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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds reut.rs/3KEOvOE

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 5h

Sann Rafel

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 1d

Time travel back to 1984 and try to explain to Labour voters that 40 years later Michael Heseltine would be making cogent arguments on their behalf.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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Marcus @marcuslofstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Förutom en liiiiten råvara, nästan helt oviktig i sammanhanget.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 3d

This week could not possibly have gone better for the #49ers.

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Frida Hylander @fridahylander.bsky.social · 3d

Att ta in Edward Blom för att utifrån sitt eget anekdotiska tyckande kommentera en stor, viktig vetenskaplig studie om hållbara matsystem är ett exempel på falsk balans som alla medier bara behöver sluta med.

Edwards åsikter är direkt ovidkommande i sammanhanget.

Edward Blom sågar nya råd: ”Vegankost är äcklig”

Problemet med den stora vetenskapliga studie som under veckan fastslog att mer grönsaker och mindre kött kan förebygga 15 miljoner för tidiga dödsfall årligen är att ”vegankost är ganska äcklig”, enli...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 3d

Själva tanken att en 22-årig kvinna kan ha mycket större inverkan på den nationella och globala scenen än någon av dessa män någonsin kommer att ha gör dem galna.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

The courtroom scene where Omar dissects the profit motive of the US justice system should should get the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

Surgical.

Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

Omar Little is American Shakespeare.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

OK…I take it back. There is a tie for the single greatest character in television history.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

Patsy Stone is the single greatest character in the history of television…and that’s a hill I will die on.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 4d

Routledge is a comic genius. Keeping Up Appearances easily blown off as low-grade farce comedy, but she’s on another planet in that show. Timing like an atomic clock.

Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 5d

If you've never seen or not recently revisited Patricia Routledge as "Kitty" on Victoria Wood's "As Seen On TV" it is such a gem. I wish there were far more of them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 5d

Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly won’t date Tilly Norwood as she was created before September 1, 2025.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood

US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’ The controversy around the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood’s creators were “using stolen performances”. Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI “talent studio” Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film festival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, “and should remain, human-centred. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.” Continue reading...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

Precisely how does showing a dead body help address or solve the root causes of terrorism? The “War on Terror” has made it worse, not better.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

I mean…

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

How has it helped? What has it added?

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

What does a picture of a pixelated body add to the story? Is there an adult human on earth who doesn’t know what a dead body looks like? And, the exposure and violent imagery encourages copycats.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

There is zero news value in showing dead bodies (including the pixelated attacker) or blood after the Manchester synagogue attack. No matter the motive or the victims, it’s just cheap terror porn and cynical voyeurism that encourages unhinged copycats. Journalistically lazy and irresponsible.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 6d

The Turkish food staple that completely changed my life? Garlic yoghurt. It was almost a religious awakening.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 7d

An absolute giant has passed. One of the great humans of all time.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live

The primatologist was a

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 9d

Terminator: Beaches

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 9d

Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d

I don't understand why you would choose to write about TV if you think that it is self-evidently ridiculous that people might consider the most popular TV shows in the country worthy of academic discussion and serious political analysis:

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?

The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 10d

Yup. Wrote about this a decade ago. chrchristensen.medium.com/studying-pop...

Studying Pop Culture is Stupid, Right?

It’s that time again.

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