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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out that the New York Times thinks China's ownership of China is up for debate.

2025 Bingo is 🤯🤦🏻

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 1d

Not arguing he deserved the pen.
Just aghast he was the only driver who was penalised.
The opening lap saw both Verstappen and Leclerc lose control and gain an advantage.
The rest is just provocative banter.

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 1d

Caught up with the #MexicanGP ... Can anyone explain to me the new FIA rule that says the only driver who can gain an advantage by going off the track is the black dude?!

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 2d

#LaterWithJoolsHolland is the perfect antidote to #QuestionTime and #BBCNews

Thank you #JoolsHolland 💐
Shame it's still 1 : 2

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. The friends this govt keeps are ... beyond the pale

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry to hear of the passing of "Mamma Erasmus", Sofia Corradi, the 🇮🇹 educator who conceived and built the Erasmus Programme.
That's the exchange programme of students between European universities.
Che bella signora 💐
#rip #SofiaCorradi

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe you can explain to me, Zach, why the same transactions are called "bribes" if they come from "a Russian" and "funding" or "lobbying" when they come from "a Zionist".
Any ideas?

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 16d

Sunday service: Watching something that reminds me how beautiful people can be.

#ExhibitingForgiveness

www.imdb.com/title/tt2852...

Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama

1h 57m | R

www.imdb.com

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 21d

And you also did not have managers capable to forging you into a team with either management or selection choices.
More power to Tuchel's quest to "make a team", not "pick the best players".
May the media let him.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 21d

Not all that sure Starmer too wouldn't have found a way to pass presidentially beyond it all.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 22d

By "It" you must mean "Matthew Syed" ... Yes. It is.

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 22d

"Accused of" or "Shown to be" ...

Some journalistic conventions feel ever so outdated.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 22d

The "Guardian" of what?

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 24d

Watched the #Tuchel presser 🤦‍♂️
If Italian hacks patronised #Gattuso that way in pursuit of gossip ... I think notebooks might fly.
Eight minutes in and still zero chat about football.
I don't know what "fans" think they deserve but a dash more curiosity about actual football would be refreshing.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 24d

"The customer is always right"
"Fans are the lifeblood of .."
"I blame social meeja ..."

Can you believe @theguardian.com is compelled to pose this as a question?

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 26d

“You’re media incarnate (Mr Klein) ... War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy ...”
Have to wonder what Paddy Chayefsky would have made of the Coates-Klein exchange.
It did remind me of Network, tho'

Rasputin Bladgett @rasputinbladgett.bsky.social · Sep 17

If I were Ezra Klein and I read that TaNehisi Coates piece I would crumble to dust and blow away in the breeze.

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 26d

And happy to know they are not alone 💐
Europeans are finding their hearts.
The impunity must end

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 26d

Proud of 🇮🇹 today.
Their govt may be just another of Trump's Euro-hostages but at least its people are determined to demonstrate their humanity regardless.
#flotilla #nationalshutdown

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 27d

The same Taliban who shut it off, turned it back on?
Your story is as unclear as brief.
It might have read "Taliban returns internet access to Afghanistan" (same copy length)
or "<Cause that is not Taliban> returns internet access..."
This too (if accurate) would have been better.
You're not v good.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · 27d

Have not felt a bonfire of the vanities quite as warm since all those celebs got together to sing Imagine.
#riyadhcomedyfestival

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · Sep 27

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.avclub.com

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Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · Sep 28

Can you explain why the overt funding of the parliamentary Labour Party by FOI is considered benign but this has you howling at the moon?!
Surely it's ALL intolerable.

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · Sep 27

The thing that makes Labour electable is its willingness to do what it takes ...

#PleaseVoteGreen

Luca Menato @lucamenato.bsky.social · Sep 25

The US is clearly unfit to host the UN.
Not now and not ever again.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · Sep 22

There has never been a better time to go out in the middle of the night and spreadeagle a pair of your old pyjamas on the steps of a church along with a note saying “If you’re reading this, you missed the Rapture.”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 23

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

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