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Darker, gayer, different according to some. Scummy Irish according to others. Not a Murphy. Yes a Heathen (and a vicious bastard).

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 07/10/2026
China warns France, Germany against ‘protectionist’ trade tools hongkongfp.com/2026/10/07/c...
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China warns France, Germany against ‘protectionist’ trade tools
China called on France and Germany to steer clear of “protectionist” trade measures on Tuesday, after their leaders urged the European Union to develop a legal arsenal for a potential t…
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 5h
Endangered orcas will likely face an ocean noisy enough for the foreseeable future to cause their extinction, as new federal targets risk locking in harmful noise levels, advocates warn.
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Carney picks 'a very noisy year' as yardstick to beat for ocean noise
There are only 76 whales left in the genetically distinct Southern Resident orca population. While a shortage of their main food source, chinook salmon, and pollutants have driven their decline, the u...
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 5h
Number of wildfires recorded in England in 2026 was second highest on record
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Number of wildfires recorded in England in 2026 was second highest on record
England's very hot summer fuelled the second-highest number of wildfires on recent record, according to provisional government figures.
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WIRED @wired.com · 5h
And the tool doesn’t account for Musk’s political operations. As of October 6, the main Musk-affiliated super PAC had deployed $21 million into seven key US Senate contests. You can add that to the total.
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 9h
China pushes for equal dialogue in resolving trade differences with EU reut.rs/3TFPZgp
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China pushes for equal dialogue in resolving trade differences with EU
Open cooperation and equal dialogue are the way to resolving the economic ​and trade differences between China and ‌the European Union, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9h
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his left-wing allies are gambling that a campaign that puts the housing crisis front and center can galvanize support for their beleaguered bloc, which opinion polls show is heading for a bruising defeat.
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Spain’s Leader Pins Political Survival on Public Anger Over Housing Crisis
Pedro Sánchez is betting his left-wing coalition can avoid a bruising election defeat amid rage over the eviction of an elderly woman who died Wednesday.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 16h
Scientists identify ancient Sphinx-like Egyptian crocodile
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Scientists identify ancient Sphinx-like Egyptian crocodile
A skull found nearly a century ago has helped Egyptian and European researchers revise part of the crocodile family tree, shedding light on the Mediterranean's prehistoric wildlife and revealing an unexpected connection to the Great Sphinx.
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AngrySwede @christianmalmgren.bsky.social · 14h
Maybe, but a quick glance at Orban and Fico tells us that this probation period may be necessary after all.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 14h
Two researchers have won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that could change how medicines are made.
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French and Japanese scientists win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Two researchers have won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that could change how medicines are made.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h
Isaias strengthens into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season as it surges toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center says.
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Isaias strengthens into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season
Isaias has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. The National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday that the hurricane was on track to strike the U.S.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 14h
Ads promoting the president have cost more than $12m so far and Trump’s Super Pac has refused to reimburse taxpayers
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Democrats sue to stop Trump from using taxpayer funds for ‘illegal propaganda campaign’
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 20h
Critically endangered Darling River snails discovered at Walgett weir
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'Glimmer of hope' as near-extinct Darling River snails discovered
A once-abundant snail nearly disappeared as weirs and irrigation diverted water from its river home. But it found protection in the very structures that almost wiped it out.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 17h
The Colorado River is in crisis, partly because we’ve dammed and disturbed it to the point of ecological death. Conservationists want to save the waterway and its flailing fauna. But every intervention that solves one problem has a way of creating another.
