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Greg Johnson @gregianjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

Politics is an even worse spectacle when they all start going off about a subject you actually know something about. Makes you wonder how clueless they must be about all the other stuff they pontificate about.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all

@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 11h

Pizza Hut is literally double the price per pizza than Rudy's in Manchester, and it is not in the same calibre.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18h

If Keir starmer really wants to prove he’s not antisemitic he’ll riot with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Anything less he may as well be Hamas.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 1d

Also a giant Hello Kitty teddy.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 1d

Some version of eat out to help out 2.0, whether its cutting vat on hospitality, or subsidising in some form, feels like it has potential.

blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 4d

Mark Bonnar has forgot it's a game, and thinks he's genuinely hunting murderers.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 4d

Da Vinci had loads of porn drawings

blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 4d

And while belt and road has existed for what, 15 years now?

blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 5d

Like most Nolan films it does kinda fall in on itself in the final act though.

blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 5d

I believe this was fairly common practice among telephone customer services work circa 10-15 years ago.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 6d

I believe the internet term is "weebs".

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 6d

At some point we have to believe that what he believes is what he's been saying for the past 8 months.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 7d

Agree. Non-polarised issues can become polarised over time - particularly if a party latches into it (in this case Reform), and suddenly the settled consensus becomes more tribal.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 7d

Now, what happens after Namond moves in with Bunny on the other hand...

blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 7d

When Namond visits him in s4, Bey asks if he's feeding the fish, and he says yes. There are fish tanks all over Namond's house, too.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 7d

When I researched mine I found this to be mostly the case for mine too. Except for a great uncle who was captured during the battle of Crete in 1941, and spent the rest of the war in an Austrian POW camp.

Only other record I found was a great grandfather who'd served in India in the 1880s.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 7d

I know one of his uncles was a military research guy during WW2. Not sure if you can count that as 'military service' but it would definitley fall under contributing to the war effort.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 8d

Pinned Lists also removes the ad spam. Only tolerable way to use the place.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 8d

Twitter melts the brains of the people who make policy - ergo influences policy.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 10d

This has to be a case of either "mistaking my old fringe opinion for consensus" or "inventing a guy to be mad at", surely.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 12d

Nothing stopping them from also attacking them for being anti democracy - just don't neglect the bread and butter stuff to do it.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 13d

Common ground and shared goals are important.

But here's the thing.

If my starting point is "let's be nice to everyone" and yours is "let's deport all the browns and create a white supremacist ethnostate,"

...then I've got to be honest, I'm not really sure it's my job to put the work in here!

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blunderball @blunderball.bsky.social · 14d

I won't pretend to understand the appeal - mechanically, however.

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