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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1h

At a press conference with a Taliban minister in India, all the male journalists went to the back of the room so the women could fill the first couple of rows. Great picture.

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Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists | CNN

Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social ...

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Anna Macleod @akcmacleod.bsky.social · 7h

🤯😂 I want to buy whichever poor legal officer wrote this a *very* large drink. Absolute hero 😂

zuzak 🦭 @zuzakistan.com · 19h

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ

whoever wrote this was so very tired

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Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council

Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1d

seeing as we're all talking about the proposed language requirement changes for visas: here's the email my wife was sent for her B1 test in 2018. imagine spending about £800 in total across 3 tests, and you're met with

"YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

"please bring this document with you on the day of your test. this is a confirmation letter for your life skills test. YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

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The Atlantic Communications @theatlanticpr.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump points at UAE official during photo op and says, "A lot of cash. Unlimited cash."

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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 2d

Así bajaba el agua en La Ràpita, en Tarragona. Las tormentas, que han descargado con fuerza en las últimas horas, mantienen en aviso naranja a buena parte de la provincia, especialmente en el Delta del Ebro.

www.rtve.es/noticias/20251...

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Anna Macleod @akcmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 8d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Anna Macleod @akcmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Philippe Marlière @phmarliere.bsky.social · 3d

The French Prime Minister resigned on Monday, was reappointed on Friday and is threatening to resign again on Saturday. This is Guinness Book of Records stuff.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 4d

Klitschko: "The situation is difficult, and we must speak honestly rather than reassure ourselves," he says. "Stay focused and act pragmatically. Stock up on water, prepare a first-aid kit and food supplies, charge your power banks, and get warm clothes ready. Do not ignore air-raid warnings."

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 4d

Hi from a candlelit apartment as power's out in Kyiv and emergency power outages have been introduced in most regions of the Ukraine...

Kyiv Mayor Klitschko warns another Russian attack expected in coming days, tells Kyivans stock up on water, food, charge power banks, gather warm clothes.

Віталій Кличко

У результаті масованої атаки ворога, який бив по обʼєктах критичної інфраструктури України, наразі запроваджені екстрені відключення електрики в більшості областей країни. Київ пережив одну з найскла...

t.me

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Mark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social · 6d

If you read nothing else this day, this week, this year, read this - the most beautiful ode imaginable to life, love and friendship
Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

www.irishtimes.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7d

Spying case collapsed after UK refused to label China a ‘threat’, prosecutors say on.ft.com/4mPWLsf

Spying case collapsed after UK refused to label China a ‘threat’, prosecutors say

Crown Prosecution Service had charged two Britons with espionage offences

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 7d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8d

Them: Buckle up, technology is the future, you're getting left behind
Technology:

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d

Rail travel - my odyssey:
1) Booked a train to London using split tickets to make it £170 return instead of £240.
2) Train delayed. Next train is the same company and gets in later than planned train but split ticket doesn’t count. Nice staff say it is up to the train manager if he will let me on.

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Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 9d

"Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Edgar Allan Poe?"

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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

Only Connect is on tonight! And, *as far as I know*, all the facts I read out will be correct.

But I guess we’ll soon find out.

8pm, BBC Two

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