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"Maybe a third world war"

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"only 30% of Britons now think it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU, versus 55% who say it was wrong. The majority support closer relations with Brussels" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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'How narratives are central to understanding quantitative outcomes'. Here's the recent piece I wrote for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social with huge help and support from the Government Outcomes Lab, University of Oxford, whose fascinating work is discussed here.

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Ik was eigenlijk ook altijd meer van Evert Hartman.

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“This museum is also about hope because all refugees and migrants have one thing in common, and that’s the hope for a better future.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...

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If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

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“This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” www.thedailybeast.com/producer-swe...

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#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1980-83 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

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"You know what our greatest invention is? The inside. We invented the inside so we could get out of the outside."

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"There is nothing preventing one from washing the dishes at the same time, provided that the package is tight enough"

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“It was degrading, it’s dehumanizing. It is horrendous,” he recalled. “People shouldn’t be treated like that, especially when they’re in distress.”

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"The most troubling suggestion in Tapper and Thompson's book is that Biden's real original sin wasn't running for reelection, it was running for the presidency in the first place"

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"I’d probably never sell it to anyone but Geoff,” said Knapik, “but who knows what I’d say if a dipshit loser offered me $44 billion to let him kill it and use its corpse for fascist ventriloquism." aftermath.site/summer-games...

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This is bleak reading

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"The dream of a U.S.-Russian rapprochement is never far from Trump’s thoughts"

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The left's decided to collectively implode. "Starmer will announce on Monday “an end to Britain’s failed experiment in open borders that saw migration soar to 1 million a year”..., calling for the government to “take control”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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"What is the city but the people?" Coriolanus, 3:1. #ShakespeareSunday

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"A commercial Boeing 747-800 costs in the range of $400 million." "Reagan did not use the plane to fly around himself. It was set up in the museum portion of his library." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

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Nieuwe IKEA-showroom laat zien welk kastje heel leuk bij het grofvuil zou staan

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Well, F my papal knowledge.

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"For Shakespeare biographers “who favor the narrative of the ‘disastrous marriage’” — and even those who do not — the document “should be a horrible, difficult problem,” Mr. Steggle’s paper concludes." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/w...

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HAHAHA "an American who understands and appreciates that diversity could prove to Trump that the papacy is no laughing matter."

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Klopt. Maar een van de meest verrassende aspecten van mijn onderzoek is dat wanneer de Frans-Duitse as te innig is, dit altijd tot Europese verdeeldheid (wie valt er buiten de vriendschap?) leidt.

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I clicked too fast and really thought it was "Middle Earth and the threat from Mordor"

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"Maybe this is what we deserve. Maybe this is what happens when the arts are decimated, when funding is stripped from vital, high-quality spaces. It leaves a vacuum that invariably gets filled with rubbish" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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“We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Volgens haar is het een „wezenlijk kenmerk” van Nederland: bureaucratie boven menselijkheid, grenzen dicht, achterdochtig jegens alles wat afwijkt. „De Nederlanders hebben zich schunnig gedragen”, zei haar vader altijd." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: 6,28318530718

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"The Fascist movement in America is nothing but a move on the part of the money-barons to establish themselves more firmly than ever, to stamp out the last vestige of freedom in the people beneath them."

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“If someone like him doesn’t get to the place he deserves, there is nothing called the American dream,” apnews.com/article/immi...

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Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Urks Fruit

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"do the books that you eat now nourish you as much as the ones you ate when you were a child and a teenager?" www.denofgeek.com/books/ursula...

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"het Monument van Joodse Erkentelijkheid" nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...

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1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

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Actually, the average person 3-5 close friends is in line with most of the research out there.

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"a much-anticipated natural resources deal" www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A cartoon for the @theguardian.com from a few years ago.

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Antoine Vion doet ook leuk onderzoek naar dit soort vriendschapsrelaties: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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