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A. Vasco

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Liverpool. Born at 365.19 ppm atmospheric carbon, now at 425 ppm ppm.

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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s so funny to me that the UK campaigned all these years for a CANZUK union but now Canada is becoming the first ever Associate Member of the EU
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/07/2026
‘Urban planners deliberately evoked the bogeyman of the European “piazza” to build consensus around proposals that would preserve but also renovate the quintessentially “English” market hall.’ Susan Pedersen on the modern British city. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities
Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
6. When modern English speakers hear "epic poetry", they often think of a style like the grand, ornate, writerly neoclassicism of Alexander Pope's Iliad (which, to be clear, I adore). But Homer in Greek doesn't sound like that at all. It has a different sublimity.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The absolute cringe that half time show was
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The menu music on the Star Fox free demo is absolutely stunning.
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Nintendo GIFs @nintengifs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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k.k. says yeah man friends are far out in a video game
ALT: k.k. says yeah man friends are far out in a video game
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 13/04/2026
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...
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Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I genuinely think this is an universal thing literally nobody loves their country as much as a person who heard an American express a mildly negative opinion about it
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Given how unpopular Starmer is this is quite a reflection on Farage and Badenoch.
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If this happens, this nation is lost … utterly lost. (And the law courts will be clogged up for years.)
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🍉paraver🟩🟡🟥 @paraver.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Isto é um disparate e quer-se fazer de modernaço pata justificar o encolhimento das áreas. Juntar as duas é na prática abdicar da sala
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
But what about the fish??
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Criminalizing abortion has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus -and- blind obedience to a celebrity politician has nothing to do with patriotism
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’m the worst traveler. For months I obsessively dream about going all over the place… but, when the trip gets closer, my anxiety levels go up and I just want to stay at home. 😩
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jurídico avatar korra @andreazevedo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Ai bicha que porra de sinal de papa a gente tá aguardando é o novo álbum da lorde
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This all has the air of an early modern family rift: 1. Marriage to inappropriate (read: new money) bride; 2. Arguments over who gets to sell wood felled at the estate; 3. Absolutely savage overbearing aunts; 4. Warring siblings www.tatler.com/article/earl...
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Heir apparently: The Earl and Countess of Yarmouth on their family fallout, as the Earl seeks removal of trustees of family trusts
From the manor scorned, the Earl and Countess of Yarmouth have weathered a spiky fallout, including comments over a coronet on an invitation. With an inheritance not gifted as early as expected when t...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
first pope to RT ms paint memes
Yo tengo un amigo sacerdote y rezo por él en su día. Es más fácil criticar a los sacerdotes que rezar por ellos.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Canada in the EU LETSGOOOOO
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Rishi Sunak being a warmonger on his comments about the India-Pakistan situation. Just shut up mate.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 04/05/2025
Lady Gaga breaks the record for the biggest standalone concert in history. Her free Copacabana Beach show drew in 2.1 MILLION attendees, according to the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro.
Lady Gaga on her set balcony with the Brazilian flag.Near birds-eye view of Lady Gaga’s Copacabana Beach crowd.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just yesterday I was thinking about how, when social media platforms rolled out algorithms, everyone was like “we don’t want that.” And they were like “no no, trust us, the data says you do; it’ll be great.” Now not only are the algorithms not great, they sucked the life out of everything
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 30/04/2025
Mummy Pig on the cover of Grazia UK.
Mummy Pig wearing white cloth with her pregnant belly on display.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Low-key the UK should give a nuclear guarantee to Canada.
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Dr. Pedro Amorim @eusouzarolho.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Se este apagão se mantiver durante a noite, prevejo um boom de natalidade em Janeiro de 2026.
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Crestamorph @crestamorph.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Trans women are routinely denied healthcare, safe housing and dignity. This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power. Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK. goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4
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Niamh @niamhatheologian.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“There is no inclusion if the experience of fraternity and mutual communion is missing. There is no inclusion if it remains a slogan, a formula to be used in politically correct speeches, a flag. There is no inclusion if there is no conversion in the practices of coexistence and relationships.”
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The faithful gathering tonight for a Requiem in memory of Pope Francis at the Patriarchal Cathedral of Lisbon.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
As a historian I have to remind you that King George III was nowhere near as dangerous or unstable as the guy currently in charge of the nation conceived in liberty
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A US-UK trade deal threatens our food standards, our NHS, and our ability to control Big Tech. Join the campaign to say no trade deal with Trump: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305
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Say No to a Trade Deal with Trump
The UK government wants to do a trade deal with US President Donald Trump. We know the US is pushing for a deal that puts big business ahead of protecting people and the environment, including: Lower
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🆕🧑‍🏭: In the wake of the Government taking control of steel production in Scunthorpe and debates about nationalisation, the British public would support nationalisation of broad swathes of national infrastructure - with water the most popular.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The nationalisation of British Steel doesn't need an economic argument. We don't need a profit from it. We need British Steel for our national security.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2025
Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals
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Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals
Open trade with Europe is more important to the UK than a deal with Donald Trump, most Britons believe A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU over forging a new economic deal with the US, according to research published this weekend. The study, based on analy­sis of polling that used new methods of questioning participants, suggests people of voting age now see their economic interests, and the UK’s, as far more closely linked to open trade relations with our EU neighbours than any deals that Keir Starmer might or might not strike with the US. Continue reading...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Apple better not set international prices based on US tariffs. Speed running to lose their international market.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Saw Snow White yesterday and the CGI 7 dwarves like 19th century racist caricatures.
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It's been fun not to have any rain recently but it's starting to scarily look like a drought
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Pope Francis made a brief statement from the hospital balcony:
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Severance is this generation’s Matrix.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Key point is this hasn't happened elsewhere. We're really unusual in how little we support those who are unemployed. It's the root cause of so many problems in the benefits system (and society more generally).
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A. Vasco @vasco-txt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Buying this book right now
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
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