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While the desire for less trade friction with the EU is positive, the idea of sectoral agreements without freedom of movement is a straightforward return to the cakeism of old (hi @ottocrat and @[email protected]). To describe it as “Swiss-style” is misleading because, whilst the Swiss have tried to evade FoM, the EU has always insisted on it. The UK continues to act as if all it has to do is demand something and the EU will concede it. Sigh. #Brexit

Today marks our namesake Edwin Hubble’s birthday! 🎂

Our telescope is named after him, and so is the Hubble Constant – the rate at which our universe expands.

Learn more in this new Hubble Science video!
#Hubble

@SeanJones

I felt moved to write a lawyer’s ode to humanity- does it count?!😆

Patel was a bully
Johnson should have banned her
She gave not one shit
For her duty of candour

But if you thought she was bad
You should meet Leaky Sue
Her number of failings
Is many, not few

She dreams of deporting
Men, children and females
And she discusses it all
On her personal emails

She spurs hatred for migrants
Lawyers leave her fumin’
I’d love our Home Secretaries
To act like they’re human

Health Secretary Steve Barclay says nurses voting to strike UK-wide - for the first time in history - is "disappointing".

You know what's really disappointing?

Clapping for frontline heroes then not paying them properly.

Refusing to give NHS staff a pay rise in line with inflation for 12 years.

Nurses relying on food banks.

#UKpolitics #strike #NHS

Gen X learns a new media platform.
One of the best things about mastodon is that it doesn't jump all over the place. You can read a post and the comments, then come back to where you've left off without it automatically scrolling. Fab! In the last place, as soon as I glimpsed something interesting it disappeared never to be found again.

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 46% (+2)
CON: 28% (=)
LDM: 8% (-2)
GRN: 6% (+1)
SNP: 4% (=)

Via @OpiniumResearch 2-4 Nov.
Changes w/ 26-28 Oct.

RT @FreefromTorture
We rebranded the refugee "processing centre" in Manston so everybody knows who's responsible for it.
Trying to migrate from Twitter but struggling to find people and get this working - please say hello if you see this

KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!

Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?

Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.

Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).

So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!

But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!

OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!

#mastodon #MastodonTips