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What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia

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"Katy Perry in Space!" - such performative nonsense. They skirted the Kárman line, where gravity is a whopping 3% lower than on earth. Hollow PR for yet another billionaire with rocketery phallic compensation issues. A hugely polluting waste with zero value to anyone but Jeff Bezos..

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UK Amazon customers! Today only, AmazonUK is offering a Gold Box deal on the Charlie Parker novels in ebook format — and THE WHITE ROAD is only 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/stores/John-...

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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

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This this THIS

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The Irish Data Protection Commission has announced the opening of an investigation into the Grok AI model on Elon Musk's X platform

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Kind words from Publishers Weekly for THE CHILDREN OF EVE, coming May 6 to the US and May 8 to the UK: "vivid characterization and striking prose . . . This long-running series shows no signs of slowing down." www.publishersweekly.com/9781668083949

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And …

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj

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Panda got his first ever trip to the beach today and a very good and healthy meal to help start his new diet. Look at him go 🥰🙏

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But nevertheless, China will be hopeful of victory.

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@lbc @mrjamesob.bsky.social Present Billionaires in the US are the Junkers in Prussia in the 20s and 30s. They Supported a Fascist then finding out they couldn't control that Fascist.

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Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos has been having a very good crisis and his latest is... sobering. Take notes, kids, this is history in the making

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In the new episode of Page 94, we spot a very specific Telegraph trend… Can you guess what the paper’s favourite headline phrase is? 🎧 Listen to the full episode now wherever you get podcasts: pod.fo/e/2c4c86

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🚨🚨 #techlaw and #trump: @ec.europa.eu is preparing fines against Apple and Meta for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to sources familiar with the investigations. 🧵 english.elpais.com/economy-and-...

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Italian teams cannot cope with modern football’s intensity. They need a reboot | Philipp Lahm

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Brussels police arrest Marco Rubio’s security detail supervisor after fight at a hotel bar www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3368419...

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Finland named world’s happiest country for 8th year running From the latest Private Eye, in shops now.

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🧵 I see quite a few UK neoliberal activist accounts pushing for UK re-admission to the EU. Just to be clear on this - to rejoin the UK would be treated like any other entrant. It would have to have the Euro from day 1, not get the refund it got before, & would take years. [1]

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“They want to break this connection between us and our audience … It’s an effective tool, but the good news is that we’ve proved that we’re resilient. There are still people who need us to do our job. This is the only way to fight back.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Who Is Worse? Comment Below.

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Yezidi kidnapped:” lSlS killed my father and I saw his blood on their hands. I was raped everyday for six months and I tried to kill myself to end this pain.” 0 MusIim protested for Yezidis!

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Happy Groundhogs Day! Please Share! youtu.be/y7nLdx_UMNA?...

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"‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza" Writing for Zeteo, Diana Buttu says she had a difficult time writing this essay because she could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.

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⚡️ Germany finances Ukraine's use of Starlink alternative Eutelsat, Reuters reports. Germany is financing Ukraine's access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.

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Comedian and actor Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assaults Developing story: www.lbc.co.uk/crime/comedi...

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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order" from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

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I know 2025's bingo card is already a flaming mess, but just noting I didn't have "Liam Neeson upskirt panty shot" on my 2025 bingo card. The wee little wry OJ Simpson gag got me, too.

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )

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RTÉ has launched a new strand of coverage called Clarity to counter false and fake news

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This excellent podcast gives some idea of the complexities of a non-US defence capability, and remember it has assumed political feasibility, which is by no means a certainty. youtube.com/watch?v=BFoJ...

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Gameshow idea: describe the thinking behind these plans without lapsing into the use of the words Moronic, Clown, idiot, etc etc

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Great comic timing from the Danes here.

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🤦🏻‍♀️ WATCH: “I think you’re confusing Oliver Stone with Roger Stone.” Y’all — Boebert just went full Boebert

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Donald Trump's tariffs will be negative the world over, ECB chief Christine Lagarde says ahead of announcement | Follow live updates:

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Paying journalists to be assistants to a machine for churning out press releases is the opposite of what journalism should be about

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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Irish life in 2050. A privilege to add my predictions to those of an amazing array of Irish thinkers and doers in the Irish Independent www.independent.ie/life/ireland...

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merit is back baby

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Irish authors have joined forces to campaign against the alleged use of their copyrighted work to train Meta AI models

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U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one

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