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Rosanna Cantavella

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Editor. Professor. Geek. Love XML and the digital. Wish for a fairer world.

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Rosanna Cantavella @cantavest.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Hi, Tom! I'm Rosanna, an old subscriber of your work and books. I live in the Valencian land, close to the Mediterranean. I own a small flat in a village up the hills. The flat will be vacant for some days over the holidays, and I'd like to offer it to you both. DM?
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2025
A NEW study of the Finland basic income experiment just dropped. Turns out psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, and incomes increased on average by 9% to 11% due to people not losing the income when they accepted a job, unlike traditional unemployment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This study provides causal evidence that cash transfer programs have the

potential to alleviate the income-health trap in advanced countries. We analyze

the Finnish basic income experiment, which replaced the minimum

unemployment benefits with a guaranteed income for 2,000 randomly selected

unemployed persons during the years 2017-2018. The guaranteed income

removed all job-search requirements, but participants could still choose to

claim unemployment benefits and comply with related obligations. The

experiment also increased average income by 9%-11%, for two reasons: basic

income payments overlapped with benefits due from the pre-experiment

period, and basic income was not tapered against labor earnings. Using register

data on all prescription medications and secondary care visits, we find that the

experiment reduced psychotropic drug use by 8%-11%. Our results also suggest

a decline in outpatient mental health visits for secondary care. No effects were

detected for other health outcomes. Since most participants opted out of the

unconditionality aspect of the experiment and continued to claim

unemployment benefits, we attribute the observed health effects primarily to

the increased income.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
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We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Can you die from face-palming? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sultana looks to 'reconcile' with Corbyn after party row
Post on social media comes after the ex-Labour MPs clashed over the formation of their fledgling left-wing party.
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Zdoubleyoo @zdoubleyoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
“The defining feature of the 21st century is disregard for the sanctity of human life. The livestream is a deathstream with no way to turn it off.”
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davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Another one’s landed safely @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social - I’ve made a brew and I’m going in 🙏🏻 💙📚
The Swift Press first edition hardback of ‘Everything Will Swallow You’ (2025) by Tom Cox on its Blackwell’s packaging
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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Meanwhile, in case we all forgot, Grok is in charge of procurement for a minor US agency, something called the Pentagon. 🤷‍♀️ www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 20/08/2025
"When digital systems are abstracted from place, they become invisible. We lose sight of the true cost of their convenience: the emissions behind a search query or an AI prompt, the land consumed by hyperscale data centers, and the communities they displace or disadvantage."
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Enric Nomdedéu @nomdedeu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Com la va incomplir al denunciar-me a mi i tres més pel complement salarial per residència al que teníem dret. Com vam demostrar. Han convertit una prestigiosa agència, reconeguda per UE i Fiscalia, en una Desokupa macarra contra l’oposició. @sergipitarch.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va...
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Antifraude incumplió su ley al denunciar al comisionado de la dana por su falso título sin informarle ni darle audiencia
La Agencia de Prevención y Lucha Contra el Fraude de la Comunitat Valenciana que dirige Eduardo Beut realizó toda la investigación a José María Ángel y dos funcionarios sin recabar su versión y solo s...
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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The book was drenched 😔
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Much of what the Trump administration has demanded, Columbia has conceded – though they insist otherwise. @meghnadbose.bsky.social and I tracked months of government demands and secretive Columbia rule changes, for @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2025/08/07/c...
theintercept.com
How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
Columbia University President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands.
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
A Lithuanian phrase that one-ups “as poor as a church mouse” is “the mouse hung itself in the fridge.” An extremely metal Icelandic phrase about having little money is “to sip death from a shell.” But my favourite, from Estonian slang, translates to “I’ve got nothing but a dick and a desolate soul.”
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 11/08/2025
Nvidia et AMD vont verser 15 % de leurs revenus provenant de la vente de puces en Chine au gouvernement américain
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Nvidia et AMD vont verser 15 % de leurs revenus provenant de la vente de puces en Chine au gouvernement américain
