Andrew Ducker
@andrewducker
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Mostly forwarded from Instagram and Pinboard. Plus sarcasm. https://t.co/sCXjIrA4YA Pronouns: he/him
Edinburgh
Joined October 2007
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One thing to remember the early (Lewis/Clark) explorers felt was extreme fear and horror at the sheer size and scale of Pacific Northwest trees, mountains, landscapes, wildlife, forests.
“World’s Largest Log Cabin”. Portland, Oregon, 1938. Built In 1905, Burned Down In 1964.
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📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished. Completely. This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows: • 5 million 2016 voters have died • New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1 • 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin • Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
9 years on, Brexit no longer has a mandate. The Leave majority has literally died out. New analysis shows: 🔹 +8 million majority now want to rejoin 🔹 Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 8% 🔹 Only 25% of Leave voters think it was a success 🔹 The 2025 “reset” fixes less than
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the reason why Labour has not banned conversion therapy is that they cannot figure out a way to word it that allows TRANS conversion therapy to remain legal. If banned, that would require NHS to throw out 90% of gender identity services bcos it's all built on conversion therapy
We were promised a draft bill on banning conversion practices by the end of 2025 and it's mid-December with no movement. This government *must* commit to a trans-inclusive ban, especially following a report by the BBC into practices fifty years ago.
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It's odd that the Sandie Peggie case is receiving such media attention but another case only a week earlier is receiving none at all. Maria Kelly claimed her employer's policy of allowing trans women to use women's toilets harassed and discriminated against her. She lost.
Barrister reiterates trans ‘exclusion is not mandatory’ after discrimination case outcome https://t.co/Nxl7iE6fee
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Innocent people end up in our criminal courts. Completely, terrifyingly innocent. And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial. Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.
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An amazing article came out yesterday. Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European
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Blog post: Links (Interesting) for 2025-12-10 (just 15 days to Christmas!)
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Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵
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So it transpires that @MichaelRosenYes was completely, chillingly right in Feb 2020 when pointing out the UK government response was that "the virus should be allowed to fly free round the population, so that the market can be free. Mass death would be a necessary price to pay
@theAliceRoberts @globalhlthtwit By Feb 2021, I had pieced together what they had been up to and wrote this: https://t.co/Z36OB5EOKA
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The UK population is just not scared enough about what Russia is doing - the threat to our energy, internet and food from Putin's hybrid warfare is tangible - yet we still get politicians worrying about £ on Defence - this is sobering and necessary 👇🏽
Putin's spy ship Yantar has been operating in UK waters, mapping undersea cables and pipelines that power our economy and daily lives. The Atlantic Bastion programme is our answer: AI-powered sensors, autonomous vessels, and world-class warships working as one integrated system.
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