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Amy Adam
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🇬🇧 ( Currently 🇦🇪) Amor vincit omnia.
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It’s that time of year again…

Sending my love to all the women who feel their coziest when they’re holding a warm mug with both hands.

Your season is here.

I hope you’re enjoying every bit of it….you deserve it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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One of the things about "the font is woke" is that they clearly have run out DEI copper wiring to rip out of the walls so they're just searching for literally anything to claim as a victory
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Born to run: how exercise expanded the landscape of my life and got my mind on track | Joseph Earp
Born to run: how exercise expanded the landscape of my life and got my mind on track | Joseph Earp
Running tends to get characterised as an entirely physical pursuit, which is probably why I avoided it for so long
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Outdoor dining.
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This is the same Noah Smith who, on arriving in Poland, complained that Warsaw airport doesn't have any escalators, when it has more escalators than the state of Wyoming. I'm not sure he should be allowed to travel unaccompanied; it seems to be too much for him.
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.

onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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“The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings….The post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were over 44 and 90% of whom were men.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Learn from history.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Whereas the influence of newspaper barons like Murdoch was 'in the shadows', through the back door of Downing St & splashed across front pages, the tech media age of Musk allows the algorithm to get directly into people's heads, activating emotional trigger points in a more targeted, insidious way.
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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All those tech billionaires in the room and they cannot plug in a mic
January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That was the whole point, after all. Ban it or be forced to sell it to us. I can’t believe that Ego thinks he can control everything.
New: Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according to people familiar with the matter
China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option
Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according...
www.bloomberg.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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We must stop referring to the grooming gangs as “Muslim” gangs. Why are journalists doing this? There is nothing to suggest religion played a part. We don’t call the vast majority of groomers “Christian groomers” or “Christian paedophiles”. Grooming gangs involving some Pakistani men is accurate.
January 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Well I’ll be darned. They’ve done it: crowd-sourcing truth. Expertise and evidence be damned. This is a populist epistemic victory right here. Make no mistake about why this is their policy *in the US*
Massive change at Meta, as Zuckerberg announces they’re ditching fact checkers in the US and replacing them with community notes. Meta is probably the single largest funder of fact checking in the world right now. But that appears to be coming to an end. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Rc...?
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson some useful context in the FT
January 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Suella Braverman has just told #lbc listeners that not only has Italy built a wall on "its border with Turkey" but that she has been there "and seen it."
January 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people.

It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
January 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of life’s unanswered questions is how this man has entanglements and adoring fan pages from women. What am I missing in all the static mess? Ladies, let’s be clear: this isn’t your typical “I can fix him” kind of chap. It's as broken as Brexit!
Boris Johnson, "People criticise the Brexit campaign and they say: oh well your big fat red bus told big fat lies about the NHS"

"It's not true"

"The numbers we gave were correct"
December 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I I am patiently waiting for the Kid Rock ambassador role. The only qualification needed is loyalty.
sure, why not
December 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM
The irony is that the man who didn't want the EU's influence on the UK is begging Elon to become involved in UK politics.
It's the same playbook of digital voter collection and funding, X influence, media and celebrity influence, bro podcasts, donations, and Ads.
Paul McNamara, "This is Nigel Farage's fourth trip to the US since becoming an MP in July, there will be plenty more, including in the inauguration"

"Reform say they are learning experiences.. There is the prospect of money.. A few million would turn Reform into challengers"
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 AM
This is truly heartbreaking. Access to basic shelter should be recognised as a fundamental human right.
Victoria Derbyshire, "We are in one of the wealthiest parts of London, in one of the wealthiest parts of the UK, in the sixth richest economy in the world. So why is anybody sleeping on the streets at all?"

VD, "What can we do?"

Daisy, "Care"
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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Yep
December 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Mishal Husain’s last day on #r4today this morning.

She’s the best of their presenters by far in my opinion. Capable of balance, & of rigorous, devastating interviews, without ever getting shrill, or hectoring & speaking over her interviewees.

A real loss for the BBC.
December 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Investors back start-up racing Elon Musk to develop thought-controlled devices

https://www.ft.com/content/67187e59-a708-45e4-9112-7fd4e9b68e63
Investors back start-up racing Elon Musk to develop thought-controlled devices
Precision Neuroscience raises over $100mn as companies building ‘brain-computer interfaces’ press ahead with human trials
www.ft.com
December 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM
The responses have only increased my confusion.
Ok fine, I’ll bite. What’s a drake
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Every truly meaningful act of integrity involves some sort of sacrifice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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I ripped this video from Eleonora Svanberg on X (she’s not on 🦋)

She wrote:

“I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)

Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!”
November 20, 2024 at 8:55 AM