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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

Watch this video.

"it was Maccabi [Tel Aviv] fans attacking Amsterdam citizens and starting a riot... Maccabi fans were seen picking up metal poles"

These guys will not be missed on our streets.
www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

From the reports I've seen, Israel football fans have behaved disgracefully abroad (although Ajax fans responded very badly too).

The way that football has sorted out such problems is by taking a very hard line on the clubs involved. Not sure Maccabi Tel Aviv can have any complaints.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.

172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is what I mean when Ive been saying that nearly all big tech companies, even consumer focused ones that have nothing to do with surveillance, see the easy money to be made with practically all federal funding going exclusively to deportation and wanting in on it by making tools for ICE.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, wearing a black suit, speaks to an audience. A headline reads: "Salesforce Pitched ICE on Services to Recruit More Staff, Documents Show." Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 1d

it's great they have a /culture-wars-things tag for anything that doesn't fit into /culture-wars

Ruth Dudley Edwards byline where the second 'culture wars' tag links to a URL of culture-war-things

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

WOKE. CULTURE WARS. CULTURE WARS.

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Son of Raum @sonofraucous.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh way more than I probably should have.

A flooded toby carvery show from the outside. The water looks very brown.
The caption reads, tell me when to stop with the gravy.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits."

www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

From the artificial community on Reddit: Sam Altman, 10 months ago: I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits

Explore this post and more from the artificial community

www.reddit.com

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

What do you like about the truck?

What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box.

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com · 2d

And are you married?
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 11d

We often think #mafias belong only to weak states. In my book "Mafia Expansion" I show this isn't true - and discuss what it means for our democracies. If you want to know more, join me for the Cambridge Criminology Series on 16 Oct, 5pm (also online) ➡️ www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/mafia...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 2d

For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code.

Can we all stop pretending now?

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

I raise this because I don't like it - not especially that it's insensitive or inappropriate.

WAR ROOMS have been in orgs where I've worked on services for school-age kids, vulnerable adults losing mental capacity, and helping vulnerable people pay for legal help.

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

Is this brought on by a distance in time and miles from actual war?

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more baffling traits of middle-to-upper management is the use of military language.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 2d

“Before we crack on with the meat raffle, could the owner of a yellow Vauxhall Corsa please move their vehicle? Dave from the mobile discotheque says he can’t get his van in”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we love edgy jokes about gas chambers and rape unless it’s jokes about charlie kirk dying, which if you do that, you’ll be punished and deported and free speech revoked

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

'Stansted Mountfitchet'

They make up any old names in these parts

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

From UK perspective, our public figures should be challenged on associating with the GOP and associated groups. This is not just some 'smol gov pls' right-of-centre movement

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.bsky.social · 2d

great stuff

Mulatu Astatke: New York - Addis - London - The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 - YouTube

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 3d

The dramatic Castillo de Gormaz, Soria, towering over the tiny village of Gormaz. When the castle was built by Muslim Califate of Cordoba in early C9th CE it was largest in Europe. Still huge, overlooking inmense expanse of cereal plains, cut through by green oasis of the Duero.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

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Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social · 17d

Moon Light 1895
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25108

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