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I need your audiobook recommendations. Drop them below with the reason you are recommending it.
a cat is sitting on a table reading a book titled the art of military strategy .
ALT: a cat is sitting on a table reading a book titled the art of military strategy .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I need your audiobook recommendations. Drop them below with the reason you are recommending it.
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What a legend
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What a legend
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Here for the comments and the quote tweets, which do not disappoint.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Here for the comments and the quote tweets, which do not disappoint.
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Latest government cruelties are simply performative, as countless studies have shown these rules won’t work as a deterrence
In Sept 2020 Home Office said its own research + external evidence was asylum seekers rarely knew much about asylum rules, about welfare systems, and that there was no clear link between grant rates + where people apply.
Those who'd heard something did not perceive UK more generous than France
Those who'd heard something did not perceive UK more generous than France
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Latest government cruelties are simply performative, as countless studies have shown these rules won’t work as a deterrence
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Are they all this awful before getting the home office brief, or does it make them awful?
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Are they all this awful before getting the home office brief, or does it make them awful?
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Love this. Magnificent!
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required met...
www.livescience.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Love this. Magnificent!
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On Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7H...
Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1
YouTube video by Prospect Magazine
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
On Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7H...
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A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...
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A stocktake of the G20 club of big economies, which collectively accounts for 77% of global emissions, reveals wildly different trajectories for future emissions, as our charts show
For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead
Governments have failed to limit global warming. What comes next?
econ.st
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A stocktake of the G20 club of big economies, which collectively accounts for 77% of global emissions, reveals wildly different trajectories for future emissions, as our charts show
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‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
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Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
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What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
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Eg the USA and the BBC
Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
Democratic governments must resist authoritarian states trying to co-opt their institutions, writes Laura Murphy
econ.st
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Eg the USA and the BBC
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Genesis (social media)
Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".
Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Genesis (social media)
Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".
Genesis released "Land of Confusion" #OnThisDay in 1986 as a single from "Invisible Touch".
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This is depressing
Trump is so eager to see Orbán win the 2026 elections that he’s willing to take actions that make ending the war in Ukraine less likely just to help him out.
Pathetic, weak, corrupt, and wrong!
Pathetic, weak, corrupt, and wrong!
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This is depressing
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I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
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This week on The Econoclasts, I challenge the orthodoxy that China is actively trying to dethrone the dollar & Wolfgang debunks the “cordon sanitaire”, or “firewall” orthodoxy that European centrist parties. Find us here: unherd.com/watch-listen...
China vs. the dollar & Europe's far-Right failure
This week on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk two more establishment orthodoxies. First, Yanis challenges the widespread belief that China is actively trying to dethrone t...
unherd.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This week on The Econoclasts, I challenge the orthodoxy that China is actively trying to dethrone the dollar & Wolfgang debunks the “cordon sanitaire”, or “firewall” orthodoxy that European centrist parties. Find us here: unherd.com/watch-listen...
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In today's video I talk about ways to level up as a game designer - practices I have seen in other designers and myself as they become more experienced and improve their craft. Hopefully useful whether you're just starting out, or reflecting on how far you have come!
youtu.be/qPWgQCNkRsM
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youtu.be/qPWgQCNkRsM
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How to level up as a game designer
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In today's video I talk about ways to level up as a game designer - practices I have seen in other designers and myself as they become more experienced and improve their craft. Hopefully useful whether you're just starting out, or reflecting on how far you have come!
youtu.be/qPWgQCNkRsM
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youtu.be/qPWgQCNkRsM
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Major Łukasz Wójciak discussed the "Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environments" conference, held at the Military University of Land Forces in Wrocław, Poland.
youtu.be/6hs4d8TbiOE?...
youtu.be/6hs4d8TbiOE?...
Wargaming to narzędzie nie tylko do szkolenia wojska
YouTube video by WarGames24
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Major Łukasz Wójciak discussed the "Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environments" conference, held at the Military University of Land Forces in Wrocław, Poland.
youtu.be/6hs4d8TbiOE?...
youtu.be/6hs4d8TbiOE?...
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Budae jjigae or "Army stew" is essentially a stew composed of various random ingredients from instant noodles and spam. The dish is a legacy of the food scarcity after the Korean War and the influence of the American military on the culinary evolution of Korean food.
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Budae jjigae or "Army stew" is essentially a stew composed of various random ingredients from instant noodles and spam. The dish is a legacy of the food scarcity after the Korean War and the influence of the American military on the culinary evolution of Korean food.
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: There is now a very strong momentum for peace in the world – following the agreements reached for the Middle East. This is a global issue, and much has been done personally by the President of the United States and his team. 1/3
October 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: There is now a very strong momentum for peace in the world – following the agreements reached for the Middle East. This is a global issue, and much has been done personally by the President of the United States and his team. 1/3