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I am a user. I need it. Can't function without it. Libraries are needed everywhere.
stephenliddle.bsky.social (@stephenliddle.bsky.social)
I am a user. I need it. Can't function without it. Libraries are needed everywhere.
stephenliddle.bsky.social (@stephenliddle.bsky.social)
I can't tell if this is fake, and i hate it.
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But mummification was because removal of the heart and brain was required. Vance seems to be living without those.
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Also, his proper name is Commuicating Hydrocele. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
HMRC chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvency. Insolvent businesses sold in secret deals (pre-packs) which pay-off secured creditors, jettison others HMRC loses. It is a secondary preferential & unsecured creditor. There is no economic assessment of pre-packs.
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Also, Trump's ideology (if you can call something so primitive an ideology) is people who have wealth are superior and more deserving. Public health measures like vaccines (slightly) level the playing field, a playing field that Trump believes should be vertical.
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Did Tucker Carlson copy your laugh? Sad to say I've noticed similarities, but yours seems more authentic (granted, not a high bar), and I assume you wouldn't copy him?
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Yes, Putin is male and he's the only one they are allowed to vote in to office
stephenliddle.bsky.social (@stephenliddle.bsky.social) reply parent
Omg! Wtf?
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But does being anti-popeyes make you pro-hereticno?
Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading
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Then actually Earth hit the Meteor.
Cuomo was like “toxic masculinity is IN with voters we’re so back” and never stopped to ask if he personally comes off masculine or just as toxic
The government is tyrant-maxing. It’s giving despot
the emoji people need to comb through old web forums smileys to fill enormous gaps for instance there is not a single emoji that captures the mood of :smuggo:
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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Thank you. I had no idea who this was, but i do have a vague memory of a Perfect Breasts article being mocked some years ago. Would have been much clearer if the original headline had said 'the Prefect Breasts article guy'.
ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.
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Ear.
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Yes it's a swear word, but it wouldn't be censored from children's programming. It probably wouldn't be in a script for a show for very very young children, but it would be ok in a Newsround report (no idea if that still exists), or in a soap opera aimed at 12 year olds.
If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking
Sorry, my kid can't take the Presidential Physical Fitness Test - bone spurs.
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But they will need a new actor with three names starting with Michael! ... Ohhh, i see what you are planning.
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Interesting take on Devil Fruit
more details here: bsky.app/profile/mich...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously said Trump had barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago “for being a creep.” This is ... a different answer.
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Debt, despair and demonic professors... But how is that different to regular non-dark academia?
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Don't worry @mrjoncryer.bsky.social , you're a Good Actor, and you don't need AI to help you impersonate anyone.
An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read: "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die. AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1
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Ok, but shouldn't the picture for pi be something circular rather than something spherical?
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3) Murdoch was a child during WW2, would have seen classmates lose brothers and fathers, then saw how nationalistic tyranny left Europe in ruins while at Uni. Maybe we shouldn't underestimate the effect stemming from the fact that he has seen all this crap before. 3/3
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2)Murdoch worked to manipulate British politics for decades to force Brexit. His stated reason: 'when i go to whoever the Prime Minister is, they always listen to me, when I go to the EU premiers, they don't listen to me'. Trump doesn't listen to him either, so Murdoch will work to destroy Trump 2/3
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I always think a couple of things are overlooked about Murdoch. 1) to appropriate Terry Pratchett's description of an assassin's guild chief - 'like many people with no actual morals, he did in fact have Standards' 1/3
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I do much prefer this version of Katie Phang over the MSNBC version. Same expertise without the hyper-polished over-sexualised corporate presentation. Just good, angry, pissed-off mum vibes.
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What is cumbia? ... Do you mean Kum Ba Yah? Or The northern english county of Cumbria?
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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Cod is short for codfish, from when cod meant bag. After we stopped using other forms of cod, like codpiece, the fish part was dropped. Codfishes would have been the plutal
"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a “conflict of interest” which “highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’.” this seems important www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
A civil society doesn't allow the strong to brutalize the weak. It moves as far as possible away from brutality. It's the exact opposite of what Trump seeks. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dictators-revenge
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I think if the government had to pay interest to benefit claimants when claims are mishandled and payments delayed, they'd have an incentive to prevent suffering.
Concerning news that Financial Ombudsman is proposing to radically slash the interest rate consumers get when they're awarded compensation having been mis-sold or mistreated by firms. Contd
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Vic as the 2020s equivalent of Bill Oddie (cast member of 'im sorry I'll read that again ' and part of iconic 1970s comedy trio The Goodies known for their hit comedy songs and parody martial arts, before becoming longtime nature tv presenter) That... Actually makes a lot of sense.
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
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On this day in 1989, something happened. This happened the following day. Both are important to remember.
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An AI writing coach named Ember? What is it the dying remains of, civilization?
Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Nobody who is LGBTQ or a Graduate is getting promoted to Major until Hegseth is out of the Pentagon
Humility attracts attacks because they perceive it as weakness. Humility, compassion, and truth are three pillars of strength.
Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"
As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.
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"a bigot firehose for a mouth"... A hose attached to a spbigot?
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Not a show, but those replays of Maradona's clear handball at the Mexico world cup. The officials counting it a goal anyway, and the stadium cheering the cheater, and no one owning up to it. I already knew life was unfair to me before then, but then i learnt the world is always unfair everywhere.
Dear Media look⬇️
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And we're sure she didn't unveil the Betty White one by mistake?
stephenliddle.bsky.social (@stephenliddle.bsky.social) reply parent
He named himself after Leo McGarry from The West Wing, that's got to count for something?
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Are any baby's dummies actually made in the US, or will everyone have to pay tariffs on them?
I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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I wonder how much mammalian evolution was driven by the need to develop socialised grooming behaviour thanks to these bloodsuckers. It shows that socialised medical care has existed longer than we have, and now completely different bloodsuckers oppose it.
this grant program is literally to train FIRST RESPONDERS it isn't even just giving Narcan to individuals who use drugs he is saying that he doesn't want to help freaking paramedics carry Narcan, the people who would be called if a toddler ate a pill off the ground and accidentally OD'd
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
A physician in Texas saw patients and offered quack treatments while he himself was sick from measles. This is completely unethical.
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The CECOTcentration camp.
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When I was a child, I wondered how the bad guys in cartoons kept coming back, week after well... I still don't understand, but i have to accept the reality
RFK Jr. is an unprecedented threat to US health. He just completely eliminated the CDC lead poisoning group and all teams that respond to help address local radiological and nuclear threats and all capacity for natural disasters response. Mind numbing insanity. www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...
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I've said it before, I'll say it every time. Withholding Asthma meds is torture. Its making prisoners Waterboard themselves without having to turn on the tap.
(mourning is not despair; mourning motivates, mourners build monuments)
There’s a difference between “this is dogma and we don’t interrogate this idea, so don’t touch anything” and “we spent years/decades honing this to deliver precisely what we want, which is does every time, and any optimization has to exceed that.”
My God, the sheer cynicism of this. Forcing the poor and vulnerable to keep an account on your platform to receive the money that keeps them housed, fed, and alive. Digital serfdom
But Steve does keep trying his best...
Don’t worry - Mike told me he will vote against ANY cuts to benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I really don’t think he would lie about something so important.
www.publicnotice.co/p/jefferson-...
Musk fingerprints on this too—Twitter still has no comms team and responds to reporters with poop emojis. Notably, Twitter is not responsible for making sure the meds you get at the pharmacy are what the bottle says they are.
“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose, mother, to help people,” he cries, his voice weak.
One thing that I'm learning about this authoritarian moment is that it forces us all to be amateur psychologists: "What is he thinking? What is his motivation?" It's the posture of an abused child trying to anticipate how to avoid the next blow -- and I hate it.
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It's Tarrifying
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Withholding these meds is worse than a 'violation of the right to medical care', awful though that is. It is Torture. It's letting someone's body waterboard themselves. Torture without having to run the tap.
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Sadly, nonasthmatics often fail to understand how traumatic asthma attacks are. Even with modern medicine, it feels like dying, even if the meds make it look mild from the outside. Everytime, it's "is this the one that kills me? is it this time that the meds fail?" Withholding meds is torture.
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It's been a long time since Trump could reach his pen to stroke it.
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Bulls are smarter than you might think. Did you mean their unofficial mascot and inspiration, Trump?
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He's calling it Liberation Day because his delusion is that the tariffs will eventually bring in enough money that he can 'liberate' the US populace from paying income tax, and Wall Street expects the tariffs will go away instead of going up? Wilful blindness on the scale of Trump dismissing COVID.
I’ll never get over how softly media carried the insane bailouts WE paid to farmers to cover the catastrophe of his first term tariffs. It didn’t get emphasized in debates or in response to his campaign tariff threat.HE TRIED THIS ALREADY. We paid. Remember? From 2020. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).
Really infuriates me when I see articles framing the current entertainment production slowdown as not having “recovered” from the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes when the actual problem is every studio took years to contend with streaming and then went all in on the wrong solution at the same time.
truly bizarre thread of ChatGPT getting into a weird state where it deletes history and lies about it—a natural language search engine is theoretically useful, but one that pretends it has feelings to gaslight you, not so much
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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I have no idea who is being described, but, twisted from stainless steel sheet and spot welded to mild steel wire frame?
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Part of why elections in the US are so secure is because they’re run by 10,000 local jurisdictions like mine. Trying to rig an election is like trying to rob every bank in America at the same time To rig American elections, you need to federalize them. The President’s new EO is doing just that.
alternatively we could punish the faintest hint of principle and hope for the best bsky.app/profile/ronf...
WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
Yale just confirmed to me that the State Department did indeed cancel this contract for one of its research labs, which was tracking Ukrainian kids kidnapped by Russia:
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Harold Pinter's The Hothouse - Next week only (Monday - Thursday) only 16 tickets left for some nights
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is how the rōnin actually traveled