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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 5m

"Yes, she's Venezuelan. Yes, 'she'."

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17m

“She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the committee stated in their announcement.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 18m

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 1h

Got Kraftwerk tickets! Disappointingly, did not have to tick a box confirming I was a robot.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 45m

Bloody hell!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 2h

My kid's Clacton nursery has cut hot lunches for toddlers to save money, and sent round leaflets to parents advising us on preparing packed lunches for around 90p per day.

They have no waiting list for places because there's so few jobs here worth doing once you've covered childcare.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 15h

One reason I worry more about the AI bubble than the Dotcom crash is that the value of like every single big company is tied up with it. I may be misremembering how broadly the 2000 crash impacted markets, but it seems to me that this time there will be nowhere to hide

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14h

Trump causes the problem and then demands the Insurrection Act as a solution to the crisis of his own making which then leads to more conflict. I believe psychiatrists refer to this phenomenon "Munchausen by Nazi." www.childrensmn.org/educationmat...

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

theintercept.com

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

Problematic, true.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

😊

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 16h

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 16h

Weird conspiracy for the day: seagulls are the souls of dead modems, come back to negotiate connections from hell.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

So I gather. I don’t remember anyone ever commenting on it.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

Me too! 😊

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 16h

At least.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16h

These late period Francis Bacon triptychs are terrifying.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 16h

"Keep it down JK or I swear to god I'll get the hose."

a meme by salt_baer: I put a fried egg on my Croque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame and now JK Rowling is outside my house shouting at me.

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Jaymie Moore @jaymiemoore.bsky.social · 17h

I need more coffee to deal with this.

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.

futurism.com

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 18h

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

juux @juux.com · 19h

omg part deux

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 18h

It’s good, but not quite.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 18h

A chap has to draw the line somewhere.

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