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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 7h

Okay genuinely well done from Kimmel's team, this is what pulling out the real knives looks like.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 7h

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 7h

this is my favourite renaissance painting. #CelebrityTraitors

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 7h

Alan Carr is Linda at an 11 #CelebrityTraitors

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 8h

It was!

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 9h

Kindle is running a one-day deal for our book in the U.K., if you've been waiting to snap it up! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CW1MKNV...

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 9h

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @notmoro.bsky.social is still up for grabs.

Jess is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

More #buyastrangerabook day action!

@notmoro.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 17h

Yes please, I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK, up to £20. ("Strangers" can include mutuals I don't know very well, unless I have already bought them a book previously.)

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 9h

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

Blurb for the book.

On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era. The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified.

Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.

Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed. We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered.

At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 8h

I LOVED this book. You will too, I promise.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 9h

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 9h

I feel like science reporting should - among other things - feature an implications bar at the side. Like: is this a “cool new sneakers” discovery or a “travel through time on a psychic donkey” discovery?

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 9h

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them go supersonic and create dramatic shockwaves

Electrons inside graphene have been pushed to supersonic speeds

www.newscientist.com

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 12h

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 11h

I am DED after my massage. Might put my mum to bed early and take to my pit before the tension comes back.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 12h

Hideous, innit?

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 12h

Had a massage this afternoon; she had to change the music because it was “Balinese spa vibes” with tawny owl calls but the species doesn’t extend to Indonesia which IRKED me.

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 13h

His paw has gone floppy.

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 15h

Witless, saccharine pabulum.

Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 15h

The Book, The Thief, The Fox, The Mole His Wife and their Lover is all over the news. Cannot be having with it.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 16h

Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙

October brings a big shift with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month!

Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?

Map of the UK showing daylight lost during October by region. Northern areas like Lerwick lose about 2 hours 40 minutes, Stornoway 2 hours 30 minutes, Aberdeen 2 hours 20 minutes, Glasgow and Newcastle 2 hours 10 minutes, Manchester and Birmingham 2 hours, and southern areas such as London and Plymouth about 1 hour 50 minutes. Background uses colour bands to indicate daylight loss.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17h

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

More #buyastrangerabook day action!

@notmoro.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20!

So, if there's a particular book you're after, let us know!

UK only

Jess (Eldritch mode) 🎃 @notmoro.bsky.social · 17h

Yes please, I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK, up to £20. ("Strangers" can include mutuals I don't know very well, unless I have already bought them a book previously.)

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 17h

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

Now then, if you'd like a book, but aren't quite sure what, just let
@melissaschuh.bsky.social know the kinda stuff you like reading.

Melissa will then reply with a choice of four books.

You can choose your favourite & Melissa will pay for it!

Get in touch.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
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Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I find I’m just too tired to be scared and just go in with the pint glass + letter combo.

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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 1d

Too warm! Can’t go maximum warp duvet until frosty nights!