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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 13h

Oh well

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 18h

FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

www.theguardian.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 21h

It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.

Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?

Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.

www.bbc.com

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14h

As ever, the real story here, aside from the bribes themselves, is not who met who, or who knew what about who.

It is that Farage, Reform and its predecessor parties have consistently acted to promote and assist Putin & Russian objectives in Europe & the world.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15h

Staggering atrocities in Sudan.

Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan

Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping @gchernack.bsky.social · 1d

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 16h

If we admit that quantum numbers are the true essence of reality – not particles, space or time – then a surprising and beautiful new vision of reality opens up to us

No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality

www.newscientist.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 17h

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 20h

Dutch anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders goes full Trump, claiming on X after he lost the election that there are reports of vote fraud. Also claimed the election authority was not neutral. Tearing down the pillars of Dutch democracy. nos.nl/l/2588722

Gemeenten wijzen aantijgingen Wilders over stemgesjoemel van de hand

Wilders stelt op sociale media dat het "berichten regent" van verdwenen of ongeldig verklaarde stemmen. Experts noemen het trumpiaans.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

I’d ask: who is permitted to introduce new ideas to The Discourse, to have them taken seriously and have them widely debated across multiple media platforms? Is it you.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18h

The editorial decision to forefront the opinions of a niche set of white Brits, the same niche set of Brits that express numerous other insane beliefs with no link to reality, is deliberate

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject

White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%

Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 17h

People talking about Peter Watkins (RIP) and his brilliant Punishment Park, sharing their thoughts. As they should, it is genuinely a masterpiece. My review. boxd.it/8YIgRx

A ★★★★★ review of Punishment Park (1971)

Talk about a hidden gem, Punishment Park is a film that should be far widely known. It is a chilling, deeply unique, really ahead of its time masterpiece that gripped and disturbed me from the first m...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18h

Something lovely for the weekend!

Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago.

Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨
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#Archaeology

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✨ LINA لينا ✨ @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 17h

You do not acquiesce to the anti immigration crew, you give them an inch and they take a mile, you do not legitimise their concerns, and centrists are like: well if we just do this and that it will appease them and they just move the goalposts, this is so fucking obvious

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 17h

This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’

A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’ It was “humiliating” for a Times reporter to have quoted someone the journalist erroneously believed was former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, an editor for the outlet reportedly said in an email to staff. “We should have been on our guard. We should have tried much harder to speak to the people concerned,” Times associate editor Ian Brunskill told the company, according to an email obtained by Deadline. He went on to acknowledge the “serious damage” done to the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper. Continue reading...

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paulsinha.bsky.social @paulsinha.bsky.social · 19h

Thread. A reminder of some of my alltime favourite facts. Starting with...there are no bridges over the river Amazon.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 18h

Yup, my premium quintupled.

Goodbye American healthcare.

Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to guess how much my ACA premium is going to go up tomorrow. Triple? Quadruple?

Well, if it’s any more than I’m already paying, I won’t be able to afford it, so…goodbye American healthcare.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 18h

He’s an absolute tinker, but he is saving a special place on his tummy for your tickles.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 18h

He’ll get back to you. If you’re good.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 19h

Milo says ‘so far so good’!

Milo (puss) enjoying well deserved kip on sofa

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

SCOOP: At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report. @jakelahut.writes.news reports:

Unpaywalled as per our FOIA policy:

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report

At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

www.wired.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

www.404media.co

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 1d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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