C’était une condition pour obtenir les licences d’exportation vers le marché chinois, accordées aux entreprises par Donald Trump au début d’août.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Illustration from Nonsenseorship (1922). In this “levititious literary escapade” — as publisher George P. Putnam describes his anthology — some of the wittiest writers of the Jazz Age lambaste the nonsensically censorious atmosphere of prohibition-era US: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n...
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 27/07/2025
Universal basic income would help with this problem too. No one should have to give up their pet due to loss of ability to afford them.
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NYC animal shelters hit record crowding as pet surrenders surge
YouTube video by NBC News
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Universities across the US including Northwestern are introducing pro-Israel training programs. They call them antisemitism awareness training but in an age of doublespeak we must call things what they actually are, not what they claim to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #academia
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Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it?
Training asks students to attribute the statement ‘every time I read Hitler, I fall in love’ to an ‘anti-Israel activist’
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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New Post: New report shows a catastrophic decline in formal language learning www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...
Hands in air and speech bulb saying 'hello' in different languages
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Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Lo que ha de fer Gencat és aclarir les subvencions per l'autobus Tortosa-Lleida. No pot ser q per fer un viatge 2/3 la distancia de Ttsa-BCN, ens costa 4 cops més el bitllet. No volem equilibri territorial i promoure altres zones? Hi ha estudiants deixant 40€/setmana. ebredigital.cat/2025/07/31/e...
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Territori millora la connexió en bus entre Gandesa i municipis de la Terra Alta - EbreDigital.cat
El Departament de Territori, Habitatge i Transició Ecològica, conjuntament amb el Consell Comarcal de la Terra Alta, ampliarà les circulacions en autobús
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The story continues! On the apocalyptic ambitions of top US officials, some of whom believe they were appointed by God to serve a foreign country: Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-wi...
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Baroness Louise Von Pfaff of Taylor Towers @lmtaylor42.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thanks to sales at etsy.com/uk/shop/StillDisgusted, glad to be able to donate total of £175 to #RejoinEU causes @stayeuropean.bsky.social @ledbydonkeys.org @therejoineuparty.com @marchforrejoin.co.uk @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk Fab handcrafted stuff, all profits donated 🙂🇪🇺👍
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/07/2025
Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.
5 copies of 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, stacked on a light brown tabletop. The books' spines are facing the camera. The book is large and the covers are dark red, with the title and authors' names in white. The cover also has a grid of 21 square images each cut out from a different medieval manuscript.
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wonderful to see this today @theul.bsky.social - a magnificent choirbook probably from the court of Henry VIII or Henry VIII, with a motet and a five-part mass which appears to be the work of a Welsh Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, John Lloyd (c.1475-1523).
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 23/07/2025
En direct, Gaza : « L’utilisation de la famine contre les civils constitue un crime de guerre », avertit le Programme alimentaire mondial
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En direct, Gaza : « L’utilisation de la famine contre les civils constitue un crime de guerre », avertit le Programme alimentaire mondial
Plusieurs centaines d’ONG, dont Médecins sans frontière, Médecins du Monde et Oxfam, alertent mercredi sur une « famine de masse qui se propage dans la bande de Gaza ». Les organisations appellent à un cessez-le-feu immédiat, à l’ouverture de tous les points de passage terrestres et à la libre circulation de l’aide humanitaire.
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Shava Nerad @shava23.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Your tax dollars at work www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/m...
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‘We are watching our colleagues waste away’: Aid workers, doctors, journalists risk starvation alongside people in Gaza | CNN
Dozens of international humanitarian organizations warned Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is endangering the lives of doctors and aid workers, while a major news agency says it is trying to evacuat...
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Today is Spoonerism Day so here’s a list of the top ten best celebrity names when spoonerized… 10. Lude Jaw 9. Bathy Kates 8. Parah Salin 7. Hatt Mancock 6. Sandy Ravage 5. Him Tenman 4. Bean Sean 3. Shartin Meen 2. Rid Kock 1. Cradley Booper
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Vicent Flor @vicentflor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Un pobre podria estar setze anys opositant? Meritocràcia? www.lasprovincias.es/valencia/cos...
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Las valencianas que logran la plaza más difícil: «Me ha costado 16 años aprobar la oposición» | Las Provincias
Logran ser registradores de la propiedad tras décadas de estudio, intentos fallidos y postergar la vida personal. Y tesón:«Le prometí a mi padre que lo conseguiría»
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 19/07/2025
"In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 19/07/2025
Dans la bande de Gaza, la défense civile annonce la mort de 26 Palestiniens près de centres d’aide dans des tirs israéliens
