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Look what I brought home today world, years it was pizza for 1 & cat litter, Now a bundle of love, reason to be #dad
This place used to make me laugh 100 times a week, perhaps make me sad/angry 10 times, that’s flipped. Any positives are quickly drowned by the negatives, I’m actually logging off now (not done that in years), I hope I can stay off, up yours Elon you insidious, tiny man child
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Replying to @onboardnavvy
Quite simply an establishment plant, a patsy for those further looting the British economy and increasing authoritarianism.
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I’ve been sitting on this news for a while. I love being an author but I feel it’s time for a change. So…I’ve decided to become a film star! It’s something I’ve wanted to do since being a little girl and I’m so excited for my new venture! I hope you all enjoy my new film 🙏
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This has really blown up, so I just want to say that I actually like Keira Knightley and it's nothing to do with her or her book, which does look like she has actual written which makes a shocking change. This is about the ridiculousness of the whole celebrity book thing
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Replying to @bbcquestiontime
I’ve stopped watching you. It makes me feel awful. I love the BBC. Please get rid of Robbie Gibb and John McAndrew and anyone else who causes you to act this way.
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Replying to @Engineering
From the bottom of my heart, I wish you a very messy bankruptcy.
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Carbon capture plan is a colossal waste of money.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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BREAKING: The number of sites polluted with toxic PFAS is on the rise. There are now four being investigated (out of potentially thousands) and the Environment Agency is freaking out about the cost of investigation, let alone clean-up... 1/
theguardian.com/environment/…
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In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.
As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.
For example:
1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.
2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.
3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".
4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?
5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.
6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.
7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.
It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.
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Say it loud.
Share it often.
Know the power of truth.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Orwell never said this
reuters.com/article/fact-c…
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Private jets migrating to another climate change conference
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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A few people asked to buy this @tonyhusband1 cartoon if I ever found an extra original. Well I just have.
Please get in touch if you're interested. £150.
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Magnificent(ly dispiriting) thread. All the receipts.
The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed.
Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed
By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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great hammerhead, sphyrna mokarran, critically endangered
extremely sensitive to stress, nearly half die after catch and release
fuck these assholes
Riding a hammerhead shark with lightning in the background might be the badass thing l've ever seen
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The shark in this video is a Great Hammerhead
Great Hammerheads are critically endangered and are highly susceptible to stress caused by being caught. Around 50% of hooked Great Hammerheads die after release.
These sharks shouldn’t be caught in this way
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ham…
sharktrust.org/blog/creature-….































