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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

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Huh. And The Simpsons usually get things right.

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The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025 Prize is now open for submissions until 5pm on Tue 22 April. The winning script will receive £20,000. ✍️ Apply with an original stageplay of 60m or more. (UK) womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/about/

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Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (50s?) in a denim jacket and hiking boots is sitting at a public piano, a far away look on her face as she plays the theme from the movie Amélie. A backpack and walking poles at her side. People chilling nearby, soaking up the atmosphere. (1)

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Boats ‘n’ hoes #TOTP

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To see one Nazi salute, may be regarded as Nazis. To see two Nazi salutes, looks like Nazis.

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Posted this on X earlier. Not kidding, for those of you who work in the press and may have left your account alive over there for DM'ing purposes.

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It’s addictive what?

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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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The City of London has billions of pounds in the bank. So why is it trying to cut its funding for historic open spaces such as Hampstead Heath and increase commercial revenue on the open spaces? Get your leaked documents here: www.londoncentric.media/p/maximising...

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Via private eye.

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For people in the UK, David Lynch's beautifully tender film The Straight Story is streaming on Channel 4 for the next 11 days. Some people say it isn't "Lynchian" - they're talking rot, it's sublime. Certainly cheered me up in this rather dismal moment in history. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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A grown man throwing a temper tantrum.

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Since putting up this crowdfunding page, the Daily Mail has sent us, through their lawyers (RPC), two defamation threats. A few points about them. 🧵 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (6?) with a Bluey backpack and an oversized pink baseball cap steps off a school bus and walks straight into her mum's outstretched arms. A big warm hug and an excited recounting of the day follows as they wander home.(1)

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Consistently worth >1K words. Over the years, Matt has 'written' dozens of books' worth of commentary on our ridiculous world. (And what most people don't realise is that every days he produces 5 or 6 equally brilliant sketches for the editor to choose from.)

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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Alexa With Love

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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

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Countering deliberate disinformation

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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It’s the 101st anniversary of the birth of Lee Marvin, which can only mean one thing: yes, it’s time to hear the story of him going home on a roof rack, utterly arseholed

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple of cafe regulars (80s?), originally from Portland, Oregon, are leaving after their morning coffee and slice of pie. As they head for the door, they're stopped by almost every table. These two are well loved and everyone wants a chat. (1)

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The twilight rendezvous at Le Refuge #paris #montmartre #art #cafe #painting

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for anyone else making the switch from kindle to kobo, here below are two reddit posts that summarise the approach i'm taking. i was working it out and then found these which put it all together MUCH more helpfully so they might be useful for you

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I have six previews of Sooz Kempner Is Ugly booked between now and August, more to be booked in. Links for tickets etc will come as and when I have them but for now... APRIL 8TH Bristol MAY 3RD Machfest!!! MAY 25TH Brighton JUNE 24TH Bristol JULY 5TH Chippenham JULY 11TH London

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I've been less quick to judge some of SpaceX's failures in the past bc rocketry is inherently tricky, but I think I'm done. The optics of this could not possibly be more ominous, but also these don't feel like accidents anymore so much as uncaring negligence "excused" by the sheer volume of launches

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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If you are looking for something to do this week or next, the immersive theatre show I wrote,The Gunpowder Plot, closes on Feb 28th! I may be biased, but I think it is one of the most fun days/evenings out in London. Took my 9 year old son and some friends and they loved it! gunpowderimmersive.com

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Delighted to have Lizzie writing for London Centric on the housing conditions in flats owned by billionaire London landlord Asif Aziz, of West End and Prince Charles Cinema fame: www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

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