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Was Your Country Ever At War With Japan For 102 Years? The story: brilliantmaps.com/japan-mon...

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Really astute observation by @martinsandbu.ft.com in the FT today. He's absolutely right, of course. It's also why the Trumpist right loves Brexit so much.

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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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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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“Ukraine's courage secures Moldova's peace. The bravery, the sacrifices of the Ukrainian people have shielded Moldova from the horrors of war. We will always be grateful for that & I want the Ukrainian people to know we will never forget what you have done” Maia Sandu President of Moldova

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Israel's Defence Minister proudly taking responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of 40,000 people in the West Bank.

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A reminder that Elon Musk's corporations were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

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With Franky not doing so well, I guess it's time to prepare for the Vatican Olympics 2025. I wonder if there'll be any new events this time around, alongside Cajoling, Bribery, Blackmail and Bullying? And all for a bit of white smoke

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What's happening with Elon Musk and the centralised data of the US federal government is the kind of worst-case scenario Tony Blair and other ID card/central data acolytes have always dismissed as baseless fear-mongering, btw.

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Hey everyone, it’s time to go download all the NIST docs you may want to use in the future.

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I've been trying to work out who he reminded me of, and then it came to me. Musk is Poochie... the truly, truly irritating new character that pitches up in Itchy and Scratchy and ruins a much loved family show.

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When thinking of a response to this... whatever the unholy fuck it was, I am minded of Transmetropolitan's Spider Jerusalem who once wrote an unprintable few thousand word column consisting solely of the word "Fuck".

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Steve Bannon addressing CPAC, hailing the “achievements” of the Trump administration: “Zelensky has been put in his place. And the J6ers are here at CPAC!”

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M: “You need to be in Uruguay by tomorrow, 007.” Bond: “No problem. Next day delivery is standard with Prime.” M: “And you’ve read the briefing notes?” Bond: “Downloaded to my Kindle as we speak. I presume the villain-“ M: “Is NOT a megalomaniacal billionaire, 007. They are our friends now.”

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"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding asshole gong or a clanging fucking cymbal." - 1 Corinthians 13:1

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Elon Musk and his aides now have access to many federal agencies’ systems and unknown amounts of data. And when people tinker with vital systems, things can go wrong. Here is our guide to backing up all of your documents.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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I was just saying this morning, the absolute egotism of looking at these things for the first time and instantly thinking you not only perfectly understand them, but that you've noticed huge and obvious problems that no one else has ever noticed before, because no one else is as smart as you.

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flipping.rocks/@sunguramy/1...

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As soon as you introduce money into democracy, there is no democracy, because most people will vote for whatever gets them a huge pile of money. There should be no gifts, no donations, no 2nd jobs, no money of any kind for Politicians, except their wage from the voters.

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Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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Don’t sign shit. Make them fire you. Do not resign your position based on an assurance from an administration whose head has a reputation for stiffing contractors who did work for him.

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Soviet World War 3 Plans For Europe More about the plans: brilliantmaps.com/ww3-europe/

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Must speak truth to power. Is Mariann Edgar Budde the person of the year for standing up to Trump? There is nothing more patriotic than social justice; protection of the vulnerable; eradication of poverty, hate; giving visibility to what is ignored/marginalized. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’ve one clear memory of John Prescott making a difference when I was working in DWP in the 2000s No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”

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I've just had a look at www.whitehouse.gov. Wow. I'm surprised it wasn't coloured in gold.

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Reform have said the'll not name a Welsh leader ahead of the Senedd election. Instead they say they'll elect a leader afterwards?! Incredibly disrespectful to Wales. They are telling the Welsh people: "Vote for us, but if you do, you'll only find out who your First Minister will be after we win"

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The Telegraph has finally found some unemployed people it sympathises with

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RIP David Lynch, and thank you for being you.

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I feel this in my core.

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You know you've hit a good pub when Cocteau Twins have cropped up on the jukebox twice in an hour

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist" - Hannah Ardent "I'll have what she's having" - Elon Musk

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@mortenmorland.bsky.social in @thetimes.com absolutely nails it once again.

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