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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 2h

Breweries?

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 3h

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2h

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 5h

Shillings down the left, pennies across the top. d stands for "denarius" or "denarii" from the name given to the standard Roman silver coin.

This name was first used for a British penny, as far as we know, in the 5th century.

Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social · 5h

#beermatoftheday

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Dctrojan @dctrojan.bsky.social · 8h

I dunno man, sounds kind of like you want a handout

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h

Georgia farmer: No farmer wants a handout. We don't want a welfare package. What we want is good, strong markets. We want inputs to stabilize

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 8h

No go zone murder capital London latest

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 8h

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 8h

Llŷr Powell, Reformoron candidate in Caerphilly by-election to Senedd. #ukpolitics

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Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social · 1d

#beermatoftheday

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 13h

a cartoon of a man shaking hands with a police officer with a netflix logo in the corner

ALT: a cartoon of a man shaking hands with a police officer with a netflix logo in the corner

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 14h

An Imbecile?

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 14h

It's good how someone who has been paid a fortune to write newspaper columns and books - and certainly far, far, far more than actual journalists and writers- admits he just can't be arsed to actually write and farms it out to AI instead, isn't it? 🫠

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

In today's least surprising news

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 14h

Only pre rug-pull

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

"An asymlum". Somehow that was meant to be "an asylum decision".

Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

This is exactly how it should be approached. Grow a pair, deal with everyone waiting for an asymlum with a much reduced process, legislate to remove ambiguity and get to a point where people are dealt with in weeks not months on arrival. There will be errors. It is better than the status quo.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 16h

Expert here. The weird thing is I don't expect people to trust me (on my specialty) just because. Expertise is all about knowing the broader context of new results, what's clear & what's not, and most experts are happy to help people through this if they're interested in 'doing their own research'.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 23h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Phillip Rees @phillip-rees.bsky.social · 17h

Tice and his partner do seem to have a habit of bumping into Russians. Her she is pictured with Lord Ashcroft on a fact finding mission.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/lord...

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

Webster's though! Transatlantic flapdoodle!

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

Cummings knows nowt about owt.

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this wiki page for reasons, and had to smile at this. Lucky things have got better, eh?

Newspapers of the day were not above taking sides, and news reporting often editorialized on issues to reflect the publisher's interests

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Wikipedia

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

Surely you need a Blondie earworm? I know a girl from a lonely street...

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d

"When I was a kid. 40, 45 years ago, it was the Indians, weren't it? Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine. Before that, in the 16th century, it was bloody Huguenots, weren't it? Bloody Huguenots. Coming over here from medieval France."

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

a man is standing in front of a gymnastics equipment and the words shut up are visible

ALT: a man is standing in front of a gymnastics equipment and the words shut up are visible

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 1d

You are Norman St.John Polevaulter and I claim my five pounds.

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