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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

Breaking News: A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs during the government shutdown.

Trump Live Updates: Government Shutdown News, China Trade Talks and More

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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The Haunting of RandBall's Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the things that didn't happen below, Eric Trump having four friends is the one that didn't happen the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · 10h

Streaming on Arrow from later this week, the supposedly true tale of the poltergeist haunting known as "the Black Monk of Pontefract" is fictionalised in When the Lights Went Out.

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#horror #halloween #review #ghosts #haunting

When the Lights Went Out | GeekChocolate

"Inspired by a true story," a family find their new home is haunted by an increasingly intrusive presence in When the Lights Went Out.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 12h

“I think the federal basic income program could be a nation-building program.”

We've seen study after study showing universal basic income works -- cheaper, more effective than current income programs. Doesn't disincentivize people from working. Reduces crime. Improves health. UBI now.

Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio

Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 12h

Adam Scovell’s piece on Out of the Unknown.

Quotes some berk.

'The first time sci-fi was presented as serious drama': The forgotten 1960s show that was the original Black Mirror

Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things.

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Skilleter's cover art for the 1983 reprint of "Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen". #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifi #scifiart

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12h

At Charlie Kirk's posthumous Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday (dead podcaster wins prize) Trump gave a long speech....which of these things do you think I made up?

1. He talked about how fit Kirk's wife is
2. He compared Kirk to MLK
3. He bragged that he dodged his bullet but Charlie didn't

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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · 13h

And of course Damaris Hayman as the White Witch of Devil's End of the Daemons; interesting that four of the five were contemporary stories, and the trilogy of #DoctorWho seventies #folkhorror is fully accounted for. #scifi

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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · 13h

You know, between Sylvia Coleridge in Seeds of Doom, Daphne Heard in Fendahl, Beatrix Lehmann in Stones of Blood and Mary Morris in Kinda, #DoctorWho didn't half have some cracking roles for scene-stealing "ladies of a certain age" back in the day. #scifi

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 14h

A host of gorgeous new yellow mushrooms in the park this morning.

Not sure what these are. Can you help identify #FungiFriends?

huge clump of yellow mushrooms all clustered together at the bottom of a tree stump in grass. flat tops with a brown centre

a different type of yellow mushroom. still a cluster though. these have stalks and hoods. more mustardy yellow.

individual yellow mushrooms. thick stalks. in grass.

more yellow mushrooms with thick stalks amongst leaves at the bottom of a tree stump. next to a path where someone is walking.

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Richard Binns @moralavenger.bsky.social · 16h

ON THIS DAY... 44 years ago, Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child, an adaptation of the very first Doctor Who serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was first published by Target Books. Cover art by Andrew Skilleter.

#DoctorWho

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 1d

The War Doctor got blasted with the Daleks' Time Destructor almost immediately after regenerating and this is why he looks old. He only actually fought in the Time War for a couple of weeks.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17h

Covent Garden battle, a web of computers, aware of the Doctor’s existence… WOTAN was a front for the Great Intelligence. (Related: The Bells of St John is clearly a WOTAN story!)

The Vikings in Time Meddler have Fenric’s flask, and it is he who encourages the Monk’s plans. Sven is called Sundvik.

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Paul Regan @paulregan.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Doctor keeps fighting for the universe is because Ian stopped him killing the unconscious Za in An Unearthly Child. The Doctor realised that a primitive like Ian had a stronger moral compas than he did, abs was ashamed. It's also why the Dictor feels such an affinity for Earth.

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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · 16h

Love it!

Go on, squeeze Colonel Breen from Quatermass and the Pit in there too!

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 20h

Richard the Lionheart is also a Jagaroth splinter, but gets sidetracked by court intrigue and religious war. When he’s in the mental link group chat the other splinters are like “Tancredi, good work with Leonardo. Richard, explain how marrying off our sister to the infidel is helping?”.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 20h

Duggan is a Jagaroth splinter. Tom Chadbon-voiced Jagaroth Scaroth is talking to in the opening of City of Death also splinters, but draws the exact opposite conclusion. Duggan splinter throws the punch to save the timeline. The Merdeen splinter is still looking out for humanity in the far future.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17h

Can’t we just ask uncle Trump for 20bn?
He gave Argentina 20 just to wind American farmers up! Surely we can convince him giving money to “those damn limeys” will upset someone he doesn’t like!

Stephen Hopkins @stephenrhopkins.bsky.social · 19h

So why doesn’t she do something about it? She moans about a £22Bn black hole inherited from the Tories. It’s dwarfed by the loss of £40Bn / year in tax revenue since leaving the EU. Just rejoin to fix the economy. Brexit is indefensible, so screw the flag shaggers.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social · 1d

The penultimate film at FrightFest Halloween is Coyotes. Colin Minihan returns with a gripping eco-horror where a family trapped by wildfire in the Hollywood Hills faces not only the flames but a pack of ravenous coyotes closing in. A tense, fiery fight for survival

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in New Jersey and not yet registered to vote, do it today! Voters have until the end of the day to register in time to help choose the state’s next governor.

NJ DOS - Division of Elections

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Geek Chocolate @geekchocolate.bsky.social · 1d

That is so you!

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