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Food Systems Researcher, mostly. Used to do Libraries. It’s a play on Glasgow and Gastronomer. Gastronomy as in academic field, not like I pull faces in restaurants (I mean, sometimes). He / Him 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢 #Food #SocialImpact #Sustainability #Agroecology
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Imagine telling people at the baby's funeral this is how you met their mum.

"Now our president is quoting that white supremacist, neo-Nazi murderer."

Recently released January 6, 2021 insurrectionists are trying to argue that their presidential pardons should apply to separate crimes they were charged with while they were being investigated for storming the Capitol.

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

The problem with having people with no knowledge of the federal government engage in mass firing is that you end up firing people who work on nuclear weapon safety because you don't know what the Department of Energy even does. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Talking of fascist rallies, there’s one in London this week. Sorry, “Right leaning”. www.ft.com/content/66bc...

This bears repeating given the whole “Speaking out for Nazis” thing.

The best piece you can read about who and what Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are right now, and what they are planning. Brilliant work by @benquinn75.bsky.social and @rowenamason.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jay Bosanko, who worked at NARA for more than thirty years and who was the acting head after AOTUS Shogan’s firing, has just been axed. He was given the choice of being fired too, or retiring. Speculation about the names of the incoming toadies to replace them: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You’ve been murdered: who do you want on the case?

Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A purge at the Kennedy Center open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

WOW how amazing is this that some recruiters in Canada not only pays interviewees for their time but also sends interview questions 24 hours in advance. This is true equity. Well done to the organisations leading this and hopefully your trailblazing will seep into UK recruitment practices too.

Having Vance at a summit in Munich adds extra zing to that line about “if you’re at a rally and there’s a Nazi there, it’s a Nazi rally” though, doesn’t it?

Trump won because people projected their ideal policies onto him instead of taking what he said literally, and Harris lost because people projected the worst case of policy onto her. I don’t think your Election 2024 analysis needs to be more complicated than that.

MAGA: how dare trans people uncomfortable in their own skin use drugs and surgery to change their bodies. Also MAGA: mOaR sTerOiDs!

JD Vance has expressed a “deep hostility to the entire academic enterprise, not just the so-called woke parts,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. "He wasn’t talking about making more room for right-wing ideas in universities or even dreaming of taking them over. He wanted to destroy it all."

As a Canadian, I'm targeting a 20% American unemployment rate. Inflation in the low teens. Let's keep boycotting US goods and services. It's time for the world to isolate the US. #cdnpolib #MadeInCanada #boycott

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

No words. This man has a proven track record for how his antivax agenda has resulted in deaths. Confirmed despite a serious and imminent threat of an avian flu outbreak.

"Authoritarians especially love to change the names of places, seeing it “as a tool for constructing new notions of national identity and promoting certain historical narratives while denying, suppressing, or erasing others.”

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2SxcvBA/ This is Dr. Eisenhower. He needs to be famous.

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Tories starting to get a hint that FAFO applies universally.

If you read nothing else today 👇

How liberty dies. An incredibly powerful analysis of what’s happening in 🇺🇸 by @chrischirp.bsky.social Truly terrifying but where is the opposition? substack.com/@chrischirp/...

Your fave is bad too, actually.

Trump looks thrilled as President Musk gets most of the questions from the press today while he sits there

Any minute now the White House will publish an Executive Order announcing that they are removing Pope Francis and replacing him with JD Vance

“A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, upping the stakes in his battle with Sam Altman over the company behind ChatGPT.” So 100% chance if he doesn’t get his way he’s blocking OpenAI gov contracts, right?

Many brokerages use AI-assisted data scrapers that assess sentiment of securities based on trending terms, and negative sentiment further suppresses the price. So, if you're curious, don't be afraid to google "how to sell my tesla stock" or other similar search terms.

I don’t know how you can like Dolly Parton and be homophobic. I don’t think it’s the performers who are living in a bubble.

The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )

Agroecology in UK is a very funny parallel world at times because there are people in it who think they can continue to defend underpaying workers (£1.41/hour) by saying "sorry but there's not enough money in food production". How come then most farms do actually pay min wage?

Update. Yesterday evening Josh Howie on GBNews attempted to deflect the storm of criticism that his remarks of 22 January have caused. Listen to it for yourself on their social media. It just made matters worse. Do add to the Good Law Project complaint. There should be serious consequences.

I see Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times is doubling down on the Saturday's claim that Trump is a "feminist champion". Her claim to "respect trans people" follows her explicitly asserting trans girls and women are boys and men.

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

The BBC axed Tomorrow's World.