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James Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr · 4d

Hi, is anyone available to be Prime Minister of France from Wednesday to Friday this week? Shouldn't take any longer than that but I've already got something in my diary.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 12d

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

deadsimpletech.com

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 12d

Data from the Office of National Statistics shows Londoners are less likely to be violent crime victims (26.4 offences per 1,000 pop) than the rest of England & Wales (31.9 offences). Violent crime has fallen in every London borough in the past year.

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Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social · 12d

Looking through the back catalogue @noemamag.com and found this fascinating + gorgeous piece by @olliemilman.bsky.social - well worth your time: www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-...

The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA

Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations?

www.noemamag.com

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 13d

Bloody hell

Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing - www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing

Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile attack early on Sunday in what independent monitors said was one of the biggest Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital and the surrounding region since the full-scale war began.

www.reuters.com

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 13d

- Per a report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, RSF has nearly completed building walls around the besieged city.

- The berms now stretch "for over 68km around Elfashir, leaving only a 3-4km gap before the city is fully enclosed". (Sudan Tribune)

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 17d

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 17d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Monday from the @newyorker.com

A couple watching the news and hearing about all the horrors in the world, after a top story focused on women not having babies

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Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social · 21d

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 28d

Karel Martens ∘ Dutch graphic designer and educator known for innovative typography, minimalist aesthetic, and experimental printmaking techniques, '60s...'90s.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29d

More Woman Bass Players is I think a concept we can and must all rally behind

մրլ @morls.bsky.social · 29d

😮‍💨 I totally agree. But also…as a woman who does music, man I am tired of the prevalence of gender in music. Man = guitar, drums, bass, sometimes singer; woman = singer, keyboards. And good lord how many bands that are all men with a female singer!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29d

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29d

Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 29d

This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bangor Cathedral choir suspended after singing ‘inappropriate’ hymn

In latest scandal embroiling the Welsh cathedral, choir performed piece during holy communion to protest about job losses

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · Sep 10

More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children.

Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar.

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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Sep 10

After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu
#GenZprotestnepal
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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Nepalis don’t often pay attention to the politics of their Southasian neighbours beyond India. But when Sri Lankans rose up in 2022 to boot out the Rajapaksa re

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Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social · Sep 4

But with a slightly threatening undertone to the lyrics that belies that cheery guitar solo.

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Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social · Sep 4

I once also posted this song in a fit of whimsy and my friend Bryan described it as ‘a cul-de-sac of a song’, and a)he was right, and b) I don’t care.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · Sep 2

Heavy rains and floods have been wreaking havoc on communities across #Sudan.

Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · Sep 2

- Reports indicate a landslide in central Jebel Marra (western Sudan) has claimed entire population of Tersin village, estimated at 1,000+ ppl.

- SPLM-N (Abdelwahid Nur), who control the area, appealed to regional/intl orgs to intervene to help recover victims.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Katie G @ktgarner.bsky.social · Aug 31

I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org

‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’