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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 16h

This is one of the best photos I think I've ever taken

View out of an airplane window over the wing and a seaside coastline. The sky is blue, the clouds are fluffy, and there is a shadow of the plane on the sand.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 13h

www.imdb.com/title/tt3522...

The Exit 8 (2025) ⭐ 6.5 | Action, Adventure, Horror

1h 35m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 13h

London Film Festival starts here

Not doing the fancy gala tonight (sorry I can’t be there with you, Daniel Craig)

But I am excited for Exit 8 #LFF

Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square with the BFI London Film Festival sign

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14h

Was there a memo to all Atlantic tropical cyclones this year or something where they were all told to avoid the US

National Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic showing Tropical Storm Jerry to the east of the lesser Antilles with a projected path skirting the islands to the north before swinging further north and then east out to sea

Map of the Atlantic showing all tropical cyclone paths for 2025, with most of them following the same general path where they appear scared to come anywhere near the US

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14h

me: we first met on here, so... *deep breath* will you marry me?
jovi: oh god you took me by surprise. of course, YES! :D

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 14h

I did not know this! Amazing stuff

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15h

I just checked and it is basically a cost thing - flu jabs have been available for decades so are very cheap, whereas covid jab is much newer and just costs a lot more

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Tom Copley @tomcopley.bsky.social · 15h

It was a real pleasure to celebrate the completion of the first of 275 new homes at Calverley Close in Beckenham.

These 20 houses, delivered by Riverside and Vistry, are at social rent levels and part-funded by the Mayor of @london.gov.uk following a ballot of existing estate residents.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15h

Very annoying

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty bad for the NHS to shrink the age pool of people eligible for free Covid jabs

You have to be 75 or over now - a lot of people in that group will be retired, and a private jab costs £100 which is not a small amount!

Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 17h

"Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion"

"Patients have also been telling Your Voice, Your BBC News that they have been receiving text messages from the NHS and their GP asking them to come forward for their Covid jab despite not being eligible."

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion

Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 15h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16h

I asked a farm vet once if she preferred cows or sheep and she said cows because 'they at least have a will to live'

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 18h

OK, great.

I must be one of the few people who hates the smell of lavender, and it is shoved into a lot of calming/relaxing things meaning I can't really use them

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18h

A crisp £5 note to the first journalist to ask Kemi Badenoch if she has a humiliation kink

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 18h

Does it have lavender in it, like the website seems to suggest?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19h

I thought it was lunchtime so I made my lunch (jacket potato with tuna mayo) and I’ve just looked at the clock

Oh

Never mind

*tucks in*

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19h

It was when Sam Altman actually said to investors (on camera) 'we don't know how this is going to make money, but if you give us a lot of money to build the machine, we will ask it how it is going to make money'

...that I realised it is well and truly screwed

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20h

Man who wasn't paying tax here fucks off because he won't pay tax here.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Banking billionaire becomes latest member of ultra-rich to leave UK

Banking billionaire becomes latest ultra-rich lister to leave UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 20h

Wondering whether the bubble bursting will be this year or next

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🎉🎉 I love how birds shape themselves like torpedoes to gather speed. I captured this magnificent Red-bellied Woodpecker as it zoomed off its perch. 🥰🥰🥰 #Woodpecker #CentralPark #birding

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 21h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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