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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 20m

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 22m

An extra for luck. Not read this yet, recently given to me by a friend who always has book recommendations and the first chapter made it seem like it’s going to be strange and entertaining. It’s about a nearly pop star who never quite made it but is still sort of trying.

Street-level superstar - a year with Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson.

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 25m

And this one is a blow by blow history of the suez crisis and Hungarian revolt of 1956. By the end the only seemingly honourable people are Eisenhower and to be fair probably Nasser. Left me with an even lower option of Eden than the vague one I already carried. Also very good!

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 24m

Hong Kong doesn’t have that expat job pool much these days. Why pay an expat salary when you can recruit a Chinese kid who’s been to a top western uni and has a network in the mainland , on a lower salary

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 27m

It’s like the express and princess DI

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Mordant Muppetry @mordantmuppetry.bsky.social · 51m

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The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence : Collingham, Lizzie: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 35m

Three good (and very different) books I read this summer:
This one is a very deeply reported tale about the evolution of OpenAi but also an intellectually ambitious take on how the industry is sucking up physical, financial and labour resources and abusing them all. It’s very good!

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 30m

This is personal stories of some bewildered and traumatised people in East Germany a few years after the wall came down. Sort of part travel book part journalism, but just really good clear crisp writing. And fascinating stories.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 43m

It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded

Or, to be strictly accurate, today is the 67th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state

(Yes, sorry*. This thread is disgusting)

(*Well, kind of)

Papal Swiss guards in costumes – and especially helmets – that could have come from the 1980 Flash Gordon film flanking the dead body of Pope Pius XII in a big, posh room in a palace in Rome. The pope is covered in plastic, in a way that suggests he has been inexpertly shrink-wrapped. This will be explained later

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 35m

London is a different city depending on your age it’s hard to judge London of 10 years ago when you are also 10 years older

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 47m

very good and I did like chocolate wars

Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Cadbury, Deborah (June 23, 2011) Paperback: Amazon.co.uk: Cadbury, Deborah: Books

Buy Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Cadbury, Deborah (June 23, 2011) Paperback by Cadbury, Deborah (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday l...

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 1h

Don’t agree with most of the green policies but hypnotits is at least attacking reform properly

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 2h

I am getting 3 flights and a train next week so looking for good books and podcast recommendations

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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 1h

Have just had a VERY long bus journey through Bromley, Beckenham and surrounds, and now I understand why Bowie drank, took drugs and lived in Berlin and New York.

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 2h

I am getting 3 flights and a train next week so looking for good books and podcast recommendations

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 11h

So if they are stopping exports , tariffs don’t matter ( they aren’t stopping exports)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h

Trump: China send letter effective November 1st, 2025 imposing large scale export controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them

Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 11h

A cat that looks like a dog

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 12h

Margin calls elsewhere maybe need to cash out to pay

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 12h

Crypto traders are so pissed they’re liquidating their Trump memecoins

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 13h

donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face while speaking into a microphone .

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 13h

Ooh big tone change www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 13h

Did it make you smile?

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 14h

You gotta love MC Tunes #totp

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

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