Thom Eagle

[sidles up to you unbidden] you know, this morning in the UK media is a bit like the vegetable section in Lidl [gets closer] why, you ask? [gets even closer] well, you see, there are a lot of [right up against your ear now, yelling as loud as possible] BUDGET LEEKS

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Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

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I was stopped on the tube this morning by a ghost who demanded proof that I was allowed to travel. It was the ticketing spectre

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

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First complaint sent.

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Ancient crinkle crankles!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 24th 2026 (Hard), in less than 10 minutes 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

Three trolleys were laden with buffet lunch—bean and scallion soup, wheat bread and cheese, mixed berry cordial, followed by a dessert of gooseberry pie.

Ffs

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University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

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"This cult 1970s guitar singer-songwriter stole my garden implement!" "Nick Drake?" That's what John Martyn did, yes."

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

Anthropic outlines its approach to "responsible data centre development", and........explicitly promises to carpet bomb communities with massive, polluting new fossil gas plants. This is what your Claude subscription is enabling: web.archive.org/web/20261016...

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Five hen harrier chicks found dead on a grouse moor had injuries consistent with stabbing . . . YES , stabbing . Email your ‘victim impact statement’ to gamebirds@defra.gov.uk (subject: Call for Evidence) by 1 Nov . It can't go on . raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Are they familiar with the history of Paris?

"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK? And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"

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