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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

The White House "bunker" is under the East Wing. The one where Cheney went on 9/11, and Trump to hide from George Floyd protests.

So is that, like, out of commission? Still going to be there? Entrance hidden under the new throne room? No security concerns about the construction being so visible?

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 6h

Those who are "unlikely to contribute more than they cost" would have been deemed "social parasites" in the USSR, a surprising inspiration for Tory policy

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

The UK government last had a hate crime strategy for England in 2016-20

Prime Minister May was fairly active on this, 2016-19

Johnson (3 years), Truss, Sunak (22 months), Starmer (15 months, new party of govt) did not find appetite/bandwidth to prioritise renewing it
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Hate crime action plan 2016 to 2020

The government’s plan for dealing with hate crime in England and Wales.

www.gov.uk

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20h

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

techcrunch.com

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 21h

More likely this chap, I should think

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 1d

People make regular donations to the Graun so this kind of thing can get written. Astonishing

Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 1d

I discovered quite recently that I saw Mike Oldfield playing live back in the last millennium. Turns out he was with Kevin Ayers and the Whole World at Hyde Park in 1970, along with Robert Wyatt, Lol Coxhill and David Bedford

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 1d

When The Storm Fell Silent, Volume III of AH Tammsaare's Truth and Justice pentalogy, set in Tallinn at the time of the 1905 Revolution. Published by the mighty Vagabond Voices, translated by Matthew Hyde

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 2d

It is indeed. A genuine patriot would know this

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 2d

No need: my MP @sianberry.bsky.social has already written to the Minister for Women and Equalities asking her to reject the guidance
www.sianberry.org.uk/publications...

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 2d

I would already have high hopes of this book because of @cartoonkate.bsky.social 's earlier masterpiece Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 3d

I'm enjoying it, four episodes in

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 3d

I remember on the soap opera Crossroads there was a recurring character in an iron lung. Nowadays that would look like dystopian horror.

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 4d

One of those nostalgia pages on FB posted a question "What did you have as a child that today's kids don't?" My reply: measles, mumps, rubella

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: this was the only time Canadian actor Raymond Massey actually played a Canadian character

Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 6d

Collective punishment is a war crime

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 6d

Read Programmed Inequality by @marhicks.bsky.social on how men muscled in once the field was seen as 'professional' rather than routine office work

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 7d

I've started listening to the Radio 4 adaptation - feels uncomfortably familiar after just two episodes 😕

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 7d

Feels oddly appropriate that Thatcher was born in the same year as the concept of 'late capitalism'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_ca...

Late capitalism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 7d

- Celery
- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's painfully unfunny Holmes spoof, The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 8d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

sea urchins

that werewolf movie with Gregory Hines

Lady In Red

Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 8d

Ooh fun.

- Hard boiled eggs (can’t explain, just no)
- Children of Men (relentless)
- Sweet Caroline (does not require explaining)

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8d

Leather gloves are usually inadequate for the temperatures that tear gas grenades burn at.

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 8d

'Unhappy the land that needs heroes'
- Brecht, Life of Galileo

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Rodger Kibble @rodgerkibble.bsky.social · 8d

I'm reading Aftermath [Wolfszeit] Life In The Fallout Of The Third Reich by Harald Jähner, tr @shaunwhiteside.bsky.social

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8d

As hostages are being handed over to IDF, Israeli defense minister tweets about bombings to follow

Israel's great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas's terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States.
This is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.
I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.

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