Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @ryangrim
🚨🚨@elonmusk complied when India’s right-wing prime minister asked him to block a BBC documentary critical of him, and even deleted MP tweets https://interc.pt/3XsVHyN by me & @MazMHussain

RT @ProfTimBale
You're 23 (twenty-three) times more likely to be prosecuted for benefit than tax crime, even though tax fraud and error costs an estimated £20bn a year compared to £2bn in benefit fraud and error. (h/t @paulwaugh) https://www.taxwatchuk.org/tax_crime_vs_benefits_crime/

RT @JamesRees_PCC
NEWS ALERT: A criminal gang, called the Conservative Party, is still occupying No.10 and No.11 DS. Sources believe they have already stolen £££billions and are now attempting to blow up the NHS. The BBC are on the scene and are believed to be turning a blind eye.

RT @PickardJE
- from Iraqi oilfields to Tory HQ: how Nadhim Zahawi mixed business and politics

- our 2,500-word deep dive on the chairman of the Conservative Party

https://www.ft.com/content/9a495d3c-8c8e-4938-8075-44644c0ad7eb

RT @Nancalbas
In the House of Commons Sunak claims that anti semitism ran riot under Corbyn's leadership, while Starmer stood by and did nothing. Why has the Speaker allowed that untruth to go unchallenged?

RT @Kit_Yates_Maths
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Government ignores own scientific advisers to "approve the use of a banned bee-killing pesticide just days after the European Union’s highest court blocked its deployment on the continent."
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/britain-brexit-freedoms-bee-killing-neonicotinoid-2104102

RT @Poppyjuice
How I earned my full pay:

Doubled rota intensity
Increased ICU beds from 7 to 26
Walked 20km in one shift
Watched lots of people die
Had a colleague doctor die of COVID
Took no leave for a calender year
Got PTSD

Our reward?

Pensions tax bills
40% pay degradation
Claps https://twitter.com/sophielouisecc/status/1616058412009144322

RT @QuantaMagazine
A sweeping new mathematical proof shows that in dimensions five and above, black holes can, theoretically, take an infinite number of shapes. Steve Nadis reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-an-infinity-of-possible-black-hole-shapes-20230124/

RT @ScienceAdvances
Nanoscale drug carriers deliver multiple antimicrobial treatments to target bacterial #biofilms with #AntimicrobialResistance. https://scim.ag/1gZ

RT @medical_xpress
Lymphoma mutation yields super-competitive immune cells @Cornell @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/grpjhn https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-lymphoma-mutation-yields-super-competitive-immune.html

RT @ExtremeTech
A new simulation suggests that the Milky Way is far larger than it should be based on the size of the "cosmological wall." https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342516-study-milky-way-too-large-for-its-cosmological-wall?taid=63cff28def5a2d0001ee52a6&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

RT @BylineTimes
🔴 REVEALED: Energy Debt Soars to Record High as People Struggle with Pre-Payment Meters and Poverty

The debt mountain according to the latest official Ofgem figures is now a billion pounds higher than at the start of the pandemic, reports @cjayanetti

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/24/energy-debt-soars-to-record-high-as-people-struggle-with-pre-payment-meters-and-poverty/

RT @maxseddon
Blockbuster @MilesMJohnson investigation: how high-end lawyers in London and Moscow helped Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin evade western sanctions for his role running paramilitary group Wagner – and helped him construct an elaborate lie to hide it

https://on.ft.com/3R3mGPd

RT @AngelaRayner
Yet another of Nadhim Zahawi's stories is unraveling. He claims his WhatsApp msgs mysteriously disappeared?

Full transparency also needed about Rishi Sunak & Richard Sharp’s involvement in this scandal. The Tory Party is engulfed in cronyism & corruption.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nadhim-zahawi-misled-his-officials-over-greensill-texts-from-cameron-xkcvqtx0v

RT @InfosecurityMag
Record-Breaking Year for DDoS Attacks Targeting Russia http://dlvr.it/ShMMz8

RT @alextomo
A number of sources now reporting die-off of seaweed along N Yorkshire coast. Recent DEFRA “independent” panel said - without doing any field research - some unknown disease for which it has not one shred of evidence is most likely cause. This, Defra calls science.

RT @skdh
Physicists fumble together a dark matter model with the explicitly stated purpose of being able to claim it's detectable. Paper gets published, no one even questions the methodology.

https://news.umich.edu/a-new-model-for-dark-matter/

RT @michaelxpettis
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This article argues that the tech boom of the past 15 years was fueled by easy money. I'd go further. I'd argue that it's no coincidence that every major tech boom since the first industrial revolution coincided with asset bubbles and the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/technology/tech-interest-rates-layoffs.html?smid=tw-share

RT @openDemocracy
Private donors including gambling firms and climate sceptics are bankrolling MPs’ staff and offices, handing over more than £1m in just one year.

‘Conflict of interest’ concerns over donors who gave £1m to fund MPs’ staff and offices

Find out more here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mps-staff-offices-donations-million-business-bosses-gambling-climate-sceptics/

RT @mmofcan
The photograph is the work of an Afghan artist called Shamsia Hassani, 33 years old, Afghan graffiti artist and professor at Kabul University. If we share, we will be giving voice to all the Afghan women who are living in hell