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The populist right is damaging US science. The UK could be next. New from @kityates.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kityates...

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Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

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"In the run-up to Brexit, a bleached grinch that nobody took seriously was transformed into a Question Time fixture so permanent, I’m surprised David Dimbleby didn’t use him as a desk" My bit on the Brexit anniversary for @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

some america first beers spotted in denmark:

submitted 35 days ago • 803 comments

I know the feeling!

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This is so good from @samfr.bsky.social He quoted from Biden’s ambassador to Hungary on Orban “one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags…”

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You know he’ll go there.

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I can’t resist the lure of tiny, extremely niche, museums. So if you’re telling me Birmingham has a Pen Museum founded and run by people who are very enthusiastic about nibs, I’ll be right in there

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absolute bollocks. Typical Mail. Just cos young men say it, doesn't make it true! And feminism was not created to give them more rights/equality. Get the fuck over yourselves, lads. Knuckle down. And stop hero worshipping "influencers" like Tate www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

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Trump, criminality & the death of decency with Professor @scottlucas.bsky.social. Why younger people are keener on dictatorships than older ones. Tick Tock for Tulip Siddiq with @henryriley1.bsky.social. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

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One puzzling question is why it just took so long for the DoJ to prosecute Trump, thereby ultimately running out of time. This CNN piece seems to be a good explainer. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/p...

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This should never have been normalised.

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The £45bn cost of Labour bailing out RBS is held to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity that the nation barely survived. Brexit cost us just as much every five-and-a-half months.

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New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

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This was absolutely brilliant and would be happy to watch all over again….and I’m not that wild on the books.

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Often, when paying my rent or swishing some water in a bottle of fairy liquid so it goes a little further, I am reminded of this Charles Moore spectator column from 2015, and the fact that financial hardship knows many forms.

submitted 53 days ago • 93 comments

Bernie Sanders, nailing it again 🎯

submitted 55 days ago • 248 comments

A rare example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines not applying

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I wrote something like this thread on Byline after the Southport riots. I've updated it here, cos I think (not sure, but think) it might have something important to say about our current crisis with social media, news reporting, and disinformation. Sorry it's long. (1/42)

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This appears to be the Truss cease-and-desist letter in full. So, so tempting to do a close-read post on this, for the public understanding of law. It is a glorious letter.

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“The fact that Zuckerberg openly said that he is enlisting Trump’s help to pressure global regulators to not enforce their own laws in their own countries should concern anyone who cares about global democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/zuckerberg...

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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

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As journalists we like to say that we tell truth without fear or favour That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story

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A decent man, making a distinguished exit just before the arrival of the least decent and distinguished president in history. #JimmyCarter RIP www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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One big happy family.

submitted 67 days ago • 2143 comments

This is a shameful stat for Ireland. Are we seeing any analysis? or meaningful response? Anecdotally the levels of aggression and dangerous driving have visibly increased… mobile phone distraction too. #SpeirGorm

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

This nails it perfectly.

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Now open! Great prizes in multiple categories, novel, short story, poetry, flash etc. special award for writers over 60 and other special recognitions. Good people, great prize. Please enter. Please share!

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I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃

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Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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Applicants for government jobs, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked in interviews about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election — questions that seemed designed to assess their loyalty to President-elect Trump.

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This breaks my heart every year. I can't imagine the hell of living with so many questions.

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Russian sabotage in the Baltic is just part of a Russian campaign (acts of war mind you) across Europe. So far the European response (and that includes the UK--this is not an EU alone failing) has been pathetic. Europe is not rising to the occasion. foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/04/r...

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Wrote about the oligarchic takeover of the US after Trump’s election. He’s not even in the White House yet but already happening fast. Imagine what will be like from January…. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/a-huge-vic...

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A month out from Donald Trump’s narrow victory, and the president-elect is still struggling to win acceptance for his cabinet picks. In their latest piece, The Big Picture takes a closer look at which of these appointments Trump really cares about and what they say about Trump's priorities.

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A fortune being spent on ad campaigns telling people this is a crime, and yet he gets a suspended sentence. So, so frustrating.

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A new day so a new painting for you. Well an old painting but you know what I mean. "Mayo Trees" was painted following a cycle in County Mayo. I'd stopped for a pint in Mulranny (It was raining, like really heavy), then headed north and stopped again - for these trees. #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar

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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

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When you can't let the cat go out because he might invade Poland

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Back to County Cork for another painting. "Clonakilty, Pearse Street" is another street I've cycled down quite a few times. I painted it 5 years ago and, given how many more angles I'd like to paint in this wonderful town, I'm overdue another visit. #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar

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