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Margaret Kearton@margaretkearton.bsky.social |
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Lover of history, classical music, environment. Translate to maintain the above. Based in Modena and nearby mountains.
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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If actual mining were like Bitcoin mining, the company would buy tens of thousands of digging machines and randomly locate them across the land and start digging furiously. The company that buys the most diggers and digs most furiously wins
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Bethany Brookshire
@beebrookshire.bsky.social
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I love this idea. Community spaces: libraries, public parks, public POOLS. These are vital for helping people get outside, bond with the outdoors, create community! They are also LOW CARBON LEISURE. prospect.org/sponsored/th...
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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I must admit it took a while for me to realise, in spite of Sunday school every Sunday .... but when I did I found the image quite powerful, as a child. No lasting effect, though! All the same, there's a lot of "religiosity" in there.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Sorry, didn't get as far as that one on last rereading ... I'd forgotten the race thing. Glad your son spotted it.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Yes, I reread them recently and felt a bit squeamish. Partly just that they've dated, too. I think they look back to the tradition of "improving" works for the young.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Not sure Lewis fits this - it's the contents of the work, not something hidden in the life (unless you mean that children might not immediately recognise the Aslan allegory so he's not completely open about what he's doing there, which is a fair point).
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Annie Leymarie
@annieleymarie.bsky.social
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"Over the last 25 years, international air travel has increased significantly", mostly through "trips for leisure and visiting friends and family", despite its significant climate impact.
Its emissions are omitted from national statistics in nearly all countries.
phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Meher Oliaji
@mehero.bsky.social
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Dyson the Brexiter decided to reduce his UK workforce, but held off the announcement till after election as a favour to his Tory friends. Will any Labour minister have the nerve to shame him?
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willybongka ☭
@willybongka.bsky.social
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"'Unfathomable': Lancet Study Estimates Gaza Death Toll May Exceed 186,000" nazi shit 😩
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Just happening to hear on the radio phrases like "Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary" is giving me a warm glow and sense of security at the moment. And I don't even live in the UK!
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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True, you have to make allowances. Just jarred a little to find it wasn't top of her list.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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More than 1.8m acres have already burned across the Brazilian Pantanal this year alone in fires mostly started by cattle ranchers, as climate breakdown prolongs the dry season.
The Pantanal is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, and it's dying. 🌎
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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We are in the mountains above Mantua .... (quite a long way above, but we're just about the nearest mountains). Nice to know the same species still prevail!
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Music? Classical music??? Not even a mention?? Let's hope it's just an oversight.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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My husband and son enthusiastically fell and split quite a lot of our own. Get a guy with a sawbench to cut it up. Beech, ash, cherry, goat willow, false acacia, laburnum (beech is old woods, the rest reverted meadows). I 'just' have to cart it all into the woodshed ....
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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The kind of secondary issue they blow up to keep their followers happy and prove their love of tradition.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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No coincidence that it's a hobby-horse of Meloni's bunch here in Italy.
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Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
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Tightening housebuilding standards is such a no-brainer. Benefits for homeowners, the environment, and the wider green economy.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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That's a very impressive woodpile. What kind of wood is it? Do you have a hydraulic splitter?
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Bellingcat
@bellingcat.com
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Latest: An analysis of open source evidence, as well as multiple missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07...
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Peter
@peterdutoit.com
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Our infrastructure is *not* designed for the hotter world we are racing into.
We are completely unprepared.
#ClimateCrisis
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Last week, my newsletter highlighted how over 1/3 of premature births are attributed to the mothers' exposure to pollution from fossil fuels. Now, a new study shows air pollution reduces IVF success by 40%. For health reasons alone, fossil fuels need to go.
globalnews.ca/news/1060157...
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Matteo Salvini is the one who's still pretty soft on P. Meloni has trimmed her attitudes rather since coming to power and leaves Salvini to be the "bad boy" in the coalition.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Social media from a shark’s perspective: Instagram: Here are photos of seals I ate Facebook: My high school friends eat bigger seals than me and I’m jealous LinkedIn: My skills include eating seals. Twitter: Why do (((dolphins))) control the world?
