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More students living in the United States are applying to Canadian universities or expressing interest in studying north of the border as US President Donald Trump cuts federal funding to universities and revokes foreign-student visas reut.rs/4cELhEQ

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Jon Stewart has a message for his Bluesky critics: 'My bad'

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The lovely Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social explains in this thread how his ex-publisher has left him in a shite situation. Tom asked if any indies could help out, so I asked Tom to send me some of his SIGNED books. You can buy them HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php?se...

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Grim but important reading on the terrible, deadly legacy of the asbestos industry. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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The Cunning Canine Academy For Dogs 🐶 Today’s lesson: Pretend you didn’t get fed. 🖼️ Credit: @OffTheMarkParisi.bsky.social

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So these SCUMBAGS sneaked up on this #Elephant whilst it was grazing and slaughtered it in cold blood! Very 'sporting' ~ NOT!! 🤬🤬 Please SHARE if you want a GLOBAL ban on #TrophyHunting NOW!!!

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What should Liz Truss's new Social Media platform be called? Wrong suggestions only.

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On Palm Sunday, 13-year-old Kyrylo saved lives in Sumy. Wounded by shrapnel, he jumped from a burning bus and opened the doors, rescuing passengers—including his mom.

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Track down the culprits and give them a ham.

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“Operates under a loaf-based alias”

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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz344bs

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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

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🇨🇳✈️ China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing Co. jets as part of the tit-for-tat trade war, - Bloomberg 🇺🇸🚫 Beijing has also requested that Chinese carriers halt any purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US companies.

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Good to see @jacktindale.bsky.social twitter posts still going strong in recycled meme Facebook groups

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Liz Truss has announced plans to launch her own 'free speech' social media platform, inspired by her experiences as PM. So, presumably you'll be able to post whatever you like for 42 days

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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Christ I was joking 😳

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Inspired by the recent success of the evening opening of tips in Birmingham, Shidas Lane Tip in Oldbury has also announced a series of late night openings. The 'Late Night @ The Tip' events will feature live jazz to set the mood, as well as bespoke cocktails and street food.

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Well, that, or an unorthodox sex life...

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US Health Secretary RFK Jr calls autism a "disease". Autism is not a disease. It's a neurodevelopmental condition that impacts the way the brain develops and processes information.

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The trailer for Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck is here 👀 The film will be released in select cities on June 6 and everywhere on June 13.

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Liz Truss is launching her own social media platform. Presumably the site will crash after a few weeks and she will blame the Bank of England.

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The Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) approved a bill that aims to integrate Ukraine into EU’s agreement on abolishing mobile roaming surcharges. english.nv.ua/nation/parli...

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This novel is about a huge ship called Titan. It hits an iceberg on an April night & sinks in the Atlantic Written in 1898. 14yrs before Titanic hit an iceberg & sank on this day, 15 April 1912 First line: "She was the largest craft afloat & the greatest of the works of man."

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Own your mistakes, weirdo. With great pouvoir comes great responsabilité.

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1. It is amazing how animals can feel danger and how they react. As the ground shook from a 5.2-magnitude earthquake, a herd of Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park immediately sprung into action to protect their young. This behavior is known as an 'alert circle'…

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I mean, a Captcha is a cognitive test.

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Tory MP given a lecture in how her past Govt failed when they could have acted.

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Remind you of anyone? My parents and grandparents always spoke fondly of their days working in factories. Indeed my Dad was so fond of it that he went to night school to retrain as an accountant and my grandfather used to tell me to take school seriously so that I wouldn’t end up like him.

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Exclusive: The SEC has pushed back on a request by a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team to grant read and write access to some agency data

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They saw the iceberg, stayed on deck, and lit cigars to watch the ship sink the “others.” Woopsie.

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On the campaign trail today, Farage told a group of voters in the North that he understood the worries of the steelworkers because he used to be “in the metals business”. That would be the London Metals Exchange in the city where he worked as a commodities trader. (h/t Tom Baldwin)

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Deport this monster back to where he came from 😠

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A paedophile from the US groomed, controlled and sexually abused a young Welsh girl online before flying to Wales / Cymru to meet her. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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🖊️ ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: -1865: President Abraham Lincoln is gunned down at Ford's Theater. -1912: The RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage. -2025: Donald Trump defies Supreme Court plunging the U.S. into a terrifying Constitutional crisis it might never recover from.

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When Russia’s your neighbor, even children learn to fear the sky. No child should.

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This is such a great thread! Kudos to the Mary Rose Museum admin 👏😊

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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Patrick Blower. @blowercartoons on #Putin #UkraineWar #Easter #Easter2025 #UkraineRussiaWar @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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🔥 5 years of replacing billionaire press with homegrown citizen journalism. 🔥 “None of us were proper hacks, even novice ones, or knew our way around the back end of a WordPress website, but we somehow muddled through together… We finally went live on 15 April.”

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I tried to post this, did not succeed. Kudos to my pal Mark Hamill. Here it is.

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Backlash over 'distressing' cuts to adoption fund

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Horrible Histories author Terry Deary is quoted saying he strongly disapproves of this. The man was killed in 1827. I am interested in the question how far away in time something like this has to be for nobody to mind it or find it inappropriate.

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Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

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