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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10h

Left: Pete Hegseth, "We're building a Qatar Air Force facility in Idaho"

Right: JD Vance, "The reporting there is going to be a Qatari base on US soil, that's just not true"

If you can't trust the United States Secretary of War, who can you trust 🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Kamala Harris: "I think he has a vengeance campaign, which is really exposing the petty nature of who he is and his deep level of insecurity."

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LongdogOwner @3216andyc.bsky.social · 11h

Creepy as fuck.
#EpsteinFiles

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 11h

Several years after Epstein was convicted on sexual offences with children, Andrew said in an email to him "play some more soon".
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 11h

Zelenskyy said Putin tested Europe's air defenses with drones and aircraft, calling the response insufficient. He compared it to Crimea, adding Putin is preparing Russian society for the next stage.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 11h

Social media posts claiming UK banks have introduced restrictions on cash withdrawals for people aged over 65 are not true.

No such policy has been implemented or announced.

False claims about cash withdrawal limits for pensioners circulate online – Full Fact

Social media posts claiming UK banks have introduced restrictions on daily cash withdrawals for people over 65 are not true.

fullfact.org

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16h

I got my then pre-teen to look closely at all the art in the Doge’s Palace in Venice by having a “Where’s Willy” competition with him, to see which of us could count the most penises.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 15h

Good night, all. Leaving you with this wonderful performance of a fave song by Peter Gabriel. Orchestrations by John Metcalfe, with whom I worked when I was General Manager of Black Box Music in London around the turn of the millennium.

youtu.be/radX3rdnicI?...

Luv and peace
🙏🏻❤️

Peter Gabriel - Signal to Noise (Taking The Pulse)

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 1d

‘Combining my love of folklore and stupid dances here are some linocut mummers. Mummers were (are) cavorting masked performers in folk play or mime often demanding food or booze for their efforts. The hare mummer is dancing like a goofball to the quiet bit in 'Blisters in the Sun'…’

Linocut illustration of a dancing Mummer hare next to the lino plate.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 16h

Here's another reason, if any were needed, to avoid Meta services like the plague.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 17h

On this particular point, there’s enormous appetite for the ‘you left Twitter because the didn’t like disagreement and have therefore abandoned the discourse for the Bluesky echo chamber’. But IN FACT, Twitter had become virtually unusable as a practical matter.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 17h

I have no need to wade through sewage to know that it exists.

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Killed Women @killedwomennw.bsky.social · 9d

Ellen Cook was discovered with "multiple" stab wounds in Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, on 11 May. Her son, Daniel Cook, was charged with murder, but he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility at Leicester Crown Court on Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man admits killing his mum in 'horrific' Littlethorpe stabbing

Daniel Cook admits manslaughter over the death of Ellen Cook, who suffered

www.bbc.co.uk

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Killed Women @killedwomennw.bsky.social · 2d

A 56-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering Emma Costello McCrory by setting fire to her home in Clontarf almost three years ago.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Man jailed for life for murder of Dublin woman in 2022

A 56-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman by setting fire to her home almost three years ago.

www.rte.ie

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 21h

🧪 upside down

„Finally, think about your environmental footprint.“

The environmental footprint of actual plastic is going to destroy our planet before anyone dies from the glue in teabags 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sorry @lindageddes.bsky.social this is all upside down

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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