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“Well, Dr Franklin, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic… I think… wait… let me refresh my feed again…”

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Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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This is somehow more obsequious than "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"

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These homes were boarded up when @judesherry.bsky.social & I moved to Cork City from Amsterdam in 2018 7 years later they are still boarded up In Amsterdam they have a policy that all homes can only be vacant for 1 year before compulsory rental Its time for that policy here #DerelictIreland

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They’re only unlikely allies if you haven’t been paying much attention for the past decade or so.

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Fuckery.

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I can't claim to know much about the operations of Meat Industry PR in Ireland, but we flew home the day the 50% reduction was first proposed, and both my in-laws talked about nothing else all day because "you can't even eat meat any more" had fronted every radio program in Ireland for 24 hours.

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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I remain repulsed and astounded by how many people seem to think AI is useful for doing travel writing and travel itineraries. Travel guide writing is extremely dependent on lived on-the-ground RECENT experience.

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Hoping some journalism profs assign their students to check how many mainstream outlets got the amount of tariffs still in place correct.

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Why does 53-year-old land beluga Elon Musk's inner circle seem to be made up entirely of catastrophically horny teenage incels? It's kinda creepy, no?

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Seven schools have been awarded Yellow Flags for their efforts in promoting diversity and inclusivity in the classroom

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“IDEAS”

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This yelling Batman figure has ... uses.

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You wouldn't know the countries, they live in Canada. They're really hot and their dad is rich, tho. Swearsies.

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Just added some more pieces from WP to the digital archive. Work by John Butler, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, @cristinleach.bsky.social Anna Leask and William Wall winterpapers.com/selected-work

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Trump is just the human smallpox blanket that keeps on giving

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Whether this was an honest mistake or a regrettable decision, it is the result of treating fascists like a normal political opposition party instead of as the Nazis they are. If you truly believe they're evil (they are), then you're nowhere near the Oval Office under any circumstances.

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As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

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Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

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Creepy as hell. 🤡

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H2-powered robot sort-of horse My robot horse Running through the fields Where are you going With your caps lock blowing in the wind

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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by priests it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/l...

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WE DID IT LADS

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For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds. I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

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Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

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The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct. An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

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Three people have died as a result of the Texas measles outbreak & little is being said about how many children will become disabled. 500 people infected means many kids could suffer lifelong health issues due to reckless behaviour by the adults in their lives. They need us to protect them.

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seems like someone might be panican

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The stock ticker here looks like the control room Master Systems Display in the last episode of Chernobyl, just before the big baddaboom. This is bigly negative void-coefficient economics.

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De-extinction is Mars colonization for biology nerds. Sorry but it is.

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Much like artisan, hand-made goods that are a little wonky and wear their imperfections like a badge of pride, spectacularly poor writing like this shows that at least it's not AI generated. Anyhow, I'm rather enjoying Daredevil: Born Again, in spite of many flaws.

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