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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:00 UTC

This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:42 UTC

"Liz, we need a Waiting List Tsarina. We think waiting lists *aren't long enough*, we need you to make them ***LONGER***. Got that?"

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:19 UTC

The Galaxy Brain move is to put Liz Truss in charge of something with explicit instructions to fuck it up. She will then fail at the mission, paradoxically by making things better.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

Socialist Labour Party still exists, though it never got mentioned during the brief time Corbyn fans were wondering out having their own breakaway from the Starmer Party.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:22 UTC

Issues of political geneology: the current "SDP" has no link to the old one since the old one was officially defuncted c.1990 and Owen endorsed the Tories. The current Liberal Party might have a reasonable claim to be continuous with the grand old Liberal Party that declined 100 years ago.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:20 UTC

Fun fact: if you check the full list of every party designation entered in 2024, there is still a "Liberal Party" running independently of the Liberal Democrats, that got a few thousand votes. I think they were the anti-merger Liberals who stayed apart in 1988 and never gave up, unlike D.Owen.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:18 UTC

The real lesson is that the old Liberal Party's decline in the 1929 election could have been avoided if Lloyd George had done more wacky water-based stunts.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:14 UTC

Hitler and Wittgenstein were both in Chess Club at the same school (citation needed)

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:13 UTC

"Don't vote, the government always gets in"

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

We also need a national conversation about how Wes Streeting is like a young Ronnie Barker who hasn't got used to being on live TV.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

My dude, here is some lived experience of seeing it all go down
discontinuednotes.com/2024/07/05/d...

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

Every one of those jobs are columnists writing about how he should step down.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

As a female chancellor she only controls older banknotes that still have the Queen on the back. The new ones with Charles have to be handled by a male Treasury minister.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

Let's wait and see how many more votes Starmer gets on iPlayer.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

If there's going to be any recovery by the SNP they need an aggressive, confrontational new leader who will really cut through

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Daring move by Starmer to appoint some ministers from outside Parliament, but I wouldn't have given DEFRA to Timmy Mallett.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

Society of the Spectacle of the Landslide
discontinuednotes.com/2024/07/05/d...

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:56 UTC

Rozzers.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

I like the idea that Reform is actually the Met in a 70s G.F.Newman drama - Nigel is the hopelessly naive liberal Chief Constable, while all the old school rosters are taking bungs and fitting up old lags.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

My entire intellectual life is trying to understand things I heard references to in 1977-83, most of which turned out to be dull and inconsequential. I'm very bitter about that OU broadcast about the history of political thought.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

For an infant, the most confusing part of Newsround reporting on the end game of the Rhodesian War was the idea the country was controlled by a cabinet. I really did think it meant a fancy drinks cabinet, the sort you see posh people chatting next to in 70s smart TV drama.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

Did anyone ask Liz Truss how she felt to see the Lib Dems doing better without her

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

How bitterly the Americans must envy the British system for dealing with incapable leaders, by getting them to call and lose early elections.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

Yeah it should be something from OK Computer

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:02 UTC

Mrs Jug Head?

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

Live action Spitting Image

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

Like the 1920s Liberals. Sounds good to me.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

I think it's the right moment to declare I'm disillusioned with the Starmer government.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:51 UTC

Can someone check if Allister Heath is ok

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

Did Paul Mason stand as a candidate anywhere? I lost track of that saga.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:56 UTC

This is Reform's moment, but it will only be a moment. In 1983 the Alliance (as was) got 25% and only 23 seats. Ecology Party (as was) got 1 million votes and no seats. So they carried on working for decades. Reform haven't got a movement, they're a business with a celebrity CEO and not much else.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:51 UTC

How many councils are Reform in charge of? Now that the fireworks are over, how many activists will they mobilize to keep those 4 muppets in their little Westminster niche? They all get sick of each other, making less actual difference to anything than the Greens or LDs.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:43 UTC

ConHome taking it as well as you'd expect
conservativehome.com/2024/07/05/r...

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:51 UTC

OI LIZ TRUSS WHAT'S IT LIKE TO LOSE YOUR JOB

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