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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry

(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Not allowing ordinary people to own anything, turning the very basics of survival into a month-by-month scramble maximising the economic value (spending) of each person is of course the obvious end point of late stage capitalism.
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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One feature of the collapse we are living through is that things poorer people have had to do are creeping up the income scale

They can spin it however but struggling to make ends meet with a hodge podge of sortof-jobs is both very normal and very bad

apnews.com/article/work...
Workers take on side jobs to combat stagnant salaries and insecurity about employment
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Children in Need day at the BBC and everyone is excited for all the fun. Can they not think about it for a minute.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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that's so weird like there wasn't a big interest in an inconvenience store
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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A man in a newsagent's appears so overwhelmed by the loveliness of the man serving him that he briefly forgets how to say the word 'crisps'.
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Good news! We have successfully created the glider from the classic manga/anime This Glider Is Fucking Awesome You Should Totally Create One!
Someone has built a working full-scale version of the glider from Miyazaki's Nausicaa!

youtu.be/DXUuExL8Cac?...
Sekiyado testflight 2025/11/08_2
YouTube video by kazuhiko hachiya
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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We're so close to having the ultimate vehicle on our roads
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com wow, I upset someone.
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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You been hit by a smooth hymnal
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I'm having a bit of a fatigue day after three good days, but it's not awful to be lying in bed.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This morning's Guardian report is about something that's been happening, and accelerating, for over a decade. Why "Some schools in England [are] taking up to six times more SEND pupils than others" is explained in my blog post: link in next post.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Some schools in England taking up to six times more special needs pupils than others
Findings come as government prepares white paper to urgently overhaul provision and funding
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 13th 2025) in 05:37
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I *really* want to read this but it is likely to be *extremely* triggering. Maybe in spring?
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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always remember:
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I’d propose letting people know that “reading” doesn’t just mean “fiction” and “novels”.

That’d help.
77% of people who don’t call themselves readers read every week.

Britain doesn’t have a shortage of readers. We have a shortage of people who feel like readers.

It’s time to #RedefineReading.

👉 Explore the new State of the Nation report here: bit.ly/46ItklZ
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM