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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure "heart of a 65 year old" was bait to lure the press away from vaccine denial enabler got his shots.

MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1h

Getting promoted to the Prem for a season will clear all that outlay. Reinvesting promotion money will pay for us to build a squad for staying in the premier league long term.

MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Ashley = like being rescued from Jeffrey Dahmer & being sent to therapy with Dr Hannibal Lecter to help with your recovery.

Need to budget:

£100m to buy the club, sort the finances out etc

£50-100m to upgrade the stadium

£50m for the squad

footballleagueworld.co.uk/sheffield-we...

Sheffield Wednesday takeover news: Mike Ashley update, John Textor/Chansiri talks, IFR verdict

FLW rounds up the latest news surrounding a potential takeover at Sheffield Wednesday

footballleagueworld.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 6h

Thought that quote from Kingdom of Fear, published in 2003, felt relevant today. Here's the context

Hunter S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear quote on fascism and dumbness

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Roses are red,
Trump is cursed
New MAGA motto is:

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

Democrats. They are HANDING YOU GIFTS.

The Attorney General just had a guy we know took Russian money speak to the country. There's a direct link from Russia to Benny. You cannot fuck this up.

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MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 21h

Think they’d be reacting completely different if was a Bible, but legally, that it was an inanimate object played a role.

MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 21h

Free speech too?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1d

No. We won’t be doing that.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

President Trump suggested on Thursday the NATO alliance should weigh throwing Spain out of its membership ranks over a dispute about the Western European nation's lagging military spending.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s got to send them now to prove he isn’t bluffing.

Putin remains a master strategist.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

Putin insists Trump is “bluffing” about sending Tomahawks to Ukraine — and calls beefing up Russia’s air defenses his response to this “blackmail.”

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MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a man with blue ribbons around his chest that say fell for it again award

ALT: a cartoon of a man with blue ribbons around his chest that say fell for it again award

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 1d

This is so dark (and more great reporting on this grim industry from @byrobdavies.bsky.social

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Exc: High street slot machine shops pay bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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MrMRF8 @mrmrf8.bsky.social · 1d

Getting ready to go into hiding when they crash the world economy from the AI bubble bursting.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

dude seems really preoccupied by the Antichrist emerging from random things he doesn't like, which of course is very normal

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

“She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the committee stated in their announcement.