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saw someone post their Celebrity Traitors dream cast for next season and they put John Terry on the list, which would be great for me personally as a JT hater
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
saw someone post their Celebrity Traitors dream cast for next season and they put John Terry on the list, which would be great for me personally as a JT hater
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Fascinating IOC political maneuvering here in this article, btw. Getting this done by Milan/Cortina 2026 allows for a full IOC session vote on the policy. There will be an EB meeting to rubber stamp what the decision will be, presumably.
This gets it done before LA 2028 qualifying. Very accelrated.
This gets it done before LA 2028 qualifying. Very accelrated.
Guess that the IOC is going to ban transgender women from sport before LA 2028 based on a wholesale scientific review which seems to just be from things that are not in the public domain:
Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male
www.thetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Fascinating IOC political maneuvering here in this article, btw. Getting this done by Milan/Cortina 2026 allows for a full IOC session vote on the policy. There will be an EB meeting to rubber stamp what the decision will be, presumably.
This gets it done before LA 2028 qualifying. Very accelrated.
This gets it done before LA 2028 qualifying. Very accelrated.
LRT he's like Doctor Who, he regenerates, why is this a problem
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
LRT he's like Doctor Who, he regenerates, why is this a problem
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to me, bond could die in any bond movie, they’re all their own universe? maybe there’s a few that connect to each other, but i’ve never felt like there was continuity?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
to me, bond could die in any bond movie, they’re all their own universe? maybe there’s a few that connect to each other, but i’ve never felt like there was continuity?
talked myself out of buying a wreath I don't need, score one for my wallet
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
talked myself out of buying a wreath I don't need, score one for my wallet
just saw a guy wearing a poppy with what looks like an Alex Trebek pin put through the middle
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
just saw a guy wearing a poppy with what looks like an Alex Trebek pin put through the middle
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My colleague @libbybrooks.bsky.social spoke to some of the knitters of Shetland about the fair isle and steeking controversies touched off by the competitive knitting show www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My colleague @libbybrooks.bsky.social spoke to some of the knitters of Shetland about the fair isle and steeking controversies touched off by the competitive knitting show www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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For What?
Frederick Varley
1918
Frederick Varley
1918
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For What?
Frederick Varley
1918
Frederick Varley
1918
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Whenever someone in power blames immigrants on the difficulties facing working people, working class communities and those struggling to make ends meet in disadvantaged areas, remember two words: 'managed decline'.
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Whenever someone in power blames immigrants on the difficulties facing working people, working class communities and those struggling to make ends meet in disadvantaged areas, remember two words: 'managed decline'.
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For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
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I love Gordon Lightfoot, and I would know absolutely nothing about the Edmund Fitzgerald were it not for this song.
Just talking to my dad and he was listening to this song, as it’s the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking.
youtu.be/M3x2vcergP0?...
youtu.be/M3x2vcergP0?...
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Live In Reno)
YouTube video by GordonLightfootVEVO
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I love Gordon Lightfoot, and I would know absolutely nothing about the Edmund Fitzgerald were it not for this song.
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With so much on the line, the new federal government has tabled a budget that in many ways could pass as a Conservative budget, write David Macdonald and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. #CanPoli
The Military Wins and Public Programs Lose in Carney’s Budget | The Tyee
But will the Liberals find enough support to survive a non-confidence vote?
thetyee.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
With so much on the line, the new federal government has tabled a budget that in many ways could pass as a Conservative budget, write David Macdonald and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. #CanPoli
why does nothing on Pinterest have links anymore, like it was always bad for this but it feels like it's become even worse lately
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
why does nothing on Pinterest have links anymore, like it was always bad for this but it feels like it's become even worse lately
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Dazzle-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919 by Edward Wadsworth
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Dazzle-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919 by Edward Wadsworth
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'Public health failure': Canada officially loses its measles elimination designation calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
'Public health failure': Canada officially loses its measles elimination designation calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
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November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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👇 watching this now and encouraging Christmas celebrants who haven't seen it to rectify that some time in the next six weeks
THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, which is about Charles Dickens writing "A Christmas Carol", features Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, and is just all around delightful.
What’s your favorite underappreciated Christmas movie?
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
👇 watching this now and encouraging Christmas celebrants who haven't seen it to rectify that some time in the next six weeks
Just ate a 15lb burrito and now I'm going to watch Muppet Christmas Carol and put up my sister's Christmas tree.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Just ate a 15lb burrito and now I'm going to watch Muppet Christmas Carol and put up my sister's Christmas tree.
still very behind because the club has announced the game is over on my Twitter feed lol
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
still very behind because the club has announced the game is over on my Twitter feed lol
I will become a single issue voter for whoever runs on a platform of re-banning sports betting ads
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I will become a single issue voter for whoever runs on a platform of re-banning sports betting ads
