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Practise what you preach @londonunderground.bsky.social and clean the bloody notice

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Will England’s forgotten seaside towns be heard? My piece on Coastal Labour and what it wants. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

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Created by Piero Tosi, a visionary costume design and lots of beads worn by Maria Callas in her role as Medea in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film adaptation of the Euripides play #BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #MariaCallas #PieroTosi #Medea

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Local news classic: "I left the cinema with lettuce down me and they were really rude about female characters"

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All those papers and books on resurgent English identity went poof in a puff of smoke

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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This is a fantastic article by @adamposen.bsky.social explaining with great clarity why the conventional wisdom that the US has the upper hand in a bilateral trade war with China is dead wrong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 68 days ago • 11 comments

my apes :(

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Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant. The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions. This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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The Canadian High Commissioner to the UK called US policy "foolish" and said "We are under attack and we will defend ourselves". The world's axis has shifted. #r4today

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The security concerns about Canada and Greenland are just a figleaf for their desire to grab northern land while they let the world burn

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The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.

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Elon Musk is not a genius #232. Interesting analysis by @lockettwill.bsky.social

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Canada and Mexico should start calling it the United States of Central North America

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Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

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1970 - 1990: Nineteen Eighty-Four 1990 - 2020: Brave New World 2020 - ???: Nineteen Eighty-Four again

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How easy would it be to snatch power and flood the zone in the UK? Easier than you might think. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

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An interesting bit of 'the Internet eating itself' is that increasingly the fastest way to find a piece of research is to ask ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude/DeepSeek/whatever a question, thank it and ask it for its sources, and there's the research that you couldn't find for love nor money yourself.

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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

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I love how "Fabergé" looks like "Fatberg"

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Never in the history of calming down has the suggestion to take a chill pill worked.

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Nothing in the article justifies the choice of "fleeing" in the headline BBC News - Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A well-deserved happy Christmas to whoever did the lawyering on this piece. Awesome work. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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Never start at blame, and rarely go there

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When was Damascus last free? What does that even mean?

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Collateral is the mirror image of Desperately Seeking Susan

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Superb by @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

submitted 193 days ago • 42 comments

Kubota regularly appears on Japanese television to talk about his immortal jellyfish and has recorded several songs about them, often singing them at the end of his conference presentations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrito...

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Problem child Victoria Atkins turns up in fancy dress to the Mother of Parliaments

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There are no national virtues. We are alone, each one of us. If we are good, we are good ourselves. If we are bad, the virtues of others will not make us better. We cannot borrow morals. They are ours or they do not exist for us.

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