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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 6h

There is no cat in this photo

Two green eyes of a black cat stare out of a bay window in a north London house. The cat is virtually invisible against the dark background of an unlit room

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

In a potential indicator of Russia's post-Putin foreign policy, intelligence services loyal to the balding man sitting on the right spent 8 years trying to kill the bearded man sitting on the left

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 1d

Big stretch next?

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 1d

Now I want to go to Whitby

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 2d

I'm saving the second one for future use. Likely to come in handy, sooner rather than later

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Love 'cult-de-sac'. Love this kind of thing. One of my favourite examples is 'well, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it', an enjoyably fatalistic mistaken phrase.

Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 2d

Great article. The Tories need their Kinnock if they are going to get out of the cult-de-sac* they've gone down.

*Auto correct but I kind of liked it.

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 3d

10/10, no notes

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 3d

Often, but not exclusively women. This conspiracy theory about magical beds that can heal very real problems - easy to see why people want to believe (🎁 link)

Racked by Pain and Enraptured by a Right-Wing Miracle Cure (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 5d

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 7d

The tomb of Robert Badinter, who led the campaign to abolish the death penalty and decriminalise homosexuality in France, has been vandalised with graffiti - on the day of his induction into the Pantheon

Tomb of former French justice minister Badinter defaced with graffiti before Panthéon ceremony

The tomb of former French justice minister Robert Badinter has been vandalized near Paris. Badinter led efforts to abolish France’s death penalty and decriminalize homosexuality.

apnews.com

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations, excellent news!

Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 8d

Olive harvest in Primrose Hill

A single olive on a tree in north London

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 8d

I hereby declare Belgrade reconnected to the rest of Europe from today! MAV is selling through tickets Budapest-Belgrade from €26. (Photo courtesy of @hvondelen.bsky.social)

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 8d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 8d

Heute vor 19 Jahren, am 7. Oktober 2006, dem Geburtstag von Wladimir Putin, wurde Anna Politkowskaja vor ihrer Wohnung in Moskau erschossen. Bis heute ist nicht aufgeklärt, wer den Auftrag zu ihrer Ermordung gab.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 9d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 9d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 10d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 10d

"Temporary" delivery, you say. Have you consulted the emperor and the tortie?

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely translation - and very interesting background about Rilke and Rodin

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 11d

Autumn in the garden

Red-skinned pears hanging from a tree in a north London garden. Behind is a garden chair

Herbsttag

Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß
Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,
und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.

Befiehl den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;
gieb ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage,
dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage
die letzte Süße in den schweren Wein.

Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 11d

Two people were inside the mosque when the arsonists set it on fire but they managed to escape unharmed

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 11d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 13d

Great list of places to check out - thanks for posting

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13d

Can’t believe they didn’t give it to Taylor Swift

churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social · 13d

So sorry, Rachel. What happened was appalling and there is nothing to justify it