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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2h

Right old ripping true life yarn du jour. I'd heard of Harry Rée previously, but not all this detail, this is a utterly amazing story.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

Tell me more about these water conservation methods; Rain, Rivers, Livers and Lofec’s

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 5h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 14h

That anonymous woman speaks for all of our inner voices when saying “oh, they did a good jooooob!”

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 14h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 15h

It's a little funny that half of the 18 countries having "no kings" rallies are monarchies 👑

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 18h

This is amazing. Thank you, world!!!

#USDemocracy

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21h

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

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Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 1d

the greatest moment in tic tac toe history

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a Brit, I say let her cook

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 1d

maybe birthday next year 😎

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d

one of the things about the AI water issue that drives me batshit is the way in which it demonstrates people (many of whom are arguing they understand reasoning better than the other side) don't understand how argument flow works

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 7d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 1d

now this is service journalism 🫡

I Looked Ridiculous Wearing This Solar Powered Hat That Couldn’t Even Charge My Phone

The EcoFlow Power Hat promised to be a stylish solution for off-grid power but it delivers too little power to be useful and has an ugly design.

www.cnet.com

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 2d

who’s your favourite hyphenated NFL wide receiver, JuJu Smith-Schuster or Amon-Ra St. Brown?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Nick Hide @nickhide.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! One flows through my home town, Malmesbury. We’re nothing if not imaginative

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 3d

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

what up TikTok it’s yr boy Young Gru

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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