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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 2h

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Art isn’t too complex for the working class – that’s elitism

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 2h

Oh great.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 3h

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact — theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations ramp up across the country, so has misinformation. The Onion dispels common myths surrounding ICE raids. MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT:...

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 3h

I’d 💯watch.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 3h

It is noticeable that the thrust of Chinese economic activity -robotics to replace workers, renewables at scale to replace fossil fuel and infrastructure like high speed rail to support regional development-appear to address China’s actual issues rather than speculative bubbles and bad sci-fi.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 3h

Goldilocks? (I think a Red Riding Hood number would possibly involve a wolf eating the seniors?)

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 4h

One thing that seems never to get mentioned in the press recently regarding Portland and ‘Antifa’ is that in 2017 a rightwing extremist stabbed two men to death on a train in Portland for defending two black teenage girls.

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 5h

Th crime discourse is completely unhinged at this point. There will be a 15% increase in YTD homicides in SF this week because of a single horrible family murder/suicide incident but the overall number is the lowest since the fifties (and per capita probably lowest ever).

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Billionaire Marc Benioff built a tower that dominates the San Francisco skyline like a giant dick. Apparently he aspires to be a giant dick himself. Crime is way down in San Francisco. No need for Trump to send troops and spread authoritarianism.

Salesforce Tower, visible all over San Francisco and known affectionately as the giant penis.

NYT headline

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump

Table of crime rate change from 2024 to 2025 in a number of American cities. San Francisco dropped 14% in violent crime and 29% in property crime.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah fuck this guy and his fucking ugly eyesore tower.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 9h

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 5h

This feels spot on- particularly the comment on good jokes. Not just political jokes - anything whimsical, witty or just funny silly.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 6h

This is fascinating - Dron’s religious sensitivity is striking. And in interviews elsewhere he has talked about how the ‘canonical’ western antiwar literature stopped speaking to him in a war of defence.

Anna Bowles @annabowles.bsky.social · Nov 24

I remain a Sylvia Plath fangirl into middle age and my favourite Ukrainian discovery at the moment is Artur Dron. A lot of Ukrainians, talk about having had to reinvent language from the ground up after finding words had no use/meaning in spring 2022. That engaged me. lithub.com/from-the-tre...

From the Trenches: New Work by Ukrainian Poet and Soldier Artur Dron

Translators’ Note At twenty-four, Artur Dron is already a celebrated Ukrainian poet from the Ivano-Frankivsk region. A journalism major and former event organizer for the Old Lion Publishing House,…

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 9h

‘Depends on the Narrator’. Journalism as a half remembered class on poststructuralism.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 9h

That picture of British soldiers in 1916 serving HM George V is a bit incongruous. Just saying (sympathetic to #NoKings).

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 9h

Are there any other piper statues as memorials?

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 9h

Understandable. It was that or have Trump pivot overnight to backing Maduro.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 9h

TBF -as Joe Lycett recently demonstrated -England has a very small proportion of the global distribution of Birminghams.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey. Genuinely a bit shocked to read that.

Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire

Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

www.amitiefm.ht

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t be another pandemic if there is no MMWR...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I think it would be hilarious to award Obama a Special Pulitzer this year (and if possible a Tony.)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 1d

Might be a funny day for someone to mention that Barrack Obama has also won three Emmy’s (and a Grammy).

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 1d

If you had to guess which university…yes OFC.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com