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Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat.

Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Here are four overcoats.

— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?

Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Emails seen by The Lead show the councillor, through Lancashire County Council staff, issuing legal threats after his role in private care was questioned.
Exclusive: Reform UK councillor threatens legal action to shut down debate over Lancashire care home closures
Emails seen by The Lead show the councillor, through Lancashire County Council staff, issuing legal threats after his role in private care was questioned.
national.thelead.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Color me surprised.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’.

But shareholders will be richer.

Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal.

Companies don't bear social cost of their operations
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Most 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 in European competitions since the start of the 2023/2024 season:

12 - Aston Villa
11 - Fiorentina
11 - Bayern Munich
11 - Real Madrid
11 - Arsenal
11 - Atlético Madrid
11 - Inter

#AVFC | #UEL
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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You'll struggle to find a more 'normal' footballer than John McGinn. Humility and is just so refreshing. Always really enjoy speaking to him. 300 appearances up for #AVFC tonight.

Excerpt below:

Link: www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🗣️ Hear the thoughts of the hat-trick hero Rory Wilson and gaffer Jimmy Shan after UEFA Youth League progress was secured this afternoon:

www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/no...
Jimmy Shan and Rory Wilson react to UEFA Youth League success
Under-21 Head Coach and hat-trick hero speak after KF Skënderbeu triumph
www.avfc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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John McGinn interview- reflecting on his #AVFC career, 300 games and a new contract:

🟣First talk with Emery
🟤Uncertain summer/interest from elsewhere
🟣The perennial fear of being replaced
🟤Proving critics wrong
🟣Determination to win a trophy
➕More

www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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All the goals from a sweet six goal win against KF Skënderbeu in the UEFA Youth League. ✨

Rory Wilson netted a hat-trick, Jack McGrath bagged a brace on his first UYL start and TJ Carroll found the corner with a magnificent header to book a Third Round tie against AZ Alkmaar.
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.” - Gandhi
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Spurtin Johnson

United States, Census, 1940
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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On a single evening, Zena will visit and cook for three #AVFC players: Rogers, Ramsey and Malen. She has set up a business with the first two, going into local, underprivileged communities & putting food workshops on for kids.

Piece @theathleticfc.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...
The life of a Premier League player’s personal chef: From Mauritian magic bowls to Bakewell tarts
Personal chefs are growing in popularity in football - we met one to see what a day is like preparing food for elite athletes
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Having been goaded into it by @maxrushden.bsky.social, I am doing the London Landmarks half-marathon in April for Great Ormond Street Children's Charity. I am 52, overweight, hideously unfit and I hate running. Please donate, if you can spare a few quid ...

www.justgiving.com/page/barry-g...
It's time to muddy these spats ...
Help Barry Glendenning raise money to support Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
www.justgiving.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Continuing my tour of books I should have already read, Calling Bullshit by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. Just a delight - an accessible, entertaining, insightful look at various forms of BS. Much like Weapons of Math Destruction, would love a 2025 update of this one.
Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshi...
www.callingbullshit.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I'm delighted to say that I will be running an online Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for @octocon.bsky.social on 11th October, 4 pm.

Get ready for some philosophical fiction!

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October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Who is to blame for the government shutdown? We asked three unvaccinated Kid Rock fans at a cage fighting match in Fort Walton Beach.
October 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Jackanory - The Hobbit (1st October 1979). To celebrate reaching the 3000th edition of Jackanory, a tag team of four readers - Jan Francis, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham and David Wood - tackled this book.
October 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money.

- @davidjuurlink.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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😯
October 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Christian Wackos

Canada, Ontario, Tax Assessment Rolls, 1827-1922
September 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM