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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 1d

Ughh boss? You're gonna wanna take a look at this (i wordlessly hand you a large, golden, beautifully crisp fallen leaf from the forest floor)

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

Sébastien Lecornu returning to the French government:

the "what have we learned Palmer" bit from Burn After Reading

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

especially since there's been no laureate from / about the Americas since Juan Manuel Santos in 2016

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

the French livebloggers are getting existential

YOUR QUESTIONS
Do you continue the liveblog until the eventual nomination of a PM? When do you pack it in?
- Basto
Yes, we stay here, with you.

YOUR QUESTIONS
No PM this evening?
- DS
It's not looking good for a PM this evening, right?
- DZ
Like you, we wait.

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

it might be a worthwhile sport if they did have swords tbf

david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 5d

but i can and will say stuff like holy shit way to diminish your accomplishments here and for what?

Taylor Swift says she's not playing the #SuperBowl
Halftime Show because "I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field."
"Like, [professional football] is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, [for] the whole season, locked in on what that man is doing on the field. Can you imagine if he's out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I'm like [she puts on a ditzy voice and face], 'I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of "Shake It Up," into "Blank Space," into "Cruel Summer," that would be great!' This has nothing to do with Travis — he would love for me to do it. But I'm just too locked in."
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/ taylor-swift-explains-why-shes-not-playing-super-bowl-halftime-fallon-1236541829/

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

European league games being played in Miami / Perth is ... very dispiriting

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 2d

JG once stated in print that he didn't own cutlery or crockery for a year because he never ate a single meal in his home, if we're talking deranged things

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 3d

starting to think Wales might not be very good at football

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 3d

Krasznahorkai !!

henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 4d

in proper Old Norfolk also Hunstanton and Stiffkey although these are largely dying out

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 4d

[clears throat] Wymondham, Costessey, Happisburgh, Postwick, Hautbois...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 4d

I hear in the country's south none have been sold at all. yeah, Tamil Nada

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 4d

"rowed crew" what could this possibly mean

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

surely one of the worst run major sports. perhaps the single worst run major sport!

henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

the Hollywoodbets Sharks (of Durban) need to defeat the province of Munster otherwise the concept of rugby in and around Cardiff could overtake them with a win over the clothing brand Benetton

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

this is the current table for a major rugby competition. it looks like a terrible terrible joke

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

the Dixit Dominus on that is one of my favourite recordings full stop

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

apropos of nothing much (and uhhhhh not endorsing the conductor's political choices), the Currentzis recording of Mozart's Requiem is the only one to get the piece's essential horror. incredible work

classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/157...

Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 by The New Siberian Singers — Apple Music Classical

Listen to Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 by The New Siberian Singers. 2011. 14 tracks. 47 minutes.

classical.music.apple.com

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 6d

terrible news for france- their columnists are getting away with "the dictionary defines <<word>> as...,"

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 7d

🚨🚨 Do not answer calls from unknown +33 callers 🚨🚨

You may be at risk of this man promising to appoint you prime minister of a western European state with no functioning parliamentary majority