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This is Toretsk. Once a vibrant town in Ukraine, now ruins. russia did this.

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

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There's a Harry Pearson piece in the Guardian today. This pleases me immensely www.theguardian.com/football/whe...

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1981/82. A list of bands that played the 500 capacity de Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, along with supports, attendance & admission price in Guilders

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This ought to be top of the UK government's thinking re Palantir's role in the NHS. The dependency risk is not theoretical under Trump 2.0

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

I just realised that the thing that’s so repulsive about Wotsitler is that he looked at every kind of evil you could be in the 20thC and said yes to all of it. Mafia, Klansman, Nazi, working with Russia against western interests, rapist, unscrupulous landlord, cackling money-hoarding businessman.

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Great moments in football programmes part 2360823608 This week: Be like the Rofe family.... (From the Leicester vs Bristol City programme, 27/08/1977) #leicestercity #LCFC

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Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

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Superb from Private Eye

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I think everyone would benefit from knowing that Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech actually depicts the guy advancing an explicitly reactionary, dumb as nails position that you would have to be a true moron to support (against building a school)

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1997 aged 16, home alone and up very late, news broke that Princess Diana had been killed in Paris. Dialling 141 first I rang the home of the girl from school, and when they answered I whispered "she's dead" and hung up. Don't know why. I've only ever told 2 people.

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DAILY STAR: Poodles: an apology #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Anyone else’s search function up shit creek on here?

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Trump campaigning: "I alone can fix it" "I will have it solved in 24 hours" Trump in office: fires the people tracking bird flu but never mind, "the big things we can blame other people for"

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Maybe Starmer could give Trump an invoice when he sees him next week.

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This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

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The Channel 5 karaoke game show Night Fever (97-02) is a real rolodex of celebrities you forgot about, and celebrities you're amazed appeared on Night Fever!

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We need to re-emphasise the idea that politicians going abroad to slag off this country to foreigners in return for money or prestige is a shameful thing to do. Because even though I would guess 75% of normal people instinctively understand this, certain others do not.

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The imperial system was so easy. Why did we change it to the difficult metric system?

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My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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Maybe he could try less eye-twirling drugs?

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One of the interesting differences in dynamic between Presidential and Parliamentary systems, in the former, if you are ambitious the incentive is always towards loyalty to the office holder. In the latter, there's reasons to look for the right time to knife them

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Amazon Bond Movies: - From Alexa with Love - You Only Weren’t Home for Your Delivery Twice - For Big Data’s Eyes Only - No Time-slot to Die - Personaldataraker - Diamonds are Returnable - Dr. No that Movie is not Available in Your Territory - The World is Not Enough (For Jeff and the Shareholders)

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Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

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Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.

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Financial Times general election endorsements while all this was unfolding 2010 - Conservative Party 2015 - Conservative Party 2017 - Conservative Party

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