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Dans la bande de Gaza, la défense civile annonce la mort de 26 Palestiniens près de centres d’aide dans des tirs israéliens
Alors que la faim s’aggrave à Gaza, les distributions d’aide deviennent elles-mêmes des zones de danger mortel pour la population assiégée.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“Together, the two ships emit over 140,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, according to EU data – more than entire Pacific island nations like Nauru and Kiribati.” #COO30chaos www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/18/b...
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Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cap on costs
But many developing country negotiators say the $220 a night cap is still too much, while other developing nations were not offered the deal.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I hope everyone realises that *all* copyright will expire in 2042, as that will be 75 years after Barthes announced The Death of the Author
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/07/2025
Checking in on that 'ceasefire' that Israel imposed on Lebanon... This still happens just about every day, often multiple times a day.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
... You can read an extract here. Which will give you a bit more of an idea (but not a complete one) of the identity of this mysterious figure lurking in Joe McLaren's brilliant cover art: tomcox.substack.com/p/the-reason... But why was the book almost lost? I'll try to explain...
Carl, from Everything Will Swallow You, hanging out on the beach
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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Beloved Blueskyans, I need a little help —there's a reward. The ERB is growing: major universities across Europe and the US are subscribing. But we need more. Please forward, repost or email the text in the reply to who can subscribe. If you help, I hereby grant you the title of INTELLECTUAL.
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"Doctors entering Gaza have resorted to packing individual cans of infant formula in their personal luggage. On at least one occasion, Israeli authorities confiscated 10 cans of infant formula from the luggage of an American doctor recently entering Gaza" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
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núria cadenes @ncadenes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A la primera part del llibre, les entrevistes. Ara sóc aquí. Passant pàgines a poc a poc, i plorant. És difícil d llegir. Però s’ha de fer. Com un homenatge, potser. Com un respecte Sobre 'Els morts de Mazón', de @deshabitat.bsky.social, a @vilaweb.cat: "Els 228 noms" www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/els...
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Els 228 noms - Mail obert de Núria Cadenes
Cadascú llegeix els llibres com pot, com vol, com sap. Jo, aquest, el llegeixo molt i molt a poc a poc. Amb pauses i silencis. D’entrada, no gosava subratllar. Com per un pudor, un respecte, una recan...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 02/07/2025
Dans la bande de Gaza, des bombardements israéliens font au moins vingt-cinq morts, selon la défense civile
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Dans la bande de Gaza, des bombardements israéliens font au moins vingt-cinq morts, selon la défense civile
Le porte-parole de l’organisme de premiers secours du territoire palestinien a rapporté que cinq personnes avaient été tuées après des tirs de l’armée israélienne à proximité d’un centre de distribution d’aide dans le sud du pays.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Here are some nice mushrooms
A trio of tiny new splitgill mushrooms grow like seashells on the bottom of a burnt branch which I picked up so we could look underneath at their double-gills. All photos by me
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
He’s speaking my love language thehill.com/business/537...
Mamdani says he doesn’t believe ‘that we should have billionaires’
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚨One of the most terrifying elements of the Trump budget bill is NOT getting enough attention. The Bill will make ICE the biggest policing and incarceration agency in the US. Bigger than the FBI, with more jail space than the Federal Prison Bureau. It’s a budget for a police state.
A night shot of multiple ICE agents masked as always outside a temporary private prison.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/06/2025
Seems deeply troubling to implement. Friends taking photos of each other. Photographer owns copyright to the snap, but person photographed has copyright of their own likeness in the picture?
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/06/2025
The simple fact that most people do not want to confront is that it COULD BE YOU NEEDING IT at any point. But research shows that this basic fact does not increase empathy with disabled people, because people do not want to believe it.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is on Trump’s head. Should be headline in every paper
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Speaking of Unbound, today the Bookseller magazine has published this open letter from their authors, including me: it explains our situation and why we want answers (as well as to be paid what we are owed): www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...
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Opinion: The Unbound authors' view
The authors affected by the collapse of Unbound deserve real support, honest accountability and clear answers.
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Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Short video with English subtitles from the @dailycatalan Instagram account showing the Catalan tradition of making the liqueur 'ratafia' on midsummer's eve.
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