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"Gnomon" by Nick Harkaway

TOTALMENTE INDICADA! Fernanda Torres indicada ao Oscar de Melhor Atriz!

Isto

That explains the Electoral College. 😄😄

Apex predator

a) agree with this, also b) did I just have an unusual childhood or was it more normal in the past for kids to be in the office in the summer than it is now?

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

It's fascinating to me that Japan's reputation as the paragon of very low birth rates has survived in pop culture - it's had a higher birth rate than almost anywhere else in developed East Asia for two full decades, and a higher one than China for several years!

This isn't something I would have expected from anyone in the German policymaking elite. www.ft.com/content/702d...

Triste Beton, A brutalist digital drawing (hugely) inspired by Adolphe Appia r/brutalism

"A grande preocupação dele era como é que institucionalizava a democracia em Portugal. Era sempre a grande preocupação. Mário Soares tinha a ideia de que o que se estava a passar, com os aplausos da população, era uma coisa emocional e não era cultural. Não era uma coisa de cultura, era de emoção".

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

@michaelpettis.bsky.social inputs on trade are really awesome!

1/11 If you want to understand the effects of trade intervention, ask economic historians, but never ask economists. That's because their answer will almost certainly reflect little more than their ideological position, and they are likely to be wholly unaware of what happens outside the US.

He insists that the original thanksgiving tradition had cats and they were given copious amount of sushi, and frankly, I should know this by now. #cats #catsofbluesky

Hey, @belinhadox.bsky.social olha aqui o meu jantar!