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Living Water | Ash Sanders
The Southwest’s future is increasingly entangled with the fate of a fish most people have never heard of.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 20h
More Japanese companies across various sectors are reporting data breaches due to cyberattacks that put millions at risk of identity theft, with authorities trying to get to the bottom of the situation. 👉 ebx.sh/sVbog5
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 18h
Japan’s antitrust watchdog raided the offices of the country’s four largest beer-makers on Wednesday over allegations that they colluded to raise prices charged to wholesalers. 👉 ebx.sh/NwkiaO
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 17h
Goodman Group faces mounting criticism of what would be its largest data center project in Japan, just days after it scrapped plans for a similar development in Sydney following local resistance. 👉 ebx.sh/iFd9AS
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h
Samsung quarterly profit surges to $80bn on AI chip demand ft.trib.al/ZsAcD5M
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Samsung quarterly profit surges to $80bn on AI chip demand
World’s largest memory-chip maker posts record earnings for the three months to September
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 18h
Amazon faces another wave of employee layoffs across various departments as part of its ongoing cost-cutting strategy, despite massive AI infrastructure investments. bit.ly/3VWlzHj
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Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams
Amazon faces new layoffs affecting seller support, engineering, and customer service amid its cost overhaul and AI investments.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 18h
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Financial regulator to implement tighter guardrails on banks’ use of AI
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions is creating a new ‘safety code’ to improve cybersecurity and mitigate risks
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 18h
The Alaska Earthquake Center has launched an interactive map to help coastal communities prepare for dangerous tsunamis.
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New interactive tsunami map helps Alaska communities prepare for the worst
The online map covers 66 coastal communities.
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The Economist @economist.com · 18h
In 35 rich countries, a typical 15-year-old now reads no better than a 14-year-old did a decade ago. A slow-motion disaster is under way. We explain what must be done to stop it
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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Machines are getting brighter. Teens are getting dimmer. Schools must act now
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RMJ=H @rmj.bsky.social · 18h
You know what’s a good way to prevent that? Don’t commit impeachable offenses.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18h
Has the high court set Australia’s fossil fuel producers shaking in their boots? They should be | Jacqueline Peel
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Has the high court set Australia’s fossil fuel producers shaking in their boots? They should be | Jacqueline Peel
A high court victory sets a new baseline for coal and gas projects in New South Wales – and potentially for the rest of Australia Fossil fuel producers across the country are shifting uncomfortably, after the high court of Australia handed down its first climate case decision in MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group on Wednesday. For the climate conscious, the outcome was largely what was hoped for: the court ruled that the Independent Planning Commission, the body that approved the extension of Mount Pleasant open-cut coalmine’s life by 22 years – doubling its output to 21m tonnes a year until 2048 – did not do enough to consider the mine’s scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions or how they might be mitigated. Continue reading...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Trump’s sons have recently invested in dozens of defense companies. Those companies have now raked in a staggering $6 BILLION in current or future government contracts. Corruption? Or coincidence? You be the judge.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 07/10/2026
Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has confirmed the roll-out of the shingles vaccine will begin early next summer jrnl.ie/7185949
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Shingles vaccine rollout to begin in June 2027, says health minister
The vaccine will be offered to people who are immunocompromised in early summer.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 07/10/2026
The Minister for Defence has said the Irish Defence Forces will not reach 11,500 troops by 2028, breaking a key target promised by the organisation and government. jrnl.ie/7185833t
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Defence Forces will not reach target of 11,500 personnel by 2028 despite recruitment commitments
Defence Minister Helen McEntee was speaking at a press conference about the Defence and Foreign Affairs allocations in Budget 2027.
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GI Hoe @shane1mcc.bsky.social · 22h
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 23h
As Germany reels from a major spying scandal at the centre of its intelligence services, it is unlikely to worry Irish security services, sources have said. jrnl.ie/7185546t
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Euronews @euronews.com · 07/10/2026
Mercedes-Benz shares fell after the German carmaker reported a 6% fall in global sales, driven by weakness in China. Sales outside China edged higher, supported by growth in Europe and North America.
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Mercedes global sales fall 6% as electric car sales hit record high
Mercedes-Benz shares fell after the German carmaker reported a 6% fall in global sales, driven by weakness in China. Sales outside China edged higher, supported by growth in Europe and North America.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 23h
IMF signals austerity is back as global public debt nears 100% of GDP
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IMF signals austerity is back as global public debt nears 100% of GDP
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has urged heavily indebted governments to tighten their belts and central banks to take a hawkish stance, signalling a return to austerity as the energy shock from the Iran war, record public debt and a credit-fuelled AI investment boom weigh on the global economy.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No one should be surprised. Neither Congress or the Senate, the laws or the courts, morality or just common decency have stopped Trump and his cult doing exactly as they please.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
In light of the influx of recent cyberattacks across Japan, here's what users can do to limit their own vulnerabilities. 👉 ebx.sh/75aPDc
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
Western Pacific sees rare trio of storms www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10...
