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#Oxford #planning for the college sports grounds at #Marston #ParkFarm https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24960785.oxford-university-facilities-plans-get-30-objections/

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time to #banCars https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/03/europe-live-blog-updates-trump-putin-zelenskyy-starmer

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Many of the Trump administration's actions will kill millions of people worldwide in the coming years, including those related to weather, the environment, and climate. That's not hyperbole […]

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Lacher des Tages!

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A gorgeous flash of colour in a murky loch: how #nudibranchs won my heart With a beauty that belies its name, the sea slug is an #invertebrate that reminds me of a happy Scottish summer […]

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looks interesting: Rare Tongues The Secret Stories of Hidden #Languages Lorna Gibb Hardback (27 Feb 2025) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Rare-Tongues-by-Lorna-Gibb/9781838951771 #NewBook #LinguisticDiversity

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#Oxford Slow Session happening today at the #SlowAndSteady, Abingdon Road, 4pm. https://oxfordslowsession.com/about/tune-of-the-month/ #folk #FolkSession

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Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford, Oxfordshire, c.1910 - Kingsway RP Postcard https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/martyrs-memorial-oxford-oxfordshire-c-1910-kingsway-rp-postcard-221426629.htm #Oxford #Postcards

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Drone captures #narwhals using their #tusks to explore, forage and play https://phys.org/news/2025-02-drone-captures-narwhals-tusks-explore.html #science #ecology #MarineBiology #cetaceans

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Former French president Hollande reflects what many European leaders think: “Even if the American people remain our friends, the Trump administration itself is no longer our ally." https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-no-longer-ally-europe-former-france-president-francois-hollande/

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new #bookish book from #LucyMangan coming out this month! This piece is an extract: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/01/books-picked-me-up-on-bad-days-how-reading-romance-helped-lucy-mangan-through-grief

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Funny that people who didn't mind Drumpf measures that will end Earth's habitability and human civilisation are getting worked up about Ukraine now. On a dead planet, there will be no nation states and no Ukraine either. #trumpocalypse

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#MakingOf #ACompleteUnknown https://youtu.be/4EZgOS34UoU

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first thoughts on the #soundtrack of #ACompleteUnknown after three plays in the last four hours: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/back-to-sixties.html

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Excellent piece. I've also cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post in protest at what Bezos doing, and subscribed to Wired instead, which is producing the most useful reporting of the Trump administration - particularly DOGE and Musk.

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new #Introduction for the bsky bridge : I’m a #BioChemist turned #ScienceWriter, write a feature for every issue of #CurrentBiology, 2/month, mostly about #ecology #evolution #environment also #human, #cultural things seen thru #biology prism. Plus #ScienceBooks, most recently: #Intertwined […]

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#nowPlaying the #ACompleteUnknown soundtrock on closed loop it's the duets with Joan Baez that get me most - so here's a clip from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LloVocAz4OU

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@OmasgR , @parents4future und weitere Organisationen haben dazu aufgerufen, Herrn #Merz ein paar Tassen zu schicken, einige hundert sind bereits in Berlin angekommen. Bitte „persönlich“ oder „vertraulich“ an Herrn Merz senden, dann darf das Sekretariat den Karton nicht eigenständig öffnen […]

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#nowPlaying the #ACompleteUnknown soundtrock - out today, and I found it at #Oxford's very lovely #TruckStore.

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#Oxford #NewCollege's #TheNewSpace has a #WindQuintet coming up on Wednesday which looks interesting. Unfortunately clashing with my orchestra time. 'Mountain Airs and Dances' Wind quintet Ensemble Renard Summer Music, Op. 31 | Samuel Barber Sea Eagle | Peter Maxwell Davies Mountain Airs | […]

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Incidentally, we were already living in the very house where I'm sitting now when young Anneliese came to #Oxford as a student.

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good move from #Oxford East MP #AnnelieseDodds protesting #UKgov's #AidCuts https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/28/anneliese-dodds-resigns-keir-starmer-cut-aid-budget

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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/beavers-released-english-waterways-government-licence […]

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Ach kuck, Klingbeil verlangt von der CDU ihre vermaledeite kleine Anfrage zurückzuziehen, bevor die Koalitionsverhandlungen starten. Das gerne so beibehalten, liebe SPD, und nicht morgen woeder vergessen haben.

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#ACompleteUnknown #soundtrack released tomorrow apparently: https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/a-complete-unknown #Dylan #biopic #cinema #folk

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"I sense that British conservatism knows its American dream is over. The nation will have to immerse itself in Europe for decades to come, not as an idealistic project but as an existential must." From the FT. ($$) https://www.ft.com/content/2cd7590d-3f01-47b2-9a49-b428c8dac67f

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In 1935, Derek Harris was born – and so was the K6 red phone box. Now, Harris is spending his 90th year ensuring this beloved local facility isn’t lost https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/27/battle-save-last-phone-box-norfolk-village #heritage #technology #design

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Merz’s all-male team photo revives question of gender equality in #Germany Image posted on social media rekindles idea that prospective new chancellor has a Frauenproblem https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/friedrich-merz-germany-all-male-photo-gender-gap

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Wait, what? By using #Firefox, I now grant Mozilla "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use" any data I "upload or input"? That seems, uhm, rather broad. Wtf. I want my old Mozilla back. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

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Heute ist der 265. Todestag von Anna Magdalena Bach. Ihr hat mein Kollege Eberhard Spree einen ganzen Blog gewidmet. Sehr lesenswert! https://www.anna-magdalena-bach.com/blog-1 #musik #musikerin #frauenindermusik #bach #leipzig

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it ain't me babe - but I should write about #BobDylan more often, just to confuse the AI bots. A namesake of mine wrote a Dylan biography in the 1970s: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176519407083 I have a copy which I received as a tongue in cheek gift https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176519407083

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oooh. We are a group of analogue #photobooth experts based in London and Barcelona who have been rescuing and restoring original auto-photography machines for over a decade. Our restored machines can be found in locations across our two city bases where we make them available for people to […]

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#photomaton #photobooth turns 100 ... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/26/design-news-100-years-of-the-photo-booth-le-creuset-on-the-go-and-welsh-modernism #photography #technology #design

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#AncientWriting system #LinearElamite has been deciphered. that's really exciting - and I missed the memo when it happened in 2022 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia #science #archaeology #writing

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#OxfordCityCouncil encouraging more car use in #Oxford by letting in deregulated #taxi firm #uber: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlyddw6zn0o call that a #sustainableTransport strategy, #UKlabour?

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ARD nach Musks Hitlergruß: „Mit einer Geste, die manch einen an einen Hitlergruß erinnert.“ Tagesschau 21.01.25 ARD nach Alerta-Ruf der Linken: „Unüberhörbar mit einem Schlachtruf der Antifaschisten, den auch Linksradikale skandieren.“ Tagesthemen 25.02.25

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#Starmer’s cuts are a huge mistake – foreign aid is an investment, not an expense https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/keir-starmer-foreign-aid-investment-cold-war-aid-development-spending #ukPolitics

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Während in Talkshows und Kommentaren die Lage mit kollektivem Schulterzucken weggewippt werden soll, bringt @akm0803.bsky.social es hier auf den Punkt. Die AfD ist eine ernstzunehmende Gefahr für unsere Demokratie und die CDU erweist sich ihr immer wieder als eifrige Helferin.

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Almost twice as many boys as girls cycle in UK, #Sustrans report finds Charity sounds alarm over gender gap – but finds #children enthusiastic about measures to make cycling easier […]

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Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste. Spoiler: das Gegenteil, was die Union gerade mit der Zivilgesellschaft (s. Kleine Anfrage) macht. Mein Leitartikel: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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like a complete unknown looking good on the cover of #epdFilm and getting 5 stars (highest rating), Now in German cinemas https://www.epd-film.de/heftarchiv/2024/032025 #dylan #cinema

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my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry […]

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last year's feature on green #cities (past, present, future) is now in the #OpenArchives - #FreeAccess for all: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/02/urbanism-now-and-then.html #science #urbanism #archaeology #anthropology #CurrentBiology

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concentration camps are a thing again https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-chief-tours-guantanamo-bay-as-more-detainees-arrive/7987965.html #trumpocalypse #fascism

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#science is under threat, yes - but somehow the #RoyalSociety forgot to mention that one of their Fellows is a huge part of the problem. https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/02/science-under-threat/ #trumpocalypse

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Sei wie die Omas: Sei nicht "politisch neutral". #merz #OmasGegenRechts

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Die Omas gegen rechts bringen übrigens mehr Leute auf die Straße als die AfD, aber die CDU hält sie nicht für zu groß, um sie zu verbieten oder mit Verwaltungsmaßnahmen zu unterdrücken. Just saying.

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#OmasGegenRechts hier beitreten. https://www.omas-gegen-rechts.org/der-verein/

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the shift to the (far) right has also shifted the percentage of women in parliament - downwards to below 1/3. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Der-neue-Bundestag-ist-eine-Katastrophe-in-Zahlen-article25589225.html #germany #depol #bundestag

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Ich muss es so hart sagen: ich dachte, ich lese eine kleine Anfrage der AfD, aber sie stammt von der Union. 551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere. Bin ehrlich entsetzt. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...

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