How do you think the unthinkable? Thteer it into an itheberg.

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Good question.

The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?

Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going

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Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

🚨NHS hospitals have admitted to a litany of errors in the data behind a headline claim about the success of the controversial £330mn Palantir contract after a @financialtimes.com investigation found dozens of irregularities. Scoop w/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/7ab92d75-3...

"Can you give us an example of a time you had to adapt and accommodate rapid change?"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."

huge if true

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Ian Duhig@ianduhig.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Beowulf was addressing the issue as delicately as he could

Up to 80 per cent of violent incidents in the West Bank are attacks by Jewish settlers, says the Israeli army

Britain isn’t ungovernable. It’s just been badly governed ft.trib.al/NjUlxXE | opinion

Britain isn’t ungovernable. It’s just been badly governed

Short-termism and poor choices are to blame for the country’s political predicament

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Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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Ed Davey canoeing through the Strait of Hormuz to draw attention to the Lib Dems '10p off a litre' fuel policy h/t @worgztheowl.bsky.social

But it's also my significantly more famous and talented namesake's birthday! Hopefully he's excited as he was when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 🎉 youtu.be/houFuiYrEi0?...

The Cure's Robert Smith offers blunt response to overzealous TV host

YouTube video by Guardian News

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NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, elite athlete, said when interviewed, “moi is la reine of les zoomies! Moi is super vite et agile. Juno was très impressed et agrees avec moi complètement. Juno hides her émotions beaucoup. It’s typiquement britannique.”

He should know things like that like the psalm of his hand. Oh.

Hahahaha sob

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

IRANIAN MEDIA SAYS THERE WAS NO DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH TRUMP AND CLAIMS HE WITHDREW AFTER THREATENING TO ATTACK WEST ASIA ENERGY FACILITIES.

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” Still chuffed I got that in as intro of my finals paper on Rousseau.

Tracy O’Connell Novick@tracynovick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

November 2024

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

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Very exciting news today @harrispolicy.bsky.social! news.uchicago.edu/story/20-mil...

$20 million gift launches lab at Harris School to advance field of algorithmic public policy

Gift from Thomas and Susan Dunn supports creation of the Bike Shop @UChicago, which aims to shape AI development and build scalable solutions to pressing societal problems

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When I suggested we should do this months ago I didn’t believe it was possible tbh. Creative resistance looks like this. Guerrilla looks like this. A revolution doesn’t need blood, it needs courage.

And the Dutch should withdraw all ASML lithography chip machines exports to the US.

Minna Ålander 🌻@alanderminna.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt

America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way. The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner

Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.

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