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spent the last few weeks building an etl pipeline for csvs, which I finished just before easter. I have therefore been relaxing over easter by _squints_ building a very basic csv cleaner to learn stripe integrations etc csv.datajanitor.dev

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@danwaterfield.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social dan you are omniscient, probably. is the song 'modern girl' by the bleachers problematic or critical of the ideas it espouses?

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Striking detail in this profile of retiring IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi—the most direct evidence yet that political pressure, not military planning, drove the massive volume of air strikes in Gaza in the three weeks before the ground campaign started www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...

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@nutedawn.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social @abradacabla.bsky.social nute gunray do you think america is transforming to roman imperial rule?

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Francis warmly embraced Holocaust survivors and Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders during his papacy, which poignantly ends in the 60th anniversary year of the historic Nostra Aetate

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anti-fascism was one of the primary motivators for largely apolitical or pacifist scientists going firmly to the left in the 1930s (Beyond the Laboratory, Peter Kuznick)

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@nutedawn.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social How Chris picks which team to support: I’ve seen moneyball. I calculate the optimal metrics and work out who is projected to win How Jacob picks: my dad says to support Blackpool so this is who I support How Kevin picks: the most centrist team

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The flaw in the 'Labour should come out for Rejoin' view is that 'the messenger' is an important part of how the public interact with policies. I frankly would not want a view I held to suddenly be taken by a very unpopular government.

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Jewish organizations mourn Pope Francis, ‘friend of the Jewish people’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-organizations-mourn-pope-francis-friend-of-the-jewish-people/

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104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising https://www.timesofisrael.com/104-year-old-warsaw-ghetto-survivor-in-australia-gives-vivid-testimony-of-uprising/

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How does deprivation relate to the latest MRP from More in Common? Quite a lot, in fact. kafkaesque.blog/post/depriva...

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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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I wrote about @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s brilliant book for @liberalcurrents.com. You should read this book. www.liberalcurrents.com/working-home...

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I opened up "Haaretz" today, and I saw these two headlines. Hard not to look at them together and conclude there's a risk of a complete and total Israel-Diaspora schism.

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@cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @nutedawn.bsky.social a respected person once said that society can be divided between the 47 percent that effectively contribute nothing and take and the the 53 percent who make for society. Would you agree and does this apply to me?

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@cjterry.bsky.social @nutedawn.bsky.social @abradacabla.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social second is it true autistic people don’t pay taxes or appreciate poetry? I think I calculated I am a net tax burden on society. Also I have never played baseball that is another one from the list

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@nutedawn.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social I read in the Washington post that RFK speaks for the American people. And he will finally make the American people healthy again.To what extent is this true? Second what are your opinions on healthcare?

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Some of the QRTs and replies to this are genuinely disgusting. Bunch of dilettantes whose sole interest in the Palestinian cause is borrowing it for cheap moral license to feel righteous targeting Jews.

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@nutedawn.bsky.social @abradacabla.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social every time I hear bruce springsteen on the radio I associate it with kevin

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@danwaterfield.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social flashbacks to that larry david sketch where he's like yes I'm a self hating jew...but it's not because I'm jewish!!

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The author of "Tangled Up In Blue: Blue Labour and the Struggle for Labour's Soul" is running to be Labour's candidate for mayor of Croydon. I've written about what her career can tell us about the tendency: labourlist.org/2025/04/rowe...

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