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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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At least Richard Nixon covered-up the worst most disreputable antics in the Oval Office, and not did not perform them to the world.

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Microsoft to finally hang up on Skype The Verge's Tom Warren reports on a death in the family: It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams…

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New WaPo columnist signing ...

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Hirobo, the mascot for the town of Hirono in Fukushima Prefecture, has a mandarin orange helmet, dragonfly wings, and a waterfall scarf.

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The first season of Andor wasn't just the best Star Wars thing ever (don't argue, it was); it was the best TV show of its year. I urge you to try it, be patient for the first 2 episodes, and then sit back and indulge. In case you don't know ... 1/3 youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM?...

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Love this from Denmark

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TikTok seems to have invented the sabbatical 🙄

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NEWS. Energy Price Cap to rise again 6.4% on 1 April. Here’s my instant briefing on what you should do…

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More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a celebrity backlash builds against the proposals.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Andor S2 trailer is out #StarWars #Andor youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM?...

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People in the EU are now putting up stickers that read, “Elon Musk is attacking the European Union. Boycott Tesla,” and “Elon, stay away from the EU.” These stickers, featuring EU flags and a link to StopElon.eu, appear on public EV chargers and other visible spots.

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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

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Your next favorite sci-fi series (we hope), Murderbot, is starting on May 16 on AppleTV+! "Based on Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book series, “Murderbot” is a sci-fi thriller/comedy about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to..."

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Oh 😔

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Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

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Today, at 42, I learned how to read a windsock

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Indiana Jones punching Elon while he is giving a N**i salute As requested by Gary Mancini

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HP is buying Humane and shutting down the AI Pin. This product was far too early to the market, and I feel sorry for anyone that actually bought one of these devices as it's essentially bricked now 😬 www.theverge.com/news/614883/...

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Many Marks and Spencer customers will be disappointed to learn that they've been advertising on GB News radio. You can take action by leaving a friendly message on the Marks and Spencer Facebook page asking them to #StopFundingHate 👇 www.facebook.com/MarksandSpen...

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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Jesus! That’s one of the best completely wrong photos yet

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Can't stop imagining an awkward scene in which two government agents in trenchcoats and aviators are forced to hang out in somebody's mom's basement in Wichita while tiptoeing around the fact that they're now unemployed private citizens stuck babysitting a suitcase nuke.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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The smart soft power move by Xi would be to pick up the malaria, HIV treatment and various vaccination programmes being stopped by the dismantling of USAID and get that Chinese flag rolling into isolated towns and villages across the global south

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Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out (Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

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For Prime France subscribers: Dan Trachtenberg's Prey (2022) has arrived on Prime. It used to be a Disney+ exclusive. Please, don't miss this movie. 🖖 And it's even better if you don't know yet what this film has to do with sci-fi (but that's unlikely, lol).

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fuck, and I cannot emphasise this enough, Brewdog www.thenational.scot/news/2493240...

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An Associated Press reporter was was blocked from an Oval Office event today because the publication "did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America."

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The reason the owner didn't have time to clean the place is rather striking www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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imagine being so bad at understanding your chosen religion that the head of that religion of 1.4 billion people personally subtweets you

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This is fairly similar to Trump deciding he wants Greenland. Just guys who want stuff, going round pointing at it. It would also be a very, very, very, VERY bad idea for Musk - a person with zero impulse control - to be in charge of OpenAI.

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Well shit.

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And an existing one with a makeover pixelfed.social/p/Bassano/79...

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A new piece spotted pixelfed.social/p/Bassano/79...

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By perfect, that excludes the time taken to bother with it all “The technique involves alternating an egg between a pan of boiling water kept at 100C and a bowl kept at 30C every two minutes, for 32 minutes” 🙄

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What’s happening to USAID is a tragedy, however to provide some perspective, I’ve seen comments along the lines of “it’s by far the world’s largest donor organisation” and that’s not true. Its annual budget is USD 10bn; EU foreign aid* is €80bn (2021-2027), add EU member states & it’s much more. 1/2

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Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.

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Quelle surprise! Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e...

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PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

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