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Loreene (redacted)
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Stranger in a Strange Land. Feral Nerd. Not down with fascism.
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seamas.bsky.social
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Not that there haven’t been other signs that I overdo it. Last week, we passed a wine shop and my son said, “Look Daddy, wine!”, in the same the way I used to point, for his delight, at passing fire engines. I’m 40 now, a little overweight, and having young kids means I do think about remaining active as they get older. Every Derryman I met in childhood sported a paunch by the time they reached their mid-30s, and cast the silhouette of a pantomime dame by the time they were my age. I don’t know that I ever saw one of them eat a vegetable. Portly relatives dying of heart attacks in their 50s was a tragic but commonplace occurrence, in a way that seems alien today, a feeling borne out by statistics that say cardiovascular deaths in Northern Ireland decreased by 76% between 1979 and 2013. The idea of an “active dad” was so absurd that I can think of just one example from my entire childhood – my friend Paul’s father, who occasionally dropped in on our weekly five-a-side game. At the time this was so novel as to be miraculous, as if we were playing with someone who had been exhumed from a bog, his face purple, his knee wrapped in tape. He swore a lot and never seemed to be having a particularly good time, but we put this down to the fact that old age had turned his blood to dust, and he was likely confused and distracted by the appearance of electric lights and overhead planes. He was, I’m now forced to realise, 43 years old.
January 18, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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veertjephilips.bsky.social
Transport Minister Oscar Puente said that the Iryo was less than four years old and that the railway track had been completely renovated last May with an investment of 700 million euros ($813.5 million). Iryo said the train was last inspected on January 15.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Spain's high-speed train crash: what happened?
Officials highlight the "strange" nature of the accident on a straight stretch of railway.
www.reuters.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Everything really is just gambling now.
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
roisingeal.bsky.social
Ugh.
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
When DHS's official feed rhapsodized about 100 million deportations, that was a message to defenders of immigrants. Ask yourself this: Why haven't officials done more to assure us that there won't be more Renee Good-type killings?

(h/t @jamellebouie.net)

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January 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself.

(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)

newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 7:59 PM