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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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A really clear and vital piece of analysis in Jeremy Bowen's long piece about the Gaza war, which is too often muddied by almost everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Pls remember, the diabolical genius of Austerity was that in the eyes of huge swathes of UK people who who aren't aware how LA's are funded, the councils are the ones who look like the bad guys cos THEY are the ones seen to be making cuts/closing services. But their hands are tied.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Can’t wait to hear what Curtis Yarvin thinks about all this

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Watching “The Madness”. Best aspect of it is that the woman baddie - murderous, fanatical - looks disconcertingly like Liz Truss.

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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My novel *Rabbits* is out today in paperback. On the EXTREMELY RARE and ENTIRELY BAFFLING chance you haven't bought it already, I reckon you definitely should now. Right? Here are some of the lovely things other readers have said about it over the last year...

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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Natasha Lyonne: hey guys so david lynch couldn't be here tonight so he wanted me to tell you all that he thinks AI generated art is the future King: Barker: Poe: Koontz: Lovecraft: King: really? david lynch said that? Poe: steve

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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

Opinion | I fully understand Latin American migrants not wanting to be sent to South Sudan. But when they read my reporting on Biden's late-term frailty, I think they'll understand that their deportation is serving the common good.

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Inappropriate book covers. (I found this gem on ebay.) If you have more, please post them!

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

A lone voice. It crieth in the wilderness.

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I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Loved this, and now have a reading list for the summer. Thank you, @questingvole.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is excellent, I think

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A passing mention? In MY book? On our blog, indexer Tanya Izzard discusses passing or minor mentions in indexing, and why indexers sometimes have to leave things out

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Free speech latest

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They told us Trump would protect free speech, markets, and democracy. They lied. Now we have the receipts.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This is v interesting, and the more so for being (winces) granular

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"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds" gizmodo.com/its-breathta...

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

The 31-month sentence for Lucy Connolly for a tweet has been the subject of fierce media coverage. Here I set out a balanced explanation of this sentence and how, had she not followed good legal advice, the sentence could have been even heavier. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

Yes, yes, yes

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In Dublin for the literary festival, and I have no notes to offer on the water in the hotel. BRB just going to arise and go now.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Ian is right. Remarkable piece of writing, and an extraordinary testament to a parent’s thoughtfulness and love.

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I DID NOT, but I do now

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Tickets go on sale today for the stage play of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at the Soho Place theatre. First time a le Carré novel has come to the West End, and Spy is a zinger :) spyonstage.com

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Delighted to be taking part in this amazing event @hayfestival.bsky.social among so many brilliant writers - I'll be on stage Saturday 31st May at 7pm, chatting with @adamrutherford.bsky.social waste.lnk.to/hayfestival2...

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A lesson Trump learned from term 1 was he was “stupid” for leaving a tonnnnnn of money on the table, and as u can see he and his orbit are making up for lost time. Latest for @rollingstone.com from @timdickinson.bsky.social and me:

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Not a gang member. Not an activist supporting Hamas. A white Danish welder with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife called Savannah, applying for citizenship after 12 years in the US- jailed for a month without trial for forgetting to sign a single form www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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