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just one of the many wild, insane, illegal elements of this is that many (most?) federal workers don't have a way to login to their email from home (bc of security reasons) unless they happened to take their secure work laptop home for the weekend - which, ofc, very few people do

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the America I like…

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love to read user reviews

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I wish I, as a Brit living in the UK, didn’t have to care about the German elections, but this is a big test for the future of Europe.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Again: tech journalism is meeting this moment in a way the mainstream establishment newspapers and cable channels just aren’t. I can’t emphasize enough what a big deal this is.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 19 hours ago • 93 comments

Thanks to the UK government for leading us to a point where iCloud is less secure for your citizens. Madness. No backdoors! Encryption for all! Let the intelligence community do some work to get the specific data they need!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Surely there’s room for a ‘James Bond retires to Ramsay Street’ spin-off.

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Decided that 'Boar on the Floor' and 'Defiant Jazz' are the two best scenes in modern televison.

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This is the only actually funny Amazon/Bond post I've seen so far

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X’s “turnaround” just as it’s reportedly raising a funding round at a glue-sniffingly high $44bn valuation is…. interesting.

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Protection racket vibes: "The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of those 'I bet this would have been dealt with years ago if it was a problem most men could relate to' things' PeriPear is tackling a serious, and expensive, risk in childbirth: perineal tears

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"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative." No words.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

extremely ‘I write editorial comment for the FT’ voice. Completely agree with this and also feel like it’s in part a manifestation of how UK has turned inwards. Even much of the political class seems unaware of how important and significant all this is for UK prosperity and security.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

This is absolutely the Twitter Files for the government. Elon wanted to humiliate his enemies. But what Twitter Files showed was generally careful governance, some bad calls, & stuff taken out of context by “journalists” who didn’t understand the basics. Same here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Seeing @manchestermill.bsky.social uncover stories like this makes me wonder how many scandals go completely unreported around the country due to poor funding of local news media.

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Quite literally testing the waters: “The Australian navy is shadowing Chinese warships 150 nautical miles east of Sydney, the furthest China’s navy has sailed down the eastern Australian coast.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid

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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

96.9% chance it won’t… right? Right?!

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After handing out useful tips about how to avoid doomscrolling (Reset your TikTok algo! Move your particular problem app off your homescreen! Delete X!) I'm now ignoring my own advice and very much back to doomscrolling....

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Taking a break from doomscrolling to explain doomscrolling to the listeners of BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Radio Berkshire in about 10 minutes... ...and then I'll be straight back to the doomscrolling.

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The Verge is willing to explain this stuff without fear or favour. Not having to worry about burning White House and Capitol Hill relationships by speaking the truth really does help these days.

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Nipping chronic disease in the bud: Sarvas Health wants to use AI to catch serious conditions super-early I spoke to them about what they're building:

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