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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 15d

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

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Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 4h

No! No!!

Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 4h

Much as all species evolve towards crab, all software is trying to become Facebook

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 4h

Dear Outlook: I do not want to see a daily summary of emojis people have responded with. I do not want to receive an email every time someone responds with an emoji. Please stop sending me emojis

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 21h

Oh yeah, it’s pretty daft but fuck it so is irl politics. And quite right they were done dirty

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 21h

Also the Rory Kinnear fictionalised version of Boris Johnson is on point

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 21h

Enjoy how the ostensible key driver of the main couple is them wanting to make a tangible difference, but it’s never really clear if they have or just like being near the levers of power

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 22h

Hugely recommend The Diplomat on Netflix, esp for fans of the West Wing, since it not only reunites several of the cast but also covers some similar ground, in a slightly more modern and jaded (and better imo) way

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 22h

Feel like there are two comms operations pulling in opposite directions, and between them they’ve managed to piss off literally everybody

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Labour condemn Tory plan to strip people of indefinite leave to remain:

“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.

“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."

Anna Turley MP, Labour Party Chair, said:

“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.

“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities.

“That’s Tory Party policy and shows how far the party has fallen. The Tories haven’t learned a thing.”

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charles entertainment manson @rexcoolguy.bsky.social · 1d

I still think about this a couple times a week

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Dec 15

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Did you brush your teeth before bed Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues?

An image of a young woman sitting in a car with text over that reads "normalize naming your children after 10/10 songs"

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Its genuinely exhausting for everyone involved that the cycle is
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Labour condemn Tory plan to strip people of indefinite leave to remain:

“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.

“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

I started watching AEW during the Five Labours of Jericho feud land *loved* it (especially that he lost at the end, after all that), despite having no idea who he was, but it’s definitely been diminishing returns since then. Hope a fresh start works out for everyone

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Well exactly

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

For some reason I have the 1992 hit “Informer" by Canadian reggae musician Snow going through my head, except with the titular lyric changed to “Keir Starmer”

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to break kayfabe, but we all know cricket’s been fully scripted since the 60s

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a good shout. Can definitely imagine it happening before but feels like a different era

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it is though. Maybe we’ve been getting it wrong the whole time

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

I will only fully trust AI when my phone stops autocorrecting the word good to goid

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Nepotism should be confined to fake sports like wrestling and Italian football

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Shocked. Shocked!

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn’t realised Diego Simeone’s actual son is in the team he manages. That’s… kinda weird?

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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 1d

Had this recently where I got into a Spanish rapper via a Charli XCX remix track, only to find out that she’d said in an interview that she could learn from Trump and Hitler. There’s a lot of tedious edgelord shit about