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@unwize.bsky.social

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Tell me your company has no Brits without telling me

04.07.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1063    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 14
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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.

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."

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

27.06.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 619    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 24

+1 for Into the Breach. It’s up there with Slay the Spire & Hades for me. Also worth mentioning Cobalt Core and Samurai Showdown.

29.05.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

19.05.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.

12.05.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4763    πŸ” 1056    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 47

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

31.03.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 18817    πŸ” 3637    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 95
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

29.03.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8156    πŸ” 3742    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 408

Adolescence but about when your parent in his 60s has an iPad now

28.03.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 593    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 20
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…

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…

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

23.03.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1252    πŸ” 270    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 35
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β€˜Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.

22.02.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

16.02.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10330    πŸ” 3789    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 61

I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. πŸ€”

14.02.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1573    πŸ” 415    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 32
Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
theonion.com/guy-on-...

05.02.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 25739    πŸ” 4878    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 140
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

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

This.

30.01.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5265    πŸ” 2039    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 51

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.

20.01.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 12789    πŸ” 3473    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 129
A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler β€œseig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.

A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler β€œseig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.

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: β€œA Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

21.01.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5606    πŸ” 2080    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 112

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

09.01.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 28921    πŸ” 8021    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 98
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You’re being lied to about β€œultra-processed” foods Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.

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.

29.12.2024 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 28

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.

25.12.2024 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 547    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 0

Oof. Something to start your day off in floods of tears…

18.12.2024 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

29.11.2024 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3183    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 24
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Hold on.

26.11.2024 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 795    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 16

Simply one of the worst people in the world. A man without qualities

22.11.2024 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 956    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 3
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it's not that I want to remember this it's that it explains almost everything that's happened since

19.11.2024 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1432    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 12

The Bluesky/X relationship feels like if in 1985, when Coca-Cola introduced the new disastrous New Coke, another company had taken over the classic formula while Coca-Cola doubled down on New Coke and kept adding things like piss and cholera

14.11.2024 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 3

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