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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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UK overtakes Germany in winning most ERC Advanced Grants www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro... Remarkable under the circs.

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Trump Organization Launches Trump Mobile Cell Phone Service — theonion.com/trump-organi... ‘I’ve fallen for too many of his scams not to fall for this one’🤣

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Napoleon is master of Europe, but when alien life entered our world it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was 15 when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco. Oceans are now battlefields.

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Bargain! If you have any interest in Star Wars and/or historiography snap it up.

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Why is east coast media SO bad at understanding San Francisco politics? Just read in the WP that ‘centrist’ Daniel Lurie defeated the ‘hard left’ candidate. Did they mean London Breed who was endorsed by the police union and the YIMBY alliance?(Classic machine pol) But I guess ‘scary black lady’.

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I have no concern that AGI will decide to unleash something on humanity deliberately. I am much more worried that ‘artificial stupidity’ will do something dangerous by accident.

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If you know the context this is heartbreaking.

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Lord Frost really does look out of place in a suit doesn’t he, he’d look much better in a wig and behind a bench in some 1820s law court, quaffing a pint of Madeira while sending a luckless local peasant to Tasmania for life for an incident with a rabbit on the squire’s land.

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This looks very good.

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I admit I know nothing about the sport but Florida dominating in ice hockey just intuitively feels wrong, like a cat barking or something.

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I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

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Elon and Grok is the funniest ventriloquist dummy act in a looong time

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Good luck getting an AI to answer a query that's only solvable via a parish register that an archivist happens to remember where it was placed in 1991.

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A good deal

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Good thread. The reasons why the British/British Empire refused repatriation of the dead are themselves interesting - a striking alliance of labour egalitarianism and imperial propaganda.

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People worrying about a declining birth rate haven’t recently tried to book maternity appointments in London hospitals, I bet

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One of the enduring mysteries is the widespread belief that crime in the inner cities of the USA keeps getting worse. TBF it is a belief largely held by those who don’t live in cities, but the reality is the scale of the fall in violent crime since the 1990s is extraordinary.

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How do we write refugees into modern global history? Join us at 6.30pm, Weds 2 July, for the Society's annual Prothero Lecture given this year by Professor Peter Gatrell on 'Refugee World(s)' bit.ly/44Q4MYT The lecture is followed by the Society's Summer Party. All are very welcome #Skystorians

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This footage really does suggest that the military are participating in ‘domestic law enforcement’ - a pretty clear cut violation of the law.

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Short of one of the grunts breaking ranks to frag the Secretary of Defence it is hard to see how this could be more satirical.

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Interesting thread after hearing Stefan Goebel talking about this recently.

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Organisations famous for their ethical qualms. They were literally throwing dissidents out of aeroplanes when the World Cup was held in Argentina in 1978.

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I suspect that those soldiers shuffling past President Bonespurs to ‘Fortunate Son’ was probably accidental satire- but it was nevertheless 🎯

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The big unspoken problem with modern Second Amendment absolutism is ‘What happens if the most heavily armed bit of the population decide they actually prefer tyranny?’

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This cracked me up.

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South Africa are World Test Champions! Sadly this will probably have no more impact on the ICC desire to create a two tier Test Match system than New Zealand winning the inaugural contest did.

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Rewatched ‘The English’ and it holds up well on second viewing. The ending is still a gut punch and yet strangely life affirming.

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