James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺

@freequaybuoy
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Born scruffy. Codes to live, lives to write. MA Creative Writing, Birkbeck. Published in: Mechanics' Institute Review, The Curlew, Cabinet of Heed, Fish Flash Fiction 2020, Exeter Short Story Prize 2020 Highly Commended.
Remainer, Resister, Anti-Fascist. #RejoinEU

Banner image alt text: A can of Blue Star de-icer being sprayed liberally

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"Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Donald Trump."

~ Carolyn Y. Johnson

#Trump #science #research #NationalScienceBoard #chaos #destruction
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

The Washington Post
Ugh future me wants now me to do the washing up

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116454996004024362

Did you know you could just tax the rich and corporations until you could afford to take care of the least well off people in your society?

Someone in my community has asked me if I'd make an A4 poster for World Bee Day on 20th May.

I started looking up information about bees and I found this Friends of the Earth bee identification guide: https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/bee-identification-guide The question is, why didn't they call it "Bee or not a bee?"?

Bee identification guide | Friends of the Earth

Bee identification guide for beginners - learn how to identify different bees, when they are active, and where to spot them.

Friends of the Earth
Ah St George's Day, where we celebrate a Greek-Turkish soldier in the Roman army killing a symbol of our indiginous religion, in Libya, in favour of a Middle Eastern one.
Hungary Drops Veto on Massive EU Loan to Ukraine

Reopening the Druzhba pipeline was the final hurdle stopping Budapest from ending its opposition.

Foreign Policy
When the worst of us come for the best of us, we have to find the best in us.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/montreal-krl74nssz/-/a-LFqlyYkIRb-I3lTa5V89pg%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

you know… #NewYork shares a border with southern #Quebec, so when i read #weather stuff like this from #Canada but NOT from #USA media, well… it gets me very, very worried.

Yep, it's actually him 🤯