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Glenn Wilhide
@glennwilhide.bsky.social
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World in line for hottest year as 1.5C limit breached for 12 months in a row on.ft.com/4ctcB87
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Now, who'd have thought it? Just hope someone's listening ....
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Marianna Spring is amazing.
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@gj19eighty.bsky.social
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As a Probation Officer, this makes me endlessly happy and optimistic. Years and years of 'lock em all up' policies without a single thought for how we keep people from going back to prison, or what we do when the prisons are full. Very smart appointment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson
@protik.bsky.social
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It's a low bar, but it must be cleared. Every nation should impose sanctions against violent settlers.
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Jenét Morrow
@jenetallday.bsky.social
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www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...
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Rocky N. Bullwinkle
@lproulx.bsky.social
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That's how you do it. Great article. Best line, maybe: "it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people."
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Prof David J Galbreath
@djgalbreath.bsky.social
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Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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POLITICO Europe
@politico.eu
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Hamas has dropped key demands that had blocked a cease-fire deal with Israel in Gaza, according to media reports.
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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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"If the RN wins...the abolition of the right to French nationality of those born in France will introduce a profound break in our republican conception of nationality, since people born in France, and who have always lived here, will no longer be French, " their children will not be French either."
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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The Essex League. Now that's an idea.
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Richard 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 #ClimateAction #RejoinEU
@richardfbpe.bsky.social
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The Green Party now has 4 seats, the same number as Reform. I wonder who will get more TV coverage.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Will Fabricant do instead?
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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That's really galling for you. What part of Tactical Voting didn't people understand?
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Skelekate
@skelekate.bsky.social
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Yiddish Sky! Is anyone available for hire to translate 26 pages of typed Yiddish to English? (I think it’s Polish based.) It would be about a difficult subject so I’m happy to chat about it beforehand.
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Nev Fountain
@nevfountain.bsky.social
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It’s Election results eve tonight, so I’m putting out a mince pie and a hairbrush for Sir John Curtice, a carrot for IPSOS, and a letter asking for chopper bike, a Big Trak, and for Jacob Rees-Mogg to lose his seat.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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I agree. I translate general technical and commercial stuff for largely international use. A Brit might "read in" the missing comma automatically but a non-native reader won't, so I use the Oxford comma every time. There's no point in creating confusion.
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Tim Mak
@timkmak.bsky.social
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Only 3% of Russian missiles, drones, and guided bombs hit military targets in Ukraine, with 97% aimed at civilian infrastructure, according to Ukraine's OSCE delegation. In the past week alone, Russia targeted civilian infrastructure with over 800 guided bombs.
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Jesse D. Jenkins
@jessejenkins.bsky.social
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GM will pay nearly $150 million and retire $100s of millions of emissions credits to settle with the EPA for selling nearly six million cars that emitted more carbon dioxide than the company had claimed, violating federal regulations. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/c...
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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Hope you have something exciting planned for those 7 minutes!
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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This is interesting as Conte is moving away from founder Grillo's insistence on being non-aligned and trying to reinforce the movement's place within the "broad field" opposing Meloni on the left.
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Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
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The photograph doesn't actually show somewhere tourists are likely to meet bears (looks like Matera to me - definitely not Trentino!).
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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China is building and testing lethal attack drones for delivery to Russia, Bloomberg reports. Looks like a dangerous shift as Beijing starts to provide the lethal aid that western officials have warned about.
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The Stylite
@columnist.bsky.social
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The anti RN désistements (candidate drop-outs) are really making a big difference. Currently at 208. Off the top of my head I’d now estimate the % of a socialist majority at 5%, a RN majority at 25%, and a hung parliament at 70% (with the % of the latter currently increasing).
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Dr Joanne Williams
@jowilliams.bsky.social
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Anyone who's left it too late to post back: you can hand deliver your postal vote to any polling station in your constituency by 10pm Thursday. It's also ok for a friend to take it for you (sealed as if posting), but NOT a party campaigner.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-e...
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