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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 10h

My FiL is a geologist.
I will never get used to his referring to 6 million years ago as "pretty recent"

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 23h

OnlyPans?

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 1d

No mention of this anywhere on The Guardian's website.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

So the Renters' Rights Bill completed Parliament today. It has taken some time and I think we've forgotten what an important and really substantial piece of legislation it is. A huge and valuable change is coming (even if we don't know exactly when yet).

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 2d

This tracks.

I know someone doing a PhD there in a *very niche* subject and they've unenrolled for this academic year in the hopes there will be some kind of clarity 2026.

Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this!

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 5d

I.. watched it.

I'm delighted to say "Two Girls One Cup" has greater artistic merit in that particular subgenre of video.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah
Sprinkle a little salt on that bad boy and, yum

Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 8d

Look, as a straight guy:

Young Stalin was shaggable.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

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

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 13d

You're kinda right, as the prancing horse was borrowed (with permission) from Francesco Baracca's emblem!

rossoautomobili.com/blogs/magazi...

Francesco Baracca: The Surprising Origin of Ferrari’s Prancing Horse (WWI Fighter)

Francesco Baracca was a highly awarded Italian aerial fighter and his legacy still is alive after all these years thanks to the Ferrari Prancing Horse.

rossoautomobili.com

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 13d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 13d

(and it may bear noting: she's far from being a "lefty" or "progressive")

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 13d

As a Venezuelan, this is beautiful.

It has felt for years as though the world had forgotten my country and given up.

Maduro has outright stolen elections, and the world pretty much shrugged.

Maria Corina Machado has been the one constant fighter who has never given up in over 20 years.

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 13d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT! NO ME LO PUEDO CREER!

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15d

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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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 14d

Bit messed up to be mentioning death without a trigger warning, huh?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 14d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 15d

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 16d

New deterrence strategy should be:

"Stay in France; food sucks in Britain"

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20d

People who get upset about the singular they don’t understand that that was the *compromise* option. Back in my day the most popular non-binary pronoun was ze/hir/hirs, which would have taken a lot more work to adjust to than a pronoun already used in situations where someone’s gender is unknown!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 22d

Oh, juicy.

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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 23d

This is so unexpected and good that it feels impossible?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 23d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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