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Paperback Paradise
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Book
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Iain@discobanana.bsky.social |
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Drinker of tea. Devourer of biscuits.
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Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
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Book
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Feel like everyone should have known where we’d be today when Ted Cruz wondered in 2022 if it was ok to call Jan 6 a terrorist attack and quickly realized he’d have to one day pivot to calling them heroes
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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This sounds like some grim, unfunny satire. It's just the American justice system.
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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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There's the obvious gamesmanship to wring every last percentage out of any contact that draws the ref's attention, but I suspect a lot of it is getting a few extra seconds for a breather. The players run (not jog) miles and miles in a match.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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Well that's one way to open your international account as the youngest Euros goalscorer. 🚀⚽🇪🇸
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sarah jeong
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rewatched dr strangelove and cannot stop thinking about the comment “he’s just doing tim robinson” about george c scott
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Pookleblinky
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When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something. They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
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Fun fact: in the aftermath of 7/7, it was Hendy and Livingstone who faced down the security services and insisted the request go out to bus drivers to come in to work and help London get home.
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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Nothing is a bigger waste of public money than a stadium. They never, never, never pay back their cost to the public, and teams and owners can just leave, meaning you end up with a stadium but no team to fill it.
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MC Squared
@mcsquared.bsky.social
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Bread and circuses
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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"And if they [French left & centrist coalitions] can win, so can we."
open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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It’s fascinating how re: depredation (a fishermen catches a fish, and a shark eats it as they reel it in) fishermen keep saying “the shark ate *my* fish,” not “I am competing for fish with a shark and I am losing”
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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a dead giveaway that project 2025 was written specifically for—and with input from—trump:
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
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Fatima Ayub
@thecynicist.bsky.social
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Mass murdering a captive civilian population will do that.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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or, y'know, actually ✨listen✨ to those RATM songs
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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I am once again begging conservatives to make it to the end of one piece of media they intend to reference
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Fatima Ayub
@thecynicist.bsky.social
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It’s very telling who you think can be replaced with AI. Teaching assistants yes college presidents no
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.
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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️
@easybakedoven.bsky.social
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I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday."
he did it
www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...
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Andrew D Thaler
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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Antony Johnston
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My one and only comment on the election results: next time every expert in the country warns us that Tory economic policy will be disastrous and ruin the country within a decade, maybe let’s not let them do it for 14 years anyway before going “oh wow, they were right”
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Ian Betteridge
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Him and his brother have always been absolute bell-ends. The first Glastonbury I went to - in 1990 - was in support of CND. Don't give me that "it's all gone woke" crap you muppet.
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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AR Moxon posted a good bit about this the other day: “meet me in the middle,” the far right says. You take a step towards them. They take a step to the right. “Meet me in the middle,” they say…
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ordinary jo
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Remembering that this is a new record low turnout. A trend started by Blair in 1997, setting the previous post-1918 record low in 2001. They don't want us to vote and have long discouraged it. UKIP exploited the yawning chasm and the left needs to work out how to pull off the pro-social equivalent.
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Nicholas Grossman
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1870-71: Franco-Prussian War, 433K dead 1914-1918: WWI, 17.6M dead, including 116K Americans 1939-1945: WWII, 54M dead in Europe, including 277K Americans 1949: NATO founded 1949- : No big interstate war in Europe (until Ukraine, which isn't in NATO) 2024: "NATO's dumb. What's it do for us anyway?"
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Ned Resnikoff
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It's a truism in US poll analysis that even if a generic Democrat polls well against Trump, there's no such thing as a generic Democrat and every actually existing candidate comes with baggage. But in the UK they somehow found the world's most generic Labour PM candidate and absolutely cleaned up.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
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- Labour's vote spread was way more efficient than under Corbyn. Brilliant groundgame - Tory vote was cannibilized by Reform - soft tories stayed at home, unlike with Corbyn - Labour will need to win back the votes lost due to terrible trans and gaza policies ALL THESE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
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This will be doubly awkward as the number of NOMINATIONS required for a candidate to make the Tory Leadership ballot ISN'T a percentage. It's a fixed number. 100 MPs. I'm sure it sounded reasonable at the time. Good luck getting 100 Tory MPs to agree on something when there are only 121 of them.
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John Bull
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So to confirm, now we have near-final numbers: Every time 19 Tory MPs get a bit grumpy this parliament and stick their letters into the 1922 Committee... ...it'll automatically trigger a leadership contest.
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Aviel Roshwald
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UK’s five-minute transition period goes by without Tory effort to reverse election results.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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It will never cease to amaze me how little business owners understand how their customers reach their business
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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we’re in danger
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?
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Molly White
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"Establishing that AI training requires a copyright license will not stop AI from being used to erode the wages and working conditions of creative workers. ... Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing" – Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/o...
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Charlie
@charliezegers.bsky.social
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Oh, it already is. Same thing happened with "Blockchain." Lots of people were talking about "how do we integrate with the blockchain?" And then I'd ask, "for what?" Nobody seemed to have a good answer for that.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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That is a man who knows he's not coming back to work after the long weekend.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law
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Paul F. Tompkins
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The ultimate tragedy of Born In The USA is not only was it co-opted by dummies who embraced it because they didn’t catch any words past the title but that it has no barrier for entry for singers. No peaks, no valleys. It starts in the middle & stays there. Happy Birthday is more challenging.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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I assume the big problem is that it's dogshit.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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"Please don't vote, anyone still interested in a half-functioning democracy. Thankyoo!"
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* / Yep, that's me
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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Star Trek is so aspirational—I mean, SO aspirational—it hurts. The UK did OK this time. Not amazing, but it did alright.
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Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
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This story depresses me 25 to 33 percent of the time.
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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