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  Were TV remotes a mistake? At least you couldn't lose buttons on the actual set. Or is that too retro tech even for Mastodon

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  New from the people who brought you "sunscreen causes skin cancer" and "vegetables are toxic, actually": "nicotine is good for your brain!" How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug https://theconversation.com/how-the-pro-nicotine-wellness-movement-rebranded-an-addictive-drug-290129 #Drugs #MedicalMisinformation #MAHA

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  #Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to #feminism The theatre was told that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-o...

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  Okay which one of you lot wrote this? With that headline it has to be someone on here https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/sep/13/how-to-start-your-own-tool-library

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  A lifeboat museum says it has been forced to close after its volunteers were targeted by anti-migrant protesters. Poole Old Lifeboat Museum said it made the decision after several incidents of "protesters verbally assaulting our volunteers". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62mq66lrqjo #RNLI #FarRight

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  In light of the UK government's recent advice to households to stock up on food and water in anticipation of potential interruption of supplies this winter, I thought I'd do a little thread on #DisasterPrep for people who aren't gun-obsessed misanthropes as someone who has managed water and sanitation for a few ecological fieldwork and bushcraft camps. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/angela-eagle-uk-stock-up-supplies-el-nino-warning 1/🧵 #ClimateBreakdown

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  How Britain’s railways are struggling in the heat – and can they be fixed? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/28/britain-railways-struggling-heat-fixed-derailments-explainer #UKHeatwave #LewesDerailment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAdaption

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  'Lessons learned' over LGBT youth event at #Exeter Library - BBC News This is incredibly sad and I suspect the "lesson learned" was that #SexEducation stalls are more effort than they're worth for public services. There's obviously a massive amount of #homophobia behind this, but given the Epstein revelations I am now deeply suspicious of any politicians who don't want young people educated enough about sex to potentially know what's being done to them. https:...

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  Wow. Did self-sustaining life evolve not once but twice? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-new-study-points-to-two-origins-of-life-on-earth-by-tracing-early-chemical-reactions-in-single-celled-organisms-180989260/

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  RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116843262333036534 Please folks, I know awful things are happening in Palestine but sharing un cw'd images of dead bloodied children is not the way to raise awareness. I'm going the make this personal because I don't think some people understand in the abstract. I have PTSD, after witnessing an accident in which a small child was badly injured. Seeing that unexpectedly has given me flashbacks and made me feel sick, exhused and dissociating. This wi...

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  Does anyone ever wonder what life would be like if humans were as agile as cats? Imagine if you were walking along a narrow passageway and if someone was going annoyingly slowly in front of you you could just jump clean over their head

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  UK Parliamentary Petition for a ban on sale of disposable BBQs. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770200#main-content #UkHeatwave #wildfires

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  ‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/31/england-hosepipe-ban-drought-private-schools-golf-courses-green-grass #UKHeatwave #UKDrought #Inequality

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  ‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over #Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient #Kent woodland https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/oaken-wood-ancient-woodland-kent-quarry-expansion-reform-council Logistically it is unfortunately rather harder to go full Julie Butterfly-Hill in a coppiced sweet chestnut than a California redwood, but it's tempting. #OakenWood

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  Absolute carnage in Tesco this morning, most of the chiller cabinets seem to have failed in the heat so they're selling off everything they can half price. I just popped in to grab something for lunch but ended up grabbing a lot of discounted fresh produce and deli bits. I won this morning but in the long term we're all going to be the losers. #UKHeatwave #ClimateDiary #FoodSecurity

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  I'm honestly a bit surprised at how much outrage this study is causing, I thought we'd pretty much accepted by now that sometimes it's hard to balance different harms against one another. More intensive farming uses fewer resources but is worse for animal welfare. Cotton takes loads of water and pesticides to grow but doesn't release microplastics when you wash it. We have this problem with sterilising contaminated wastewater in the lab, do we autoclave it, suing huge amounts of...

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  Distinct lack of forward planning on behalf of the person in charge of reality here, making the kind of person who likes cats often the same kind of person who likes string-based crafts

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  This is me in front of #JodrellBank's #LovellTelescope back in 2018. As far as I'm concerned the best thing we have ever managed to do as a species is to cooperate to do remarkably clever things none of us could manage alone, in the service of understanding more about the universe we find ourselves in. The fact we seem to be turning away from that as a culture and deciding the highest, most noble goal we could be persuing as a species is money making is heartbreaking. https://www.bbc.co...

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  #BuzzBallz are unrecyclable, and claims to the contrary are #greenwashing say recycling experts "The company behind the bright, pre-mixed cocktails that have taken Gen Z by storm said they were recyclable on its website, but experts say this is not true. BuzzBallz cannot be recycled as the PET plastic ball cannot be separated from the aluminium lid, global environmental action body WRAP said." I do think the need some sort of legislation to stop people launching consumer products i...

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  RE: https://beige.party/@TheJen/116977113820325560 Alt text: a black Singer sewing machine that has been hand painted with the Progress Pride flag, starting on the baseplate and looping and swirling up the body of the machine. Some of the colour stripes split off from the flag and swirl away on their own into concentric circles. The Singer logo has been painted with each letter in a different rainbow colour

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116963206337727977 Helen of Troy does not lay Helens of Troy, her father is not valued

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  RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116956726794807459 In the face of massive outcry the police have finally admitted that they messed up and they need a better testing method. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx5j7rm6no

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  Due to the popular confusion about #ebikes, West Midlands police seized and crushed this poor bloke's perfectly safe and legal @ternbicycles@toot.bike https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvl7ld06r8o

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  THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE is everything wrong with the government understanding of the purpose of science. "Burnham’s team have asked officials to draw up plans to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of a wider Whitehall shake-up. The proposals in relation to the DSIT would hand over much of science and technology policy to a more powerful business department, to be led by the chief whip, Jonathan Reynolds." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20...

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  AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk "Outright hoaxes remain rare and are often easy to spot, said Lees – nobody is falling for a toucan sighting in Siberia – but he says birders often use AI to edit and improve an image, and the algorithm can then introduce parts from different bird species to create the new image." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe

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  When you're a lesbian trying to support your straight friend going through a nasty breakup by going to her nail appointment with her, so you ask your wife who's slightly more femme than you what it involves but she is, inconveniently, also a lesbian.

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  My current morning routine: 1. Open phone 2. Check weather forecast 3. 5-10 minutes allocated for existential despairing 4. Coffee

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  Science: hey look we found some new knowledge and want to share it with humanity! Capitalism: you should be charging for that. Science: no you see the more it gets shared about the more everyone can participate and the more further knowledge we can generate! It's not a zero sum thing! And that wouldn't work if we charged people to access it! Academic journals: Don't worry Capitalism, we've got this Capitalism: cheers fam Science: well fuck

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  There's a girl on this train wearing a woolly sweater. Admittedly it's cropped and draped off one shoulder but it's still making me feel like my Gran. What is wrong with young people these days and why can't they dress for the weather?

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  The UK has opened a consultation on the sale of fireworks to the public, and is seeking responses particularly from groups who sell, use or are affected by fireworks, but it's open to everyone. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk Personally with the number of wildfires burning at the moment, at least one of which was actually caught on camera being started by fireworks https://imginn.com/reel/DasV2FPNxgu/ I th...