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Slow news: Cumbria tortoise found a mile from home nine months after going missing

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I do like that Canada uses ‘ridings’.

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#NowPlaying @michaelwoodman.bsky.social - Hiss Of Today #FirstListen to this, and loving what I'm hearing so far. Melodic yet also strange and unsettling, frequently spinning off on unexpected tangents. michaelwoodman.bandcamp.com/album/hiss-o...

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There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.

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Jesus Christ this ep is 100% pure distilled nightmare fuel #DoctorWho

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I’m not a conspiracy theorist but isn’t it “convenient” that a new Ghost album coincides with the Pope’s funeral?

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Very deliberate “Aliens” homage here - right down to the “nuke this site from orbit” line. I like. #DoctorWho

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Now this is more like it… #DoctorWho

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I really really don’t want to go on about this, but this #EHRC stuff is existential stuff for trans people and our hard-won rights. What does it say about the UK that our leaders gleefully embrace the destruction of a tiny minority’s human and legal rights? What have we become/are we becoming?

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In the car and my kid would say "when can I have a sweet?" and I'd say "In 10 mins when the clock says 2.50". When she was distracted I would go in the settings and move the time back a few minutes. Managed a record of 29 minutes once before she twigged something was up.

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I so loved this as a child. It was so strange and properly alien: unexplained, unexamined, left there to worry away you. Then of course the modern films tried to erase all that was interesting about it.

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Cats "helping" in dioramas at the Latvian Railway Museum. A thread. In the telegraph room, telling the operator she's doing it wrong. /1

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When I'm bored and stuck in a political conversation I like to fake-attribute stuff to the Foundation for Law and Government. Then see if anyone is old/smart enough to remember that was the name of the people who made KITT in Knight Rider. They almost never are.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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A salt-water bivalve mollusc that lives in a brackish habitat. And an oyster.

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So the first real policy decision on active travel or road safety by this government is a law targeting cyclists which will do nothing for road safety, briefed to a newspaper which openly hates cycling. Whatever your hopes for active travel from current ministers, perhaps calibrate these downwards.

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cardinal pizzaballa is not gonna keep his name if he becomes pope. they have to pick a new name. it's gonna be something normal like papa john.

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I love this show, because it shows you can be both righteous and rational. Social media is awash with 'passion beyond reason', and at the other extreme you have journalists who obsessively 'both sides' every issue, however morally repugnant. This charts a middle way, with clarity & humour.

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So much this. I’m constantly reminded these days of that Bertrand Russell quote: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

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The thing about ‘disruptive innovators’ is that they tend to be very effective at the disruption part, but much less so at the innovation side of things. Also, describing oneself as a polymath feels like a Dunning-Kruger red flag to me…

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'The transformation guru behind Cardiff University's controversial cuts programme.... describes himself as both a "disruptive innovator" and a "polymath"' 🚩🤮🚩🤮🚩🤮🚩🤮🚩🤮🚩

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☀️Soak up the Sun with Solar Orbiter's widest high-resolution view yet! Zoom in and explore👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭🧪

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Yes, I am a dumbass. A very tired dumbass.

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My morning so far: Turned off alarm Got up Had a bath Got dressed Ate breakfast Pottered around Looked at time “Why the fuck is it so early?” Then I hear ⏰- for real this time Turns out I’d dreamt the initial alarm, and gotten up 2 hrs earlier than I needed to 🤦‍♂️

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This kind of thinking has been the hallmark of some of the most evil fuckers to have ever walked the earth. Ominous.

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As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

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Where data is gathered, uses will be found for it. Including bad uses.

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Invertebrates make up 99% of animal species on Earth – yet remain overlooked, unloved and misunderstood. 🐜🕷️ It’s time we gave these tiny powerhouses the attention they deserve | Vanna Bartlett @eastangliabylines.co.uk @vannabartlett.bsky.social

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so that's why the annual consignment of new underwear has yet to arrive...

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Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption

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I’m dying 😂

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The population crash myth, pronatalism, eugenics and the threat to women’s rights: why is the right obsessed with reproduction? | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social

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This is appalling. This will lead to an increase in hate crimes, and a mental health crisis. It’s such a wrong-headed thing to do. 🏳️‍⚧️

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If Reform are the double espresso of nastiness, then it feels like the Tories offer an americano with an extra shot, whilst Labour seem intent on serving us a lukewarm latte. I'll have a glass of water, please. #ukpolitics

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'Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew'. More news like this, please.

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#NowPlaying Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water Arguably the best of the solo albums produced by members of the classic Yes line-up.

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Tell me again how regulation doesn't work.

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Oh Christ, so much THIS.

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JUST IN: Harvard University sues Trump administration over funding freeze.

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I always look forward to funerals too. Good times.

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Investigation into Microsoft’s revamped Recall, by Kevin Beaumont. tl;dr: significantly improved, but significant flaws remain. https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-recall-on-copilot-pc-testing-the-security-and-privacy-implications-ddb296093b6c

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Looks like exercising freedom of speech and peaceful protest all at once is as easy as 1 2 3 4

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