@thebelovedaunt.bsky.social
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Hello, YouTube has shown me a video of a guy teaching an octopus from the fish market to play piano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hello, YouTube has shown me a video of a guy teaching an octopus from the fish market to play piano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
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maybe next time
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
maybe next time
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Today I learned…
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today I learned…
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About half way through my British Museum visit and I've reached Sutton Hoo. Here's the helmet and the remarkable shoulder-clasps, the reconstruction and the slightly misleading way I first met the image in 1983.
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
About half way through my British Museum visit and I've reached Sutton Hoo. Here's the helmet and the remarkable shoulder-clasps, the reconstruction and the slightly misleading way I first met the image in 1983.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...
Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law
The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...
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Btw guys the transcript of the Witkoff phone call really is much worse than you think and I do think you should share it with literally everyone you know
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Btw guys the transcript of the Witkoff phone call really is much worse than you think and I do think you should share it with literally everyone you know
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I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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if someone had recently given a speech as eloquent and intellectually complex yet clear-minded as the Thatcher speech Stephen mentioned, it would have led to Harry Cole hitting his big red head like an angry chimp and writing in the Sun that Big Words Bad Why Hate Britain Like This? Boo!
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
if someone had recently given a speech as eloquent and intellectually complex yet clear-minded as the Thatcher speech Stephen mentioned, it would have led to Harry Cole hitting his big red head like an angry chimp and writing in the Sun that Big Words Bad Why Hate Britain Like This? Boo!
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I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
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I mean the Political Editor of BBC News thinks their coverage should repeatedly emphasise that being interested in something like “what the prime minister said” is a bit weird and nerdy really, so yeah not exactly conducive to intellectual rigour IMO
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I mean the Political Editor of BBC News thinks their coverage should repeatedly emphasise that being interested in something like “what the prime minister said” is a bit weird and nerdy really, so yeah not exactly conducive to intellectual rigour IMO
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
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”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
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In other news, today, I am going up the post office tower.
a cat is hanging from a very tall building
ALT: a cat is hanging from a very tall building
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In other news, today, I am going up the post office tower.
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*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
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“.. early indications that the blaze was sparked by flammable construction netting .. The fire then ignited combustible polystyrene foam that appeared to have been used to cover windows ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“.. early indications that the blaze was sparked by flammable construction netting .. The fire then ignited combustible polystyrene foam that appeared to have been used to cover windows ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
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Reform Party chair banned from the road following drink driving conviction
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tamesid...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tamesid...
Reform party chair banned from the road following drink driving conviction
The politician was driving over the legal alcohol limit
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reform Party chair banned from the road following drink driving conviction
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tamesid...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tamesid...
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Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...
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Maybe she thinks it was a public-pilate partnership.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Maybe she thinks it was a public-pilate partnership.
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?