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This is such an impactful article explaining the power of Ukraine in uniting together and the importance of their allies not giving up

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So this is what Labour are making pensioners freeze over winter for? It's obscene that they've dug up close to £400 million to spaff on this performative cruelty circus. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

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Lucky for the tractor drivers they weren't objecting to the continued burning of fossil fuels leading to environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food insecurity, economic disruption, conflict, and terrorism. Still can't quite see how an ambulance would get through though.

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Why are those who are so obviously benefitting from the status quo so angry about it? There has never been a better time to be a rich white guy. These maniacs are sitting on 20, shouting ‘twist.’

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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Well someone doesn’t understand the Rule of Law.

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Vance is pushing idea that Trump is a king with unchecked power, not even accountable to courts and the rulings of judges. This is setting up the Trump administration to break with court rulings, creating a constitutional crisis and pushing the US into full blown dictatorship.

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“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS was released 88 years ago this week. The first feature length animated film to come out of the United States, and one of Hollywood’s most groundbreaking films, the story of how it was created is worthy of a Disney movie of its own… 1/55

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Brexit in three headlines

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I find this more convincing as an immediate motivation for Musk than “USAID helped end his beloved apartheid”, though his politics are very clear. He’s realised that he has an opportunity to reshape the entire US govt to cater to his own interests, and he’s going for it.

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Our latest update: mistakes by Companies House and the Financial Conduct Authority resulted in fraudsters obtaining FCA authorisation. A thread:

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The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.

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Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester

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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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I’m increasingly convinced that the “ignore what Trump is saying, it’s a distraction from what he’s really up to” line is just another way of being unable to cope with the fact he really is that hate-filled and stupid. He must have a “real plan” because if this is the plan it’s unbearable.

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It takes until a Palestinian politician quoted in the 20th paragraph of this story before this "remarkable proposal" is accurately described as ethnic cleansing

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Really nice thread, giving an idea of the direction a clean European electricity grid is heading towards. Also makes a good point on nuclear: it can be a good complement to renewables, even if not a good replacement for them.

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Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

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It's kind of fascinating how much Whitehall and Westminster's continued obsession with the success of Thatcherite reforms in the 1980s manages to memory hole how crucial the surge in North Sea oil was to fixing the UK's chronic fiscal and balance of payments problems at the time.

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I suspect this is because the “murder mystery” format as developed in Victorian fiction is an attempt to impose rational order on chaos, and so creates the illusion that someone is in control, that someone will fix this mess, even if everything except the murder mystery is batshit. It’s reassurance.

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The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

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The only 'Blue Monday' article you'll ever need theneuroscienceofeve... It's #BlueMonday again. And this is all you'll ever need to read to know the 'truth' about it Which is that it's a ridiculous marketing stunt that got way out of hand and impacted me more than most people

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

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Insightful article by @ednewtonrex.bsky.social . There's simply no need for the govmt to sell out UK creative industries: "Lots of AI – the type the government cares about, such as in healthcare, science and defence – is not trained on the work of the world’s creators." 1/2

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A take it journalists' social media timelines and columns are full of reports of several days of market confidence recovering, borrowing rates dropping, the FTSE hitting record highs, and praise for Rachel Reeves. No? ~AA

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January is really dragging. I say we do the rest of the month as a poignant montage, replace February with a caption card, and crossfade to early March, which finds us awaking with a renewed sense of purpose as uplifting music swells on the soundtrack and the sun rises over the city. And flowers.

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Greens ahead of Reform among young people but the media don’t want to talk about that.

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About as succinct as it gets

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Reading the UK government's "AI" proposals you are left with the impression that they've had precisely one (1) Powerpoint presentation on this, which led to a brainstorming session after a dangerously long lunch, which they then let "AI" transcribe for them.

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The alt texts for these images are on FIRE

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Words to live by, from the great Ian Dunt.

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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

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Yup - everyone can see what’s going on here. It’s absurd.

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"I can assure you that the entire time that I was in Cabinet, this was never discussed" Speaking to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, Ex-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries discusses the Tory Party never launching a national inquiry into child grooming gangs during their time in government #Newsnight

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Phillips wrote this is 2018. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... In 2010 she was working for Women's Aid and funding refuges. It's so so fucked up to incite violence against the woman fighting hardest to protect women, and the only aim is to silence and punish Jess Phillips

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