@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social
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Actor. Original Ford Prefect, 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' [BBC Radio] Barclay in 'Ghosts'. Uncle Geoff in 'Back', [Netflix/C4.]
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Lot of love for Hannah Schmitz after Red Bull's principal strategy engineer took to the podium alongside Max Verstappen in Qatar. Can't help but feel that was a very deliberate decision from RB after McLaren messed up their strategy and handed them another lifeline in the drivers' title battle.
Max Verstappen's 'most important' Red Bull ally showed up McLaren in Qatar GP
Red Bull nailed their strategy for Max Verstappen while a McLaren blunder cost Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
www.express.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Lot of love for Hannah Schmitz after Red Bull's principal strategy engineer took to the podium alongside Max Verstappen in Qatar. Can't help but feel that was a very deliberate decision from RB after McLaren messed up their strategy and handed them another lifeline in the drivers' title battle.
he also talks to Norris like a schoolmaster to a pupil.
If McLaren somehow lose the #F1 Drivers' Championship to Max Verstappen, this radio message from Joseph will still haunt them long when we're gone.
![Lando Norris: "We should've just followed him [Verstappen] in, no?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rjasxhakgstc2qnbqapsdlv/bafkreiccxqisjsm37eca66d46w5pcuy26inoav6tfnjqgy343oxha4jv4e@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
he also talks to Norris like a schoolmaster to a pupil.
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McLaren F1 Papaya Rules
"Lap 7 safety car, pit now or we lose 20 sec"
"No, we'd double stack, unfair to Lando"
"Just pit Lando, championship leader"
"No, that'd screw Oscar"
"Just pit Oscar, he leads the race"
"No, that'd screw Lando"
"No pits, let's screw both drivers equally"😊
"Lap 7 safety car, pit now or we lose 20 sec"
"No, we'd double stack, unfair to Lando"
"Just pit Lando, championship leader"
"No, that'd screw Oscar"
"Just pit Oscar, he leads the race"
"No, that'd screw Lando"
"No pits, let's screw both drivers equally"😊
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
McLaren F1 Papaya Rules
"Lap 7 safety car, pit now or we lose 20 sec"
"No, we'd double stack, unfair to Lando"
"Just pit Lando, championship leader"
"No, that'd screw Oscar"
"Just pit Oscar, he leads the race"
"No, that'd screw Lando"
"No pits, let's screw both drivers equally"😊
"Lap 7 safety car, pit now or we lose 20 sec"
"No, we'd double stack, unfair to Lando"
"Just pit Lando, championship leader"
"No, that'd screw Oscar"
"Just pit Oscar, he leads the race"
"No, that'd screw Lando"
"No pits, let's screw both drivers equally"😊
Any and all sentences beginning 'I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to...' are wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Any and all sentences beginning 'I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to...' are wrong.
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This is necessary
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is necessary
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District Judge Boasberg and federal appellate judges deserve our thanks for not simply shrugging and letting the Trump regime get away with defying a court order regarding their cruel and illegal fights to El Salvador..
Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
District Judge Boasberg and federal appellate judges deserve our thanks for not simply shrugging and letting the Trump regime get away with defying a court order regarding their cruel and illegal fights to El Salvador..
CONFERENCING THEMSELVES INTO OBLIVION.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
CONFERENCING THEMSELVES INTO OBLIVION.
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
this is why we can't have nice things.
Newcastle City Council has cut down the hedgerow maze in Leazes Park...
...due to complaints that it was a magnet for anti-social behaviour, drug use and was “primarily being used as a public toilet”.
...due to complaints that it was a magnet for anti-social behaviour, drug use and was “primarily being used as a public toilet”.
Newcastle: public ‘toilet’ maze removed
Newcastle park maze removed after becoming 'public toilet'
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
this is why we can't have nice things.
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Strong floor, no ceiling.
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling.
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Habba: There were individuals that were saying that this should be a safe harbor, a safe haven. Why? America is America because we protect our own.
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
they'd gone to the buffet and promised to bring him back a berder.
tempting to believe that this is indeed T***p but it isn't reasonable to think that the president of the US is "dining alone".... he would be surrounded by idolators at Marla-gogo.
So yes, this pic (and the enlargement) was taken today.
Yikes!
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Yikes!
🧟♂️
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
they'd gone to the buffet and promised to bring him back a berder.
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The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
How John Roberts brought back Donald Trump
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
that pie-faced liar is out again.
There is no state in America where the average gas price is below $2.34 / gallon.
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
that pie-faced liar is out again.
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It sure seems to me that Trump is actually making deals with the cartels. He doesn’t want to end the cartels. He just wants his cut.
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It sure seems to me that Trump is actually making deals with the cartels. He doesn’t want to end the cartels. He just wants his cut.
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The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
'dissonance'? yeah, savage takedown, a diatribe worthy of Dean Swift. what a mealy-mouthed rag it remains.
yes, the NY Times is becoming more openly critical of T***p lately, actually suggesting, however belatedly, that his mental state is deteriorating & he is "slowing down." this may be a sign of an imminent crack in GOP solidarity behind him--if the newspaper is becoming less fearful of T***p.
Fascinating when the NYTimes decides to be a newspaper versus when they don't.
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
'dissonance'? yeah, savage takedown, a diatribe worthy of Dean Swift. what a mealy-mouthed rag it remains.
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Excellent explanation by @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social of the breadth and extremism of Trump’s attack on immigration and immigrants, of where we are and of where it seems to be going and why it’s unlikely to let up.
www.youtube.com/live/fKeiTXa...
www.youtube.com/live/fKeiTXa...
Inside Trump’s Brutal Anti-Immigrant Agenda (w/ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick) | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Excellent explanation by @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social of the breadth and extremism of Trump’s attack on immigration and immigrants, of where we are and of where it seems to be going and why it’s unlikely to let up.
www.youtube.com/live/fKeiTXa...
www.youtube.com/live/fKeiTXa...
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM