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Getouttahere by Super City on Apple Music
Song · 2023 · Duration 2:29
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October 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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I love this for them

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Video: A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
Designed to be the crown jewel of Billionaires’ Row in New York City, the supertall tower at 432 Park Avenue is now facing serious problems. Stefanos Chen, a reporter for The New York Times’s Metro se...
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October 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Ah sure go on you know you wanna
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Can't Seem To Find A Reason
YouTube video by The Candy Rocks - Topic
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October 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Google Accused of Blocking Searches About Trump, 79, and Dementia
The president has long faced questions about his alleged mental decline.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Complicit arseholes

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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh comedy festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
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October 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall
Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...
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September 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
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September 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I dont understand this at all

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Carlo Acutis: From London baptism to first millennial saint
Before his death at 15, Carlo Acutis was known for his love of technology and had created a website to document miracles.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Ordered a ginger beer - not quite sure what happened here
August 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
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August 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This guy just made my list.

AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond

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AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond
Businessman says Government should abandon project as AI will lead to rise in self-driving cars
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August 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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In today’s episode of “Everything is Ridiculous”
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Columbia Sportswear sues Columbia University for trademark infringement
Company says university broke 2023 agreement by branding school clothes similarly to apparel company’s merchandise
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August 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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‘I’m hoping to be the world’s youngest dirty old man’: the wit of Tom Lehrer, by those who knew him
The musical satirist, who has died aged 97, was famously sharp and funny – but his contemporaries also remember his generosity and humility
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July 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Sorry love, but personality does not come from your genes

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American Eagle faces backlash over ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’ ad
Some critics allege phrase is coded promotion of eugenics and accuse campaign of being ‘tone deaf’
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July 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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High on his own supply. Get over yourself, AI can’t do everything

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OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI
Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington
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July 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Ozzy, in the underworld, screaming at the ferryman: Charon! Charon!

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Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show
The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Everything they do is horrible.
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Pete Hegseth is skirting law by bringing back Confederate names of army bases
US defense secretary reverted to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, but the men they honor aren’t role models
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July 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Forever in debt, to your priceless advice
July 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
YouTube video by WallofSoundRecording
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July 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Bye bye, America. Its been nice knowing you.

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Live updates: Congress passes Trump spending bill after days of debate and delay
Donald Trump has said he wants the
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July 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Gen X: We’re serious, but actually we’re not
July 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The fact that this article even exists makes me want to kill myself

Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.)
Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.
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July 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Meet “Cleopathra”, spelled that way because of me accent
June 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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May their tiny bones rest in peace

'It haunts a lot of people': Hope and sadness on streets of Tuam as excavation work begins jrnl.ie/6734455
'It haunts a lot of people': Hope and sadness on streets of Tuam as excavation work begins
The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby home started in Tuam on Monday.
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June 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM