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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

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You first.

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The UK's largest 'Zero Bills' housing development is to be launched in Essex. This 113-home project guarantees residents zero energy bills, thanks to innovative green technologies and a community microgrid. @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social reports.

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The most confused speech from an opposition leader in years. "The world is changing and the UK is not ready", says party that was in charge from 2010 until a few months ago. In a "world of the strong and the weak we must not be weak", so let's abandon "internationalism". Isolationism IS weak. ~AA

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Arizona's state bird, the Cactus Wren. 🤔 I wonder where the name comes from? (Scottsdale, Arizona) #bird #ornithology #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #CactusWren #cactus #wren #BlueSkyMonday

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...

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Bwahahaha. Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Excellent piece by @kfullagar.bsky.social More work to be done on understanding the place of the humanities in the system we have inherited and what they might be for the future: insidestory.org.au/why-the-huma...

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RIP Roberta Flack

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Do they think we have all drunk some sort of "forget everything since 2010" elixir? It is so blatant. ~AA

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Oh, very sad. Stunning voice. Killing Me Softly singer Roberta Flack dies aged 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Some good news. Ministers scrap controversial DWP program allowing landlords to tap into tenants’ benefits, @patrickjbutler.bsky.social reports. “I’m determined to right the wrongs that have persisted in the benefits system for too long,” says Liz Kendall. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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The Afghanistan women’s cricket team asked other nations in the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy not to compete against the Afghan men’s team. The England XI decided to go ahead. I shall not be watching the match.

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Remembering of course that “capacity” is decision specific. My ability to choose between gingerbread vs cheese scones may remain long after I can no longer manage my finances. PoA in place (mine isn’t invoked yet…) but we have to be clear when we use it what the decision is that’s required.

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. Very sad news - Roberta Flack, one of the best soul singers of all time, has died at the age of 88. Rest in power Roberta 💔 💔 #bbcpm #RIPRobertaFlack RIP #RobertaFlack . www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_f... . www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

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It doesn’t need to involve reverse-engineering. Instead, make sure copyright laws are upheld at the point of training the models. We’ve already seen successful pushback against Books3 in The Pile dataset ( & my book was in that without my consent). Fine companies & give compensation for breaches.

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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

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Our Muslim Boy Wonder open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

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www.grahamscambler.com/marmot-covid...

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"They believe that fundamentally we are now in a world where the bullies can call the shots." FT columnist Gillian Tett tells #Newsnight that the shift in approach from the Trump administration shows that "the post war international order is dead - it's over".

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Here’s this week’s cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

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Charged with taking Russian bribes on eight occasions, former Ukip MEP, then Brexit Party MEP, then leader of Reform UK in Wales and Farage reckons he can get away with: "A spokesperson for Reform Wales said Mr Gill is not a member of Reform UK."? 🤣~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

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The only real peace for Ukraine is a fortified one — think Korea, not Vichy, writes former Moldovan Foreign Affairs Minister Nicu Popescu in his op-ed.

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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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During COVID years in France, the SocialCov survey showed major evolution and strong heterogeneities in contact patterns according to age, employment, weekend/vacation. Led by @paolobosetti.bsky.social and @lullaopatowski.bsky.social. bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Despite his threats, Elon Musk can't simply fire federal employees for not responding to an email, attorneys and former senior federal officials told Axios.

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What if Musk’s DOGE effort is shaping up as a full-blown fiasco for President Trump and the GOP?

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RIP to one of the bona fide greats

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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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@britishgerontology.bsky.social The British Society of Gerontology calls for nominations for the BSG Outstanding Achievement Award 2025: www.britishgerontology.org/bsg-awards/o...

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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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Is this really news? We all knew what trump wanted.

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Bravo Merz. 👏👏👏 Absolutely right. Europe needs to forge independence from America. 🇪🇺✊

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Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

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No access to their lawyers. No press. No way to know what torture they might be subjected to. Call it what it is. The Guantánamo Concentration Camp.

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In 2019 Nigel Farage's Brexit Party voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda, calling claims of Russian interference "scare stories" One of his MEPs was Nathan Gill, who has just been accused in court of taking bribes in exchange for defending Russia in the European Parliament

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Crocus tommasinianus - the woodland crocus or early crocus It is native to Eastern Europe, but are prolific garden escapers since being introduced to Blighty A strange phenomenon in the Kingdom of Kent is that they congregate for communal singing just before bedtime

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Please find my weekly accomplishments below 1. I did what I had to do 2. And saw it through without exemption 3. I planned each charted course 4. Each careful step along the byway 5. And more, much more than this… *maximum five bullet points reached

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#Bee

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#TeslaTakedown worldwide, baby!

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America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK "Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"

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If you stand with Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine 🇺🇦, Reply with a 💙; I want my friends to follow you.

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