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White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’ President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

Do fuck off
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Tonight the WNO Candide is hitting Llandudno, very much looking forward and feeling suitably glittery and gay 🤣 fab cast wno.org.uk/whats-on/can...

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YouTube video by Royal Institute of British Architects Inside London College of Fashion – RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 shortlist

RIBA has been dropping on their YouTube channel some really good short films on this year's Stirling Prize nominees. Here's the latest:
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How The Studio's production team created a convincing Frank Lloyd Wright building Following its recent Emmy wins, Brian Grego explains how a convincing Frank Lloyd Wright studio building was created for Apple TV+ show The Studio.

Pretty impressive
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But at this stage #anyonebutDonald is a good decision

Horrible all this live blogging of the Novel Prize by the media today because of the ridiculous orange man wanting it so much...I mean who wouldn't want the prize awarded in the name of the guy whose invention has maimed millions.

Surprise: DOGE didn’t actually cut spending. Elon Musk rode a Cybertruck into DC declaring that he would cut up to $2 trillion in government spending. The reality: The federal government actually spent $220 billion more, up four percent for the ...

Somehow cutting public spending wasn't the reason for the upheaval...who would have thought
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Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit The settlement terms haven’t been disclosed.

So blinded by ego that he incriminated himself 🤣 what a total clown.
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Tesla is facing an investigation over Full Self-Driving traffic violations Tesla is the subject of yet another investigation.

Will he just "donate" his way out of this?
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Eeeeek

Carmody Groarke completes "transformative yet discreet" overhaul of Manchester museum Carmody Groarke has overhauled the Power Hall gallery at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, reinstating its 19th-century details.

Beautiful job by one of the best architecture practices out there
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Two men charged over gold artefacts stolen from Cardiff museum Jewellery from the Bronze Age collection held at the St Fagans Museum was taken in a break-in on Monday.

The bastards, such a shame the items were not found as yet, the more time passes the more in danger they are of getting melted for scrap.
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Had to record the sound via the device's mic so excuse the mediocre audio

Of course we all needed a podcast like read out of websites...it does a spookily good job and with even more complex pages than this one. Noticed it pop up on Chrome earlier and thought I'd try it.

Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses - BBC News Foreign firms use AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses.

In the last few months I've reported so many scammy AI adverts and to their credit most were removed, but surely there must be a level of quality control when they accept the money for advertising...far too many "closing down sales" which are so easy to spot
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Just sad Brits would be as silly as the hillbillies of the US.

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

No wonder "windmills" are bad 🤣
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Tetchy Badenoch criticised me for asking hard questions - but leadership challenge talk won't go away The Tory leader may not like being asked about Reform, might - in her words - not be interested in Reform, but her former voters, and the country, are.

She's simply not a professional politician, just a chancer that made it.
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Tetchy Badenoch criticised me for asking hard questions - but leadership challenge talk won't go away The Tory leader may not like being asked about Reform, might - in her words - not be interested in Reform, but her former voters, and the country, are.

She's simply not a professional politician, just a chancer that made it.
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YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay

OMG that final montage of clips 🤣
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What worries me is that people did listen to the call and climbed their nearest light post...seems like a warm up for future mobilisation when they claim the election wasn't fair etc which has those very 30s attributes. A dangerous precedent away from the UK's mild overall demeanour.

Oh I agree the very basic absurdity of putting up your national flag like dirty laundry with cable ties because some racist dog whistle party, tested their whistle to see how compliant the flock is.

When I saw this it brought back thousands of times Britian didn't make it through during my years working for Tate Britain...so many people get blinded when typing it...it usually takes a foreigner to spot it 🤣 I bet the Tories are lacking in Europeans to check before printing. At least it's a 🍫

I worked at Tate Britain for twenty years...how many times did I catch Britian from found out to printers, leaflets, communication with visitors 🤣 thousands...when the odd one made it through we had to have a laugh like most unfortunate recipients did.

At least it was a chocolate bar 🤣 #everycloud

I wonder how many emails from opera companies I've received over the years about that bloody opera 🤣 the last time I booked was when Trebs did it at the opera house... I'm done, thanks.

Nicole Scherzinger review – raunchy gags and dazzling stylistic zigzags Riding high off Tony and Olivier wins, the Pussycat Doll turned theatre star showcases her astonishingly versatile singing chops and a standup’s gift for chaotic humour

Oh goodness can only imagine the Albert Hall FOH staff getting a headache from all of this 🤣
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Twenty Tory councillors defect to Reform - as Badenoch insists party having 'good conference' The defections come a day after a Sky News/YouGov poll found half of Tory members think Kemi Badenoch should not lead the party into the next election.

Rats on a sinking ship
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Certified ice queen behaviour 😉