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MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2025/12/15/motogp_without_the_marquezes_is_the_gp24.html
MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
The most remarkable feature of the 2025 MotoGP …
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2025/12/15/motogp_without_the_marquezes_is_the_gp24.html
MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
The most remarkable feature of the 2025 MotoGP …
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2025/12/15/motogp_without_the_marquezes_is_the_gp24.html
MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
The most remarkable feature of the 2025 MotoGP …
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2025/12/15/motogp_without_the_marquezes_is_the_gp24.html
MotoGP Without The Marquezes - Is The GP24 Really Better Than The GP25?
The most remarkable feature of the 2025 MotoGP …
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How about a nice pointless tweet thread? OK.🧵
So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...
So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How about a nice pointless tweet thread? OK.🧵
So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...
So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...
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The third semi-finalist is:
Uranus as seen by JWST
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY, @stsci.edu, @andrealuck.bsky.social
Uranus as seen by JWST
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY, @stsci.edu, @andrealuck.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The third semi-finalist is:
Uranus as seen by JWST
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY, @stsci.edu, @andrealuck.bsky.social
Uranus as seen by JWST
Taken on: October 6, 2025
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY, @stsci.edu, @andrealuck.bsky.social
This was very funny and very good, and I don't even like football.
This is GO! 1st episode on the History of Football, from its folk medieval roots to now - with Papal VAR, quarrelling Victorians and superstar factory girls along the way. Do yerself a favour and have a listen on your way home! Play it at some kids as it's family friendly! let's go!
Hello!! You can now listen to ep1 of our new family-friendly BBC history show, Dead Funny History. It’s fun, factual, silly, and based on academic research used for You’re Dead To Me episodes
This episode is about the history of football ⚽️
listen now on BBC SOUNDS
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This episode is about the history of football ⚽️
listen now on BBC SOUNDS
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This was very funny and very good, and I don't even like football.
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Going to post Barack Obama’s remembrance of Rob Reiner instead of the ravings of the deranged loon currently stinking out the White house
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Going to post Barack Obama’s remembrance of Rob Reiner instead of the ravings of the deranged loon currently stinking out the White house
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Republican congressman 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Republican congressman 👇🏽
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Een netwerk van AI-sites verspreidt in moordend tempo nep- en pulpnieuws. Artikelen van andere media worden er door AI herschreven en aangedikt met fictieve citaten. Op Facebook gaan de pagina's nog veel verder, met clickbait over BN'ers die ernstig ziek of overleden zouden zijn. Mijn stuk in NRC:
Hoe een AI-nieuwsnetwerk deskundigen woorden in de mond legt en BN’ers doodverklaart
Nepnieuws: Een netwerk van ‘nieuwssites’ en Facebookpagina’s pompt grote hoeveelheden door AI gegenereerd onzinnieuws rond. Bekende Nederlanders worden er doodverklaard en deskundigen doen uitspraken ...
www.nrc.nl
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Een netwerk van AI-sites verspreidt in moordend tempo nep- en pulpnieuws. Artikelen van andere media worden er door AI herschreven en aangedikt met fictieve citaten. Op Facebook gaan de pagina's nog veel verder, met clickbait over BN'ers die ernstig ziek of overleden zouden zijn. Mijn stuk in NRC:
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i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
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All that and being key to one of the biggest cultural shifts of my lifetime, legalising gay marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
All that and being key to one of the biggest cultural shifts of my lifetime, legalising gay marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Imagine if someone had written the same thing about Charlie Kirk.
Donald Trump publicly celebrates, while pretending to send condolences, the double homicide of Rob and Michele Reiner. Bizarrely claims that they were murdered by a MAGA supporter due to “the anger he [Rob] caused” with his “obsession with Donald J. Trump.”
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Imagine if someone had written the same thing about Charlie Kirk.
Honda to put their 850cc #MotoGP bike on track in Sepang this week. Action hotting up in terms of 850s. Aprilia have run their 850 engine as well.
www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/...
www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/...
Honda to debut 2027 MotoGP bike in Sepang this week
Honda ramps up its 2027 development, with its first test slated for this week in Malaysia
www.motorsport.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Honda to put their 850cc #MotoGP bike on track in Sepang this week. Action hotting up in terms of 850s. Aprilia have run their 850 engine as well.
www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/...
www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/...
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
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Great thread...
This will not go well.
What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
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What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.
Let me tell you how I know... 🧵
1/
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Great thread...
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Wish we'd known about this tool from @conradgodfrey.com when we made our last episode of Map Men. Instantly visualise where place names are across Britain. Excellent stuff!
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
Grep Britain
conradgodfrey.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Wish we'd known about this tool from @conradgodfrey.com when we made our last episode of Map Men. Instantly visualise where place names are across Britain. Excellent stuff!
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
(See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.)
conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/
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This is absolutely brilliant.
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is absolutely brilliant.
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So shocking, and terribly sad. Our local cinema showed Spinal Tap on the August Bank Holiday which of course we went to, the hoarding advertising it was perfection. Terrible loss.
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So shocking, and terribly sad. Our local cinema showed Spinal Tap on the August Bank Holiday which of course we went to, the hoarding advertising it was perfection. Terrible loss.
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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Hello!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!
December 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hello!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!
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Spinal Tap is part of a holy triumvirate of things you discover in your early teens that unlock whether you are going to grow up to be funny if you imprint on them, the others being Monty Python and Mel Brooks.
"This is Spinal Tap" is probably the funniest movie ever made, absolutely hallucinatory in its perfection, like peak 30 Rock or golden-age Simpsons
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Spinal Tap is part of a holy triumvirate of things you discover in your early teens that unlock whether you are going to grow up to be funny if you imprint on them, the others being Monty Python and Mel Brooks.
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On my Substack Live taking questions about my new book www.TheOwnedContinent.eu I was asked why Republicans have a seething anger toward Europe.
I noted that most Americans don't think about Europe much at all (especially compared to how much Europeans think about them). But MAGA is obsessed with 🇪🇺
I noted that most Americans don't think about Europe much at all (especially compared to how much Europeans think about them). But MAGA is obsessed with 🇪🇺
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
On my Substack Live taking questions about my new book www.TheOwnedContinent.eu I was asked why Republicans have a seething anger toward Europe.
I noted that most Americans don't think about Europe much at all (especially compared to how much Europeans think about them). But MAGA is obsessed with 🇪🇺
I noted that most Americans don't think about Europe much at all (especially compared to how much Europeans think about them). But MAGA is obsessed with 🇪🇺
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What a sweet thread:
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What a sweet thread:
RIP Rob Reiner and his wife. There is a 99% he was involved in one of your favourite movies. What a life
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
RIP Rob Reiner and his wife. There is a 99% he was involved in one of your favourite movies. What a life
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A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.