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🗳️ POLL | Reform rise to 12pt lead

➡️ Ref: 32% (+2)
🔴 Lab: 20% (-2)
🔵 Con: 17% (-3)
🟢 Grn: 13% (+1)
🟠 Lib: 11% (-1)

-- Seats --
➡️ Ref: 378
🟠 Lib: 71
🔴 Lab: 68
🟡 SNP: 47
🟢 Grn: 26
🔵 Con: 25

Poll: @BMGResearch, 28-29 Jan (+/- vs 27 Nov)
January 31, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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See also every story about “hardworking” executives
Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Spero che un giorno.
#buongiornissimonobel
January 28, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..

If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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I made this yesterday. Two colours of very diluted acrylic paint applied to a canvas board with a wallpaper scraper. So simple and poetic.
#irishartist #acrylicart #abstractart #interiordesign #meditativeart
January 25, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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This scenario closely mirrors one explored in an October 2024 tabletop exercise conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), which I direct, at the University of Pennsylvania


At the confluence of my interests
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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This has been the longest week so far.
January 21, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Mark Carney coming across as one of the few world leaders with some back bone. His speech feels like that #StarTrek trope of noble Starfleet captains having to remind the Federation what is true values are. Everyone else is speeding towards a Bladerunner style dystopia
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Fuckin does doesn't it.

Having some kind of breakdown. I've been warning about this bs forever. I wrote a paper on sovereignty being incompatible with dependence on US big tech in 2015! Last year I was looked at like a weirdo in a critical national infrastructure procurement meeting for similar.
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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the new dialogue is fresh and full of great character specificity, the Japanese voice acting breathes new life into the weaker performances — and most surprising of all, to me the [⋯] early-generation CGI look super-stylized and “design-craftey”


originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Bl...
January 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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600-year-old #Viking #shipwreck is the largest of its kind. The medieval ‘cog’ was nearly 92 feet long and featured castles on its bow and stern.

Link for more information and photos: www.popsci.com/science/larg...
January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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A Reform UK Party Ltd employee grabs ITV journalist Peter Smith for asking questions their new (ex-Tory) leader for Scotland, Malcolm Offord, didn’t like.

“Free speech is under assault and I am urging the USA to be vigilant.”
— Farage, 3rd Sept. ‘25.
www.itv.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Una di noi
#buongiornissiNO
January 15, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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Discovery corridor blueprints - standard corridor and a rotatable section
January 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Burgh sketch
January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Would you like to build the Enterprise Captain's Chair from Discovery (and Strange New Worlds) ?

Here are some blueprints - enjoy
January 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Fuck it I don’t care anymore
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM