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Ed Sheeran's music was always shit anyway but what a lineup featured in the pages of the review. It sounds like an absolute belter of a night; with Hozier, Kneecap, Dead Prez and more, especially satisfying given how this gig came came about. Free Palestine. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

After a deadly shooting at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Israel began carrying out a wave of demolitions. Families have been forced to evacuate, while some have had their homes demolished. CNN’s Abeer Salman reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/3W7PVXE

Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

Man who knows nothing and has, apparently, also read nothing:

Incredible scenes from Brazil after Brazilians saved their democracy.

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Bluesky has four kinds of users

The only surprising element of this story is that she didn't pre-announce it on the Lotus Eaters podcast.

New details about another rape allegation against Trump, this time from a former Miss Switzerland.

NEW: Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes. Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”

Lula wins, Bolsonaro 2 loses, it's sunny out when I wake up Coincidence?????

Nigel Farage has accepted more than £83,000 in earnings, accommodation and flights from groups or events that support the US anti-abortion movement. My story for @theipaper.com ⬇️ & 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/farage-...

ICYMI: The push for a governmental ‘X-odus’ heats up as evidence of social harm mounts from @mc00.bsky.social for The Eye citizensreunited.substack.com/p/calls-for-...

A “Captain America programme for dogs". Animals with “battlefield situational awareness”. The human mind reels. www.ft.com/content/8a55...

The Mississippi Free Press has obtained bodycam footage from the Senatobia police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. The footage shows he was standing on the side of the car when he fired into it, hitting the child in his rib cage. WARNING: Graphic

“Mystery Actor”

A gambling company closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand man got its licence using a document which appears to have been faked 👀 https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gambling-site-linked-to-george-cottrell

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine. "Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

🔴 NEW: My latest, for @the-citizens.bsky.social, on the growing actions from individual departments, parties and politicians wanting to provide alternatives communicating via Elon Musk's platform, amid inaction from central government:

The BBC have been 'very compliant to Israel, reporting their arguments even where it’s screamingly obvious, even to viewers, that what's happening in Gaza is an international scandal,' a BBC insider has said Adonis Storr has the exclusive interview ✍️

"live by the government contracts and subsidies, die by the government contracts and subsidies" also works...

I had no idea Ukrainian toddlers were his enemies.

“Government is reinforcing national reliance on X while complaining about its decision to promote extremist content.” Jim Killock of @openrightsgroup.org speaks to the Citizens as calls for governmental ‘X-odus’ grow 👇 dispatch.the-citizens.com/calls-for-a-...

Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case Jury finds Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ICE causes man to wreck while his children are in the car, then tries to pry his kids from his arms. They got the wrong guy. Toward the end of the video, an ICE officer says law requires the person recording to back up 25 feet and threatens with pepper spray. (There is no 25-foot law.)

"foreign-born people in this country" includes both my parents - who happen to have had three out of four parents born in Britain...

Bipartisan Calls To Subpoena Musk Come After Report That He Slowed Ukraine’s Access to Starshield System www.nysun.com/article/bipa...

This won't go anywhere, obviously, but it's still a useful indication of how they'd act if they ever get into Government. Locking up journalists would just be the start

🟡 MAGAZINE Taking Back Control From the Culture Warriors By @adambienkov.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Class action could be first in Australia to blame social media for harming its users.

We even realise in London. Not enough world leaders are standing up to Trump at the moment and if Lula is replaced by Bolsonaro Jr then we are in much worse shape.