic acids. #WomenInSTEM
Yes folks, Massive Attack did get Tom Waits to do lead vocals on their newie. And do a short film to go with the new tune.
Spend $trillions on military hardware and pork barrel deals with defense contractors.
Personnel are an afterthought because there's no money to be made out of them.
"This European country is promising ‘bargain’ energy on sunny days to use up excess solar power"
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@thementalelf.bsky.social Relatable ^^^
Progress in academia
While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.
Yes, $30 million per HOUR.
All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.
This week I’ve been challenging the Govt’s sinister attempts to abolish the right to choose a jury trial.
Here is the Minister confirming that the right to elect a jury trial IS being completely abolished with this Bill!
A fundamental cornerstone of our justice system established in 1670: gone.
• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.
Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them
There is no justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top. It’s distorting our politics, rigging our markets and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
