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Having been the guy who’s walked into the room and told 100 people who’ve been working their guts out “we just got cancelled, end of day today we’re done” I extend heartfelt sympathy to the cast, crew, and writers of WHEEL OF TIME. It’s not just business, it’s straight up pain, and I’m sorry.

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Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. Is there no end to our shameful behavior? www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

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if you post enough, a fabulous publication will allow you to publish 9,000 words on the ring cycle in this, a 1200 word essay economy. never quit grinding in the nibelungian mines, comrades, and stay tuned

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

submitted 15 hours ago • 70 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

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Tech cos are discovering that they can’t just buy Trump as a one-off and that instead he’s a subscription-based service that can’t be uninstalled after you’ve destroyed your rep buying into him, and I love that for them.

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Greenland signs a minerals deal with the EU. Ten hours later Trump slaps 50% tariffs on the EU.

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"swarming spiders". Never change Australia

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Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

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"Albanese says extreme weather events...are becoming more frequent and intense as a fifth body has been found in the disaster-hit region." What the PM didn't say: 'It would be irresponsible of us to approve any more gas fields or coal mines.' #hypocrisy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Not now newly discovered bacteria on space station…

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You might think you know about liminal spaces, but driving home from Liverpool last night the M62 was closed so at 1am I was lost on an industrial estate near Hunslet while my Satnav showed a pixellated version of my car flickering in and out of existence against a featureless void.

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America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain economist.com/science-and-...

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NEW | A look at how trends are covered… MAKING A MAJOR LABUBU Mania over a new brand of creepy dolls offers a classic example of how the media covers trend stories. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/34-making-...

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This screams 'late night drunk purchase' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reminder that currently OnlyFans pays their fair share of tax in the UK (they're based here) amd have neber tried to dodge it. Unlike every other massive online company. Guess that'll change. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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yurt glampers? president of the netherlands?

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Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

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My wife to our Robot mop : “Hey Juliet…” Shortly followed by: “Don’t turn around and look like you heard me. That’s scary.”

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I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

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this timeline is fucking wild

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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

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Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

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Europeans visiting the US vs Americans visiting France #badgeographyjoke

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this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

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pictured here: why you don't have global variables in your code

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“.. Low-information voters may be fooled for a little while, but bond markets won’t.”

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You don't have to be a Harrier pilot to understand, it's a lot more expensive and time intensive to regain a capability than to maintain one

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The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

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Please share: I am looking for Canadian and Indigenous creatives for an online event promoting the two Canadian Worldcon bids: Montreal 2027 and Edmonton 2030 The date is 15th/16th August. If you are interested there are more details here. forms.gle/7D2Z6uoiJKh1...

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🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!): 1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.

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then the rules are shit then aren't they www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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They need to keep their taikonauts up there until they're sure this is not the next apocalyptic plague. We've all seen films that start like this.

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typical feature roadmap

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I read recently that most historians believe that the Reichstag fire — long used as the ur-example of a false flag justifying Nazi totalitarianism — was probably just set by a dude acting alone and not at the behest of Nazis. That it was a violent act that served as useful idiocy.

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I have been reminded of this excellent TV commercial for MILKRUN and I think people everywhere need to see it. I quite like the six-titted cow, among other things. “MILKRUN. Milk it for 10,000+ grocery items delivered in minutes” www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTu7...

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