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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 6h

The most tedious thing on earth is someone having a big toot on the racism dogwhistle and then everyone on every channel spending time debating bad faith exculpatory readings. Yes, of course they didn’t say the bad thing overtly. That’s why it’s a dogwhistle.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 5h

Given that he actually used to hypnotise people into *thinking* they had larger breasts than they had previously thought they had, I put it to you that you can't prove he didn't do that to Zia Yusuf tonight.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 13h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 10h

Ten out of ten and a gold star to whoever it was shinned up a lamp post in central Swindon and tied an Irish flag to it.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 13h

Books getting a nice wash as the Orkney mobile library is on its travels.

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 14h

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 14h

Where it’s legal to own a raccoon in the U.S.

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Leo criticises wealthy elite living in ‘bubble of luxury’ as poor suffer

Pope Leo XIV has criticised how the wealthy elite live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while poor people suffer on the margins, confirming in his ...

dlvr.it

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 15h

Nature lovers and photographers! 🍂

The leaves are turning, the nights are growing longer… and it’s time for seasons to change on our profile.

Share your best autumn snaps in the replies, and we’ll pick a favourite to feature as our cover photo! 😍

A Crested Tit, with its bold spiky crest, stands on a lichen-covered branch. Its soft brown and white feathers blend into the natural tones of the landscape, while its bright red eye adds a pop of colour. Delicate cobwebs cling to the branch, creating a peaceful and autumnal scene.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

The stair, which vanishes from your memory whenever you forget to actively concentrate on its existence, was ruled to be maliciously attempting to murder you, having deemed you unworthy of treading on it.

Read the full article on Patreon (if you dare): www.patreon.com/posts/139919...

Exclusive! Bottom stair absolutely trying to kill you

Image of woman who has slipped over on stairs

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

Much that I love about this chart, but my favourite is the teeny tiny bit of tax revenue we get from child actors, models and the like showing up in '0-9'.

Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 18h

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21h

Coverage of Badenoch's speech was one of the worst examples ever of Westminster Brain and Lobbythink. A litany of nonsense applauded by a policy elite that can't even think three moves ahead. (1/3)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18h

Hollow laughter

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 19h

Just received an emergency alert from the Polish state not to go into the woods and touch any capsules because they’re rabies vaccines for foxes. Well that’s my plans for the next week ruined.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20h

Senior British thought leader's brains cooked by 24/7 exposure to American far right social media

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21h

'Remain campaigner now says Enoch was right'.

Morning.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 21h

#dragonfly

Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 22h

You're so vein! Barry Yates posted this photo: 'Consider the veins in the wing of this Common Darter and the veins in the leaf it's perched on... ' @rxnature.bsky.social

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Jono Leadley @birdingdad.bsky.social · 22h

Dawn at Bempton...we wait, in nervous anticipation. @flamboroughbird.bsky.social

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 1d

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

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Andy Hood @andyhood75.bsky.social · 1d

Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

In first, three shipwrecks from biblical times uncovered off the coast of Israel | The Times of Israel
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In first, three shipwrecks from biblical times uncovered off the coast of Israel

Only 11 ships from the Iron Age previously found in the Mediterranean; discovery provides evidence of maritime trade under the Kingdom of Israel

www.timesofisrael.com

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 1d

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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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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