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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Part Adrian Chiles, part 🤷‍♂️

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1h

It was two OUP books.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 9h

Chilled out

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 18h

I am using this very cute post as an opportunity to tell you all that we took the decision to never post J’s face on social media and you are missing out on some of the cutest baby photos that have ever existed

The restraint I am showing on an hourly basis is unreal

David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 18h

Scene from #wartornPortland yesterday. As you can see, things have gotten so dire that even our babies are being trained in amphibious operations.

Picture of my baby and his mom at the pool for swim lessons

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 18h

This thread is making me nervous

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 18h

Are we going to get another foreseeable govt u-turn?

Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 18h

EXC: Bridget Phillipson tells the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast that the govt should ditch the two-child benefit cap in full, not only in part.

Read here: theguardian.com/politics/202...

And listen here: www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Labour’s Bridget Phillipson on Gaza, child poverty and the deputy leadership race – podcast

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey speak to the education secretary and Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson about the plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as why she is pushing the prime...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 20h

From @gelliottmorris.com, formerly of 538

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 21h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 22h

“Nobody ever changed things on the basis of consensus. Or wanting to be liked. Or not taking risks. Or keeping your head down. It's a lesson for me and it's a lesson for my party too.”

Pump it into my veins

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 22h

> Senator Gigantès

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 22h

Obviously functionally useless for predicting the next election, but imagining the Conservative Party as the sixth largest party is good for the dopamine

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 23h

Seat Projection:

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Incredible

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Nice to see some genuinely personal news on the TL

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 23h

I can’t imagine where you might get the impression we don’t like a laugh

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Legion

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

is there an inverse relationship between muscle definition and time in office

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I raise you, something you’ll never have

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

He has a certain je ne sais quoi

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

These are just the four quadrants of the political compass. L-R:

Top-left 🟥
Top-right 🟦
Bottom-right 🟪
Bottom-left 🟩

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

Bakerloo line, Victoria line, Metropolitan line, Northern line

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

28. The Roman Catholic church on Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic, St Joseph’s, has no resident priest.

So the hosts are consecrated in a 4000-strong batch during the annual visit of their Ecclesiastical Superior and kept in tupperware.

(The Anglican church does have a resident priest)

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

28. The Roman Catholic church on Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic, St Joseph’s, has no resident priest.

So the hosts are consecrated in a 4000-strong batch during the annual visit of their Ecclesiastical Superior and kept in tupperware.

(The Anglican church does have a resident priest)

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I have been told Appalachian is another of these

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

A conservative talk show run by Metaxas, you say?

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Literally had to google that one when someone said it to me

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

“AO Arena”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

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

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of institutional takeover I can get behind

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