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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1h

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

Libération @liberation.fr · 1h

Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.

Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République a précisé avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté.

www.liberation.fr

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1h

I presume he is saving the 'bof' for when he is fired.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1h

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

Libération @liberation.fr · 1h

Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé

Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1h

Genuine guffaw. Yes, totally agree. "That just feels wrong/right" I think is still *an* ideology.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1h

Oh that sucks - so much wasted work and effort for him. I think particularly Long COVID, but also other long term issues with similar effects on people e.g. M.E., are just completely misunderstood at best, and even dismissed completely.

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 11h

It is time to clean the place out a bit

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 13h

They don't care. They think they are completely ascendent.

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 13h

Are we at a point where the BBC News is paying a presenter to sit and read a PDF live on air?

DO THE FUCKING RESEARCH OFFLINE AND PRESENT US WITH A STORY YOU GOTTA-BE-FIRST-BRAINED TWATS

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 7d

They’re not *like* Nazis, they *are Nazis*.

Posobiec is an advisor to the WH.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway, in other news, what about those data centres eh

Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19h

You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until the Trump effect kicks in in 2025 and beyond.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 15h

Okay but the fact the Tories are out doesn't fix the hole in the economy

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 18h

Indeed, the very day before Spurs sacked Mauricio Pochettino.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 18h

Freewheeling on foreign policy, of course, is the sole preserve of the President.

*ba-dum-tish*

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 20h

It does feel like we have a raft of people who have not come out of COVID well, and are in danger of being thrown on the scrapheap instead of helped. I don't think long COVID sufferers, for instance, WANT to be stuck at home isolated from the world. They'd much rather be healthy and working.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 20h

This manages to both spectacularly misrepresent the nature of the threat in Europe, and also to effectively withdraw the US from NATO.

I'm not entirely sure the US Treasury Secretary, whoever they may be, should be freewheeling on foreign policy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

"I have been reliably informed that the Wallet Inspector has almost completed his work and is prepared to announce his findings."

Rep Luna tweet:

My office just received word from the @RusEmbUSA
that the ambassador from Russia to the United States will be hand delivering the @GovernmentRF
’s findings on who assassinated JFK to my office.

This is a 350 page document.

We will be uploading these documents as soon as we receive them working with @jeffersonmorley
to ensure that the American people have direct access to them immediately.

It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 21h

No idea.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder what might have happened around, ooh, 2020 when the big hump appeared

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 22h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 22h

Will it really, though

a man with a beard is smiling while talking to another man .

Alt: Thor is not convinced

media.tenor.com

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

To where? He's also suggested shifting the Olympics from LA and I mean ... this is not how anything works

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe.

This time it’s Boston.

President Trump once again suggests relocating World Cup matches

Trump claims he would consider calling FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino to move games from cities that he deems unsafe.

www.nytimes.com

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

Feels to me more like "shit, we really need to bring in some revenue ASAP and nothing is moving the needle, I guess we try porn then"

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1d

This honestly sounds like a financial death rattle from OpenAI.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY a path to financial viability for OpenAI.

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 1d

The real money is in blackmailing all the creeps who provided a photo ID to generate illegal porn

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

With AI we’re putting the most powerful tools in history in the hands of the most irresponsible and untrustworthy people in history.

Shockingly, it’s not going well.

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