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Mike Rothschild

@rothschildmd.bsky.social

NEW: What's up with all the references in the Epstein Files to Hitler having once lived in a men's shelter "funded by the Rothschilds?" It turns out to be an interesting historical mystery, with a few grains of truth...

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Epstein and the "Rothschild Hitler Men's Shelter" | Mike Rothschild

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February 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM

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Sharon

@sharonk.bsky.social

February 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM

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Musa Okwonga

@okwonga.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump suggests Republicans should ‘take over’ elections to protect the party

President claims idea to ‘nationalize’ elections in 15 states before midterms is to prevent rare noncitizen voting

www.theguardian.com

February 4, 2026 at 5:15 AM

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Steve Peers

@stevepeers.bsky.social

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

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February 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM

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TCGS

@tcgs.co

Game of the Year.

LewieP @lewiep.bsky.social · 19d

@tcgs.co stream is going well

January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM

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Miguel Delaney

@migueldelaney.bsky.social

This is astonishing, really

21 per cent of the Premier League’s history has had the City case hanging over it

That extends to 48.4 per cent if you go back to 2009-10 and the first season the charges relate to.

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The unthinkable consequence and five vital questions over Man City case

City strongly maintain their innocence, with further delays adding tension, as Miguel Delaney details the important issues provoked by the wait for a verdict

www.independent.co.uk

January 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM

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Glennyrodge

@glennyrodge.bsky.social

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM

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Michael Li (李之樸)

@mcpli.bsky.social

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

Incredible. Right under our noses.

There is so much to discover if we’d only look

More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps

Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...

December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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Elizabeth Stokoe

@lizstokoe.bsky.social

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

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The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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Insta Science

@instascience.bsky.social

These birds saw a person feed an injured bird, so they all started pretending to be injured as well.

October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Philippe Auclair

@philippeauclair.bsky.social

What happens when a whole country finds itself internet-less? Superb long-read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social, who visited Tonga after a volcanic eruption cut the cable that linked the archipelago to the rest of the world.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

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October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Mike Sowden

@mikeachim.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

“The Blind Girl” by John Everett Millais (British) - Oil on canvas / 1854–1856 - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Birmingham, United Kingdom) #WomenInArt #art #JohnEverettMillais #Millais #blind #artText #GirlPainting #BirminghamMuseums #BlueskyArt #artwork #BritishArt #Pre-Raphaelite #DoubleRainbow

Two pale young women sit on a grassy verge of a country lane after rain. The elder, a blind street musician, rests with eyes closed beneath a brown shawl covering her red hair; around her neck hangs a sign that reads “PITY THE BLIND.” A concertina musical instrument sits in her lap, and she steadies herself with one hand against the damp grass. A tortoiseshell butterfly rests on her cloak. Leaning against her, a younger blonde girl clasps her hand and shades her eyes, gazing toward a brilliant double rainbow arching over sunlit fields, sheep, and a distant church tower. Bright wildflowers and wet blades of grass glisten in the foreground.

“The Blind Girl” exemplifies the ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which British artist John Everett Millais co-founded to pursue vivid color, exacting natural detail, and moral resonance. Millais painted the luminous Sussex landscape on site and later added the two sisters in Perth, Scotland. The blind girl was modeled by Matilda Proudfoot, while Isabella Nicol posed as her younger sibling.

The painting meditates on perception, compassion, and hope. The elder girl, marked as an itinerant musician by her instrument and sign, cannot see the spectacular rainbow her companion marvels at. Instead, she experiences the world through other senses like the sun’s warmth on her face, the texture of grass, or the butterfly’s light touch. The rainbow, corrected by Millais after critics noted its scientific inaccuracy, becomes both natural wonder and biblical symbol of covenant and renewal. The juxtaposition of blindness and sight underscores different ways of comprehending beauty and meaning.

Victorian Britain was marked by poverty, child labor, and disability often visible on city streets. Millais offers not pity but dignity, presenting the sisters as vulnerable yet resilient. Awarded the Liverpool Academy’s annual prize in 1857, the painting was hailed by contemporaries for its union of social realism and spiritual symbolism.

September 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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Fagyu Beef

@thefagyubeef.bsky.social

Contending with “The Stand” for my favorite King book.

September 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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David Blanchflower BSc

@davidbflower.bsky.social

Five celestial events to look out for this autumn. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Supermoons and meteor showers: Five celestial events to look for this autumn

From supermoons to meteor showers, Elizabeth Rizzini has your guide to what may delight in the autumn night skies.

www.bbc.co.uk

September 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM

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Neil Atkinson

@knoxharrington.bsky.social

Tremendous from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. You are used to me saying that about the sport stuff. But here he shows the trajectory of a very small number of people's dreams, its impact and how it can become a huge number of people's nightmare.

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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM

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Peter Geoghegan

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

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September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Philippe Auclair

@philippeauclair.bsky.social

A"choral film" - what a beautiful way to describe the last, poignant, almost unbearably so at times, offering of the Dardenne brothers, "Young Mothers". It is so rare to experience a work of art which inspires so much hope in humanity.

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