Mark Devine
@mark-devine.bsky.social
A man, of sorts. Interested in politics, physics, cycling, tech, medicine, photography
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If nothing else, it's clear that all those Americans who used to bang on about how having guns meant they could protect themselves from tyranny were talking absolute shite
February 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If nothing else, it's clear that all those Americans who used to bang on about how having guns meant they could protect themselves from tyranny were talking absolute shite
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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How can you just call it an extraordinary moment? Take some responsibility! Call it what it is!
It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
You have a duty to report. Not sugar coat the truth.
It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
You have a duty to report. Not sugar coat the truth.
February 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
How can you just call it an extraordinary moment? Take some responsibility! Call it what it is!
It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
You have a duty to report. Not sugar coat the truth.
It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
You have a duty to report. Not sugar coat the truth.
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this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters
www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...
Marianne Faithfull: 'You know, I'm not everybody's cup of tea!'
Late, rude and unapologetic... and then the interview goes from bad to worse. But after some prompting and wine, Marianne Faithfull talks to Lynn Barber about finding a new lover at last, what she rea...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters
www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...
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Fired - pushed - resigned : same
January 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Fired - pushed - resigned : same
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Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂
January 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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Happy 8th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".
December 20, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Happy 8th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".
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5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:19 AM
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
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Yeah I love MILFs
Middle class women of a certain age
Initiating
Legal
Filings against Gregg Wallace
Middle class women of a certain age
Initiating
Legal
Filings against Gregg Wallace
December 1, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Yeah I love MILFs
Middle class women of a certain age
Initiating
Legal
Filings against Gregg Wallace
Middle class women of a certain age
Initiating
Legal
Filings against Gregg Wallace
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It's an insult to my intelligence when an actor appears in multiple movies. You were just an elf and now I'm supposed to believe you're an accountant? I will not be played for a fool
November 30, 2024 at 12:57 AM
It's an insult to my intelligence when an actor appears in multiple movies. You were just an elf and now I'm supposed to believe you're an accountant? I will not be played for a fool
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Please, as you go about your day, spare a thought for this poor aristocrat who may lose his castle
November 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Please, as you go about your day, spare a thought for this poor aristocrat who may lose his castle
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If we ask people to think about balance of categories [allocate 100% across them] we get these estimates
Asylum: estimate 37% (actual: 7%)
Family: est 17% (actual 6%)
Work: est 26% (actual 40%)
Study: est 19% (actual 38%)
Asylum: estimate 37% (actual: 7%)
Family: est 17% (actual 6%)
Work: est 26% (actual 40%)
Study: est 19% (actual 38%)
November 24, 2024 at 1:17 PM
If we ask people to think about balance of categories [allocate 100% across them] we get these estimates
Asylum: estimate 37% (actual: 7%)
Family: est 17% (actual 6%)
Work: est 26% (actual 40%)
Study: est 19% (actual 38%)
Asylum: estimate 37% (actual: 7%)
Family: est 17% (actual 6%)
Work: est 26% (actual 40%)
Study: est 19% (actual 38%)