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Paul McNamara

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Sovereign Debt “veteran” apparently

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I mean I think the Spanish will murder this team but hard not to enjoy this

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Today, Mars is a planet entirely populated by robots. It's cold and dry with little atmosphere. But when the solar system was young, 4 billion years ago, it had atmosphere, oceans, and most of the building blocks for early life. So what went wrong? It's a mystery! (🧑‍🎨: Michael Carrol, NASA)

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Dammit “Duke of Alba sent for an early bath” was *right there*

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Sort of hoping for 2-0 tonight with goals in the 16th and 88th minutes.

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Yeah. And Karthik doesn’t hang out here much

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Remembering the old days before penalty shoot-outs. The original Dutch-Spanish matchup went 80 years.

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Christopher Miller's avatar Christopher Miller @christopherjm.bsky.social
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Russia is making nearly eight times more Kh-101 missiles than before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion in 2022 — and is still dependent on parts from western countries, particularly the US.

Our @financialtimes.com story on the missile that destroyed Okhmatdyt hospital. www.ft.com/content/ef46...

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Oh was that real? I saw that claimed as an urban legend

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*sorry - looked it up and he died in a place crash after liberation.

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“Endurance” yes, I think the fact that his father was murdered in a Japanese PoW camp may have been in his mind at the time.

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Wasn’t there a Japanese TV show with borderline-racist BBC dubbing back in the 70s/80s?

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Sam Byers's avatar Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social
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Always interesting to note the exact moment someone abandons all pretence.

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Chris Kendall オトクラット's avatar Chris Kendall オトクラット @ottocr.at
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A parliamentary pal tells me: “the register of financial interests is retroactive to one year before members take their seats. As of today Farage and Tice have 28 days to make a complete declaration” 🍿

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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.

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Office clear out. Turns out that before lockdown I stashed a box of unwanted presents

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This is a use of the term “amazing” which is new to me.

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

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Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips's avatar Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips @socialistboghag.bsky.social
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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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Pete Birkinshaw's avatar Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social
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Unfortunately FPTP is like The One Ring of UK politics: whoever wins does a Boromir/Isildur and thinks "Maybe we shouldn't destroy it, maybe we should use its terrible power for good?"

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Didn’t YouGov’s last poll have the Tories on 68?

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You can hold your head up compared with an awful lot of expensive polling firms

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Hearing Sunak is currently organising a Stop the Steal mob to march on Westminster and hang whoever the Deputy Leader of the Tories is this week. Seriously, sometimes you just have to step back and marvel at how absolutely cooked the US is.

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I am enjoying the prospect of Reform and Tories arguing for PR. We had a referendum on Electoral reform, the people spoke and referendum results can Never Be Revisited

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Basically everyone I know on social media: “I like lasagne, but it’s not what I ordered”

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I mean not necessarily representative of Clacton LDs but I don’t know a single LD who’d go Tory this time out

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I do wonder if one of the tasks for the next government might be to negotiate America’s re-entry to the British Empire in hope of more rational government.

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Of all the people to have NO IDEA what act of the Tories has signed their death warrant, Dan Hannan should probably have an idea

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Just thankful the UK doesn’t have an idiot 18th century relic setting rules to impose the will of the worst people in the country on the rest of us.

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