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Though our @bylinetimes.bsky.social server has been hit you can still read this on our substack www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

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bad week for the stock market

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British Antarctic Survey From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Europe must stay focused and act now to back president Zelenskyy against Putin. At today's meeting with heads of states, hosted by Emmanuel Macron, we saw that we have the tools – sanctions, tariffs, frozen assets - to keep up the maximum pressure. We will not give up and we will #StandWithUkraine

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Today's GB News advertisers include •Jet2 Holidays •TrailFinders •Freshpet •All Clear Travel •Staysure •Boxt •Dormeo •Brackenwood.com •Roomes •Rangeford Living •Polish Tourism Organisation •Raging Bull Snacks •Body By Nature •Bullards Gin •Spire Healthcare •Housing Units

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This is not an image of a migrant mob storming a Birmingham hospital with axes and blades, as this tweet shared by Elon Musk claims. West Midlands police has confirmed the image is fake. The inconsistencies and physical anomalies in the image indicate it's likely AI-generated.

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Today I found out exactly where I've reached on the sliding scale of depressingly inevitable uncoolness…

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The memes are still coming many days later.

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Please repost if you think there should be a worldwide ban on harmful pesticides. 😡 ‼ Please sign, share & support (812 donators to 850+) to Save The Pollinators 👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘

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Remembering Tim Buckley on his birthday. Here he is performing Song to the Siren on The Monkees TV show in 1968 youtu.be/vaa22ULitds

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Measles cases by U.S. state before and after the measles vaccine.

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Day 349. Silence from Lisa Nandy on saving the UK's oldest working cinema from Glenbrook Property Silence from Birmingham City Council on saving the birthplace of Black Sabbath & Heavy Metal from Toyoko Inn One street. Two iconic venues at risk from greed. But who cares about Birmingham I guess?

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AI technology: then and now. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Evening Standard profiling Farage as celeb/personality/icon to watch. He told it he's creating a "vetting department" so Reform doesnt "get caught again with lunatics & maniacs" But didn't answer Byline Times when asked why he was pictured with far-right activists Established press doesn't learn

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Morten Morland @thetimes @mortenmorland on #KeirStarmer #tariffwar #tariffs #tariffwars #TrumpTariffsWars #TrumpTariffs – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

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Knighthead Capital’s stake purchase of Birmingham Phoenix further demonstrates their commitment to the West Midlands. They will have my support to help them deliver their vision.

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Just got this tip from an airline pilot

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Well done u guys.. 👏

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.

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Chart of the Week: Public trust by occupation and salary

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Morning Bluesky. Led by Donkeys, Britain’s political pressure group, projected Elon Musk's Nazi salute on to Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin.

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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

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UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]

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Now picture this: Putin buys $1 billion in TrumpCoin and asks for US support for defense of Europe to be put on hold. Xi-Ping stages an invasion force on the coast of China across from Taiwan, and buys $5 billion in TrumpCoin. What will Trump do? We all know.

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Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit? Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

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Nothing says 'the continued relevance of monarchy' quite like a billionaire, English, unelected king, dressed up as a Scottish laird, turning up at a food bank in a helicopter

submitted 37 days ago • 134 comments

Stop what you are doing and read this if you want to understand the mess the UK is in, and learn from it.

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Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

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It takes a pretty special kind of entitlement and a very friendly media to stand there, as a member of the party who took gov't debt from 63% to 100% of GDP, from £900 billion to £2.8 trillion, who gave us Brexit and PM Truss, and say "we know how this sorry story goes - we have seen it before." ~AA

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Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy. It began under the last government, and continues under this one. Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.

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13th Jan 1970. 55yrs ago today you could have been at work, waiting to go and see Black Sabbath playing their spiritual home, Birmingham's The Crown. Sabbath were celebrating the release of their debut single 'Evil Woman'. This is the state of The Crown today...🤦‍♂️

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OK that’s quite funny.

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Getting distinct Opium War vibes from the social media power axis. “We’re going to make our product more addictive and more toxic and we’ll punish you severely if you try and protect your citizens from its worst consequences.”

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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy and how it plans to protect “fundamental rights” on its platforms, following Zuckerberg's shock announcement that the Facebook and Instagram parent is axing fact-checkers.

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The Los Angeles fires are a big story. Not the only big story, but who cares about Africa? africacenter.org/spotlight/re... #wato

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A paragraph straight from Vonnegut

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🚨🚨 in case you’re wondering why the Tories didn’t implement the Alexis Jay report into child sex abuse we reveal tonight that her proposal for a compensation scheme for victims would cost £5-10bn according to preliminary Whitehall estimates www.ft.com/content/cef1...

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Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fueled race riots last year reut.rs/3PrsMsx

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