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Jen's done it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VE1...

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When all the details of this shit show are finally revealed, whether through this request or some future leak, the details are going to be an indictment on the entire British government.

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"I understand your point completely. You asked about Shakespeare's play Cardenio, and instead of explaining that none of its text survives, I painstakingly faked a 17th-century folio, had it authenticated by experts and sold it to you for £50million. That was not a helpful response to your request."

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just anecdotally, the idea that Iranians yearn for the West to topple the regime may have had some truth to it before the Iraq war. now everyone understands that it just means death, misery, and destruction.

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One image to sum up exactly why the US (and therefore the world) is in so much trouble...

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Look, if you don't watch the new Adam Curtis series, Shifty, on BBC you won't get to see absolutely god-tier frames like this.

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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE Labour has FINALLY accepted defeat in our legal challenge of anti-protest powers We won this case in court twice - under both Conservative and Labour leadership Gov must now commit to reviewing ALL arrests made under these unlawful powers www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...

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Also, the near-universal belief that disability is Something that Happens to Other People is why there are millions of people refusing to accept that their health has been permanently impacted by varying degrees of #LongCovid.

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We can have sufficient drinking water or we can have AI, and the government is choosing AI on behalf of all of us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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From the Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, published in 1996. The reviewer didn't think the state of the United States in 2024 as shown in the episode Past Tense, Part 1 was believable. Sounds like @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social and Ira Steven Behr were pretty close....

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Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

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Watching a doc about the Titan submarine. One thing that really struck me was how similar the logo of the company, OceanGate, is to the logo of the budget chain store, CostCutter.

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Got a speculative story about thoughts, feelings, or other strange experiences involved in being a person? We're open for submissions again in 2 weeks: July 1 - 14 members of marginalised groups only July 15 - 31 general submissions inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

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Keir Starmer and Donald Trump. The only picture you need.

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So, AI companies are… mysteriously exempt from having to provide data on how much water they use from public supplies? Good good nothing could possibly go wrong there…

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3D animation did not kill the traditionally animated feature film, THIS did. in 2D animation, you need that rigid pipeline and solid leadership to finalize things before moving on. 3D got huge because it allowed more wiggle room, but that's not 3D's fault if you miss 2D features, T H I S is why

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we've been shouting about this since gamergate btw

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So 1 in 19 Labour MPs and 1 in 12 Tory MPs are sex offenders. Weird how they say its trans women that are the problem though.

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This is EXACTLY why the US Christo-fascist right-wing poured so much money into funding ‘gender critical’ transphobic litigation in the UK - to legitimate transphobia-tainted rulings and so they can then export the trans-hostile judgements to use back in US States! 😣 It’s Laundering transphobia! 😖

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AG Sulzberger was 37 when he took over the NY Times, I guess experience only matters if you aren't born into your job.

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20% since 2020 is insane

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I need y'all to stop and read the blurb for the Goodnight Sweetheart reboot novel. UK people absolutely DO NOT try and explain this and the original show to the Americans. You can't. I've tried.

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Personally I demand all my media be escapism, preferably as far from my current reality as possible, which is why it's exclusively comedy, animation, SFF, or musicals.

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Luigi allegedly killed a CEO and is now facing federal terrorism charges. Vance Boelter assassinated a state senator and attempted to kill a congressperson (both democrats) and is only facing a state 2nd degree murder charge. That's odd. Does the FBI do anything anymore?

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There's nothing that new in Edinburgh local politics, exhibit 43. Evening News, 25th April 1961.

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The transphobes are their own self fulfilling peophei🫩

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You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

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i would be humiliated to post this in public. if you're scared of the subway you are not gonna make it. no fucking shot

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THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

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Seagulls are smart alright. This seagull in Turkey waits by a cat food dispensing machine and meows so passersby might press the button to get it some food.

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@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social - The government wouldn’t have needed to increase the bus fare cap that has raised your constituents‘ bus tickets by 40% if there was a political will for even a modest increase in fuel duty. There’s an abundance of £££ - why do we take it from the wrong people??

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could you even publish this in the american press? www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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If you like the convenience of Amazon but want to support independent Bookshops, consider uk.bookshop.org It's an easy-to-use website that spreads its profit across bookshops in the UK. You can also select a bookshop and have extra profit go to that specific shop for a year.

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They are literally attempting to re-write history. "You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"

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Very quickly we're going to see businesses proudly advertising themselves as 'AI-free' because although there are excellent genuine use cases, most places it's being shoehorned into is unnecessary.

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“We’re scrapping our DEI initiative…” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

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last week RNZ published a story about alex, a 17-year trans teen who tragically died, alone, in 2023. the piece erased both his identity, and story. i know this because i have 6000 messages he posted online in the two years leading up to his death. please RT, for alex: www.webworm.co/p/lifeanddea...

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Three years ago I got involved in a week long twitter spat with Katherine after pointing out that she had misattributed lines from a Budweiser beer commercial to Winston Churchill. Wouldn't have been the end of days if it hadn't been written on the walls of her school. Not a renowned fact checker.

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Here are 51 studies (6,434 participants), demonstrated that, there are no significant differences in upper/lower-body strength or VOpeak after 1–3 years of GAHT between trans & cis women. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Experts also say Israel has a massive and unregulated nuclear program and that’s what we should be worrying about because they’re an unhinged rogue terrorist state with a proven and currently ongoing track record of wanton violence. (Not from the article)

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Great to live in a country where the biggest driver of policy from the Government is performative cruelty insufficient to win over the right wing who would never vote Labour even if it bought their stocky bald ass a pint of Carling.

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So it was the "No Kings" marches versus the "No Crowds" parade

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So ask yourself, did you see anything about this in the initial coverage of Brian Wilson’s death? And if not, why not? Its not coincidence. uk.news.yahoo.com/brian-wilson...

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Nonviolent mass protests only work if they are sustained and not just one off every three months. If you actually want your nonviolent movement to work, you can’t go back to work on Monday. You actually have to sustain the protest for months or until you oust the fascist leader.

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Last night in Riverside, CA, what 6 months ago would’ve been on every new channel, was only on local news. A man drove his vehicle into protesters. At least one woman screamed that her sister had been ran over. /

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I kid you not, my work knows that I do drawing on the side and someone in the office told me AI could save me time and my response was "but I like drawing" and it broke them. They didn't know how to answer, they just couldn't comprehend that people make art because they like making art.

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