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From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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“Three years from now we might be going, ‘Who are family offices and how did they come to control such a huge share of the economy?" - quote from a read on the risks in the rise of the family office by @joshspero.ft.com Owen Walker www.ft.com/content/147a...

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Maine - all of Stephen King (ok ok, except The Shining, and Christine)

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This entire thread is great, but even greater with bits taken out of context.

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this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen

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The move in German - and wider European - yields yesterday was huge. And it reflected the markets pricing in higher growth rather than fiscal risks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a big pro-growth change in market pricing off the back of one announcement.

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Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

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(via Alan Spence's "Glasgow Zen") On the ultimate identity of matter and spirit, form and void WHIT’S THE MATTER? NUTHIN!

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“Oh, that’s why we had it.” Musk, a few days after he abolishes something.

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Hellf of a grim story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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RFA - Neighbors of two wanted pro-democracy activists received anonymous letters urging them to bring the activists to the Chinese Embassy in London. www.rfa.org/english/chin...

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This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

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Raw, defiant, and unflinchingly honest—Mu Cao’s poetry gives voice to those at the margins of China’s underclass. In our latest, @queercomrades.bsky.social and Maghiel Van Crevel explore how his work challenges mainstream narratives on queerness, class, and survival.

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/don...

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If humans outsource peer review to computers, then the computers are the peers, and peer review no longer has any meaning. It's the end of academia as a human enterprise, and the beginning of research as prompt engineering. Here be dragons.

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The main targets

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The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over. The days of rule by unelected kleptocrats have begun.

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Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air

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Delighted to have just published a book of my poems. The ebook is a bargain £1.99 but you can get it in paperback also. Inspired by Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, TS Eliot and Scottish poets like Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZ1TNWPQ

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Given how cowardly most US media has been, it's fun seeing the administration being monstered by British tabloids

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Yep yep yep. Agreements witrh Trump are for suckers. He just screws you.

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Lordy.

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636 soldiers died supporting the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, you absolute bell-end

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This is no doubt some middle-level official's galaxy brain idea, based on comments from his superiors requiring heightened securtity). Never mind if it works or not. Performance is all.

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As I was saying in 2022...

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Delighted to have just published a book of my poems. The ebook is a bargain £1.99 but you can get it in paperback also. Inspired by Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, TS Eliot and Scottish poets like Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZ1TNWPQ

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Pretty radical analysis tucked away in @economist.com this week on the rise of an assetocracy, especially through inheritance, leading to a bigger rentier class and a disenfranchised group locked out from economic success and open to more populist parties economist.com/leaders/2025...

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Ominously plausible warnings from @filipecampante.bsky.social of what our descent into competitive authoritarianism could look like

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"He's up at Bag End; and he's the real Chief now, I guess. All the ruffians do what he says; and what he says is mostly hack, burn, and ruin; and now it's come to killing. There's no longer even any bad sense in it. They cut down trees and let "em lie, they burn houses and build no more."

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Credit: @badiucao.bsky.social

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And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.

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WTF!!!

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Jesus fucking christ

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Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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