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One of the best exhibitions I’ve ever seen. Blew me away!
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One of the best exhibitions I’ve ever seen. Blew me away!
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Hockney would approve
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100%. I get a bit emosh about it too. Most of my friends were a minimum 30 minutes away too, spread all across the city. Very rarely had an impromptu thing, no quick cuppa because you’re passing.
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Really enjoyed reading this. It chimed a lot. We just moved house in a mad frenzy and it was really challenging to find a place inside the Paris walls. A big part of me clinging to those walls was that sense of community - the friends who pop the kettle on and give you admin tips. 💙🤍❤️
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Love that crystal crunch! I’m originally from England so love a good strong cheddar
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That’s super interesting!! Unlikely I’ll ever get to try it here in France, but maybe one day my OH will get his hands on some in the US
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I’m going to have to google this. But why is it in a can??
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Orly is much better. Now has metro connection via line 14. CDG relies on awful RER B and some terminal ends are absolutely miles to walk to. Security and passport controls also frequently understaffed and super slow at CDG
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Canned what the fuck now??? 😱
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🤞
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Just had to share this from a recent trip to Strasbourg. It’s a sausage shop 🤣🤣🤣
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Heading to Toulouse and then Béziers (because of reasons) on Sunday. Booked it when the temps had dropped to 24° ish and now dreading it.
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
Another datapoint for how tech sector dominance is hollowing out the rest of the US economy
🔴 Seine-Saint-Denis : une infirmière présentée à un juge pour des violences sexuelles sur des nourrissons Employée au service périnatalité de l’hôpital de Montreuil, elle a assuré avoir violenté et filmé les nouveau-nés sur instigation de son ancien conjoint, lui aussi visé par une enquête.
Le compte officiel de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis en France en vient désormais à nier l'importance des *faits* dans une démocratie. Et emprunte le phrasé habituel (« élites mondiales ») des complotistes de tous poils. Quelle incroyable déchéance sans fin pour un tel pays.
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Today of all days, yes
Mural created by Anthony Hollaway in 1962 for the London County Council at Gorsefield House on the Birchfield Estate, Poplar, depicting the ships and cranes of a local docklands that would vanish in the not too distant future.
like sorry to go on about this (and it's obviously anecdotal!) but it feels mad and worrying to me that this mum nearly lost her son and her conclusion wasn't "I should have listened to doctors more" but "it's up to me to do more research" - that's not good! and she's probably not an exception!
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Honestly it was. Like 38°.
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Don’t they sit and just watch their oven?
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JFC.
“OFCOM code requires broadcasters… not to give undue prominence to the views and opinions of particular persons on political matters. I believe the BBC has breached these requirements.”
It's wild how many people thought it was about the sandwich. Same people "the divorce came out of no where".
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Oh he’s gorgeous!
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Having moved to France 5 years ago, it’s stark to me that the NHS operates on a ‘bare minimum’ policy basis. Once you live with a system that is proactive, online, where admin is not all centred on a GP, you begin to see how much better the NHS could be
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I appreciate this quite a lot
I didn’t expect a NATO summit to both make me feel profound shame as a European and want to vomit
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That last sentence 😂😂😂
So on tomorrow’s Money Box Live, we’re looking at the finances of being single. We’ve got loads of people talking about the extra expense - happy to hear your thoughts. But I really want to hear from someone who is single and LOVING IT - esp the financial freedom. Email felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
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Such an incredible exhibition! Almost a shame it’s so popular as it was hard to spend time absorbing the works sometimes
“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” And it has kept growing from there. Leadership. #Paris
If you create a situation in which the majority of the electorate financially benefits from scarcity, you will get scarcity.
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Side note - very disappointed that there has been no real vision on social / elderly care. How long can we continue to play the ostrich in this and pretend it’s just a money issue?
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Stop shouting in all caps. Please.
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Surely this isn’t real?? I mean…. 🤦♀️
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Would like to read an article on the top 10 frites places in Paris
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Just avoid TA altogether. It’s too skewed. Better get a lonely planet, or go for a walk and find your own thing.
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We regularly have a bag of Harry’s best sliced but I really only have it as toast. It’s oddly a bit too soft and sweet for making sarnies. Always a tradition if having a proper sandwich. And no way I’m buying the ‘cheddar’ here. Big yes to the fryable gnocchi though. Many a lunchtime saviour.
I’ll be honest, I could’ve done without this news: I’m going on a stag do to Leeds on Friday, all 10 of us dressed as cardinals.
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Just imagine what kind of person is going to use it. She’s probably got more friends in her WhatsApp.
Another health breakthrough, this time from Cambridge University. An AI tool can diagnose celiac disease from biopsy images with over 97% accuracy in seconds.
Dystopian
“Whatever Elon Musk is selling, America just isn’t buying. And neither is the world. Musk’s personal ratings are a drag. Musk’s polling in Europe is even worse. If anything unites people in these polarised times, it’s that they do not like Elon Musk.” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Revolut, not yet fully approved as a bank in the UK, has been fined €3.5million by Lithuanian regulator for money laundering failings. It is authorised as a bank in Lithuania and that allows it to operate as one throughout EU not in UK. This won't help. bit.ly/3Eb7228
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Love this. Wonder if it’s even been featured on BBC 6 music’s @chrishawkinsdj.bsky.social
Lots of differences but the similarity with Truss is that a lot of the market response is less about the specific event and more the realisation that these people really are total clowns and there's no clever plan behind the public statements of blathering ignorance.
