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quantumjared.bsky.social
UK physicist 👨🏻‍🔬, rock climber 🧗🏻‍♂️, social liberal 🧡, LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, YIMBY 🚆🏠 (he/him) I’m really praying, for the sake of loved ones living there and the world, that the US doesn’t go full fash dictatorship in the next four years
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 10 hours ago • 183 comments

This business is getting excessively stupid, but if you want to help affected Palestinians without being involved in that mess, @diplomatofnight.com is running a fundraiser for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund for her birthday and you should donate!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

That’s very true, but handing geopolitical dominance to the US, Russia and China would also destroy any hope of unified climate action. And lead to the suffering of untold millions anyway: do you think Putin will stop at Ukraine? Or that Xi will hold off on Taiwan forever?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

i think i finally understand what is happening here. people are genuinely incapable of reading and interpret these statements as "Palestinians are terrorists" and not "the people who have control of the state apparatus will look for ways to frame your money wires to palestinians as terror related"

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

The problem with this is now I have to watch out for spoilers (and that season 1 ending was great)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

On this day 10 years ago (!) I received my first author copies of Children of Time.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

This is surprising, because despite Starmer’s deep unpopularity he’s still winner in all head-to-head matchups. But it’s only a very narrow lead he holds on Ed Davey. Notably, Farage *loses* all head to head matchups.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just going to put it out there that I don’t think a gunman going to a Jewish event at a Jewish museum is asking people “hello are you Jewish” before shooting them and also I don’t think the fact that they might not be Jewish reduces the antisemitism inherent in the act

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments