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In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Just found a classic Yeltsin-related anecdote, as told by John Major at an event in Texas in 2001. georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/release...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Saw this ad in Hanley earlier. I mean: valid enough as a sentiment, but have to say I thought it was poorly pitched - a great way for the @telegraphnews.bsky.social to patronise its target audience AND the three Baltic states mentioned.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday was a good day! 😁 #pvfc

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Very reassuring.

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Went to Tarragona for a couple of days: fabulous, and erupting with Roman stuff too.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

If you could calculate the expected future value of a university’s degrees, those issued by Harvard rose by a lot more than $2bn yesterday.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 26 days ago • 275 comments

Very little skin in the game but endorse the sentiment.

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@nbcnews.com Please contact our media relations for better footage. This piece looks like it was filmed with a potato with telephoto lense and portrays our most destitute penguin populations during their molt.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

submitted 36 days ago • 353 comments

Prove to me that Daniel Hannan isn’t a complicated, long running spoof.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 38 days ago • 963 comments

Evoking Jimmy Saville is it?

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

via @pileusmedia.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 43 days ago • 594 comments

The Europeans and Starmer have yet to get to the point where they're willing to air this publicly

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

The 47 on Trump’s hat means 47th oblast.

submitted 45 days ago • 43 comments

An oldie but a goodie, for anyone looking for a book with something to say about how we ended up with this version of America.

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The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.

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Three positions available, one lovely team to join. A great place to work and an amazing chance to make a difference in our city 🙂 vast.org.uk/community-de...

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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 48 days ago • 425 comments

Also worth looking out for how wider social networks such as football ultras in clubs outside Istanbul like Trabzonspor start moving in the next few days

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 50 days ago • 2582 comments

If govt does introduce a wealth tax I can’t wait for the articles in the Torygraph saying “my husband and I have made a lot of sacrifices to get £10 million and now we’re going to have to take the children out of boarding school”

submitted 53 days ago • 10 comments

Spent an afternoon pottering about in Cambridge on the offspring's NUS card. And just like that, a boy raised in Burslem became a little bit blasé about ceiling and bosses and bridges of sighs.

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As I exit my workplace I bid thee good evening from the apocalypse.

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Definition of contraband: sneaking a load of pomegranate seeds into Vale Park and daring the pie munchers to say something / anything to my face 😘

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By jove, Bernie - I think you're onto something.

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A recent meeting of the Rhys Walters Appreciation Society.

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Leaving the ground, a familiar face - who also happens to be a senior trustee at work - simply called out in my direction, 'see you Tuesday!' Like there was never any doubt I'd be driving down to Essex like a total idiot 😂

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Decent day out on the Fylde Coast yesterday with #pvfc, salvaged by a late penalty 👌

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Also me, when I call up the #pvfc starting XI

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The translucent millenials are comin' for ya, Burslem. Keep your wits about you! I do support more trees, and also nice pavements. No-one is seriously pretending that Burslem doesn't have bigger challenges. But I would also like a job with fuzzy-felt streets and unnaturally blue skies 🤗

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Forgive me for posting about football but this goal by Lizbeth Ovalle is really more a work of art...

submitted 64 days ago • 64 comments

Haven't followed this in detail yet but hope the debate about sentencing guidelines reopens the conversation about whether a background of poverty/deprivation should be included as a group under Equalities legislation.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

If it walks like a Kremlin asset, and talks like a Kremlin asset, it's probably a Kremlin asset - whether the asset in question knows it or not.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most dangerous, irresponsible framing imaginable. Not to mention it is bollocks. The big big winners from positioning Ukrainian security against poor British people & our public services are the far right. TAX THE RICH TO PAY FOR DEFENSE. PROTECT OUR WELFARE STATE.

submitted 64 days ago • 123 comments

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 68 days ago • 100 comments

Zelensky was disrespectful to the Oval Office was he?

submitted 69 days ago • 14 comments

🔴Fear and Favour: What Does Trump Owe Putin? Maybe His Life With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian one, @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/f...

submitted 69 days ago • 23 comments

A well-informed friend messaged me earlier: “The pee-pee tapes are currently being returned to the vaults of the Lubyanka.”

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