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Rowan Bell

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Writer living in North Yorkshire. Poetry in The Friday Poem, Púca Magazine, Wishbone Words and Spelt. Regular blog in 'Moodscope' https://moodscope.com. Poetry and art. Poetry as therapy.

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Occam's razor. Radix malorum est cupiditas.

14.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take care. When I had chronic back problems I found shiatsu useful, though I think it depends on finding a good person as I've had varied results with different people.

14.03.2026 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are your views on the proposition that one of the functions of enclosures and 'scientific agriculture' was to dispossess rural populations and so force them to work in the factories of the Industrial Revolution?

13.03.2026 09:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Russia and China bless vast new Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, Gazprom says Russia and China gave their blessing to the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline but have yet to agree on pricing, Gazprom said on Tuesday, underscoring President Xi Jinping's disregard for Western demands tha...

Old news, but: "China is Russia's biggest trading partner, the biggest purchaser of Russian crude and Russian gas, the second-biggest purchaser of Russian coal and the third-biggest purchaser of Russian LNG, according to the Kremlin."
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

13.03.2026 01:03 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So… will the new campus have the same recruitment criteria and employment equality as the parent campus.

10.03.2026 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves Geologists and resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the West Bank and the Medite...

"Oil and natural gas resources in the occupied Palestinian territory could generate hundreds of billions of dollars for development." unctad.org/news/unreali...

09.03.2026 22:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fueling the Fire: Pathways from Oil to War on JSTOR Jeff D. Colgan, Fueling the Fire: Pathways from Oil to War, International Security, Vol. 38, No. 2 (FALL 2013), pp. 147-180

"Between one-quarter and one-half of interstate wars since 1973 have been connected to one or more oil-related causal mechanisms." www.jstor.org/stable/24480...

09.03.2026 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills

"A thinktank with close ties to Saudi Arabia" ... "Since 2020, the energy industry has made £125bn in profits in the UK, with oil and gas companies enjoying windfalls while vulnerable people struggled to heat their homes." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

09.03.2026 17:00 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Russian-bound tanker hit by drone in Black Sea, maritime sources say A Russia-bound oil tanker suffered a drone attack in the Black Sea that prompted it to request Turkish coastguard assistance and divert from its course, according to a notice by Lloyd's List Intellige...

No navy needed: www.reuters.com/world/russia...

03.03.2026 21:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The post also indicates that publicity is important, underlining the fact that constant publicity for Reform on the BBC and other media outlets has a strong effect. If the Greens had more coverage and Reform less, then there would be a markedly different voting intention.

03.03.2026 07:23 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I wondered exactly the same thing. Getting hairs into that tube can't be good for it.

02.03.2026 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Turkeytail | The Wildlife Trusts The turkeytail is a very colourful bracket fungus that grows throughout the year, but is at its best in the autumn. Its circular caps can be seen growing in tiers on trees and dead wood.

I think it might be this one: www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-exp...

02.03.2026 08:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Check out Larry Summers, Epstein and Iraq. It's been done before at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.

01.03.2026 22:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TBH I think Trump is addled by having intravenous anti-aging serum injections, which is why he wears the bruises like a badge. He's not really part of the decision-making equation. Netanyahu avoiding jail? Maybe. A few people making gazillions of money? Almost certainly e.g. Larry Summers and Iraq.

01.03.2026 22:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And this: "In 2025, Iran still hosts one of the world's largest Afghan refugee populations, with approximately 750,000 registered and an estimated 2.6 million undocumented Afghans residing in the country. 96% live in urban areas, while the remaining 4% reside in refugee settlements."

01.03.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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UK government can never accept idea nature has rights, delegate tells UN Dismissal of concept already recognised in UN declarations described as shameful, contradictory and undemocratic

“The UK’s firm position is that rights can only be held by legal entities with a legal personality. We do not accept that rights can be applied to nature or Mother Earth,” “While we recognise that others do, it is a fundamental principle for the UK and one from which we cannot deviate.” 21/02/24 😵‍💫

01.03.2026 11:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Snow Bones | Moodscope description

For a while there were strips of white on the lee side of some dry-stone walls and in deeper shaded gullies. Robert Macfarlane called these ‘snow-bones’ and once you’ve heard the name it’s hard to unsee the snow skeleton of winter in the spring thaw.
community.moodscope.com/blog/snow-bo...

01.03.2026 07:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." From the film of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

27.02.2026 18:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

He's the one we know about. Expose them all.

25.02.2026 20:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Zoschenko If you like Russian literature:
Here is a dry table of the events in my life:
arrested -- 6 times,
sentenced to death -- 1 time;
wounded -- 3 times;
committed suicide -- 2 times;
got beaten up -- 3 times;
All this happened not because of adventurism, but "just like that"--no luck.

25.02.2026 20:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

September 2022, chairman Ravil Maganov died after falling from a hospital window. Board member Alexander Subbotin had died an unusual death. Maganov's replacement as chairman, October 2023 Vladimir Ivanovich Nekrasov, died suddenly. March 2024, vice president Vitaly Robertus died suddenly.

25.02.2026 20:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Can We Blame Larry Summers for the Collapse of Russia?

Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, had a market value of $268.8 billion on August 2, more than 30 times as much as the payments that Russia’s government received for all the assets it sold over this 8-year period.
cepr.net/publications...

25.02.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bring it on. They were all in there doing this and it now looks like being very deliberate.

25.02.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I asked Molly Scott Cato the same question and she gave a good answer, but I'm still baffled as to why 30% should want to vote for Reform. Lies, grifting, squabbling, misinformation, racism, misogyny, all seem to be positive political attributes. Maybe something different will emerge tomorrow.

25.02.2026 14:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you have an article that lists the suicides associated with the Epstein scandal? I know it was a lot and far reaching, but great to have them in on place and analysed. Also remembering that Stephen Ward died of an overdose in the Profumo Affair.

23.02.2026 18:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to send a list in case they run out of names

23.02.2026 18:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please can we get all these people and their traitorous dealings out into the open. The information is there. It's been there for decades. Radix malorum es cupitidas. It's that simple. Oh, and sexual exploitation of children too.

21.02.2026 22:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably

Just to add to the academic analysis of LLM, the article linked here suggests that respondents prefer LLM-written poetry to human-written poetry. The key is in the sample of respondents. People who knew about poetry were excluded, so doggerel wins. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.02.2026 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here it is in a graph ->

21.02.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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LLMs take something old, and rearrange it to make something new

21.02.2026 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0