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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 12h

I give up.

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 12h

What is this "toed in the hole" I keep hearing about? #VeryBritishProblems

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 15h

Great but also Greta

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 16h

That's arse about face, in more ways than one.

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 18h

For heaven's sake just get numbered authenticated paper ballots and give people pencils. It works and it's real and it's also great fun. Doesn't everyone hate those machines? Surely. Why can't good things just be done and bad things scrapped? Life is so depressing and frustrating and horrific too.

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 18h

I don't see either of the two remaining candidates in the Irish presidential election on Bluesky. Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys, where are ye? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #PresidentialElection2025

Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle

In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys

www.irishtimes.com

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 19h

"for free and fair elections"

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 19h

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to a defender of democracy and opponent of authoritarian rule. The committee's statement recounts her 20-year struggle for free and elections in Venezuela. She's brave, her life is at risk. An excellent choice. (But also a clear message that it's bedtime for Bronzo.)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 19h

I hope I live to see Trump and Miller dragged out of the Oval Office like that. #ArrestTrump

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · 19h

🎃We're thrilled & chilled to reveal the ghastly CAST, sinister SHORTLIST & loathsome LONGLIST for #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, our #Halloween spookstravaganza (not a word/now a word) THIS Tue 14 Oct @The Phoenix, W1 🎃
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Hurrah @timlarkfield.bsky.social @carriecohen01.bsky.social

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 19h

Sick. Arrest the president and his goons. Make them jointly and severally liable for damages to people and systems due to their regime, including Musk and all the oligarchs who contributed to and supported this reign of terror. There will be a dawn. They will pay. They will serve time. #ArrestTrump

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 19h

Pulling up the mask. They know they're going to pay later for what they're doing against citizens for the criminal Trump regime. Arrest the president and his mobsters.

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 1d

How much longer can he get away with all - that which he is full of?

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly thought the aliens had landed, this bright pink light over the houses of North Co. Dublin, an hour after sunset. But allegedly it's Keelings' lights for growing strawberries off season 🍓 🤔

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 1d

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Martin Rowson on the Gaza ceasefire – cartoon

Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a short story by László Krasznahorkai that you can read for free thanks to @yalereview.bsky.social - An Angel Passed Above US, translated by John Batki yalereview.org/article/kras...

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 1d

Today, we rejoice in the sight of children celebrating in Gaza, but we mourn for the children whose laughter we will never hear.

My statement on the announcement of a ceasefire.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 1d

We all need something good.

Here’s a burst of bright Ukrainian art for you.
🇺🇦 by Vadym Mykhalchuk

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 1d

If you've got this problem, this video is very helpful about it. youtu.be/ToDmcb6TWUA?... #HouseholdHints #Laundry

Washing Machine Leaves Gunk On Clothes – Causes And Solutions

YouTube video by In The Wash

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 1d

These so-called "non-lethal" projectiles: People have died from being hit by plastic bullets / "baton rounds" and it's very easy to imagine people losing their sight if hit in the eye by vicious and unjustifiable shooting like in the attached video.

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Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 1d

Accident at South Vale, Harrow willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 2d

Trump announces ceasefire deal to begin ending the war in Gaza

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump announces ceasefire deal to begin ending the war in Gaza

President’s announcement says agreement includes Hamas releasing hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

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