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Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this. Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.

My day so far 8am: It’s going to be 21C today 9am: I cycle past a heavily policed Just Stop Oil protest 10am: Shell confirms it paid no tax on North Sea oil this quarter 12pm: UN predicts 2.5C global heating & catastrophic extreme weather 4pm: Rishi Sunak will not attend COP27

We’re dehumanising people. Our Home Secretary is. Others are. Forget excuses, deflections and self-exculpatory references to “Godwin’s Law”. Recognise instead: what’s happening leads nowhere good. Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us. A🧵/1.

NOW EAT THE DAMN PUMPKIN #foodwaste

Halloween costumes are single use plastics.

The Bank of England began quantitative tightening yesterday. It sold £750 million of its supposed bond holding acquired during quantitative easing programmes back to financial markets. That is very bad news for ordinary people. A thread...

When did it become a thing that there's something inherently unlikely about a young, single man being an asylum seeker? I can think of many reasons why they would be. I very rarely write about personal stuff on Twitter, but here is the brief story of my late father-in-law. 1/15

1/ I'm back to feeling excluded. Recently I got an invitation to an evening networking event that thought leaders in my professional field attend. I can't go. Because it's not local to me and I have no childcare arrangement for that evening. Not a big deal? Please hear me out..

I teach patho to nursing students. Every semester since spring of 2020, I have taught about Covid. And every semester to have to change my lecture to keep up with new data. I was teaching Covid this semester and I told them that if nothing else, understand the science 1/n

Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.

Sydney Aubergine. Sounds like a cut price version of Poirot 🤣

Hey Australia Post - any idea why an item sent express post to me, which landed in my home town at 10am this morning, isn’t going to find its way to me til Monday??

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Sometimes this hellscape throws up something like this and suddenly your day is a tiny bit better

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Beetroot hummus: eat me by the 13th of August Me: absolutely no way

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Perfection

What’s the best name you’ve seen for a British business?

Nothing, I repeat, nothing makes you feel more like you are winning at life than your orchid deigning to bloom for the second time.