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Struggling in the hellscape. Living the life in the London suburbs. Very disappointed to announce that there really are no more heroes anymore. And finding my feminist chops these days.
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Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit  – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/n...

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Great egret in breeding plumage #photography #birds

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... < him, and his fellow-travellers need culling.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

A mother knows.

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Way to go, Sheryl!!

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The world has finally jumped the shark. 😱

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The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

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Gaelic Songs in Fife & The Herring Gutters 1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed Meg Hyland discusses the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the linguistic & musical exchanges between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaeli...

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Denmark has just set up a 50bn kroner defence fund because of fear of large scale war.

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If Brexit had never happened… …we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

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NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

A friend from high school who works for the National Forestry Service for 30+ years has told me that they are expecting to be fired this week. They’ll still have access to their pension at age 62, but lose all other benefits, including insurance. Also important to note, is that employees who

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‘100% risk’ Russia will occupy Europe if US pulls out of Nato, Zelensky warns

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Friends, May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines. Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

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American Bar Association says rule of law is under 'attack'. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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Currently on The Turntable

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This is me watching new developments pretty much every day now.

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Google is one of the world’s most powerful information gatekeepers, with billions of people using its ­Search and YouTube. Yet, it complies with requests for censorship from dictatorships, sanctioned regimes and governments accused of human rights abuses, including Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

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There is a world in which the US loses its hegemonic position really quickly It’s made a *huge* bet on AI, which looks a lot shakier post Deepseek, and it’s systematically destroying all its alliances If tariffs do happen, will be inflationary to at least some degree Perfect storm?

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

JD Vance is straight out of the Handmaid’s Tale. He is a literal transfiguration.

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A great blue heron rests on the ice above St. Vrain Creek at Rogers Park in Longmont, Colorado. #blueskyartshow #monochrome

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15 February 1914 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Serena Stein, was born in Varsolc. She worked in a nursery. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her 3-years old daughter Frumet. Most probably they were murdered in a gas chamber together.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

80th day of the protests in European Georgia. This is Tbilisi tonight. Look at that crowd. 80 days of this. That’s how you resist a Putin-backed coup.

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

A lot of good people at my agency were summarily fired last night.

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An emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers will take place in Munich tomorrow.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Roy and Renée: Trolley-Dollies #thefastshow

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Them: "Covid doesn't infect the brain! Covid doesn't infect the brain!" The brain: (yeah, that's my image showing neurons infected with Covid, as featured on the cover of UC Davis Neurology review of the year) With @1goodtern.bsky.social

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