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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable
I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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“I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way", said Nigel Farage. "As the victim of his verbal abuse, I can assure you that I do recall it all vividly", writes Peter Ettedgui of "the emotional impact – degrading, humiliating" of antisemitic abuse
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Metro is yet again delayed. Public transport is vital to tackling the ongoing Climate Crisis and our Housing Crisis.

The Greens were the only party to make any serious headway on the project when we were in Gov. We must continue to push to ensure we have a sustainable public transport system!
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
No metro, but...
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This is like the opening montage of the film, Up.
God damn it, xkcd, I didn't need to get hit this hard in the feels.

xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:

‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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A new joint investigation into the Russian Red Cross’s activities in occupied Ukraine reveals that the organization's international funding is growing even as it deepens its ties to pro-Kremlin patriotic youth groups. meduza.io/en/brief/202...
This was Russia today Monday, November 24, 2025 — Meduza
meduza.io
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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‘People have realised that there is little to gain, & a huge amount to lose, by creating free content for a billionaire's online platform. All those monolithic platforms now have the air of deserted out-of-town malls built during a boom’
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/7e46...
Social media is dead — none of my friends are posting any more
‘Everyone is scared that something they share might attract the attention of social media’s angry hordes, always ready to accuse on X, Facebook and Instagram’
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Europe makes 7% of the world's batteries, vs 6% for the US
Lutnick on the EU: "Another example -- they rule out diesel gas and you gotta have batteries here by 2035. But Europe doesn't make batteries! Only certain countries make batteries and Europe is not one of them. They gotta think better about themselves ... come on! Think correctly."
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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When we launched Global Gateway for Africa, we aimed to invest €150 billion in the continent.

4 years on, we’re well on track to exceed that goal.

With 120 billion of investments for Africa. And more coming.

For good, local jobs ↓

link.europa.eu/HkG3xq
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia
What the Russian papers used to write about: re-watching my old paper reviews.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?

How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"We've always been at war with Putinplannia"
What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We now have leaders of allied nations unable to trust a word the US tells them.

We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
US diplomacy: We got ChatGPT to cook up a 28 point plan. 27 of them are how we screw you over.

EU diplomacy: Hey, you like Lego, right?
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from

people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc

US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL

elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM