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jesscourtney.bsky.social
Joint winner of the 1979 three legged race @[email protected]
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Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

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Apple pulls high-level data protection for UK users after the government requested right to access

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They had their own wall! A little Bafta wall!

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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From @walkerbragman.bsky.social, more on the RealClear journal of COVID contrarians. www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

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This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵

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ONE My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.]

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The crisis in our courts has opened the door to secretive justice It must be stopped My long-read this weekend for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...

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The latest cover of The New Yorker ahead of Inauguration Day.

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Hate to break it to you Elon, not just that platform.

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We need what Iceland’s having.

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‘Don’t man up…. Instead ‘…talk, cry, scream’ This is so important & very poignant from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social on men taking their ow lives

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Whoa Black Betty

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Perhaps one of the most famous manuscripts of all time – Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species – was doodled all over by his children. Adorable! 😊 www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...

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@karencannard.bsky.social 👋

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DON’T TELL ELON I’M OUT HERE

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Pessimists sound clever. Optimists change the world. I love this depiction of the energy transition by RMI.

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I have a joke about Cassandra but no one believes me.

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@kirkkorner.bsky.social 👋 Missed your posts since I left Twitter. Delighted to find you here.

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Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books! bookshop.org

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If you see this quote post with a beach from your gallery.

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What’s your sign?

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Rishi Sunak typing "can you suggest some popular policies that will help me get re-elected?" into Google AI...

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