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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

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How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

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This is lovely

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This is such a beautiful piece

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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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No no NO www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

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Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people.

submitted 65 days ago • 164 comments

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

submitted 66 days ago • 44 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

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this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...

submitted 86 days ago • 40 comments

Thank you - that's just saved me £30

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Looks like I forgot to post my mixed metaphors for translation over here. An oversight! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07...

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Finally something we can all agree on

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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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📳 Never let it be said we leave you podless over the holidays. 🗞️ Try this #ICYMI edition of @papercutsshow.bsky.social with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social @jasonhazeley.bsky.social & @jackguinness.bsky.social – they read the papers so you don’t have to 📝 Listen all abaaaht it! linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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The Candy Man Can: my SKETCH of Today in the People's Party being bankrolled by the Extremely Rich People's Developer. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

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How I think my German umlauts sound VS the reality.

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#lunchtimewalk

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Y'ALL Y'ALL Y'ALL saturday's cartoon for the guardian

submitted 153 days ago • 5 comments

Are you about to DM someone you don't know? Cut. That. Shit. Out. No one likes it.

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Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter. And, hoo boy, have I got one for you. Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit. 🪡 🧵 🪡

submitted 162 days ago • 70 comments

Do you look worse anywhere else than in the self scan security camera? For a split second there, I thought some kind of swamp donkey was buying my crumpets.

submitted 163 days ago • 36 comments

Incredibly funny that Trump made a guy attorney general because his babysitter briefly went to a different room to check email

submitted 164 days ago • 15 comments

#lunchtimewalk

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