A new interdisciplinary network of leading clinicians, researchers, patients and innovators has secured landmark funding that will transform efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease across Wales
Monochrome photograph of the upper half of a white woman in glamourous top and with stats on wires surrounding her head
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian born Hollywood actress, was also a designer/inventor who created aviation designs for Howard Hughes and co-patented a βsecret communication systemβ - the basis for modern WiFi #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
βThe cover-up is brazenβ: one journalistβs tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
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Ancient, leafless tree, covered in moss, stands near a muddy path in the woods
Pale pink and white blossoms bursting forth from a garden tree
the old and the new in Caerdydd this afternoon..
Portrait photo, purple spring sun lit Crocuses in focus in the fore ground. Beyond central top third a slightly out of focus man walks towards the viewer with a terrier looking directly at the viewer. Within a Victorian park with Victorian houses beyond.
Purple Spring:
#bloomScrolling #spring #photography #Wales
Terrific wasn't it, fair play π
Why are people still propping up these companies?
Well done us @cbffjuk.bsky.social who brought this complaint.
Tory Peer committed 5 breaches of standards over Β£50m Covid PPE deals and βdid not act on his personal honourβ.
Our campaign for accountability continues.....
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@russellscott.bsky.social
The Epstein files: listen to the women
As we approach International Womenβs Day, the androcentric handling of the Epstein files spotlights how badly we are still failing women and girls
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...
A springtime #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @naturehawk.bsky.social
Other countries are streets ahead of the UK on childhood obesity. Hereβs what theyβre doing differently | Devi Sridhar
BPβs new CEO to take home Β£11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.
Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.
CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.
Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.
The first trailer has been released for the hugely-anticipated feature film Madfabulous - inspired by the flamboyant life of the eccentric fifth Marquess of Anglesey.
Nigel Farage is in Mar-a-Lago tonight (not Clacton, obvs). Via Politico: "What Farage should be doing: Sorting out his Reform documents with Companies House. The party is overdue on submitting a [legally mandatory] statement."
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale π population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform Β£100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated Β£100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received Β£3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than Β£5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given Β£2.4 million and Labour received Β£1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London β have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth Β£85,000. Their family wealth was put at Β£26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party Β£250,000. Reform also received Β£100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave Β£200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".
More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCBβs chairman, Bamford, said he was βsupportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."
Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
(Times)
Who is funded by big business.
The DOJ removed 47K Epstein docs, we know this because a Wall Street analyst was on their game. The missing files pertain to Sexual Allegations against Donald J Trump. NPR documented 53 missing Trump pages, including 4 separate interviews with the same accuser. You really think this is oversight?
AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time heβs done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.
Fox parkour , shared by @dwdmallender.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay !
This #buyastrangerabook day offer is still unclaimed!
(maybe good for a school?)
@eethie.bsky.social will buy someone a copy of any of the books in the Betty Steady series by Nicky Smith-Dale (illus. by Sarah Horne.
"Funnier than a tap-dancing chicken!"
If you'd like one, get in touch!
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.
The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.
Thanks to Andy Paget on Facebook for today's #FoxOfTheDay !
Won't work #PedophileTrump
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
π¬Hideous - but it's important that it's reported on. Thank you Martin Shipton.
Wars have rules for a reason.
Civilians should never pay the price of any conflict.
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Today in Iranβ¦
Well done @senedd.wales passing such an important piece of environmental legislation - diolch senedd
Wales passes landmark environment bill in defining moment for nature recovery www.cmscoms.com?p=46550
