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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

You’d never think anything starting with “Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl” would have a positive ending, but here we are.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

"and then she said debt was falling"

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

"The Swift hatred resembles the argument that cults and other high-control groups make to their followers: "Cut off contact to the outside world, abandon everything that gives you joy and pleasure, and dedicate your entire life to the cult's ideology." www.salon.com/2024/01/31/w...

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Why MAGA fears Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl

The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce conspiracy illustrates how the MAGA cult controls its followers

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/01/2024

FUCK why didn't I think of that

listicle headline reading
7 ways to eliminate depression from your life
#6: having fun
(photo of an ethnically diverse group of attractive young men and women laughing and frolicking in the sunshine)

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Russia wants to destroy Europe: our way of life, our economies and democracies. Their war on European freedom may have started in #Ukraine, but it won’t stop there unless we give the Ukrainian military & people everything they need to stop them. Now.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

I knew I liked Benedict Cumberbatch for a reason. He knows that defending Ukraine is the right thing to do 💙💛

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 09/01/2024

We're beyond proud to announce that we've been awarded the 2024 Olof Palme Prize for our work. Our team will be accepting the award in Sweden on January 30th. If you want to watch, the ceremony will be broadcasted live on the memorial fund's website:

palmefonden.se

2024 – Bellingcat | OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

It's really quite staggering that a handful of individuals, backed up by a far larger machinery of interests, can spearhead so much damage.

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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

A lot of people saying it’s insane that it took an ITV drama to lead to this, and oh boy, IT IS! But this does also tell us something about the power of scripted television fiction to reach people in a way that factual television rarely can. It’s essential.

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Post Office scandal: Met Police investigate 'potential fraud offences'

It comes as 50 new potential victims of the scandal have contacted lawyers after the airing of a related TV drama.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Looks like Iran is becoming a real player in international terrorism: funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and now selling the Russians drones and rockets. I suspect Iran is slowly drawing sufficient attention to itself. Smart money not on Iran.

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Infinite Jest @chicoabu.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

“…I left Khan Younis in a Red Cross vehicle, freed along with my daughter and grandson. I was blindfolded on the way in but now could finally see the city — because of the war, a shell of the place that I remember from my day on the beach...” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/o...

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Opinion | My Second Trip to Gaza Was as a Hostage. I Will Never Return.

An Israeli woman kidnapped in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas recalls a visit to the Gaza Strip in another lifetime.

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Michael Avon @oeming.bsky.social 2016! In n' out burger after the Powers season 2 premiere!

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Right, DO try to keep up: The mugs on the roadside wall near Truro disappeared and were replaced by sex toys. Now the dicks have become ducks and we await further updates. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

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Cornwall's 'Great Wall' swaps sex toys for ducks

The wall along the A39 has hosted a display of mugs, sex toys, and now duck ornaments

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 09/01/2024

Great start to the morning over on Twitter.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

immense respect to this science teacher for seeing his opportunity and grabbing onto it with both hands

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Headline: Science Teacher Finds Missing Piece of Boeing Jet’s Fuselage in His Yard
Subhed: Bob Sauer said that his 50-foot cedar trees had acted on the same scientific principle as an airbag, disrupting the door plug’s fall in an act known in physics as impulse.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I do hope Sunak is asked about Tory links to Fujitsu, after the Post Office scandal was common knowledge… Fujitsu UK head is married to a Tory MP. Fujitsu was given a £50m phone alert contract which has now been subcontracted to Infosys. The business owned by Sunak’s father-in-law.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

If only Private Eye hadn’t been writing about it for years & Fujitsu’s UK CEO wasn’t married to a Tory MP & that Fujitsu then got a £50m phone alert contract…

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Ukraine is fighting for all of us! Art by NEIVANMADE

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Ern400 @ern400.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Without a doubt.

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Delighted to learn that Chaka Khan is trudging around the woods in Georgia searching for Bigfoot/Sasquatch

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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

it is really not possible to overstate just how desperate twitter is for advertisers right now

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I am reading posts about an award show I’m not watching on a text-based social media platform

Leonard Nimoy in the Simpsons as an eclipse occurs saying THE COSMIC BALLET GOES ON

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

The circle of life.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/01/2024

anyway good night (from one hella-stoned cat)

Gray tabby lying on his side with one eye open, staring into space for the last half hour, occasionally sneezing.

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

EU refuses to control Putin's emmisary, Orban who is now blocking EU funding of €50 billion to Ukraine and in the US, Putin merely had to buy a few congressmen to prevent US assistance. The west will regret these days for a century, seeing how easy it could have been to stop what's coming.

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FunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

► FunHouseRadio.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Absolutely brilliant

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Steve Lane @stevelane.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

He’s completely out of his depth.

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Harriet Tubman @harriet-tubman.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

I see the similarity 😅

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Richard Cann @richcann.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Yep! 'Tis true!🤣

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

My first Guardian Books cartoon for 2024

A bookseller stands behind a desk labeled ‘Assistance’ at which a queue has formed. The people in the queue are labelled (front to back)
1. Knows the title of the book but not the author
2. Knows the author but not the title
3. Has some vague memories of the plot
4. Recalls the picture on the cover
5. Can name some of the actors from the movie adaptation
6. Thinks this is the coffee queue
7. Mind has gone completely blank but hoping something will come back before getting to the desk

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I love how the New York Times, which ran more than five dozen articles on Gay and almost single handedly maintained the drumbeat for her resignation, switches into Neutral Observer Mode here. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/b...