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Oh, yes. The very thing, surely.
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI
Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants
The UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.…
dlvr.it
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Oh, yes. The very thing, surely.
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Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
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Whiskey Barrel Pete Is Going To Make Chaplains More Like Fundies
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Whiskey Barrel Pete Is Going To Make Chaplains More Like Fundies | Crooks and Liars
twp.ai
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Whiskey Barrel Pete Is Going To Make Chaplains More Like Fundies
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Trump Addresses The Nation: It's Not My Fault!
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Trump Addresses The Nation: It's Not My Fault! | Crooks and Liars
twp.ai
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Trump Addresses The Nation: It's Not My Fault!
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Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere
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Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere
twp.ai
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere
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Italian has "fatti i cavoli tuoi" (mind your own cabbages) which is the more polite version of "fatti i cazzi tuoi" (mind your own dicks)
December 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Italian has "fatti i cavoli tuoi" (mind your own cabbages) which is the more polite version of "fatti i cazzi tuoi" (mind your own dicks)
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“In the journalism world, Johnson is best known for leaving two publications in disgrace after his plagiarism was discovered, and for taking—inadvertently, he said—money from a Kremlin-backed media organization, and for being a hard partier, difficult boss and surreally dedicated self-promoter”
Before Benny Johnson positioned himself as devoted husband and heir apparent to Charlie Kirk, the former BuzzFeed journalist was partying hard with the same mainstream media he now denounces.
“There was a lot of sex happening. A psychoanalyst would have a field day.”
“There was a lot of sex happening. A psychoanalyst would have a field day.”
How Benny Johnson went from BuzzFeed plagiarist to MAGA's chief content creator
He did “some very bad things.” But in Trumpworld, that's a plus.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“In the journalism world, Johnson is best known for leaving two publications in disgrace after his plagiarism was discovered, and for taking—inadvertently, he said—money from a Kremlin-backed media organization, and for being a hard partier, difficult boss and surreally dedicated self-promoter”
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She’s Married to the Architect of Trump’s Darkest Policies. She Wants America to Love Her. It’s Not Going Well.
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She’s Married to the Architect of Trump’s Darkest Policies. She Wants America to Love Her. It’s Not Going Well.
twp.ai
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
She’s Married to the Architect of Trump’s Darkest Policies. She Wants America to Love Her. It’s Not Going Well.
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Can someone explain some shit to me?
Why do the people who insist on staying over on Vichy Twitter just post screenshots here of their Twitter posts?
Copy and paste work on your phone, dipshit. You're not saving time, you just look like an asshole.
Why do the people who insist on staying over on Vichy Twitter just post screenshots here of their Twitter posts?
Copy and paste work on your phone, dipshit. You're not saving time, you just look like an asshole.
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Can someone explain some shit to me?
Why do the people who insist on staying over on Vichy Twitter just post screenshots here of their Twitter posts?
Copy and paste work on your phone, dipshit. You're not saving time, you just look like an asshole.
Why do the people who insist on staying over on Vichy Twitter just post screenshots here of their Twitter posts?
Copy and paste work on your phone, dipshit. You're not saving time, you just look like an asshole.
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The actors who didn't get hired for the Peacock adaptation of Clue.
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The actors who didn't get hired for the Peacock adaptation of Clue.
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Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
December 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
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There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”
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With a wave of political predictions coming our way at the turn of the year, a reminder of how cautiously many should be treated...
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
With a wave of political predictions coming our way at the turn of the year, a reminder of how cautiously many should be treated...
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THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...
Three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland – two tags had been cut off
Press release from Forestry England (17 December 2025) THREE WHITE-TAILED EAGLES DISAPPEAR IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES The public are being asked to help the police investigate the suspicious disap…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Even if Trump's threat of an illegal war - or a military campaign itself - were to depose Maduro, would you trust this administration to build something stable out of a post-Maduro Venezuela?
Trump Is an Idiot Spoiling for War. Also, Maduro Is a Bastard.
The enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Even if Trump's threat of an illegal war - or a military campaign itself - were to depose Maduro, would you trust this administration to build something stable out of a post-Maduro Venezuela?
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18 December 1914 | A Polish woman, Józefa Kaleta, was born. A clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6792
She escaped during the evacuation march.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6792
She escaped during the evacuation march.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
18 December 1914 | A Polish woman, Józefa Kaleta, was born. A clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6792
She escaped during the evacuation march.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6792
She escaped during the evacuation march.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
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Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump.
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump.
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
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I’m pissed that we’re all going to have a shitty 10-15 years economically because a dozen techboys believed that it was possible to write code to the point that the program could write better code and eventually either kill us all or make us immortal, and so they spent $1.5tn for $41bn in revenue
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I’m pissed that we’re all going to have a shitty 10-15 years economically because a dozen techboys believed that it was possible to write code to the point that the program could write better code and eventually either kill us all or make us immortal, and so they spent $1.5tn for $41bn in revenue
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cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
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U.S. approves massive $11.1B arms deal with Taiwan
www.upi.com
U.S. approves massive $11.1B arms deal with Taiwan - UPI.com
twp.ai
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
U.S. approves massive $11.1B arms deal with Taiwan
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Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
[FREE TO READ] EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
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December 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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lol the punishment for the students was more swift than for the person who had to resign from multiple leadership roles.
Huh. #harvard #academicsky
Huh. #harvard #academicsky
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
lol the punishment for the students was more swift than for the person who had to resign from multiple leadership roles.
Huh. #harvard #academicsky
Huh. #harvard #academicsky
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12 Covers of Christmas!
Day 6: Today’s cover comes from December 2018. In the spirit of the cartoon, instead of being delivered through letterboxes, this one arrived late and was thrown over garden fences.
Day 6: Today’s cover comes from December 2018. In the spirit of the cartoon, instead of being delivered through letterboxes, this one arrived late and was thrown over garden fences.
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
12 Covers of Christmas!
Day 6: Today’s cover comes from December 2018. In the spirit of the cartoon, instead of being delivered through letterboxes, this one arrived late and was thrown over garden fences.
Day 6: Today’s cover comes from December 2018. In the spirit of the cartoon, instead of being delivered through letterboxes, this one arrived late and was thrown over garden fences.
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The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
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China solar industry's losses narrowing on overcapacity push, association says reut.rs/4qe4CSD
China solar industry's losses narrowing on overcapacity push, association says
Losses in China's slumping solar sector narrowed in the third quarter, according to data presented by an industry group official, as the government's war on industrial overcapacity targeted manufacturers.
reut.rs
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
China solar industry's losses narrowing on overcapacity push, association says reut.rs/4qe4CSD