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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 11h

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 11h

Instead of stifling rights of assembly maybe Chris Minns should focus on something like this.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

Maximising rental yield rules everything around me.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

Beautiful house for sale in Crystal Palace. Previous occupants: soulless weirdos who put a toilet in a bedroom cupboard, a bath in a bedroom and transformed the spare room into a prison cell. No need to reply saying “I like it”, ya weirdo. www.inigo.com/sales-list/m...

Maberley Road, London SE19 | Inigo

A sensitively updated 19th-century villa with smart fitted storage and calming taupe walls

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 11h

(Page) “…said while more people were coming to the gallery, visitors were not necessarily buying tickets or from the shop, or dining at the restaurant.”

Have you checked your prices and not understood the problem?

Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 12h

Forty-five jobs are set to be cut at the Art Gallery of NSW (around 11% of the 385 full-time equivalent roles) including the curator of Australian art, the curator of Asian art, the music and community curator, the curator of film in international art, a new librarian, and a paper conservator.

Curators among 45 jobs to be axed at Art Gallery of NSW

Leaked documents show curators and conservator jobs will go as 45 full-time roles are cut from the Art Gallery of NSW.

www.abc.net.au

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 11h

Good reminder of who the oppressor is in Palestine mastodon.ie/@irishphoto/...

Peter Cavanagh (@[email protected])

Western media have been obsessed with regurgitating Israel’s claims about a few missing bodies of Israelis almost certainly killed by their own side’s bombs but not yet returned by Palestinian militia...

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Dave Osmond @davidosmond.bsky.social · 22h

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 216 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 22h

Today’s NYT crossword is co-authored by Nick Offerman

NYT crossword authored by Nick Offerman and Christina Iverson

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Sure they were. If they were nice liberals like Kerensky, the revolution fails and the other corrupted scum that were dining on the Russian peasant continued in their corpulence.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Notably this problem is also solved 100% without any AI and instead, at zero cost, by journals adopting format-agnostic initial submissions (as many journals have already done)

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile their ABC buried the lede: “MetLife, whose US parent company posted a US$4.5 billion profit last year”

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

Dying mother loses life insurance after failing to declare UTI tests

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

www.abc.net.au

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 1d

Def missing out on some great stuff as ‘Not A Hardcore WTF Guy’ but this bit from the latest Welcome To Hell World (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) makes me feel less bad about that

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 1d

*allegedly

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

Chapeau!

Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

It’s bed time on the arse end of the world so I hope we will both have lovely dreams soon.

Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

Stone the Crows that’s a beaut Bruce.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I was sent an advanced screener to watch this film and oh, it is SO good.

It premieres this week at the London Film Festival. Tickets all sold out there, but find another way! It's worth it.

youtu.be/npwmcJxgLic?...

ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3

YouTube video by NEON

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

I paid for years thanks to David Conn’s magnificent work but couldn’t keep supporting them due to their TERF editorial policy. There’s hope now that that Freedman is gone. One wonders if they can get Ingle out as well.

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine masked goons come up to you and demand “papers”.

Land of the Free my hole.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 2d

I am so sorry for this horrible experience

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · 3d

Is Linda Reynolds really such a despicable person that she doesn't have a single person in her life who cares enough about her to tell her to stop? What a truly miserable existence.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 2d

You've seen happy, healthy, waving Israelis released by Hamas. But have you seen Palestinians released from Israeli prisons? Those are the ones that can barely walk, skin and bones.

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 2d

"He spent 22 years in occupation prisons... Samer Abu Diak from Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin, brother of martyr Sami Abu Diak, is unable to walk as a result of being subjected to torture for several hours prior to his release."

www.threads.com/@sndnewsa/po...

#Israel #Palestine #PalestineNews

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