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Jack Newbold
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Author at some point hopefully, Sci-Fi and Fantasy obsessive, He/They.
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"The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts the NMW will rise to about £28,995 by 2030 — or approximately £400 lower than the frozen student loan repayment threshold." on.ft.com/4p2hyL4
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Because this is still D&D, the wizard and rogue who know how to read collaborated on forging permits and have already hit level 7. as the fighter collapses from his fever, he sees the two flying around in the sky laughing
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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his first mistake was insisting on D&D instead of playing a system built from the ground up to accommodate dying of sepsis
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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guy who wants "gritty and realistic" D&D absolutely enraged when his character, a grizzled human fighter, is asked to show his travel permit upon attempting to leave the village, gets in a fight about it, then dies of sepsis from a small cut after four days of travel through wetlands with no roads
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."

Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?

When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Stoking a far right moral panic against & removing the rights of a segment of the LGBTQ+ community has consequences for other members of that community Keith.

Id say he needs to look in the mirror for those responsible, but the undead dont have reflections.
Irks me when he says this because I’ve been at an LGBT event he’s been at, I’ve seen him attend others; he is in no way unaware of this being a problem nor his own role in it

metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Irks me when he says this because I’ve been at an LGBT event he’s been at, I’ve seen him attend others; he is in no way unaware of this being a problem nor his own role in it

metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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You guys are laughing, but he barely has time to measure and log his son’s nocturnal emissions.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Mike Johnson whining about how hard it is to have the job of being evil and perpetuating evil is so hilariously wormy
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Huge news today, if you missed it; Chris Duncan was released from Louisiana prison after being wrongfully convicted for nearly three decades.

@psfrench.bsky.social wrote this devastating but important read this spring on Louisiana’s rush to kill Jim despite junk science.
The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions - Bolts
Chris Duncan’s death sentence—built on the testimony of two discredited doctors—illustrates just how faulty the system can be.
boltsmag.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Yeah Lizza's career should be over
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Reinstate Goran NOW. Literally the only thing he's ever used his platform for is posting cool art and fundraising for people trying to survive a genocide.
Bluesky suspended Goran Gligovic, the guy that makes nice art. Jesus fucking Christ Bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM