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Voter: Whose policy is this?

Spad: Labour.

Voter: Labour?

Spad: Yes. It's Shabanna Mahmood's Indentured Labour.

#ShabanaMahmood #UKHomeSecretary #LankyMart #IndenturedLabour

#NHS #SiliconPractice

company providing email and other services to GP surgeries goes into administration/bankruptcy

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-gp-surgery-websites-crash-093245510.html

Lulu celebrates election win!

#Lulu

#MonkeyBox

As part of me running a parliamentary campaign, I will need to employ people or have actual staff. As part of stategizing, I've been considering things that would lead to disqualifying potential employees. This would include people who have used or have been trained to use or are the ones training others to use the following phrases* :-

"Inauthentic Behaviours" "Aggressively Pursuing" "Incendiary Materials" "Windrush Generation" "Excited Delirium" "Gambling Addiction" "Positive Signs"

"Feared for my life"

"Got any plans for the weekend?" "According to the system, you had [24 hour access]" "You actually didn't need to come in to [the Jobcentre for xxx period]" "Do you know what speed you were going?" "I'm not a racist but ..."

(*this list is a preliminary draft which is not all inclusive)

Invictibellatrix amberina

Nature online

An artist’s illustration of a new theropod dinosaur with a green upper body and black and white rear, Invictibellatrix amberina, in a floodplain ecosystem on the Isle of Wight.
In the background, sauropods, iguanodontians and a spinosaur can be seen.

Invictibellatrix amberina lived on the Isle of Wight, UK, in the Early Cretaceous around 120 million years ago. It lived in what was likely a seasonally wet-to-dry floodplain environment and is surrounded by other dinosaurs including large long-necked rebbachisaurid sauropods, relatives of Iguanodon and a spinosaurid. Image © Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro Salas

Press release UK dinosaur fossil identified as new long-clawed predator First published 14 October 2026

A new species of dinosaur – a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger – has been described from a fossil originally found on the Isle of Wight and now cared for by the Natural History Museum.

The dinosaur, described in a new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science, belongs to a group of agile, two-legged carnivores called megaraptorans and is the first of this group to be found in Europe.

Megaraptorans were closely related to tyrannosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex but had slender heads, attacking prey with their large arms and giant curved claws instead of their jaws.

While some species grew to gigantic sizes, just as tyrannosaurs did, this new species is one of the smallest and earliest of the group to be found, living in the UK in the Early Cretaceous period about 120 million years ago.

It has been named Invictibellatrix amberina. Invictibellatrix means “unconquered female warrior” – honouring megaraptorans’ future role as massive apex predators.

The fossil, a chunk of the back of a skull, was acquired by the Natural History Museum in 1924 and had been overlooked for study until now.

Professor Paul Barrett, the study’s senior author from the Natural History Museum, says, "Despite over 200 years of collecting, the Isle of Wight continues to surprise us with new dinosaur species, and finds of carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Invictibellatrix, have been particularly elusive.

“Work like this shows the exceptional value of working with historical museum collections where there are still many discoveries to be made.”

Lead author Dr Cassius Morrison (UCL Earth Sciences) explains, “Based on what we know about its closest relatives, Invictibellatrix would have been three to four metres long and just over a metre and a half in height - about as tall as a human. It would likely have had feathers and its claws might have been about 10cm to 20cm long. It would have eaten small dinosaurs, lizards and mammals – occupying a similar role in the food chain to the hyena today.

“It was not the apex predator of its time, but for humans this dinosaur would have been more dangerous than a T. rex. We would have been perfectly sized prey, about a third of their body weight. They definitely would have chased us. A T. rex would not have bothered, as we would have been too small.

“It is a real mystery that this fossil was overlooked for so long, sitting in a drawer for nearly 100 years. Lots of bones are found on the Isle of Wight – who knows what else is waiting to be discovered.”

Megaraptors are regarded as the most mysterious of the large, meat-eating dinosaurs, as few megaraptor fossils have been found.

They are thought to have originated in Asia, before migrating through Europe and becoming apex predators throughout the southern land mass of Gondwana (including present-day Africa, South America and Antarctica).

But until now, this theory was missing key fossil evidence, as no megaraptorans had been found in Europe.

Co-author Charlie Scherer, a PhD student at UCL Earth Sciences, adds, “This new species is the first proof we have that megaraptorans were also present in Europe and that they reached Gondwana this way rather than island-hopping further south.”

For the study, researchers undertook a CT scan of the fossil, creating a 3D model of this part of the skull as well as a model of the interior of the skull, i.e. the brain.

The researchers compared the fossil with skulls and brain cases from tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs, raptors and other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs.

A unique combination of skull features, including an oval hole where the spinal cord entered the brain and an hour-glass-shaped crest, led researchers to conclude it was a new species.

Computer algorithms analysing how the traits of the skull fit in with those of other species consistently found the specimen belonged to the megaraptoran family.

The research team also used mathematical modelling to investigate how the spread of megaraptors around the world might have changed over time, based on fossils discovered so far, dinosaurs’ evolutionary trees, geography and climate.

The team concluded that megaraptors were globally widespread in the Early Cretaceous (i.e., at the time of Invictibellatrix), but by the Late Cretaceous tens of millions of years later they had likely become extinct in the giant northern landmass of Laurasia (including modern-day Europe).

During this later period, megaraptors became apex predators throughout Gondwana in the south, reaching gigantic sizes, with claws up to 35cm (14in) long.*

The study did not explain why megaraptors likely died out in the north, but this may have been a result of shifts in climate or environment, or the presence of competing predators such as other tyrannosaurs.

The Invictibellatrix fossil was originally found at the foot of a cliff on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight by amateur palaeontologist Reginald Walter Tooley. It was one of more than 1,000 specimens discovered by Tooley that were acquired by the Natural History Museum after his death.

In the paper, the researchers said the name Invictibellatrix was intended to “give hope and strength to all those who are bullied, discriminated, victimised, and oppressed that tomorrow will be theirs and not to give up in face of such odds”. Amberina, meanwhile, refers to the amber found in the rocks where the fossil was discovered, as well as to the female name.

The research was funded by Palaeontographical Society, the Royal Society and UKRI.

*Maip macrothorax, for instance, found in what is now Argentina, was an estimated nine to 10 metres long and weighed as much as an elephant.

Notes to editors

For more information or to speak to the researchers involved, please contact Mark Greaves, UCL Media Relations E: [email protected]

“A new megaraptoran dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, UK, and its implications for theropod evolution and biogeographyopens in a new window”, by Cassius D. Morrison, Charlie R. Scherer et al, is published in Royal Society Open Science.

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An artist’s illustrationopens in a new window of the new theropod dinosaur, Invictibellatrix amberina (centre of the image), in its ecosystem on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom in the Early Cretaceous (around 120 million years ago). It lived in what was likely a seasonally wet-to-dry floodplain environment and is surrounded by other dinosaurs including large long-necked rebbachisaurid sauropods (directly behind Invictibellatrix, centre) and relatives of Iguanodon (right). A spinosaurid theropod, potentially the apex predator of the time, fishes (left).

Invictibellatrix has just caught and is consuming two small mammals. Gymnosperms dominate the environment as flowering plants (angiosperms) were not common at this time. Other reptiles including relatives to modern lizards, crocodiles and turtles enjoy the warm Early Cretaceous weather of the UK. Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro Salas

Fossil opens in a new window of newly identified theropod dinosaur, Invictibellatrix amberina. The oval hole is where the brain would have been. The fossil was acquired by the Natural History Museum in 1924. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Landscape opens in a new window and portrait opens in a new window images of Dr Cassius Morrison with the fossil. Dr Cassius Morrison with PhD student Charlie Schereropens in a new window, the paper’s second author. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

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Thielogians

(Andy lies in bed, mulling over the decisions he made today)

No. No, I was right. We do need to get deeper into this global conflict.

#AndyPandy

"Um? There was a genocide? What? It's still occurring?!"

#Starmer

Keir Starmer #Bungled

ThreeUK CEO

#ThreeUK #VodafoneUK

JackFruit is great. Practically no nutritional value (at least from a can). In fact, it would take 100 cans of JackFruit to equal the nutrition of ONE can of meat product. It is filling and takes on whatever flavouring or cooking technique (... me ... over frying it ...) that you care to try.

