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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 8h

Literally listen to @lastweektonight.com.

Cancel your Paramount and boycott CBS advertisers.

...If you start seeing people resigning or getting fired, or you start seeing stories that seem off in some way, especially if it involves the left going too far on a topic Bari Weiss cares about, it's worth asking yourself why that might be, because unfortunately the much bigger answer might be that a billionaire has chosen to inject contrarian right-leaning opinion journalism into an American icon."
JOHN OLIVER ON CBS NEWS HIRING BARI WEISS AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

congrats to no kings you have absolutely triggered the cons

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 5h

I considered going to the Bad Poor Road but this one seemed nicer

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 6h

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

The end of “visuals as proof” means that people will more than ever need sources that can help them tell apart real from fake. That might be the key to the survival of journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

www.nytimes.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

The end of “visuals as proof” means that people will more than ever need sources that can help them tell apart real from fake. That might be the key to the survival of journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

www.nytimes.com

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 21h

If you find yourself saying “I think tens of millions of people gathering to say that Trump sucks is bad” congratulations, you agreed with Mike Johnson.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 9h

Oh, you don't have two keyboards? One for posting and one for being normal? That's a shame.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 9h

As a codicil, I am intrigued where Saudi are going, as there is *some* liberalisation alongside quite obvious reputation washing and a pivot away from petrochemicals. Feels like they are inching as far as they need to to get away with it in the eyes of the rest of the world and not one inch more.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9h

The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:

Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 11h

"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"

I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 9h

What's the opposite of "brain drain"?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

The rank obliviousness to the inherent paradox in his abject fucking stupidity is so next level as to be almost a thing of wonder.

will be first in the queue
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

The rank obliviousness to the inherent paradox in his abject fucking stupidity is so next level as to be almost a thing of wonder.

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 9h

Matt is correct though! Allowing a referendum that the Tories would obviously get their press pals to rig was Clegg's dumbest call

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 14h

Matty Y doing a bit of UK politics analysis

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 9h

🎶 And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval system they got at Heathrow

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 9h

Isn't confining your sample to some shonky lotto going to mean you only get the worst and weirdest of society, in the same way that if you canvassed RNLI donors everyone would be unrepresentatively nice?

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10h

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, but previously they didn't have a lot of supporters (of any ideology)

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 14h

I agree with the theory that Polanski doesn't have an ideology beyond being against bad things and in favour of good things, but as he isn't aiming to lead a governing coalition that doesn't much matter. You need coherence to prioritise in government but not to win votes.

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 16h

Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 14h

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes businesswomans

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 15h

Of course he does (and in this instance I’m not sure it will be easy to spot the difference -Johnson writes like an LLM already…)

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

In today's least surprising news

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 14h

I am possibly in the check-in queue behind JoJo Siwa but it could just be a blonde woman in a JoJo Siwa shirt who happens to be travelling at the same time as a lot of other people in JoJo Siwa shirts. I'd take a photo to get someone who knows what she looks like to verify except that's insane.

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 13h

Impressed that 30 years later, everything in Poland that would have been nationalised under communism is staffed by grumpy people who clearly don't give a shit, while traditionally private businesses (ie hospo and branded shops) have some of the friendliest service in the world

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

Quentin Tarantino presents: the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, sponsored by John Paul Getty III.

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 14h

I reluctantly have to accept in this context that she *is* one of the better-known clowns

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

Being in Poland means everything is pictures of Chopin and they play Chopin everywhere and I just keep thinking of this comic. (See also: going to Hungary for the Liszt equivalent.)

Hark a Vagrant's Chopin and Liszt comic http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=302

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