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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 2d

I have a (carefully managed to be) literally empty inbox but yet 132 open browser tabs. No me neither.

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 2d

They say “plenty more fish”
I say “Amoco Cadiz”

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man this has undermined my whole Euromillions win fantasy because that still wouldn't be close to this.

Hannah O'Hanrahahanrahan @tedmaul.bsky.social · 2d

Because of social media I will die happy knowing that Bob Mortimer likes me and thinks I'm funny. ❤️

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Probably my favourite passage. This is different from Bitcoin Treasury Companies right? Totally different yes just as I thought.

Excerpt: AMD will give OpenAI warrants entitling it to buy up to 10 per cent of the company for just a cent a share, depending on their project hitting certain targets, including some linked to AMD's share price.
AMD shares were worth nearly $204 when markets closed on Monday. If they keep rising, OpenAI could sell its stock to fund its spending on AMD's chips.
"It's a pretty innovative structure, which didn't come lightly,'
" AMD chief executive Lisa
Su said on Monday.

Also below the text a pic of Sam Altman looking like the fifth member of Hot Chip.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

My column this week: on a world in which your lifeboat seems ever more necessary- but ever more unappealing:

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 4d

"Show yourself now or I'm sending in the wolf!"

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 5d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 6d

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6d

There were some who thought the Tories had become utterly Twitter-poisoned America-brained loons who think their X feed is real life and are completely out of touch with the UK, but fortunately this should take care of that idea

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 7d

As Charli XCX and Taylor Swift are both descendants of the Scottish diaspora, this is actually a continuation of the Highland-Lowland divide, the eternal struggle between the Gael and the Gall, and as such

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 6d

My favourite ridiculous example of this is the Manchester United credit card in Malaysia and Singapore (yes really) which used to give extra rewards only when they won now also gives rewards when they draw as people were churning due to lack of victories milelion.com/2025/07/17/h...

Hooray: Maybank Manchester United Card enhanced; now rewards draws - The MileLion

For the 2025/26 EPL season, earn 2.8 mpd for every Manchester United win, 1.6 mpd for a draw, and 1.12 mpd on all other occasions where they teach us that winning isn't everything.

milelion.com

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 7d

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

Some thoughts on yesterday's attack:

Why yesterday’s terrorist attack felt inevitable

From foiled terror plots to antisemitic hate crime, Jews are awake to the threats we face

www.ft.com

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 7d

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 8d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 9d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 8d

I mean pretty much.

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 8d

I mean the stunts will likely have to escalate so could easily have been.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 8d

it's really great that this entire team leave in tents in a forest because otherwise they might seem like hypocrites

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8d

I've just discovered that the @theguardian.com has now got a entire team to write NIMBY articles.

Explains a lot. I assume they'll be covering the wider effects of NIMBYism; climate catastrophe, housing crisis, collapsing infrastructure in the same way?

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 8d

I'll see your Nonce and raise you a Bonk.

www.ft.com/content/8bdc...

Say hello to the ‘Bonk Income Blast ETF’

Every day we stray further from God’s light

www.ft.com

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Dennis Bell @torquaybell.bsky.social · 9d

Good. Maybe just don't drive like a prick idk.

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cass city @heavenlygrandpa.bsky.social · 14d

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11d

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 11d

not sure what language this is, i’ll try to find out as soon as i’ve posted this letter, reaching my fingers through as far as possible to ensure a precise delivery

a small sign above a front door letterbox reads “CHIEN LUNATIQUE”

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James @battlehork.bsky.social · 13d

Dudes rock

Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 13d

🎃

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