#JackFruit

Kemi's brain

Oh, yeah! Those things did happen in Manchester! I'm soooooooo absent-minded!

Shabana, Suella and Priti in a trenchcoat.

... being "laser focused on disposable barbecues" is what i would expect from someone called Andy ...

#ukpol

(the desire in the State to make Emergency Workers (i.e. really just police officers) a protected ethnic group)

"Following PC Harper's death and a campaign by his widow Lissie, Parliament passed "Harper's Law", which gives mandatory life sentences to the killers of emergency services workers. It also doubles the maximum penalty from 12 months to two years for those who assault police or other emergency workers."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2v5kj9zzko

I wouldn't accept an invitation to meet Gianni Infantino anywhere.

Rice Paddy Art

#Art

#BadFoodAdvice

The "old eggs" did not survive the Heatwave.

The "new eggs" did not survive the Heatwave ... slightly less.

Tasted okay fried.

#DoNotDoThis #ZombieEggs

#KeepAndroidOpen

After deleting-hobbling a bunch of Google stuff on my Nokia phone (freeing-up 2 gigabytes of "fully used up 12 gigabyte" memory), F-Droid updated.

Meanwhile, on my Lenovo tablet with 50 gigabytes free ...

#FDroid #Lenovo #Android #Google

At last, we are at war with China! 🪖 We've got the spoons for it ... or we will have soon ...

#BritishSteel #Nationalisation

Heat Rash and Hairy Willy & Balls (mine) https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/917/620/865/591/320/original/b98ebc257e834640.jpg

I'm so sorry. I never knew.🙁 Brummies are totally responsible!

#TheButterfartEffect #Birmingham #BirminghamUniversity

#YsanneChurchman #GraceArcher #TheArchers #UnionActivism

"From the Abattoir to the Vets: The Song Remains The Same: Join a Union"

https://kmflett.blog/2024/07/28/ambridge-socialist-tribute-paid-to-ysanne-churchman-who-fought-for-equal-pay-on-the-archers/

Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space

"From cosmic rays to solar storms, space travel is a radiation gauntlet… but water may be the simplest, smartest solution. Discover how future starships might turn their life-support systems into life-saving armor."

#IsaacArthur #IsaacArthurSFIA

Today's BBC News shit-take is that some people had positive experiences of forced adoption in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, so they discuss that instead of those who had negative experiences of forced adoption which is the subject of an official government apology.

#TheBBC #BBCNews #BBCLicenceFee

#BadFoodAdvice

very old brewed coffee canettes Original Black BBE 2022-07-11 Vanilla Coconut BBE 2022-07-06

brand "True Start" 250ml

was on sale at the time and I can just make out the faded bargain-reduced label as 15p

bought I think from Co-Op (the UK's most troubled supermarket which manages to survive somehow ( coff coff Military lndustrial Complex coff coff)) about four maybe five years ago ... longer ..?

consumed 2026-06-24

Sipped individually. Disgusting. Cannot say if they degraded over time but cans were in perfect condition. Added together. Improved with a sprinkle of salt, two sweeteners, two spoons of demerara.

consumed 2026-06-25

Most left in metal cantina overnight and much improved in morning.

now, wait for side effects ...

Disgustingly Dried Out! Curse you ball of mainly Protons, Helium and Electron Plasma!

"As a white-woman who speaks English steeped in the traditions of Labour Tea Rooms on National Trust properties, I am distraught how the povos, brown types and sexual inverts have treated Sir Keir Starmer, who is white and therefore special."

(summarised mass quotation paraphrase)

[ these are precis of people on BBCRadio ]

🎶 Blood just looks the same when you open the veins 🎶

Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger #WorldParty

Steve Jobs died.

The future-tech cultists latched on to the next most obnoxious self-aggrandizng victor in the tech scam business.

They made investment banks and lousy tech.

They said they were libertarians and got government contracts.

They're already lining up the next successor to the tech-head throne when the present incumbent overdoses and dies.

#Trillionaire #Trillionaires

Dear The BBC "Crime" Reporting Ghouls,

I am, once again, posting a message reminding you of "Radio Rwanda".

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

signed, Anne #AgentOfAForeignPower

#TheBBC #BBCRadio4 #BBCNews #NorthernIreland #RadioRwanda

🥵

ARRRRRGH! — YOU CURSED SUN! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! I'm MELTING! Melting!

Oh — what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a g2 type dwarf star on the main series line like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!

ARRRRRGH!

I'm gone! I'm gone! I'm going!...

[is fully melted]

🌞🇬🇧

There doesn't seem to be a currently used fancy term for 'the State Opening of Parliament' unlike how there is for the ending of a session.

I suggest "the Bloating of the Gas House". 👍

Should petition my memb-of-parl to propose its use using a "Bill of Biliousness" which if adopted will become "the Act of Following Through 2026".

#Hausfahrt

🤔

It couldn't possibly be that a load of idiots are doing Threat Exercises and then behaving as if those LARP's are absolutely real and that these games actually show them what is important and the "correct steps" on how to handle the Threat and who they will need in specific & general roles should such a Threat arise and what companies can help them ... such as in a scenario of a rogue AI bringing down the nation's powergrid & communications network.

And, because of those games, these idiots are then building policy and government spending based on what people like Peter Thiel tell them.

#StarmerCabinet #TheCabinetOfficeGovUK

Dame Shirley Porter, the mind behind "Homes for Votes" is deceased.

seller of boarded-up homes to potential tory voters instead of providing council housing, sold off Westminister cemetries

#Thatcher #Tesco #TescoDynasty #ShirleyPorter #WestministerCouncil #HomesForVotes #UKPol

Knock Knock

If there was a domestic "Black" British Broadcasting Company (BBC) channel run by "Black British people"

(as there is similar services like the Asian Network and various services for countries & regions outside the UK)

then it "could" be filled with stories of attacks/abuse by people in positions in authority and of incidences of pathetic abusive behaviour carried out against "Black people" and made into huge dramas (and "disciplinary meetings") BY "management" where "Black people" become the ones being disciplined for not reacting correctly to the abuse and, of course, the abuse by the abusers has neverending excuses made for them.

#TheBBC #BBCLicenceFee

"... the scam at the heart of many asylum claims ..."

Oh, you BBC guys with your obvious racism! 😃

#BBCNews #BBCNewsBulletin #BBCRadio4

#DrWooHoo #Dreams

(Had the conclusion to a multi-part dream that has been going-on for a year or two - some Doctor Who in the style of Sapphire&Steel with different drs everytime [except in the first where there were two or three with one being Jon Pertwee] -- the only consistent character was Clara Osgood but "I" made an appearance [as me playing/being a character] in this last one -- original story started with an instability in Time&Space bringing drs together then it shifted to a Mark Gatiss style drawing-room mystery -- then the dr had to leave the table to dive into a body of water to work on a pipeline valve -- all with the intense drawing-room "who is who and who is the traitor" interludes -- conclusion was a ritual of having a dinner [only 4 or 5 people] with a table cloth folding to finish the dining experience and reality went back to "normal" ... -- driving away in a 70s car, "they" passed a marsh but did not see a part of the marsh flattened by great big sandstone blocks having been obliterated by a particle beam -- the "dr" who had worked on the valve [i'd like that to have been real-life hero Sylvester but may have been Chris Eccles] had corrected a safety mechanism which prevented the beam from "igniting" the planet [a favourite theme of mine] -- most of the story was like nothing my brain does or dreams about [at least in the way these dreams did] -- now, that part of my brain committed to this scenario has declared itself done with it, which means the little I remember of those dreams will fade to near nothing ...)

Reminder that the reason that Met Police are no longer investigating "non-crime incidents" is that police were using that to treat crimes reported by "ethnic people" as un-important but also then criminalised the "ethnic people" who were reporting crimes.

VydovyLeader: Quango!

Quango: ... uh ... wha ..?

VydovyLeader: You haven't written today's episode of our story! We're freezing our cute butts off in the airport!

Quango: Oh, yeah! Soz! I'll get on it 2moz. lol

VydovyLeader: (... mastercheffin' twit ...)

#VydovyShahidka #TheGurlGuydes #GirlGuidesMicroFactionFiction