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Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006. And they'll have to prise my 2012 Nobel Peace Prize out of my cold, dead hands.

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Today’s track: Pop Seeds – The Jesus and Mary Chain music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Pop Seeds by The Jesus and Mary Chain on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 3:36
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December 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Oh, I hadn’t seen this. Great news. I used to love seeing the old GLC coat of arms and flag around town when I was a kid. The waves are incredible.
Sadiq Khan allowed to use Greater London Council coat of arms
The King has revived use of the coat of arms of the Greater London Council, which was dissolved in 1986.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Today’s track: Dare – Gorillaz music.apple.com/gb/a...

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DARE (feat. Shaun Ryder & Roses Gabor) by Gorillaz on Apple Music
Song · 2005 · Duration 4:04
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December 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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missmc.bsky.social
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 2d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Christmas song advent, day 7: I Was Born on Christmas Day – Saint Etienne music.apple.com/gb/a...

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I Was Born on Christmas Day by Saint Etienne on Apple Music
Song · 1994 · Duration 3:11
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December 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Today’s track: Be On Your Way – Daughter music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Be On Your Way by Daughter on Apple Music
Song · 2023 · Duration 4:04
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December 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Christmas song advent, day 6: Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) – Joey Ramone music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) by Joey Ramone on Apple Music
Song · 2010 · Duration 4:20
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December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Today’s track: What It Gave Me – Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda music.apple.com/gb/a...

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What It Gave Me by Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 2:44
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December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Christmas song advent, day 5: A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) – Glasvegas music.apple.com/gb/a...

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A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by Glasvegas on Apple Music
Song · 2008 · Duration 4:22
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December 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Today’s track: Valentina (feat. Smoke Fairies) – Public Service Broadcasting music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Valentina (feat. Smoke Fairies) by Public Service Broadcasting on Apple Music
Song · 2015 · Duration 4:29
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December 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Minding my own business in TK Maxx today and oh no.
Novely table in TK Maxx that resembles an anal prolapse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Christmas song advent, day 4: 2000 Miles – Sharon Van Etten music.apple.com/gb/a...

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2000 Miles by Sharon Van Etten on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:09
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December 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Today’s track: Our Lips Are Sealed – Fun Boy Three music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Our Lips Are Sealed by Fun Boy Three on Apple Music
Song · 1983 · Duration 2:51
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December 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Christmas song advent, day 3: Kiss Me Sweet Pea – Peaness music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Kiss Me Sweet Pea by Peaness on Apple Music
Song · 2023 · Duration 3:41
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December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Today’s track: FIG TREE – sleepazoid music.apple.com/gb/a...

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FIG TREE by sleepazoid on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 2:52
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December 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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A preview of Newcastle vs Spurs for @fotmob.com, and sorry Spurssky, but I haven't got much positive to say about things at the moment. Feels like a fixture we could all do without.

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Preview: Spurs face midweek trip to Newcastle
Off the back of their debacle against Fulham on Saturday night, a 500-mile round trip to Newcastle is probably the last thing Spurs need right now, but in the Premier League, life comes at you fast.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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This is amazing. Reposted with alt text.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Not sure I understand how we have child mortality rates for 200 BCE Rome, but the general thrust is striking.
snowden.st Snowden St. @snowden.st · 7d
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Christmas song advent, day 2: Just Like Christmas – Low music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Just Like Christmas by Low on Apple Music
Song · 1999 · Duration 3:08
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December 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Today’s track: She Cries Your Name – Beth Orton music.apple.com/gb/a...

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She Cries Your Name by Beth Orton on Apple Music
Song · 1996 · Duration 4:47
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December 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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So the player for the December page in my 1986 Spurs calendar is Chris Hughton who was the club’s caretaker manager twice. Not sure if that’s fate trying to tell us something. #coys
Chris Hughton on the December 1986 spurs calendar
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Christmas song advent, day 1: World of Love – Binky Griptite music.apple.com/gb/a...
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World of Love by Binky Griptite on Apple Music
Song · 2005 · Duration 4:12
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December 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Today’s track: Leonid – Durante music.apple.com/gb/a...

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Leonid by Durante on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 5:34
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December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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karoline.bsky.social
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM