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janemick.bsky.social
could it possibly be clearer??
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@louisejameson.bsky.social were you at the Duke's Playhouse early on?
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I think social media should be made to show alongside every money earning post how much the person has been earning.

Giving us an answer to "are they in it for the money?"
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
I'm very grateful to environmental scientist Sam Matey-Coste showing me these Our World In Data charts when we had a chat recently.

(sammatey.substack.com/p/a-conversa...)

Yes, so much is a worrying, enraging mess right now. But the bigger picture is a little more reassuring.
Charts from Our World In Data showing positive progress over the last 2 centuries in: poverty rates, basic education, literacy, democracy, vaccination and child mortality.
September 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
SHOW LESS LIKE THIS
I effing wish
I've been clicking this every damn time and still my feed gets more and more clogged with American sports. Is there a solution?
September 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Show less like this?
I've worn out 2 thumbs already saying less of the American sports please and yet they keep on coming.
August 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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lyse.bsky.social
That took a turn or two
Anna Mazzola @Anna_Mazz It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime. From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978. While they were waiting at a bus stop in Clermiston, Mr and Mrs Daniel Thirsty were threatened by Mr Robert Clear. 'He demanded that I give him my wifes purse, said Mr Thirsty. 'Telling him that the purse was in her basket, I bent down, put my hands up her skirt, detached her artificial leg and hit him over the head with it. It was not my intention to do anything more than frighten him oft, but unhappily for us all, he died? 3:41 AM • 8/18/23 from Earth • 1.7M Views
August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@morrighani.bsky.social. It looks to me that Courage Directors in bottles is no more. Do you have knowledge please?
July 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Extract: “It is vital that a despot in charge of a theocratic government with no legal accountability who supresses public protest, obliterates women’s rights and pulls people off the streets at random, shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon” tweeted Supreme Leader Khamenei.
June 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Watching the tennis at Queens. There is a robotic announcement now of "out".
1 Is it Sue Barker?
2 It's robotic. Maybe they can vary it somewhat, ask spectators to record it when they arrive or at least have a different one for each sideline, baseline etc
3 Will Wimbledon be the same?
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social

The offspring came back with news.

You're in the baccalauréat today, an extract from Bournville, with an advert for Welwyn GC and an extract from Hard Times about Coketown.

Q Show how they interact to illustrate the impact of industrialization (sic) in the UK
June 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I'm sorry, what?? 😳
Testing Reveals AI Model Repeatedly Tried To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
Excuse me?? 😳
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May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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stribs.bsky.social
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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riksredguard.bsky.social
I have waited my whole life, for this moment....
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero
Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…
March 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
I’m crying, this is so funny

WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
March 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@proton.me Does your android app have a setting so it automatically logs out after ~10 minutes and requires some password to re-open

So if someone steals my phone they can't reset my passwords on commercial sites
March 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Maybe this will help to get drug research done when it seems likely there's no profits to be made, despite the hoped for health benefits
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people
Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution. It’s re...
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What the Tory MPs were really like. My wildest dreams left trailing in the dust
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February 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
@brandon-2.bsky.social. 345v25

Does Imperial select students with a general knowledge test nowadays?
February 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
So much for focusing on meritocracy. Lol
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · Jan 30
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy sent a memo Thursday directing staffers to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average” when implementing the Department of Transportation’s programs and policies.
Trump Admin Trashes DEI...Then Orders DEI For Trad Wives
A Transportation Department memo reveals a plan to “give preference... to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”
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January 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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gillianrightford.bsky.social
If that doesn’t work, try this link. Trust me. It’s that good.
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This should win an Emmy for editing. From the upcoming SNL Music special produced by @questlove
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January 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
TekWar 2024
January 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
@joshuarozenberg.bsky.social In light of Harry and Watson's win, is there any chance of Murdoch's crew spending time in chokey?
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM