Philip Bagley
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Philip Bagley
@pb102.bsky.social
Too many books. Sounders and Fulham to keep the trophy expectations in balance.
News you probably can't use. Saddest marine mammal edition.
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
If we ever do get to the point that we can understand sperm whale communication we are not going to like what they have to say about us.
Sperm Whales May Be Speaking In Vowels Too
Sperm whales may shape their clicks into something closer to speech than code. New research from UC Berkeley linguists and Project CETI suggests their calls contain vowel like structures with a human ...
scienceblog.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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non-brits and young folk: don't sleep on this. Arena was an incredible documentary series on arts and culture. Hard to imagine how it could exist today.
If you know Paris is Burning, that was an Arena doc. So was the Wisconsin Death Trip film. So much gold here.
Big up Ben Wheatley, who has been creating and building a giant YouTube playlist of all the various BBC Arena documentaries from back in the day. It’s now featuring over 100 films. Loads of gold in here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
BBC ARENA - YouTube
A Playlist of BBC Arena Docs all in one place. Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975. Voted by...
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
News you can use- taking over an ant colony edition.
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen
Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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unfathomably based spanish railroad worker's union poster from 1937
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A twofer! Marine mammal and squid news you can use.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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PEPO. FOR. PUSKÁS. 😤

Pedro de la Vega's golazo v. Cruz Azul has been short-listed for the FIFA Puskás Award!

VOTE ➡️ sndrs.com/gd2crgr3
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Qanon believers, you are in for a hell of a plot twist.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In a world where the incumbent president bowed to pressure and stepped aside, it doesn’t seem like such a monumental ask to switch minority leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Fucking monkey's paw
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
God damn it Sounders
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I've been taking my drinks neat, T. Because fuck ICE.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Well there's my post Thanksgiving tv viewing all sorted
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM