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Julie Irwin @jdirwinbooks.bsky.social · 3d

If I have to look like that you can forget it.

Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 22h

I hate the world we live in so much sometimes. Someone told me about a very wealthy entrepreneur who outsourced his dating chats to his female pa, but this is next level.

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. It’s incredibly tedious.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

I adore London&fully agree on Dubai, but the author‘s criticism of Paris& Berlin is a joke. French political turmoil is bad is it? Have you watched UK news since 2014? German trains are slow? Thank God for the sound state of UK Infrastructure.
Love you 🇬🇧. But ditch the superiority complex. Please.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. I hate it and have been loads of times, had friends who lives there etc.

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 2d

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh neither can I

Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

Fair point. I actually liked Ulysses but I’m afraid Finnegan’s wake completely defeated me

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

I’m aiming to reacquaint myself with the Jilly Cooper canon over the weekend- infinitely more enjoyable

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

Well said Dan.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 5d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry what???

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 3d

Trump still hasn’t won a Nobel this year - but the son of Palestinian refugees did!

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A long ‘journey’ for Nobel chemistry winner born to Palestinian refugees

Omar Yaghi, 60, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan, said he was raised with a dozen others in one room.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

Not publicly traded. Saying that, the private credit stories coming out of the US at the moment are a massive red flag

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

Oof. I’ve been there- nightmare for you. Hope she is in good spirits still

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3d

L-R:
Tether - Bitcoin - $Trump - Actually The Underlying Technology

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

Howling at this

Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

And she is probably quite right!

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

You couldn’t write this

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 3d

Just spat out my coffee

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 4d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 4d

Agnes is beautiful

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 4d

Totally agree- also worth doing for flu as a very nasty strain doing the rounds abroad, which will get here before long

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 5d

Precisely

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Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social · 5d

These are the people who then complain about kids hanging around doing nothing

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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