rob
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borrowed atoms wearing glasses
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if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
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Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
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‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now
‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now
‘We had a disagreement that spilled over into personal insults. But we soon made up – and wrote this about the process’
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now
famous tax evader joins reform
i am shocked, shocked i tell you
i am shocked, shocked i tell you
Nadhim Zahawi and family fled to the UK from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a child refugee in 1978. Unable to speak English when he arrived, he became a hugely successful businessman and an MP before serving as Chancellor of the Exchequor.
His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.
His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
famous tax evader joins reform
i am shocked, shocked i tell you
i am shocked, shocked i tell you
Jeremy Kyle is a stupid cnut isn't he?
imagine "outrage jockey" being your day job 🙄
road.cc/content/news...
imagine "outrage jockey" being your day job 🙄
road.cc/content/news...
“If you’re famous, you should go in the bike lane in your car,” say Jeremy Kyle and Terry Wogan’s son in anti-cycling rant; British Cycling’s paywalled cyclocross coverage slammed as “two tins and pie...
It’s Monday, and after a weekend spent fixing things around his house (yes, really), Ryan Mallon’s back on the live blog, ready to attack the week like a cyclocrosser on a dodgy stream
road.cc
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Jeremy Kyle is a stupid cnut isn't he?
imagine "outrage jockey" being your day job 🙄
road.cc/content/news...
imagine "outrage jockey" being your day job 🙄
road.cc/content/news...
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services.
They promise you that.
And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.
They promise you that.
And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.
January 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services.
They promise you that.
And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.
They promise you that.
And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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I suppose if you were a megalomaniac narcissist coming to the end of your life and you wanted the world to remember your name forever then burning the world to the ground would be a good way to go about it.
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I suppose if you were a megalomaniac narcissist coming to the end of your life and you wanted the world to remember your name forever then burning the world to the ground would be a good way to go about it.
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Clarification:
Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling."
I'm sure he does.
Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling."
I'm sure he does.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage chooses not sanctioning a platform for publishing sexualised images of children to protect £thousands in income every year.
@skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @huffpost.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com
@skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @huffpost.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Clarification:
Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling."
I'm sure he does.
Nigel Farage (who earns thousands of pounds a year from his X blue check) describes calls to ban the site "appalling."
I'm sure he does.
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“People ask me to predict the future, but all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is too easy, anyway.
You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”
- Ray Bradbury
You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”
- Ray Bradbury
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
“People ask me to predict the future, but all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is too easy, anyway.
You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”
- Ray Bradbury
You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”
- Ray Bradbury
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Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
January 11, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie
January 11, 2026 at 10:41 AM
January 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
while you have Uruguay generating about 98% of its electricity from renewable sources, you’ve got a government of old men in the USA, with their 1950s thinking, still chasing oil reserves (and backhanders from oil companies)
it’s like investing in candles after the lightbulb has been invented
it’s like investing in candles after the lightbulb has been invented
USA, Venezuela, and oil
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
Why Trump’s Venezuela oil gamble won’t pay off
YouTube video by The Economist
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 8:56 AM
while you have Uruguay generating about 98% of its electricity from renewable sources, you’ve got a government of old men in the USA, with their 1950s thinking, still chasing oil reserves (and backhanders from oil companies)
it’s like investing in candles after the lightbulb has been invented
it’s like investing in candles after the lightbulb has been invented
USA, Venezuela, and oil
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
Why Trump’s Venezuela oil gamble won’t pay off
YouTube video by The Economist
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 8:50 AM
USA, Venezuela, and oil
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
if you can ignore the moustache these are two great videos to watch
why the USA a net oil exporter needs heavy crude & not shale, and why it might not be easy to extract in Venezuela
youtu.be/HWezR4NNUr8?...
youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
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Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
January 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
January 10, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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Ball. His court.
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Ball. His court.
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An FOI about how many drivers have been prosecuted for driving on the pavement would be interesting. @ianloader.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
An FOI about how many drivers have been prosecuted for driving on the pavement would be interesting. @ianloader.bsky.social
worth delaying if his royal orangeness is actually in the cage 😏
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
worth delaying if his royal orangeness is actually in the cage 😏