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🐿️Square Squirrel🐿️🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇲🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦🌈🦔🐈🐾 @squaresquirrel.bsky.social · 9h

If these are quintessential Englishmen, I'm done with being English...

Nigel Farage smoking and mouth agape as usual

Tommy Robinson, Yaxley Lennon, up too close

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 1h

This feels like an important piece of wisdom for many Democratic politicians.

Republicans don't play by the rules.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 1h

In fact they are doomed to become enemies.

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 5h

Capitalism isn’t democracy.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve gotta say the speed with which many people bent a knee to fascism was not something I was prepared for.

That’s why the footage from Portland sparks so much hope.

People are fighting back in unique ways.

They’re making us smile. They’re fighting for freedom AND for joy.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 1h

And anyone out there looking for him should exhibit extreme caution. It all has a pre-meditated smell and who knows what they might run into.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 7h

A $1m reward has been offered for anyone who provides information that leads to Freeman’s capture.

Despite the mammoth search effort, there has been no sight of the fugitive, who is believed to be heavily armed, is an experienced outdoorsman and is described as a “doomsday prepper”.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 13h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 3h

Translation: “We’re going to fix your car by setting it on fire and giving you a scooter.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 6h

#Australia #VisitCanada

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16h

Beautiful #NovaScotia

The towns, the landscapes are charming and stunning.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 1h

Entirely by design. You could not do what Trump's doing without the intent of crashing US economy.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash

Jamie Dimon, chair of JPMorgan Chase, said he was ‘far more worried than others’ about serious market correction

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Tierney @readyuser.one · 22h

They could have prevented this with one $10,000 LTO machine and $1,000 in tapes rotated on/off site to a bank vault.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 22h

South Korea has lost 858 terabytes of government data after a fire destroyed its government data center and there were no backups.

quasa.io/media/south-...

South Korea's Catastrophic Data Center Fire: 858 Terabytes of Government Data Lost Forever Due to No Backup

The fire has ignited calls for overhaul - stricter battery protocols, mandatory offsite backups, and lithium-ion audits worldwide.

quasa.io

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 4h

Brian Eno will be a speaker at a rally in support of the Palestinian people on October 11 in London www.stopwar.org.uk

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 5h

By intent there is a comma missing, but he did give the cat a pat moments later.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 6h

Neighbour in Naples tinkering with old adding machine and cat...

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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like this encapsulates the social media ban’s motives. It’s not actually about doing something it’s just looking like you are.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14h

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17h

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi."

The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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joelunchpail.bsky.social @joelunchpail.bsky.social · 18h

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: SBS management has instructed staff to avoid using the word "Ukraine" in case it offends their Russian audience.

[No, it's not true, but makes as much sense as this craven stupidity.] #auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.smh.com.au

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

I have the same question for Tomi

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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 8h

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Remember Australian politicians got on their moral high 🐎 and criticised China for sending troops against their own citizens at Tiananmen.

Now Mein Trumpf is sending troops to crush his own citizens in major US cities. Where's the moral high 🐎🐴🐴

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 9h

We had a period in Australia when only men could vote.
That didn’t work.
So we’ve tried everyone having the vote for the last 58 years.
That hasn’t worked.

Maybe it’s time to try only women get to vote.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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