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David Lemouton
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French guy (he/him) in the UK 🇬🇧, Leamington Spa based.
Mechanical engineer specialist in CAE & FEA.

On the spectrum.
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liberation.fr
LA TAULE. C'est la une de Libération ce vendredi.
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary .

Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
September 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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isidorepoireau.bsky.social
Les Suisses ont tout compris à Emmanuel Macron
September 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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fraying.bsky.social
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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zoecrowther.bsky.social
Here's a slightly crazy diagram illustrating today's major Cabinet reshuffle

You're welcome
September 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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colinelves.bsky.social
With alt:
Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to.

I have some questions.

A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:

Why are we here?
1/
September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
[extremely french voice] look i mean euh go ahead and do yoeur, how you say, pisse kinque, but please make certain you are always protecting the status of our glorious langue nationale
BBC France's language watchdog has told government officials to use French fetish terms instead of Japanese ones. The Académie Française today announced that French kinksters must use the term "maîtrise de la pisse" instead of the more widely-used Japanese loan word "omorashi". France's culture ministry told the AFP news agency that linguistic borrowings were "a barrier to understanding". But bladder control fetishists have criticised the ban, with one calling it "completely pointless". France regularly issues warnings of the "debasement" of its language through imported foreign words. Other official translations include "visage de la petite mort" for "ahegao".
September 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
dfdlm.bsky.social
Un record ferroviaire vient d'être battu au R-U.

Le plus long trajet d'un train sur une charge de batterie électrique, 322km

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poke @jean-eusebe.bsky.social
Battery-powered GWR train breaks distance record from Reading
A GWR train completes a 200-mile (322km) return journey from Reading without charging its batteries.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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feelingtheory.bsky.social
This is bonkers.
A passage from the Reuters article: “It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month. The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said. Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn’t require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”
August 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
As Keir Starmer hires former Sun editor David Dinsmore as his new communications chief, a quick reminder of the sorts of communications Dinsmore helped to put out in his former job
July 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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claradoodle.bsky.social
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
dfdlm.bsky.social
Only connect with @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social is back on air so I will share some of my favs questions from yesterday.

For this one, you have to guess what connects this 4 apparently random items.

Answer in next skeet/blousque
Screenshot of the game Only connect airing on BBC2 Clue 1/4 for 5 points: Eton: 9 The team of 3 candidates is thinking very hard Screenshot of the game Only connect airing on BBC2 Clue 2/4 for 3 points: Eton: 9 Stow: 4 The candidates are exchanging potential answers Screenshot of the game Only connect airing on BBC2 Clue 3 for 2/4 points: Eton: 9 Stow: 4 Stop: - 3 The candidates are now quite puzzled by this clue Screenshot of the game Only connect airing on BBC2 Clue 4 (the giveaway) for 1 point: Eton: 9 Stow: 4 Stop: - 3 Atom: 12 The time is running out and still don't have any answer
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is one of the absolutely most interesting threads I’ve ever encountered on social media. Yes it about Mamdani but so much more
swingingstorm.bsky.social Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
dfdlm.bsky.social
Just finished watching the Rehearsal season 2.

Amazing.

I need to find a way to sell it to people who aren't Nathan Fielder enjoyer now.
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
dfdlm.bsky.social
Voilà une bonne première expérience avec un chalumeau, on va faire encore mieux la prochaine fois.
Maintenant il me reste beaucoup de lemon curd à finir.
Zoom sur un de mes cookies citron meringues caramélisées. Photo plus large de 8 cookies citrons caramélisées refroidissanf sur une grille de refroidissement.
May 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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dottsky.bsky.social
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
dfdlm.bsky.social
Je découvre que le R-U n'a jamais essayer d'adapter officiellement le SNL jusque là. Il existait un Saturday Live dans les annnees 90 librement inspiré.

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April 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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mlp-jail.bsky.social
O U I.
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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douglindner.bsky.social
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
Who's running this country: MUSK Donald Trump or Elon Musk? Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it's time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk. No One Elected Elon Musk FireMusk.org Common Cause Holding Power Accountable SP ACTION LC FUND
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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snugasabugbear.bsky.social
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.
January 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM