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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And now we rise / And we are everywhere

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I stopped trading with every place I go shopping, I'd be a millionaire

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No matter what he does, he will always be a really pathetic human being

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trust: easy to piss away, hard to earn back

The transfer follows calls from European politicians and taxpayer lobbyists to repatriate gold reserves from the US, warning that an unreliable American government under President Donald Trump may otherwise seize them amid growing transatlantic tensions.

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

about.jstor.org

An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. Iron Maiden x2 David Gilmour Tricky Leftfield Fish Grandmaster Flash Moby REM Australian Pink Floyd x5 Death In Vegas

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reform party: the UK is America's closest ally! Please spit on our face instead.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chinatown The French Connection Performance The Holy Grail The Exorcist

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In all my time living abroad, I din't think I've never known anyone to say they were from "Britain". It's UK or England or Scotland or Wales or Norn Iron.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Any other president said that...

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Problem: I'm So Tired Solution: Golden Slumbers

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/08/2026

Problem: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Solution: Foreign Object

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"I didn't cause those deaths, a big boy did it and ran away."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"They've done everything possible to eliminate us" — Iran captain Mehdi Taremi unleashes on FIFA and U.S. organizers

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I can't be the only person who thinks this is badly written? That run-on sentence in paragraph three for example. And you don't start a sentence with numerals.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Politics follows economics. We went from free markets to managed markets, in everything from football to banking to social media. So in politics the goal of some is to take away *uncertainty* in favour of *managed elections*.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing in their knees on the ground

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

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Letter from an English Department on the Brink | Sarah Blackwood

I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

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Wikipedia Brown @theycallhimbfg.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

Oh this is poetry

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review. Worth a read even if you didn't see the original

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Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang

Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.

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Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is precious!🥰🐾💃

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thriller video aged 5. Scared the life out of me. Took me 18 years to get over it.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I dread to think how they found that out

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Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

RIP Sinosphere tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

There's a huge difference between e.g. Siouxsie Sioux wearing a swastika for shock value, Sham 69 getting run over by National Front skinheads or S.O.D. satirising fascism with songs called "Speak English or Die". Nazi punks have all manner of motivations.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pink Floyd played five nights in the USSR in 1989. They were offered to be paid in timber, oil and caviar.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Where's the People's Popular Front?" "He's over there."

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Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Waiting for Trump to demand to choose Bishops.

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