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January 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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dillo.media
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Just one of the stupidest things that has happened in my lifetime
luci70.bsky.social Ian @luci70.bsky.social · 27d
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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jjaron.bsky.social
Tell me your company has no Brits without telling me
July 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.

"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."

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They hate London because it is beautiful
Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.
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June 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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paulcallaghan.bsky.social
One of the earliest football paintings in the world, Thomas MM Hemy's "Sunderland v. Aston Villa 1895", also titled "A Corner Kick", depicts a match between the two most successful English teams of the decade. The venue is the Newcastle Road ground in Sunderland, and the game finished 4-4.
May 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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ianboudreau.com
France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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thomashansen.bsky.social
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
Adolescence but about when your parent in his 60s has an iPad now
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero
Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…
March 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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hilaryisaperson.bsky.social
‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko What's your favorite tech innovation? Illegal cab company O Illegal hotel chain Fake money for criminals Plagiarism machine 76 votes • 23 hours 51 minutes left 12:01 PM • 5/16/23 from Earth • 542 Views 14 Retweets 28 Likes .. . 16% 17% 32% 35%
February 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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theonion.com
Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
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Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
February 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
This.
A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon
January 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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volts.wtf
The rules, if you are keeping track:

If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.

If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
January 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.
January 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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illumi.meme
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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ianbetteridge.com
This article really hits the nail on the head about so-called "ultra processed foods", a meaningless category so broad as to group together tofu and twinkies as if they had the same health impact.
You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods
Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.
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December 29, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
Every time - every single time - you watch Muppets Christmas Carol you realise it is a greater work of genius than the time before.

Verily: it is the Ghost of Christmas Present of films.
December 25, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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mattgreencomedy.com
Oof. Something to start your day off in floods of tears…
ofalafel.bsky.social Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · Dec 18
Trigger warning: This story about Caroll Spinney, the man inside Big Bird, might make the room dusty
Caroll Spinney inside his Big Bird costume operating the beak with his outstretched arm. When asked about his most meaningful interaction with a fan, Spinney had this say: "I got a letter from a fan who said his little boy, who was 5 years old, his name was Joey, he was dying of cancer. And he was so ill, the little boy knew he was dying. So the man, in his letter, asked if I would call the little boy. He said the only thing that cheered him at all in his fading state was to see Big Bird on television. So once in a while, he wouldn't see Big Bird on some days, because he wasn't necessarily in every show. So he asked could I telephone him, and talk to the boy, tell him what a good boy he's been. So I took a while to look up a phone, because this was before cell phones. And they got a long cord to bring a phone to the boy. And I had Big Bird say 'Hello! Hello Joey! It's me, Big Bird!' So he said 'Is it really you, Big Bird?' 'Yes, it is!' I chatted a while with him, about ten minutes, and he said 'I'm glad you're my friend Big Bird.' And I said 'I'd better let you go now.' He said 'Thank you for calling me Big Bird. You're my friend. You make me happy! And it turns out that his father and mother were sitting with him when the phone call came. And he parents in, be il that day were t sure lew tong he id last. And so his father wrote to me right away, and said 'Thank you, thank you' - he hadn't seen him smile since October, and this was in March - and when the phone was hung up, he said 'Big Bird called me! He's my friend.' And he closed his eyes. And he passed away. And I could see that what I say to children can be very important. And he said 'We haven't seen our little boy smile in MONTHS. He smiled, as he passed away. It was a gift to us. Thank you.'"
December 18, 2024 at 8:10 AM