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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 12h

No it’s fine. I actually love watching this horrible Eddington bootleg I torrented on my phone in 10 minute increments

HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 12h

The divide in late millennial life is between those who are struggling to keep up with small kids due to having a bad back, and those who just go to da movies

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

oh my god I'm watching someone watch a live twitch streamer waterbirth (like inflatable pool in the living room, a bunch of WoW streamers sitting around watching) the future is so stupid. does this count as hot tub streaming? someone in the chat said "W push" lmfao

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to learn how to play drums but I have no space for a full size kit or an electronic kit. Have been looking at some electronic drum pads on eBay, but would anyone recommend any that they found useful and could translate to a kit?

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever new atheism returns it’s going to be so wild. The most Islamophobic person you know will go around claiming Muslims dont adhere to British values which at that point will apparently be really welcoming to trans people

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 1d

Well it’s a good thing Britain has so many well invested ideas to structure its economy on

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Surely not the miracle technology that’s going to rescue us, and Britain in particular

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing to me that the number of people killed by cars continues to grow and you only ever hear about it if the news thinks the person driving the vehicle might be Muslim

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Marie Pruitt @mariepruitt.bsky.social · Aug 2

The millennial tax for gen z

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 2

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 1d

As I have said many times before: Britain wants to be Dubai but without any glamour

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

And that if anything, this politics was an expansion of the tactics used against Muslims and embraced by sensible journalist types. I got no response from him. Which is fine, but telling that there’s a line in this piece that basically agrees with that.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Last thing I’ll say on this is that a few weeks ago, Stephen was lamenting how radicalised much of the formerly centrist media class had become in ways that scared him. I pointed out that the industry were both in has tolerated this for a long time, not least with anti Muslim hatred /

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Bari, Aaron Sorkin is crying now

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Bari Newsroom

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

THE NEWSROOM is back!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 2d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Also if you have moral objections, maybe lay those out! because that can really range from "i do not support the indiscriminate killing of children" to the Howard Jacobsen position of "i just dont want to see those deaths recorded on TV"

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps I just don't respect people who try to triangulate liberal values with supporting a state that can only function through means of exclusion. If SB thought about this for a few more steps, perhaps he'd realise at best, he's calling for a 'non violent' form of exclusionary ethno politics

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

No interest really beefing with the guy, but have the people who are praising this piece actually read it ?https://www.ft.com/content/14d49f44-b8ed-40f0-8bc0-6aa233a48c3b

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

One day i'd like to write something about the popularity of 'journaling', how it differs from the act of keeping a diary and documenting the mundane, and what that tells us about how we live, reflect and even remember. My case against bullet journalling

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.

George Monbiot
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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country.
For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable. I October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM • Everybody can reply
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We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Every so often im recommended a fascinating video. This one is by a bookseller who discovered diaries from a soldier during WWI that have never been published or recorded www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpmj...

Discovering 37 Diaries Of A First World War Soldier

YouTube video by Tom Ayling

www.youtube.com

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss should be an inspirational figure to journalism students. You, too, can rise to the top , simply by working hard, publishing a newsletter barely anyone shares sincerely, and having a foreign army at your disposal to get rid of anyone who makes fun of you on twitter.

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