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I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground
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Oedipus:
What a horrible day to have eyes
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You'd have thought, if the editors of Daily Express knew anything about their readers, they would know they don't like change
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
You can have a second bubble, as a treat
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.

Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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“Today in Labor History November 21, 1921: The original Columbine Massacre occurred in Serine, Colorado. State police and company thugs used machine guns against the unarmed miners, slaughtering six striking IWW members, all of whom were unarmed. Dozens more were injured.”
MikeDunnAuthor (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today in Labor History November 21, 1921: The original Columbine Massacre occurred in Serine, Colorado. State police and company thugs used machine guns against the unarmed miners, ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Is there anybody involved in football administation who isn't more stupid than curdled milk? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from X
European football's governing body claimed clips of fans cheering Scotland's World Cup qualification in front of TV screens breached copyright.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
*whispering* Apple were already on iPhone 4 by the time of the Teenage Cancer Trust gig
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Oh, yeah, a dress code for being crammed in a middle seat with no legroom on a four-hour flight. That's what we need.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Pretty sure this lot did a session on Riley & Coe last week
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you didn't care for sport, this was all you had on winter Saturday afternoons...
Today is #WorldTelevisonDay. Which reminds us of the early days of the @openuniversity.bsky.social when our courses were broadcast on the #BBC, starting on 3 January 1971. You didn’t even have to be a student to tune in!
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

#DistanceLearning
The Open University programmes begin
3 January 1971
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Well knock me down with a fucking feather:
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It looks to me that Reform Councillors are 75% well-meaning but politically-wrongheaded types, and 25% people who genuinely think they're en route to be Farage's far-right-hand man
Reform leader Mick Barton, who banned Nottinghamshire Live, has told councillors he’d “do it again”. The comment came during a meeting where a motion urging the council to “support a free press” turned into a "heated debate" www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Council's reputation 'damaged' over press ban - but leader would 'do it again'
A motion calling on the Reform-led authority to 'support a free press' turned into a heated debate
www.nottinghampost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We Didn't Start The Fire. Still Rock & Roll To Me. My Life. Even Uptown Girl. Basically, Billy Joel's spent half a century sitting at a piano being really, really defensive.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Remember how the Nvidia sales figures had everyone who should know better going "phew! there's no AI bubble after all"?
IA : à Wall Street, Nvidia perd en une journée ses gains de la veille

Les derniers chiffres de l’emploi ont rappelé aux marchés que l’économie américaine repose toujours à 70 % sur la consommation des ménages
IA : à Wall Street, Nvidia perd en une journée ses gains de la veille
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November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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This guy spent years chasing me through the Guardian complaints system. I'd reported that his news agency had spread a wildly viral but denied claim that a Dutch teenager was legally euthanised at a clinic. He was so unhappy after his complaint was rejected he launched his own media regulator.
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it – says agency boss. Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/w...
AI has helped break news ecosystem, but could also fix it - says agency boss
Michael Leidig's NewsX is a bid to make on the ground reporting pay again.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The worst thing about Musk's stupid machine saying he'd be best at drinking piss is the casual way it erases Sarah Miles from history
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is kind of galling, because although the cops lied and hid the video, and the Chief Constable has personal responsibility, it's basically coming out of the rates. So Northants residents have shit police AND have to cover the costs of that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Northamptonshire Police fined £50,000 over arrest video contempt
Northamptonshire Police is found to have failed to hand over five videos of an arrest in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Was searching for a pic of Bowie, and came across this in the results which makes it sound like he made music, appeared in films, and also constructed a massive maze-like structure
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If, like me, you keep going "yeah, but who is the guy next to Trump and Epstein in the cheap suit with the big moustache?"... wonder no longer dongentile.substack.com/p/trump-epst...
TRUMP, EPSTEIN AND . . .WHO'S THAT OTHER GUY?
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein are in the news again.
dongentile.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM