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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 1d

Le roi est mort. Vive le roi. Qui est en fait le même roi. Il n'est plus mort, apparemment. Non, moi non plus. Que dalle. Mais quand même. Vive le roi?

Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 1d

Holborn

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

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

Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like Bernard Hu, the former leader of the French communists. "Bernard who?" "Yes that's right."

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 2d

And the forgotten meal "having soup FML"

Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 2d

"little stop starving", "normal stop starving", "stosstarvin"

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 2d

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 2d

¿Que ha ganado quién? Tres libros para conocer a László Krasznahorkai, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2025

Un repaso a la obra más destacada del escritor húngaro.

librotea.eldiario.es

Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 4d

Unless she means "breakfast"

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe the us treasury knows something we don't

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

The U.S. Treasury shared a proposal to mint $1 Trump coins to mark America’s 250th anniversary.

But U.S. code says only deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency, a tradition dating back to efforts to break from monarchical rule. https://wapo.st/4pWsyL3

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 8d

The race is not always to the Swift. As it says in the Bible

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 8d

What is a pelmet? I'm from London I don't think we have them. Is it an agricultural thing?

Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 8d

Subeditor narrator: James was commissioned for 700 words

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8d

In memoriam...

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 10d

What did you use instead? A rhinoceros?

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 10d

And then you poured it into a cape and poured boiling water in on top?

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 10d

In a cape?

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USpolitics 🇺🇸 @uspol.skyfleet.blue · 11d

Tracker: how each US senator voted on the Republican plan to avert shutdown

US Senate rejects Republican plan to keep funding flowing as each party mostly unites to block other’s proposal

www.theguardian.com

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 12d

It's only imperialism if it has satraps imposed on conquered peoples. Otherwise it's just sparkling colonialism

Sky News @news.sky.com · 12d

White House unveils Gaza peace plan - with top role for Tony Blair

The White House has unveiled its peace plan for Gaza – which includes a top role for Tony Blair.

news.sky.com

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 13d

I think it's time ... The Second Coming is the better Stone Roses album. I will be taking questions at this time

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 15d

Never Less Than Really Despised the Wonder Stuff

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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 15d

If you invent the country you keep control over the allowable jokes?

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 15d

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.