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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · Mar 18
A teeshirt a day, day 40: You Am I “world tour” The Enmore 2022, a return to live music after the hell of covid.
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oddthisday.bsky.social
1 December is the day we must mark the sad passing 504 years ago of Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici – or Pope Leo X, as he was also known. Leo was not one of those popes memorable for a sordid life, but is known for two things. Firstly, this:
A generously proportioned man in papal robes with a mournful look on his round, round face
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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cethanleahy.com
December 1st, baby!
Advent We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here in the Advent-darkened room Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea Of penance will charm back the luxury Of a child's soul, we'll return to Doom The knowledge we stole but could not use. And the newness that was in every stale thing When we looked at it as children: the spirit-shocking Wonder in a black slanting Ulster hill Or the prophetic astonishment in the tedious talking Of an old fool will awake for us and bring You and me to the yard gate to watch the whins And the bog-holes, cart-tracks, old stables where Time begins. O after Christmas we'll have no need to go searching For the difference that sets an old phrase burning- We'll hear it in the whispered argument of a churning Or in the streets where the village boys are lurching. And we'll hear it among decent men too Who barrow dung in gardens under trees, Wherever life pours ordinary plenty. Won't we be rich, my love and I, and God we shall not ask for reason's payment, The why of heart-breaking strangeness in dreeping hedges Nor analyse God's breath in common statement. We have thrown into the dust-bin the clay-minted wages Of pleasure, knowledge and the conscious hour- And Christ comes with a January flower.
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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seamusbyrne.me
One week to go and the debates over what’s in and what’s out of the social media ban mostly reveal that everyone misunderstands how the law is designed because the govt has built a message around the law that doesn’t match the law they rushed through.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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lukesteuber.com
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Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a "terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data." I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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pnamblath.bsky.social
Patrick Kavanagh - well loved poet and writer died #OTD 30 November 1967
#PatrickKavanagh #Advent
#speirgorm
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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rantlaw.bsky.social
Love that this is the bloke we use to justify the u16 SM ban
stylistic.bsky.social Chris S @stylistic.bsky.social · 1d
Remember when it was imperative that we take Haidt seriously?
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Winona Ryder is older than Rue McClanahan was when Golden Girls first aired
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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petefrasermusic.bsky.social
What’s so fascinating about the platforming of Linehan is that aside from the obvious, his big main thing is this babyish self pity about people not indulging his obsession. It’s hard to think of a better demonstration of the unseriousness of the media in this moment.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
Again, the business of the British press is recruiting an unending series of toxic bigots and very right wing cranks to help kick fuck out of people the lads despise and want to harm.
"I'm just disgusted by my colleagues who have watched me go through all this without a word of support." Graham Linehan expresses his disappointment, particularly in Father Ted star Ardal O'Hanlon.
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
franksting.bsky.social
Is it just me or is VAR not fit for purpose if they don’t think that’s obvious handball in the penalty area? #sydneyderby
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
franksting.bsky.social
If only the Americans could find a way of tagging their posts so we could filter them out of our feeds. Let’s say a #hashtag?

www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
I Should Be Able to Mute America
The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss
www.gawkerarchives.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
And so …. It begins …..
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Hagueseth
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
franksting.bsky.social
“Seven people have died during NSW police pursuits this year. The safety of the public, the police and offenders is clearly not a priority”

Horrible story, involving an unaccountable gang of violent thugs.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
A NSW police chase killed my partner
It’s December 30, 2021. Life is good. Harri and I have had a fabulous family Christmas and we’re excited, loading our cars full of gardening and building equipment. We’re heading to our new home in a ...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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yesmissmurphy.bsky.social
Holy shit
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
franksting.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with Five concerts you’ve seen
Mudhoney
Kristin Hersh
My Bloody Valentine
Janes Addiction
PJ Harvey
andylewis.bsky.social Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Cliff Richard
Gwenno
Dave Pike
Michel Polnareff
Salena Jones
annebillson.bsky.social Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 3d
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen;

Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
franksting.bsky.social
Few fellas look like they’ve never played footy before in that #LFC team. Quite the run of results. Good job we’re CHAMPIONS.
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
franksting.bsky.social
Your regular reminder that Anglo so-called “Labour/Labor” parties are simply the political wing of Planet Destroying Fossil Fuel companies like Woodside and BP.
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4d
The UK government has again frozen fuel duty but will charge EV owners by the mile. Hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to suppress EV adoption.
benwinkley.bsky.social Ben Winkley @benwinkley.bsky.social · 4d
UK to introduce EV mileage charge, raise fuel duty.

www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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knoxharrington.bsky.social
Just relieved everyone involved doesn't have to go through this trial.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former Royal Marine pleads guilty to injuring 29 people at Liverpool FC parade
Paul Doyle, who drove into a crowd of celebrating football fans in May, changes plea unexpectedly
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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johnb78.bsky.social
The slogan on the cockroach baits I just put out (Sydney summers for the win!) is "Protect And Kill", which really sounds like it should be the police department's motto in a GTA game
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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mburchett.bsky.social
It's Guillermo del Toro's Hobbit trilogy and every other answer is wrong.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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kudelka.bsky.social
This will play during the end credits of the ALP, but the bag will be a very tattered version of the bingo teatowel.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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karsugrue.bsky.social
It’s hard to explain what it means to be able to show a trans kid this and for them to feel seen & valued by their president

@president.ie
#transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM