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Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
www.miamiherald.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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NEW on The Handbasket — An excerpt of Christopher Mathias' (@letsgomathias.bsky.social) new book 'To Catch A Fascist,' including a special intro from the author himself.

It’s an excellent read and you should buy it and I’m not just saying that because there’s a blurb from me on the back.

Read now:
'To Catch A Fascist'
Read a sneak peek of the new book by veteran journalist and far-right extremism expert Christopher Mathias.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
The explainer we’ve all been waiting for lads
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Tories in “nervous about scrutiny of Lords” shocker
Understand Tories won't create or back a bill to remove Mandelson's peerage. There is unease among politicians in Westminster about the precedent of a government using its large majority to go after individuals, no matter how egregious. But mechanisms should still be there to expel him.
February 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too | Aditya Chakrabortty
After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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The Shipley Glen Tramway which runs from Baildon to Saltaire in W. Yorks which is Britain's oldest working cable tramway opened in 1895 needs to raise £89,000 for repair bill. 👇
BBC News - Historic Shipley Glen Tramway faces £89,000 repair bill - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Historic Shipley Glen Tramway faces £89,000 repair bill
A fundraiser is launched to raise money to pay for repairs to the historic Shipley Glen Tramway.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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I was asked to look at this post!

And while the story obviously has important context that’s missing from the headline - which I’ll cover obvs 😜 - what’s more important is to question why this is being posted!

And what to ask yourself when you see something like this…

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January 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.

Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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DuckDuckGo is asking «Where do you stand on AI?»
Now take a look at these answers and the amount of votes 😎

Keep saying that WE DON´T WANT AI ! ✊🔥

Vote here: voteyesornoai.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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THREAD.

A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside.

You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Popehat Signal: looking for NY attorney familiar with revenge porn laws to give some pro bono advice to a victim menaced by someone in NY.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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More than 100 people gathered in a Glasgow park to watch someone get kicked in the balls
More than 100 people gather in Glasgow to watch 'full force kick in the balls'
www.thenational.scot
January 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?

It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus

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December 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Surely, if he’s that big, it won’t be difficult to find him
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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You've got your Christmas pressies sorted, now you need some lovely gift wrap to make them look proper smart

⏰ Order by Wednesday 17th December www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars, LOTR, or Marvel!
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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THREAD.

A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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It’s Stir-Up Sunday and so, as tradition decrees, my Ultimate Christmas Pudding is #RecipeOfTheDay. I have converted many Christmas pud haters with this, which is due not to any brilliance on my part but to the treacly magnificence of the Pedro Ximénez sherry in it. www.nigella.com/recipes/ulti...
Ultimate Christmas Pudding
I don’t deny it: there is something unattractively boastful about calling one’s own recipe “ultimate”. But having soaked my dried fruit for this pudding in Pedro Ximénez — the sweet, dark, sticky sher...
www.nigella.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM