Russell England

Russell England

@russellengland.bsky.social

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Moodle / Totara developer

Love travelling (41 countries so far), silly jokes, Marmite

Brummie, Remoaner, bit of a nomad, fact finder

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Twitter @RussellEngland https://twitter.com/RussellEngland

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"Elon Musk’s X Bans a Bunch of Popular Lefty Accounts, Then Backtracks The so-called “free speech absolutist” Musk’s platform axed several high-profile accounts on Tuesday morning, only to reverse course amid criticism." h/t @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-x...

Elon Musk’s X Bans a Bunch of Popular Lefty Accounts, Then Backtrackswww.thedailybeast.com The so-called “free speech absolutist” Musk’s platform axed several high-profile accounts on Tuesday morning, only to reverse course amid criticism.

"The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation" www.politico.eu/article/no-m...

No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staffwww.politico.eu Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.

"PSA to all the people leaving angry comments on our Facebook posts. The B stands for Blind People, not Boats. You're confusing us with the @RNLI (who we think are brave and brilliant)" - RNIB 🎩 Chapeau 👏👏👏 [PSA - Public Service Announcement] twitter.com/RNIB/status/...

Chapeau 🎩 to whoever created this 👏👏👏 #TrumpForPrison2024

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Thank you Helene for the codes!

Thrilled to see that Jessica Simor @jmpsimor.bsky.social is now also here. Follow if interested in U.K. politics/ the constitution/ U.K. law/ Brexit.

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One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

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This is so real. I’ve reported on this over the years in many forms. Coral reef scientists. Conservationists caring for endlings. Public health workers in the pandemic. Journalists covering all the above. The people bearing witness are not okay.

One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

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Planet Earth 3 uncut

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"A fraud against the British people" A detailed examination of what went wrong with HS2 by The Sunday Times Insight team @Arbuthnott @JCalvertST Staggering failures by senior politicians who looked the other way after being warned by whistleblowers: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5d44...

HS2: The secret files that expose a multibillion-pound cover-upwww.thetimes.co.uk The company in charge of constructing the HS2 railway has been accused of deliberately covering up its escalating costs to ensure politicians would keep spending billions of pounds of public money on ...

Just to reiterate - be cautious who you give your invite code to "We reference the invite tree to track behavior on the social graph. For example, if we take action to moderate an account, we may revoke invite codes from other accounts in the same invite tree." blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-20....

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Worth a read on the importance of rice and how the climate is affecting rice production "A 2017 study found that a global increase in temperature of 1C was likely to reduce rice yield by an average of 3.3 per cent" #GlobalBoiling #FoodSecurity

The return of the rice crisis https://on.ft.com/3sbHhsl

The return of the rice crisison.ft.com News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

"Stand Up and Fight!"

Tories : "NHS waiting lists were falling before the strikes" Reality : Never ending Tory lies Credit to twitter.com/SamCoatesSky...

Simon Case, head of the civil service Has gone AWOL for the covid inquiry How convenient #ToryDemocide #CovidInquiry www.politico.eu/article/simo...

Head of UK civil service Simon Case out on medical leavewww.politico.eu Leave comes at a difficult time for Rishi Sunak, both geopolitically and domestically.

Quelle surprise... Dr Death's old phone - which Sunak claims he hasn't got anymore - is still working #CovidInquiry #ToyDemocide www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rishi Sunak’s old phone number apparently leaked onlinewww.theguardian.com Reported security breach may lead to questions for PM about messages sought by the Covid inquiry

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All going well at the other place

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Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder

I tend to mute rather than block My reasoning... They will know they are blocked, so its a form of engagement and will try a pile on from other accounts For muting, they wont know if they are being muted or are simply being ignored and, hopefully, will disengage

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Gobsmacking. HAS 🇬🇧 Gov DEPT OF EDUCATION GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR TIME?! Now monitoring & keeping files on teaching assistants & librarians. FFS. If the DfE did their own job better they wouldn’t need to behave like the Stasi www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hello everyone! New on this site. Please introduce me....please follow me. I'm happy to rant about state of British politics on this site, like I did on the other one!

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Just joined - thank you @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social Bella_healtheco in twitter, do give me a follow, will follow back 🤩

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Hi Blue Sky, I am new to Blue Sky today! My name is Harry and I am a clinical nurse specialist in addiction. As this government steps up it's plans to sell of our NHS - we must make a stand and fight back. Together we can save our NHS. Please share and a follow 🙏🙏 Post a 💙 for the NHS

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I remember watching in horror from Spain as the UK opened up restaurants, whilst Spanish and EU sat indoors and could not go out still. Greed really does kill. Dr Death is an apt name for Richi. #GTTO forever please.

'PM's nickname of Dr Death is no joke - his scheme may have fuelled Covid'www.mirror.co.uk Thanks to the Covid Inquiry, we now know the Government’s own advisers had strong reservations about the programme - and one professor referred to Rishi Sunak as 'Dr Death'

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George Osborne, former Conservative chancellor, warned earlier in the night that losing Mid-Beds — a Tory seat since 1931 — would mean “Armageddon is coming for the Tory party”. - on.ft.com/405xReC

Labour seizes Tamworth and Mid-Beds from Conservatives in UK by-electionson.ft.com [FREE TO READ] Historic losses deal heavy blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

The Tories have lost both seats! #GTTO

Quelle surprise... "Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife" Never ending #ToryCorruption www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wifewww.theguardian.com Four businesses linked to Akshata Murty revealed to have received investment from much-criticised Future Fund

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Oh, the shame🤦‍♀️ The world's eyes are on Rishi Sunak and everyone's probably thinking that we elected him🙄

Looks like there was an issue with BlueSky earlier Status page here "Service Degredation" status.bsky.app

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"I awake to hear that a dear friend in Gaza has lost his wife, his brother, his sister-in-law and his three nieces and nephews. Someone I’ve been working with for 8 months now on giving disabled children in Gaza an education, his family wiped out" 6 children twitter.com/iainoverton/...

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Any Economists out there able to comment on the likely impact on the value of the pound if the BEO's target is raised to 3% whilst other central banks remain at 2%? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Lady McBeth 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Yep But they also want to leave the ECHR, which would also lead to a trade war and sanctions - membership is required by the GFA and the UK-EU/TCA deal I'm not saying they won't call a General Election, I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it was postponed www.politico.eu/article/brex...

Brexit Wars part II: Tories plot British exit from Europe’s human rights treatywww.politico.eu Right-wing Conservatives want Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights.