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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 2h

Casually noting that Norway is the original home of the troll.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 1d

Someone pointed this out in the comments before commenting was closed and his post deleted.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Clegg says asking petrol companies to charge for petrol would kill the car industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 2d

Or The Peveril of the Peak

. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 2d

As a Mancunian for the last 40yrs I remain baffled that architects have not thought to design buildings which shelter pedestrians from rain in the same way that hot and sunny cities manage with ease

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 2d

Immigration judges don't wear wigs.

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 4d

PMSL

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · Oct 30

Be careful! During Halloween, the veil between our world and the great beyond is at its thinnest. You will never be in more danger of becoming an actual slutty nurse

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d

Read this gem by @roberthutton.co.uk if you need a laugh this morning (and who doesn't?). thecritic.co.uk/help-your-lo...

Help your local LOSER | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

We interrupt this sketch to bring you a charity appeal on behalf of the League Of Special Elected RepresentativeS. To many people, politics looks like a game of rough and tumble…

thecritic.co.uk

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 7d

Amidst the horror, it is quite something that 7 minutes after the 999 call, the terrorist was dead.

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 8d

a man with a beard is smiling and talking to another man while wearing armor .

ALT: a man with a beard is smiling and talking to another man while wearing armor .

media.tenor.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 9d

He should also consider whether giving centre stage at his party concerence to a woman convicted of inciting racial murder has any right to comment.

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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 10d

Thread of the day, no notes

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11d

Interesting - not least on what the media considers not to be a story.

“Nothing to Do With Reform?” The Myth of Nathan Gill’s Bribery

The bribery started the day he quit UKIP and continued under Farage’s leadership. The press have barely said a word

monkdebunks.substack.com

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 12d

Mass deportations of legally settled people to murderous regimes characterised as a bit of visa admin.
The BBC acting as Reform's PR department again

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12d

“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 12d

What happened to unmet demand is fuelling house prices?

. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 13d

All hail social media

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 13d

I'm shocked to discover that a senior member of a party run by Nigel Farage had a dodgy relationship with Russia.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14d

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 15d

More and more such incidents happening daily
www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me'

Sophia Choudry says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused on the Elizabeth line.

www.bbc.com

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. @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 15d

Public realm investment that you can see in your neighbourhood, funded by a property value tax is an elegant solution to quite a few problems.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 16d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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