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There’s so many people going through this right now. Heartbreaking.

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"the streaming revolution has been something of a disaster for classic movies. It has, in fact, been slowly and methodically wiping the collective culture’s memory of anything made before … well, 1973"

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Christ, I've done my best.....

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European alternatives for US-origin tech platforms. Crowd-sourced by “Buy European Made” #BuyEuropeanMade www.buy-european-made.eu

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It's very important we understand this.

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Wowza, not holding back.

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A Turkish proverb that seems fitting right now: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan. The palace becomes a circus.” Except it’s far more serious than that.

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Maybe world leaders should just take turns in enraging the toxic racist wotsit and his chinless nazi carebear. Exhaust them. Like, do a rota. “Manu, I think you’re on tonight.”

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Crépeybara. Don’t worry buddy, you’ll get it this time. #art #capybara #PancakeDay

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Let me save you time on this account over the next few years: USA has betrayed someone Train has broken down Simon Jenkins is wrong University redundancies *Tax rises and spending cuts

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ok after JD Vance's hideous comments, here's my nomination for the new British ambassador to the US

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Beginning to think that the State Visit should also include Vance "accidentally" getting locked in a room with 2 Para.

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Freeland: "If these tariffs are put in place, it is going to hurt Americans ... your grocery prices are gonna go up, bc you know what you need to grow food in the US? You need fertilizer. 80% of it comes from Canada and you're gonna be a 25% tax on it? ... the WSJ is right. This is dumb."

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American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022

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I need a reality show where we lock rfk in a house with 10 ebola patients and tell him to demonstrate the value of diet and exercise

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Starmer, in reply to Farage in the Commons: "Can I just remind him that Russia is the aggressor. Zelensky is a war leader whose country has been invaded. And we should all be supporting him and not fawning over Putin."

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Remember during the pandemic there were two types of predictions about its likely social effects: 1. A new slowed down community solidarity and general empathy. 2. The same as before only (much) worse. I think preliminary results are in.

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Most of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, sildenafil citrate, is produced in Pfizer's Ringaskiddy complex in County Cork, Ireland. The vast majority of the world’s supply of Viagra is manufactured by Pfizer in a small village in County Cork, Ireland. The village has been nicknamed Viagra Falls.

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Andrew Garfield, hello. Once again proving the best look a man can have is: 70s slutty

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It's pretty dreadful, but the see through bath next to a ceiling-to-floor window takes the biscuit 😱

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Parliament is in the dark and the British public is in the dark. I have a suspicion that Boris Johnson and his government knew exactly what had happened, partly because they were beneficiaries of illicit political funding themselves’ metro.co.uk/2025/03/02/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Facts 👇👇👇

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A good wishlist - mostly my preferred options too, although having not seen Emilia Perez I can't vouch for its quality. It seems to have wildly divided critics. I did love Anora, but feel like Conclave is the better film. But I'd love to see Fargeat, Moore, Culkin & Chalamet get gongs.

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Lots of great tree action today. Can't select a favourite. Taken on the edge of the Cornbury Estate on the edge of Charlbury in glorious sunshine with huge numbers of deer mooching about. #Treeoftheday

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Donald Tusk makes a clear and crucial point #Europe #Defence #Ukraine #Russia

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Going through old screenshots on my phone and found this, lol #Oscars

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Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

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David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.

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Weirdly, I wrote about yesterday's events in the Oval Office ONE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAPPENED. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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In efforts to get ready for the new administration I am re-reading William Dalrymple’s “Anarchy”. What happens when a private company takes over a country? Spoiler alert: war, diseases, famine and plunder. Thank you for the warning, @willdalrymple.bsky.social

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'Can you tell me if Russia invaded Ukraine?' 💥 US Senator Tammy Duckworth grills DOD Deputy Sec nominee Stephen Feinberg. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited

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“I cannot believe he is a Russian agent but he sure plays one.” Thomas L Friedman

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Instead of moving to Hawaii or New Zealand to live off the land when the apocalypse comes, why don't billionaires simply not ruin the planet, destroying civilization and simply invest in and live an eco lifestyle now?

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I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait. The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen. He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin. And for 40 minutes, he held it in.

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Why is it called a comp.. ohhh!

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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

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Catching a CrossCountry train for the 1st time in ages & am reminded why I usually try & avoid them like the plague. Overcrowded, no luggage space, & overhead shelving too narrow for anything other than teeny bags & laptop cases. Instant stress as soon as you board.

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“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it" – Karl Popper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

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Random post about some TV series.

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"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

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I continue to note that the thing that really made the Romanian authorities go after the Tate brothers was that they held an American woman against her will. I cannot imagine how that poor woman must be feeling, that her own country's administration is preferring her torturers rights to her own.

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RIP to the greatest youtu.be/o8-i7lA5gic

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there is no clearer universal across academic institutions than the dysfunction of a university website — not a day goes by that I don't think of this xkcd

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