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  Hopefully the USA will remember

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  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/31/iran-war-live-oil-tankers-hit-in-hormuz-trump-says-conflict-will-end-soon “He’s basically explaining that Iran is in charge of Hormuz, Iran has communication with its neighbours, and Iran is ready – with its neighbours – to solve the problems of security and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz without the Americans or any other foreign powers.”

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  Just heard somebody described as the “shadow welfare spokesman” on BBCR4 saying that some people should not get full universal credit. If you reduce universal credit any further people will starve. It is barely enough to eat and certainly insufficient to cook or heat your house. It gives you just enough for food - nothing more. If it is reduced, people will starve to death.

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  https://mundoobrero.es/2026/07/31/marruecos-y-la-extrema-derecha-manejan-la-migracion-marroqui-para-sus-intereses-politicos/ “La entrada masiva de decenas miles de personas en Ceuta ocurrida el jueves 30 de julio ha sido permitida por las autoridades marroquíes, quienes en la práctica han dejado abiertas las fronteras. Igual ocurrió en la crisis de mayo de 2021 en Ceuta, cuando Marruecos dejó entrar en la ciudad a casi 10.000 personas, como represalia por la atención médica dada por España a Br...

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  https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose “The American Pyrex on shelves today is tempered soda-lime glass, a different material with a thermal safety margin an American Ceramic Society analysis described as borderline, roughly 55°C of headroom against 183°C for borosilicate. Consumer Reports collected 163 shattering incident reports, 42 of them involving injuries. *European Pyrex, made by an unrelated company, is still borosilicate*.”

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  https://news.stv.tv/west-central/scottish-airline-loganair-to-become-first-in-europe-to-run-fleet-of-electric-planes An excellent idea!

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  https://www.byteseu.com/2207203/ “While there’s no guarantee a pink basket will find you true love, it’s definitely easier than incessantly swiping on the apps, and frankly, I’d rather take my chances in the cereal aisle.”

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Amaru_Ca/116941741069453769 English NHS seriously compromised by Palantir

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  Know your socialists:

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  https://electrek.co/2026/06/01/byd-gods-eye-accepts-liability-tesla-never-has/ BYD will accept liability for at-fault crashes

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  @dima@dol.social I know of people using MacBooks that are 14 and 15 years old

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  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hantavirus-hondius-cruise-ship-positive-spanish-passenger-9.7211446 The symptoms can take from one to eight weeks to appear, but usually around two weeks.

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  @jeffowski@mastodon.world but if you don’t have any of the First things on that list then the press will be focusing on Epstein and the president doesn’t want that because he will be exposed

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  @2legged@mastodon.ie they are the people who control buses, bus routes and things like that. From memory I think a courtesy bus will require a minibus driving licence https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/traffic-commissioners

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt he wasn’t first with evolution. But he was the first with enough money to self-publish a book on it He came to Edinburgh University, dropped out of his course but saw the work that was being done there on evolution. Robert Chambers was the first to write on evolutionary theories, but he wrote anonymously and published in England so as not to offend the church https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Chambers_(publisher,_born_1802)&wprov=rarw1

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  https://electrek.co/2026/03/27/iran-war-spikes-energy-prices-uk-homes-ditch-fossil-fuels-fast/ “Octopus has rolled out a fast-track installation program for homes currently using oil boilers. The company says it can now replace them with heat pumps in as little as 10 days from quote to install.”

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  @Tutanota age verification is not for the teenagers. It’s for the adults. The presumption is you are a teenager unless you can prove otherwise, so basically all Internet users will have to register..

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  The truth about homelessness in the USA

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@paynesofren/116438561445590665 What a brilliant way to promote modal shift! Build a bridge that cars can’t use, and everybody crosses it by bicycle….. edit- also walking and by tram

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpco6R1g9Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpco6R1g9M https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpco6R1g9M for over 100 years North Berwick has been Edinburgh‘s Seaside resort. And it still is…

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  @jik disarming society, including the police and prohibiting the carrying of arms, as as the case in virtually every other country would be a good start. The right to bear arms is from the days of the Wild West, 200 years ago. Incidentally, most other countries also have a de facto right to bear their arms but only with a licence and only in certain circumstances. It’s not rocket science.

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  https://reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-growth-of-battery-storage-puts-it-at-centre-of-global-energy-security-needs-for-cars-and-for-grids/ “the installation of home batteries in Australia in the month of March accounts for around 10 per cent of global grid scale battery installations, an extraordinary number.”

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  @bampot 100% yes!

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  @bampot @cmniciosaig I regularly ask for a dod of cake in cafés and the barista often looks at me blankly.

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  @claesdevreese has anybody done a projection of when the you will no longer import Russian or US gas?

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  @HighlandLawyer regarding the “excuse me this is a cycle lane” syndrome, you are actually a lot safer crossing the road than a cycle lane. Car drivers will brake which is more than many cyclists do. Cyclists point to statistics suggesting cyclists are safer but that’s because crashes are simply not reported even when they’re quite serious. Anecdotally people will tell you about crashes and conflict with bicycles but when you ask, they will say they didn’t report it.

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  Pre 1948 Palestine was part of the British Empire and Palestinians held British passports. The British authorities held property records for the country. But the Balfour declaration released large numbers of immigrants and seems to have removed all the citizenship and property rights of the local inhabitants. It seems to me that Britain has more responsibility than any other country towards the appalling conditions in which Palestinians now find themselves. Why are we doing nothing?

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  @RabBrucesSpider1 clearly SNP very bad indeed!

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  https://edinburghmagazine.com/edinburgh-overtakes-london-in-gdp-per-capita-for-the-first-time/ Edinburgh has overtaken London in GDP per capita, and London has overtaken Edinburgh in money laundering and increasing rates of child poverty. #inequalty #billionnaires #moneylaundering #epsteinclass

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  https://theconversation.com/voters-in-wales-face-senedd-election-amid-confusion-over-who-holds-power-over-what-278594 “On X (formerly Twitter), 73% of posts about devolved issues did not say whether a story applied only to England, or to England and Wales in the case of legal matters. Just 13.2% mentioned England explicitly. Only 13.8% named Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland to make clear that responsibility lay with devolved governments.” The level of ignorance amongst people who should kn...