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Glass of beer at Fat Head Brewery, Weston-super-Mare. #weston #beer

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George Modelski's long cycle theory says that one nation acts as global policeman for 100 years. The US took on the role in 1919. Modelski's theory predicts that it will end in 2030. It also predicts that it ends with catastrophic global war. Maybe we need to break the cycle.

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Is this a Nazi salute? From the new Private Eye, out now.

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“Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines” Further proof - as if it were needed - that this system is truly broken, & that our survival hinges on us rapidly ending it, before it ends us & everything else. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trip-hop-tych #bristol #streetart #m32

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Apparently shrovetide includes Shrove Saturday, Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday and Shrove Tuesday. But you only get pancakes on the Tuesday, which is why no-one cares about the other days.

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The Covid Inquiry is starting to deal with PPE sleaze. It's very hard to feel confident it will deal with it well. But here are the questions it should be answering. goodlaw.social/4kbs

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Strong last days of Rome vibe.

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“A friend once said to me, ‘If you keep blaming everything awful that’s ever happened in your life on Margaret Thatcher, you’ll be right more often than you’re wrong’.” It’s nice to have him back. And who knew Cilla Black was in the 1st Galician division of the SS!? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Lonely Tourist at Glastonbury Calling. @lonelytourist.bsky.social

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WANTED Wanted poster in a shop window in Wells. Contact Mr P I Staker. #hotfuzz

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Trump and Vance hand Putin his biggest victory since the start of the war.

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Agent Orange doing his master's bidding.

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"You do the Shake and Vac and put the freshness back."

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Was she spotted by a generic police officer?

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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First cycle home via the scenic route today. Through the park and past the lake. Sun splashing through the trees. Was reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's advice to reflect 'If this isn't nice, what is?'

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Super Fucking Jake O'Brien!

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The ref awards a last minute penalty to Everton against Premier League untouchables Man Utd. VAR tells the ref he might want to review his decision. Our zoom lens reveals what the ref saw on the VAR screen... #Everton

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Pete Brown starts the first broadsheet beer column for 20 years. Its in the Sunday Times & paywalled but you can register to read it for free. wp.me/p15p2Q-dBQ

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It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

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This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

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Sign to help people practise their Scouse accent on the way into Liverpool. All together.. Fazakarley, Kirkby, Fazakarley, Kirkby...

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Not the sort of sign you want to see when driving up the M6.

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Chatteris? Mght as well be in Ely or St Ives.

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I remember when man babies having a midlife crisis would just buy a sports car or join an am dram group.

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A good evening in our local pub. Had to admire the manager's clearance technique at the end of the night. My experience is limited to cowboy films, but it reminded me of driving cattle. Maintain momentum without causing a stampede. See also 'One man and his dog'.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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Extremely entertaining extracts from the diaries of former chief whip Simon Hart in The Times today. Kemi, Suella and myriad others come off about as well as you’d imagine. www.thetimes.com/article/e25f...

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'All the effort Kyiv had expended in wooing the White House, combining flattery with bribery and a share of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, imploded in minutes when Volodymyr Zelenskyy broke the fundamental rule of the new global reality: he told the truth about Donald Trump.'

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If there were any doubt that Trump is a Russian stooge. Turns out the threat wasn't reds under the bed after all. It was an orange in the White House.

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Very enjoyable couple of days exploring Worcester. We visited 10 different pubs and bars. Favourites were The Copper Beech Brewery and The Plough. #Worcester #pubs

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Glad that readers are responding so forced to the marriage notice of the Guardian to OpenAI. If you want to read the background to this deal & support a new independent outlet, please read this from 3 weeks ago & sign up for a new edition out soon. Yours, A Human open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Welcome to Worcester

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Anyone else getting a Sound of Music Edelweiss vibe?

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On the same day that a Flamengo player scores the second goal for Everton, a guy called Everton scores the second goal for Flamengo. #Everton #Alcaraz

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point... "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." Kurt Vonnegut

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"Put a jumper on! We are not turning the heating up!

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Lovely to see Beto's reaction to getting motm award... "At last." Clearly desperate to make it at Everton and show what he can do. Which Moyes has somehow made possible.

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