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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Earlier today the government announced a cut to the UK aid budget to fund an increase in defence spending. 12 years ago, we released this video to show how aid protects children in the toughest situations. Now, the message is more important than ever.

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Here’s a fun/useful website I’d never heard of… www.dimensions.com/element/comm... and I particularly like this take-no-shit Common Snipe

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Trying to work out if I’m a perfectionist or a “thoroughnist”…

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For anyone that can read Greek… this 😂

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"And you totally know how to paint a baby?" Artist: Yup "You're sure?" Artist: Don't worry about it "You know what a baby looks like?" Artist: Yes "It's just you always paint babies like they're 40yr old blokes called Colin" Artist: Not this time

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🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

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‘The coal fire was where most of our participants let their minds linger.’

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Wow! When If/Then kicked off almost 6 years we had no idea what a ride it would be! We’ve been featured in museums, textbooks, on TV shows and in the largest exhibit of statues of women in the world! What is If/Then? youtube.com/shorts/hcxDo...

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I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Joining a union is probably the easiest and best thing you can do rn.

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Huge kudos to the great @georgiajcatt.bsky.social & Rob Byrne. Stalked is the no 1 ‘True Crime’ in UK in its first week! 👏👏👏 And while it is ‘True Crime’, it’s also ‘True Dystopia’ aka how your data & devices can & will be weaponised against you

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Love this! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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Inclusive teams create a better employee experience and boots business performance. Our report, 'EDI Engine,' highlights how prioritising #EDI improves business success in engineering, with practical recommendations for all businesses. Read our report now: raeng.org.uk/edi-engine

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Oare Creek today. Boats and a boat.

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It is Derek Jarman’s birthday - here are some thoughts on his imagination and humanity #lgbtq

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At some point* UK MPs might want to ask ministers whether the US is still considered a safe third country for purposes of international data transfers www.reuters.com/world/us/mus... UK-US data bridge www.gov.uk/government/p... #cybersecurity #dataprotection #dataadequacy * now would be good

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🏉 The #6nations rugby starts again this coming weekend so I've updated 6nationscalendar.com to make sure all the fixtures are easily available in your personal calendars. You're welcome.

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Great piece of linkage writing

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I sort of knew this but didn’t at the same time: “As time use researchers, we often grapple with an uncomfortable truth – your time is not fully yours – it belongs to us all. Time is a network good.”

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@mindcharity.bsky.social who have 508k followers on X have just announced that they will no longer be posting there. This is one of the first loud quits from a really big charity I have seen. They hadn't posted on X since November. They are here instead and building up from their 2k followers.

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Spotted this in the wild… www.buildhollywood.co.uk/features/new...

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Happy Saturday

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The storm surge from #Eowyn is changing the sea-level from the usual tides. Here's Millport, at the mouth of the Clyde near Glasgow. It's just past high tide there, and the gauge averages out the waves. The sea is 1.5 metres above what is luckily a neap* tide. 1/?

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Lunchtime Q&A Session with Ofcom for people who run low-risk community websites and want to find out more about their responsibilities once the Online Safety Act comes into force in March lu.ma/qijpvfnl - please share! @v21.bsky.social @edent.tel @cyberleagle.bsky.social @osanetwork.bsky.social

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Good morning. Thursday has been sponsored by the Keyboard Waffle Iron. thekeyboardwaffleiron.com

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Apparently it still needs saying that the UK's economy has continued to grow, even as CO2 emissions have fallen www.carbonbrief.org/...

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I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚

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‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

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There once was a man so bemused He got haiku and limericks confused He came home to find From his long winter absence Snow on glass apples

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January 20th is Penguin Awareness Day, which means it is always the right day to repost this piece of captioning genius.

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It’s a big day today…. www.wwf.org.uk/learn/world-...

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Just re-upping this for the #ukgc25 crew

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some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

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Last year, we showed that X’s Community Notes utterly failed to counter false and misleading claims about the U.S. election. Now, Mark Zuckerberg is copying Musk’s flawed system in a HUGE step back in Meta's efforts to stop hate & misinformation. Our research in @tortoisemedia.bsky.social ⤵️

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To celebrate 10k followers, I decided I would seize the opportunity to use my platform for something good. Women VS Disinfo! A huge selection of expert researchers, fact checkers, journalists, debunkers, science communicators, academics, vloggers, etc. of all things Disinfo go.bsky.app/FFCjgks

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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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🕊️ Letting go of old systems isn’t a failure. It’s making room for what’s next. Here’s how we can hospice what no longer serves us while nurturing what will. 🌄🌈

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