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JFC 😱😱😱
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I turned my back to make a bed time bottle and this happened 😳
Do you have questions about what the trade war/market movements mean for your money? Would you like me to get answers to those questions? Message me here or email me - felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk Grateful for shares
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Train station? What britishism am I supposed to say instead??
IN PICTURES: 200 firefighters battle huge Paris inferno
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Making it up as they go along
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Visit Hardcastle Crags! Walk the canal path. Amble around Bridge Gate and Crown St and pick a spot for food
Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment
Cycling Home, by Simon Palmer, who has lived and worked in Wensleydale for 40 years.
you see, the fact he's still talking is how you know there's no deep state
I leave experts like @aslak.bsky.social & @sandertordoir.bsky.social to comment on the economic effects of Trump's tariffs, but note that the UK, which runs a trade deficit with US, gets hit with 10% tariffs (& 25%on cars); Russia, with a $2.5b surplus w US in 2024, is untariffed. Who's the enemy?
Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
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Laughing my fucking ass off at 10% tariffs from Svalbard
25-30 years old, German or British, from politics, business, academia, culture, the media? This is for you. ykw.debrige.de/2025/02/22/i...
Let's be very clear here. What people making this argument are saying is that Le Pen and Trump should be *above* the law. They're saying that sitting leaders should interfere with the judiciary to make people running for president immune from laws that apply to everyone else.
Whoa. The US’s annual list of trade complaints is out. And here’s a new one for Canada: Quebec’s language law, Bill 96. The US had already begun complaining about it, and now it’s officially on its target list. ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
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Does this affect her ability to be an MP too?
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Isn’t the bigger problem finding a non-RN candidate who could win against either Le Pen or Bardella? Landscape not looking very promising.
O U I.
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That last fact hit me like a brick.
🤞🏻 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Liz Hartley (@lizzieh.bsky.social) reply parent
I need someone to explain this mouth tape thing to me. Is it to stop you dribbling? Eating spiders in your sleep?
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Who keeps inviting them to Greenland though? Someone is making mischief.
In reflecting a bit more on this what should concern Europe is how central it is to the discussion. The main objection to strikes is they believe it helps rather than hurts Europe. Sticking it to Europe is thus a core policy priority. Prepare for massive collisions www.csis.org/analysis/tra...
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Brewdog has closed its 2 bars in France and hasn’t paid its suppliers.
🇪🇺🇧🇪The Bundestag has just adopted Merz’s so-called ‘budget bazooka’. This is a truly historic moment. Germany is turning its back on decades of budgetary orthodoxy and massively boosting defence spending. As Merz put it: it’s a ‘giant step toward a European defence community’. #Zeitenwende at last
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My cousin was caught up in that. Cannot be forgotten.
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Pat!!
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Yes - my point is that the two are not incredibly far apart
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Sounds a bit Taliban
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Félicitations! I hope the Paris hospital food wasn’t too terrible for you
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Hopefully this is related to the Bavarian Wolpertinger animal
To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.
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I was out of work for a year in my mid-late 30s and burnt through all my savings just keeping a roof over my head. With that, gone was my chance of egg freezing, or the idea that I could support a child on my own if need be. SMP for single parents is wholly insufficient
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It’s frankly barbaric how the US approaches maternity leave. Neither baby nor mama is ready for ‘back to work’ after a couple of months. Just inconceivable to Europeans.
🇫🇷🇷🇺‼️ Even Vladimir Putin’s friends in western Europe are angry with Donald Trump for suspending US aid to Ukraine, it would appear. The French far right leader, Marine Le Pen, accuses Trump of “cruelty” to patriotic Ukrainian soldiers in Le Figaro today 1/3
Incredibly dishonest polling and reporting, implying that most people in France are against abortion. In fact well over 80% *support* the right to abortion. Pollsters asked things like - is it better to avoid abortion if possible? Abortion is no-one's Plan A, but having it as a Plan B is vital
There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.
Following the spat between Pres Trump, VP Vance & Pres Zelenskiy, Pres Putin’s spokesman and adviser Dmitri Peskov says: ‘The collective West has partially ceased to be collective, and the fragmentation of the collective West has begun.’ The Kremlin’s delight is palpable.
🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
Interestingly Kemi Badenoch's pronouns are Oh/It's/That/Fucking/Imbecile/Again.
There'll be many words and maps about how badly Germany has done at integrating its East since reunification. Here's the other side of it --- how well East Germany has done since reunification and how much better off it is than North England today. tomforth.co.uk/humancapital/
Just got this very helpful message from @bellissiamo.com. Great for anyone like me a bit behind the curve. 'Subscribe to this AI labeller on Bluesy @aimod.social. Set all the parameters to Show Badge and when you visit a profile it will automatically detect AI generated imagery.
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VINAIO. ALL’ ANTICO VINAIO. Jesus suffering fuck.
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All’ antico bingo. Fuck autocorrect.
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Everything from the legendary All’ antico bingo in Florence.