John ‘the importance of ideas & information’
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#ceasefire #nevervotetory Outsider | not in the Meursault way | Cymro #AntiTory since 62 | republican ‘…let’s exalt the importance of ideas and information.’ Loves reading & enjoys a pint or two! 🏴 🇵🇸
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Fesshole Live is coming your way! Get tickets for Liverpool, Leicester and Leeds. We’ll also be touring Sweden - Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm - and doing Anon Opin in London and Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Fesshole Live is coming your way! Get tickets for Liverpool, Leicester and Leeds. We’ll also be touring Sweden - Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm - and doing Anon Opin in London and Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole
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Bodies of two Palestinians recovered after Israeli raid on house in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bodies-two-palestinians-recovered-after-israeli-raid-house-gaza
Bodies of two Palestinians recovered after Israeli raid on house in Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The bodies of two Palestinians killed in an Israeli raid on a house in Khan Younis were recovered on Tuesday in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.</p>
<p>At least 242 Palestinians were killed and 622 others wounded in Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said. </p>
<p>On Monday, the ministry in a statement said that the death toll from Israel's genocide since October 2023 has risen to 69,179, while 170,693 others have been wounded. </p>
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November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Bodies of two Palestinians recovered after Israeli raid on house in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bodies-two-palestinians-recovered-after-israeli-raid-house-gaza
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This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A close up with a garden visitor , shared by @trundling17.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A close up with a garden visitor , shared by @trundling17.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay
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Trenton, New Jersey - where the carpets are clearly possessed and the hotel locked me out so I had to bang on the front door until two tiny nuns let me in.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Trenton, New Jersey - where the carpets are clearly possessed and the hotel locked me out so I had to bang on the front door until two tiny nuns let me in.
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The voice that Anthony Bourdain introduced in “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” “is not just brash and ballsy; it reverberates with style and poetry, from its tantalizing opening lines,” Hannah Goldfield writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/q-s7-D
Hannah Goldfield on Anthony Bourdain’s “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”
Bourdain was much more than a whistle-blower, even at the very beginning of what would become his second, incredibly significant career.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The voice that Anthony Bourdain introduced in “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” “is not just brash and ballsy; it reverberates with style and poetry, from its tantalizing opening lines,” Hannah Goldfield writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/q-s7-D
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The voice that Anthony Bourdain introduced in “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” “is not just brash and ballsy; it reverberates with style and poetry, from its tantalizing opening lines,” Hannah Goldfield writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yoGVCd
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The voice that Anthony Bourdain introduced in “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” “is not just brash and ballsy; it reverberates with style and poetry, from its tantalizing opening lines,” Hannah Goldfield writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yoGVCd
Another archive piece from @newyorker.com Brilliant. Don’t Eat Before Reading This www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
“Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by Anthony Bourdain
The late chef’s 1999 essay about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain,” he writes. “It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the firs...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Another archive piece from @newyorker.com Brilliant. Don’t Eat Before Reading This www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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This week, representatives of just about every country in the world are gathering for COP3 climate talks. The U.S. won’t be sending its President or any other high-ranking officials.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HnMCDK
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HnMCDK
Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of COP30 Climate Talks
Worldwide, every other week seems to bring a new climate-related crisis. Increasingly, the response has seemed to be a dulled acceptance.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This week, representatives of just about every country in the world are gathering for COP3 climate talks. The U.S. won’t be sending its President or any other high-ranking officials.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HnMCDK
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HnMCDK
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lamprey mouth: it's even the same color
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
lamprey mouth: it's even the same color
@newyorker.com I think that I want to read the book now. “Plaster” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Plaster,” by David Szalay
The things that left him feeling that nothing would ever be the same again—they just aren’t important here.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
@newyorker.com I think that I want to read the book now. “Plaster” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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FFS I hope for balance BBC news is going to start every news report going forward by saying Donald Trump lies every time he speaks . Because all they are doing is producing soundbites for fascists .
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
FFS I hope for balance BBC news is going to start every news report going forward by saying Donald Trump lies every time he speaks . Because all they are doing is producing soundbites for fascists .
@newyorker.com 👏👏👏👏👏 Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of COP30 Climate Talks www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of COP30 Climate Talks
Worldwide, every other week seems to bring a new climate-related crisis. Increasingly, the response has seemed to be a dulled acceptance.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
@newyorker.com 👏👏👏👏👏 Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of COP30 Climate Talks www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Always made me smile walking past Bookers in Deptford their literary hinterland
popped down on my lunchbreak and preparations are well under way for the ceremony this evening
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Always made me smile walking past Bookers in Deptford their literary hinterland
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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I am expecting Allison Pearson to soon be announced as the new Director General of the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I am expecting Allison Pearson to soon be announced as the new Director General of the BBC.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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Obv the Right wing reactionary attacks on the BBC have been going on for a 100 yrs. It's a pernicious mix of wedge issue culture war, hard-line market absolutism but also deep seated philistinism. They are rotten terrible people who only seek to make the world worse while maintaining their power.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Obv the Right wing reactionary attacks on the BBC have been going on for a 100 yrs. It's a pernicious mix of wedge issue culture war, hard-line market absolutism but also deep seated philistinism. They are rotten terrible people who only seek to make the world worse while maintaining their power.
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TBH this is my view of the right wing philistines and wreckers assaulting the BBC "WHAT DO THEY LIKE?"
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
TBH this is my view of the right wing philistines and wreckers assaulting the BBC "WHAT DO THEY LIKE?"
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Lovely to be a #Christmas gift pick for #poetry lovers at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social!
(Pssst - the #history buffs in your life would love it too!)
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
(Pssst - the #history buffs in your life would love it too!)
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lovely to be a #Christmas gift pick for #poetry lovers at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social!
(Pssst - the #history buffs in your life would love it too!)
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
(Pssst - the #history buffs in your life would love it too!)
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
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There's still time to get your copy and join us for a #TimeTravelAdvent! 25 chapters = a few minutes of immersive time travel for each day in December, leading up to (and including) Christmas Day. I'll be sharing posts on here every day, too. #AdventCalendar #book #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There's still time to get your copy and join us for a #TimeTravelAdvent! 25 chapters = a few minutes of immersive time travel for each day in December, leading up to (and including) Christmas Day. I'll be sharing posts on here every day, too. #AdventCalendar #book #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems
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A desperately sad day for UK Public Service Broadcasting. We suspect The Times wants to replace the BBC as the medium that explains the UK to itself; The Telegraph wants the UK to be linked in an ever closer union with Trump. Both are cock-a-hoop today. These are big battles for Britain.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A desperately sad day for UK Public Service Broadcasting. We suspect The Times wants to replace the BBC as the medium that explains the UK to itself; The Telegraph wants the UK to be linked in an ever closer union with Trump. Both are cock-a-hoop today. These are big battles for Britain.
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A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to hearing the truth about Orgreave. Not giving any fucks about the orange president!
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Looking forward to hearing the truth about Orgreave. Not giving any fucks about the orange president!