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Western Pacific sees rare trio of storms
The Japan Weather Association said it was the first time in five years that three systems have existed at the same time in the month of October.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
As state funding stalls, medical researchers in Japan pivot to crowdfunding www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10...
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As state funding stalls, medical researchers in Japan pivot to crowdfunding
Medical campaigns have surged, particularly since the pandemic, when the acute shortage of resources at some hospitals became widely known.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
Researchers have found a "phoenix planet," an exoplanet that appears to have been born from material expelled into space during the death throes of a star and now orbits the compact stellar remnant that was left behind.
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Alien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
The planet is classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from a newborn star, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
The U.S. military in Okinawa Prefecture is pausing all operations for two days from Wednesday, followed by a fresh curfew for 30 days, after a marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a local woman.
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U.S. military in Okinawa pauses operations and enforces curfew in wake of murder
The two-day operational pause from noon Wednesday will be followed by a 30-day curfew dubbed a “Period of Reflection.”
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/10/2026
The arrangement allows Apple to expand its ecosystem without shouldering the full cost and complexity of producing and supporting such accessories.
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Apple’s smart home push includes doorbell, lock and thermostat codeveloped with LG
The arrangement allows Apple to expand its ecosystem without shouldering the full cost and complexity of producing and supporting such accessories.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 06/10/2026
Effin’ Birds glassware, just in time for Thanksgiving. eatf.art/glass
A pint glass featuring a painting of a bird beside the text "thank the fuckin lord for booze"
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Euronews @euronews.com · 06/10/2026
5 things to know ahead of crucial EU-China talks ➡️ l.euronews.com/PRjS
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GI Hoe @shane1mcc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Work. From. Home.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 07/10/2026
George Fenton, British composer behind David Attenborough’s Earth Trilogy, dies aged 76
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George Fenton, British composer behind David Attenborough’s Earth Trilogy, dies aged 76
Best known for his award-winning film scores and long-lasting partnership with director Ken Loach, George Fenton also created the music for what became known as David Attenborough's Earth Trilogy: The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet.
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GI Hoe @shane1mcc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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David Rose in Polka Dot Sweater and Towel Turban
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
A lawyer for ABC asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network's editorial decisions weeks before the midterms. to.pbs.org/4j99PuU
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ABC and Trump's FCC battle in federal court over free speech and jurisdiction issues
A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guilloti...
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Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Progress isn’t capitalism or socialism, it’s balance. Free markets drive growth/protect rights, but unchecked wealth hoarding erodes freedom. Pure collectivism overregulates into scarcity. Smart floors like UBI & Universal Healthcare create stability without killing innovation.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 06/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "are you done being a piece of shit?"
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/10/2026
Analysis: The government is this evening hoping that it has done enough to avoid public criticism. But the public will have done the math today and realised that the government is not coming to their rescue in the midst of this cost-of-living and energy crisis. jrnl.ie/7184224
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/10/2026
It’s not unusual to come away with your new glasses with the uneasy feeling that you have paid quite a bit more than expected. It's also the case with eye tests. Specsavers, for example, advertises 'free' eye tests - but often charges far more 'advanced' tests. jrnl.ie/7182508
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Eye tests are supposed to be free, so why does Specsavers charge for them?
Many Irish customers have complained about upselling in Specsavers – but ‘advanced’ eye tests may be a good idea for some.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 06/10/2026
New EU members face 15-year probation period after joining the bloc
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New EU members face 15-year probation period after joining the bloc
The European Commission is proposing a new procedure to cut funding and voting rights of EU newcomers that breach the rule of law, available for 15 years after accession. The proposal also includes new procedures for the gradual integration of candidate countries and governance measures.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 06/10/2026
French borrowing costs hit their highest level since 2002, and the gap with Germany is the widest since 2011. What is driving France's debt crisis and how far could it go?
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France's sovereign debt crisis explained: How dangerous could it be?
French borrowing costs hit their highest level since 2002, and the gap with Germany is the widest since 2011. What is driving France's debt crisis and how far could it go?
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 06/10/2026
Retraining alone won’t protect workers from AI-driven job losses, argues Alessandro Crimi. He calls for policies like basic income and taxes on automation to curb inequality restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-w…
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
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