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jsphctrl.ft.com
“Central bank data shows Argentina increased its debt with “international organisations” by roughly the same amount as the figure repaid to the US Treasury in the week before the repayment in December.” www.ft.com/content/b721...
Argentina repays US financial lifeline as Milei emerges from market crisis
Buenos Aires hands back $2.5bn it drew under swap line ahead of pivotal election in October
www.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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owejessen.de
Epic burn
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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followtheh.bsky.social
Her name is Natalie Harp
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Life expectancy in England & Wales at the *very worst* point of the pandemic was still better than at its all-time *best-ever* level in Scotland...
#MoreOrLess
January 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Let that sink in.
blurses.bsky.social blurses @blurses.bsky.social · 4h
2.3M followers, immensely popular show, 1 retweet, 13,100 impressions
BBC @BBC 1d WHO CAN TALK TO ABOUT THIS?! #TheTraitors #Traitors #SecretTraitor Get them before they get you. 22 people, one castle, £120k - Claudia Winkleman hosts the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery. Let the mind games begin. [Includes clip from traitors]
January 9, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
Oh Twitter is dead dead.
blurses.bsky.social blurses @blurses.bsky.social · 4h
2.3M followers, immensely popular show, 1 retweet, 13,100 impressions
BBC @BBC 1d WHO CAN TALK TO ABOUT THIS?! #TheTraitors #Traitors #SecretTraitor Get them before they get you. 22 people, one castle, £120k - Claudia Winkleman hosts the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery. Let the mind games begin. [Includes clip from traitors]
January 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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blurses.bsky.social
2.3M followers, immensely popular show, 1 retweet, 13,100 impressions
BBC @BBC 1d WHO CAN TALK TO ABOUT THIS?! #TheTraitors #Traitors #SecretTraitor Get them before they get you. 22 people, one castle, £120k - Claudia Winkleman hosts the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery. Let the mind games begin. [Includes clip from traitors]
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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annettedittert.bsky.social
Brexit war noch nie so eine schlechte Idee wie heute.
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Just doing my regular check of where we are on the Threads timeline.
Oh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads...
January 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
People argue the UK has a weird attitude to gender but what if I told you our economy is sustained by Warhammer and OnlyFans?
showerabsolute.bsky.social Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 9h
Not only should the govt ban Twitter, it should ban all foreign owned and controlled social media. I'll see you all on OnlyFans!
January 9, 2026 at 10:04 AM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Eastern v. Western Germany
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 AM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Cc: @chartcrimereporter.bsky.social @chartcrimes.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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stevenhseggie.bsky.social
OpenAI doesn’t have a moat, OpenAI doesn’t have a moat (repeat ad infinitum)
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
It's hard to believe these two are brothers.
January 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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atrupar.com
unspeakably pathetic stuff from Trump here as he says he'd be honored to accept María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize if she wants to give it up to him
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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librariancapital.bsky.social
Reminder: This is what Bill Ackman put on the last slide

"In the Wise Words of President-Elect Trump…"
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
Lawyers for people convicted by Amanda over the last two decades are busy as we speak.
January 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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durhamhealthnc.bsky.social
We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)
Here’s the thing: Ridiculous numbers of people are getting the flu right now. Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are reaching or have already reached record-breaking numbers. People of all ages are getting sick, being hospitalized, and dying, even if they had no other health conditions. And lots of people who are “ok” and don’t require hospitalization are feeling terrible and probably wish they were not sick. You should really be trying not to get the flu (and COVID-19 and RSV and more). This means, yes, you should really get vaccinated….Vaccines teach your body how to recognize and respond to the particular viruses they were created for. No amount of washing your hands, eating healthy, sleeping, or exercising can do this for you. Sorry. These are all important for your immune system and other reasons, but they cannot replace the work of vaccines. People of all ages, with or without other health issues, should get vaccinated. Vaccines help prevent infection and severe illness in people of all ages (yes, even kids. Healthy children can and do die from the flu. And most children who die are unvaccinated*). *Sources if you don’t believe us: bit.ly/428YhOU, tinyurl.com/4tmv8km8, bit.ly/mm7241a2. ... and you should wear masks. If you don’t want to get or spread the flu (or COVID-19 or other things) you should really wear masks. Seriously, people. Yes, we know, some of you love them and some of you hate them. But we’re a health agency so we’re here to share the things that work to protect your health. Masks keep you from breathing in, or breathing out into the air, virus particles that make you and others sick, even if you don’t know you or the people around you are sick (and honestly you often won’t know). You should wash your hands frequently, eat healthy foods, and get plenty of sleep, but no amount of any of this is going to keep you from breathing in virus particles in the air. Definitely wash your hands. Please. Viruses can spread in multiple ways, and handwashing helps prevent some of those ways. But you can’t wash away a virus you’ve breathed in. There’s a reason masks often become required again at doctors’ offices and hospitals whenever virus spread gets bad (like now). It’s because they work. Also, it’s very unkind to choose to be unmasked around others if you know you’re sick (and if there’s no reason you can’t wear a mask). For you, maybe it’s “just” the flu or a mild case of another illness, and you don’t care if you’re sick. But for the person you pass it to, it could be: Too much for their body to handle in addition to their chronic illness | The illness they pass to a loved one who has cancer | The reason they are sick on the day of an important life event | A hospital stay for a child | The infection that leads to a disability | Their cause of death. If you are sick, please be kind and stay away from others as much as possible, and wear a mask if you have to spend time away from home. PS: A lot of cases of illness spread by people who don’t have symptoms, so if you want to be even more considerate, it’s a good idea to mask around other people even if you don’t think you’re sick.
January 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Reading that apparently JD Vance doxxed the ICE agent by announcing the same agent was in an incident 6 months ago that was covered, making it easy to look him up. Now he's on blast.
a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .
ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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james.barisic.fr
FFS. We're heading into the bit where it gets worse. The next four hours have the potential to be very, very, VERY bad.

#StormGoretti
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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peark.es
Lmfao
(Bloomberg) -- The White House excluded Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from months of planning to oust Nicolas Maduro because her previous opposition to military action in Venezuela cast doubt on her willingness to support the operation, people familiar with the matter said. The move to cut Gabbard out of the meetings was so well-known that some White House aides joked that the acronym of her title, DNI, stood for "Do Not Invite," according to three of the people. They asked not to be identified discussing private conversations. A White House official denied there was any such joke.
January 8, 2026 at 5:22 PM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Evan Davis is a very good questioner.
Not quite Louis Theroux levels of faux-naïveté but plenty enough to let the interviewees tie their own noose.
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Berkut (maidan riot police) gunned down a civilian on Maidan. Later Berkut was apologizing to the people of Ukraine on their knees and got disbanded. Don’t fucking compare yourself to Eastern Europe
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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emmeline.bsky.social
Blue sky, sorry for this, but are any of you a city/regional transportation planner, or know someone who is a transportation planner?

My kid is writing a paper, and needs to ask some questions of a transportation planner, and her source fell through

PLEASE let me know ASAP
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
mayfaircynic.bsky.social
Subdivide commercial units to make it easier to open a small pub.
Half-Ladbrokes / half micro-pub.
I can't see any drawbacks.
davidtwilcock.bsky.social David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 1d
Far better to use the tax system to create a new breed of smaller pubs and taprooms to breathe life into high streets, in shop buildings etc.
January 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM