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Failed writer, failing better. MDANT, so there's that.
Never change, Guardian.
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Is Adrian Chiles on holiday this week?
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The gulf between critics and audience has never been wider β just look at Melaniaβs Rotten Tomatoes score
Critics have given the Flotus flick 11% on the aggregator site, but the βverified ticket buyersβ score is a near perfect 98%. Fake views, or a sign of our politically disparate times?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/17/melania-trump-rotten-tomatoes-audience-score-critics-public?CMP=share_btn_url
5 days ago
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He's running on ice wearing knives on his feet.
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7 days ago
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My only question would be 'why didn't he land on Bannon?'
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7 days ago
Convicted Felon
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Would also be fun to hear him explain why they're wearing the Saudi national flag against a team who wear claret and blue, rather than black and white stripes.
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8 days ago
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Clarefella
8 days ago
British former skeleton racer, Lizzy Yarnold, who won consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 & 2018: "The IOC have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology."
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Olympic chiefs have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology | Lizzy Yarnold
As athletes we try to focus on our event and the task at hand, but our lives do not take place in a vacuum
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/milano-cortina-olympic-chiefs-vladyslav-heraskevych-ban-winter-olympics-ukraine
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Mic Wright
8 days ago
Itβs not actually thinking. Please, stop this.
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TIL that whoever ran up the credits for Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon wasn't concentrating on the job.
8 days ago
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#TOTP
Dear Lord, Ruby Flipper were stealing a living, weren't they?
9 days ago
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The problem with this Demis Roussos deal is you can't watch it without seeing Kenny Everett's take.
9 days ago
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When you're dedicated to fighting equine crime, but first you have to run round in a circle.
9 days ago
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#questiontime
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Caught Nadine Dorries after
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10 days ago
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#713 (09.02.2026) I scored 892/1000π 1οΈβ£π494 m - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯195/200 2οΈβ£π15.6 km - ποΈ16 yrs - π₯166/200 3οΈβ£π258 km - ποΈ13 yrs - π₯167/200 4οΈβ£π1.2K km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯165/200 5οΈβ£π6.4 km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯199/200
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13 days ago
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#712 (08.02.2026) I scored 658/1000ποΈ 1οΈβ£π2.7K km - ποΈ30 yrs - ποΈ58/200 2οΈβ£π2.9K km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯132/200 3οΈβ£π3.1K km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯130/200 4οΈβ£π13.8 km - ποΈ13 yrs - π₯175/200 5οΈβ£π1.1K km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯163/200
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14 days ago
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#711 (07.02.2026) I scored 679/1000ποΈ 1οΈβ£π2.5K km - ποΈ11 yrs - π₯127/200 2οΈβ£π1.5 km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯200/200 3οΈβ£π1.2K km - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯160/200 4οΈβ£π1.0K km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯169/200 5οΈβ£π14.9K km - ποΈ28 yrs - ποΈ23/200
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16 days ago
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#709 (05.02.2026) I scored 813/1000π 1οΈβ£π383 m - ποΈ6 yrs - π₯193/200 2οΈβ£π964 km - ποΈ38 yrs - ποΈ71/200 3οΈβ£π229 km - ποΈ12 yrs - π₯171/200 4οΈβ£π356 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯180/200 5οΈβ£π3.1 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯198/200
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17 days ago
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#708 (04.02.2026) I scored 960/1000π 1οΈβ£π275 km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯187/200 2οΈβ£π2.3 km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯199/200 3οΈβ£π9.0 km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯200/200 4οΈβ£π797 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯174/200 5οΈβ£π5.6 km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯200/200
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18 days ago
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#707 (03.02.2026) I scored 769/1000π 1οΈβ£π2.9K km - ποΈ11 yrs - π₯123/200 2οΈβ£π5.1 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯191/200 3οΈβ£π1.9K km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯144/200 4οΈβ£π5.4K km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯116/200 5οΈβ£π336 m - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯195/200
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19 days ago
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#706 (02.02.2026) I scored 808/1000π 1οΈβ£π9.8 km - ποΈ10 yrs - π₯185/200 2οΈβ£π11.2K km - ποΈ3 yrs - π₯97/200 3οΈβ£π583 km - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯178/200 4οΈβ£π24.8 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯190/200 5οΈβ£π69.4 km - ποΈ18 yrs - π₯158/200
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20 days ago
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Scenes from a Maltese bar... Malta v England, Euro qualifier 1972 - Joe Royle looming large in these two, then...
21 days ago
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This smacks slightly of sending Heydrich to Prague...
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Donald Trump says he is sending his βborder czarβ Tom Homan to Minnesota β US politics live
President makes announcement on Truth Social and also makes unsubstantiated claims about protests in Minnesota
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/26/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-protests-alex-pretti-donald-trump-us-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url
27 days ago
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Griffin Dunne, After Hours?
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28 days ago
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28 days ago
Boycott the World Cup Boycott the Olympics Disinvite the Administration from anything that gives them a platform on the world stage.
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Mickey Kuhns
28 days ago
Question: Whatβs the difference between these two executions? Answer: Nine additional bullets. π€¬
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Mark Ruffalo
29 days ago
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
This is what we need to do!
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German football executive urges World Cup boycott to protest Trump
Calls grow to weaponize football as the U.S. president escalates tensions with Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-football-executive-urges-world-cup-boycott-to-protest-trump/
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Kathie
29 days ago
I couldn't agree more.
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Benjamin Dreyer
29 days ago
Yes, we know.
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The poor man's Gilbert & George.
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29 days ago
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#697 (24.01.2026) I scored 968/1000π 1οΈβ£π429 m - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯196/200 2οΈβ£π23.6 km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯199/200 3οΈβ£π220 km - ποΈ6 yrs - π₯185/200 4οΈβ£π163 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯191/200 5οΈβ£π675 m - ποΈ3 yrs - π₯197/200
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That's it, I'm done.
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29 days ago
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#694 (21.01.2026) I scored 800/1000π 1οΈβ£π1.4 km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯200/200 2οΈβ£π7.7K km - ποΈ3 yrs - π₯106/200 3οΈβ£π150 km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯193/200 4οΈβ£π1.0K km - ποΈ13 yrs - π₯145/200 5οΈβ£π1.7K km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯156/200
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about 1 month ago
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This is the guy who wants to run the UK, while bashfully admitting that he couldn't run a whelk stall.
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Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPsβ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare Β£380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate βoddballβ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/21/nigel-farage-apologises-breaches-mp-code-conduct?CMP=share_btn_url
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#693 (20.01.2026) I scored 811/1000π 1οΈβ£π2.2 km - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯195/200 2οΈβ£π1.4 km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯196/200 3οΈβ£π3.4K km - ποΈ18 yrs - π₯97/200 4οΈβ£π4.1K km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯129/200 5οΈβ£π16.9 km - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯194/200
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about 1 month ago
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#692 (19.01.2026) I scored 746/1000ποΈ 1οΈβ£π1.0K km - ποΈ10 yrs - π₯154/200 2οΈβ£π1.5K km - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯161/200 3οΈβ£π5.1K km - ποΈ5 yrs - π₯115/200 4οΈβ£π557 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯181/200 5οΈβ£π1.2K km - ποΈ15 yrs - π₯135/200
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
βNazis are, to the last man, fucking cowards.β
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That's all right, I'm not selling anything there, unless some MAGA wants to buy a bridge.
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about 1 month ago
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#691 (18.01.2026) I scored 791/1000π 1οΈβ£π3.0K km - ποΈ9 yrs - π₯127/200 2οΈβ£π467 km - ποΈ13 yrs - π₯162/200 3οΈβ£π1.1K km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯166/200 4οΈβ£π2.3K km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯143/200 5οΈβ£π131 km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯193/200
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about 1 month ago
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@cnn.com
Newsroom asking Suzanne Moloney "what the US and its allies can do about Iran". The US doesn't have allies anymore. Trump's burned all that.
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#690 (17.01.2026) I scored 875/1000π 1οΈβ£π9.5 km - ποΈ25 yrs - π₯135/200 2οΈβ£π10.5 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯198/200 3οΈβ£π4.2 km - ποΈ1 yrs - π₯199/200 4οΈβ£π2.0K km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯148/200 5οΈβ£π17.8 km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯195/200
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about 1 month ago
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#689 (16.01.2026) I scored 747/1000ποΈ 1οΈβ£π332 m - ποΈ23 yrs - π₯143/200 2οΈβ£π843 km - ποΈ25 yrs - π₯110/200 3οΈβ£π63.0 km - ποΈ2 yrs - π₯195/200 4οΈβ£π7.4 km - ποΈ3 yrs - π₯197/200 5οΈβ£π6.1K km - ποΈ9 yrs - π₯102/200
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about 1 month ago
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US Treasury Bonds. Dump those fuckers. Bankrupt the rotten cunts.
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farageβs team has got round to deleting this post. Itβs still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.
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#688 (15.01.2026) I scored 779/1000π 1οΈβ£π1.4K km - ποΈ9 yrs - π₯148/200 2οΈβ£π542 m - ποΈ0 yrs - π₯200/200 3οΈβ£π2.7K km - ποΈ15 yrs - π₯113/200 4οΈβ£π5.8 km - ποΈ22 yrs - π₯147/200 5οΈβ£π734 km - ποΈ6 yrs - π₯171/200
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about 1 month ago
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*smirks condescendingly in Afrikaans*: "See, you're doing that thing again where you confuse Frankenstein with the creature".
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Musk claims he was unaware of Grok generating explicit images of minors
AI tool faces growing global scrutiny over the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on X
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-images?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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about 1 month ago
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Wordle 1,670 2/6 π©β¬π¨π©π¨ π©π©π©π©π© Strangely unsatisfactory.
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#687 (14.01.2026) I scored 911/1000π 1οΈβ£π656 m - ποΈ14 yrs - π₯173/200 2οΈβ£π1.4 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯191/200 3οΈβ£π809 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯167/200 4οΈβ£π4.8 km - ποΈ9 yrs - π₯187/200 5οΈβ£π3.3 km - ποΈ6 yrs - π₯193/200
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about 1 month ago
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
about 1 month ago
Golfers really are the most morally bankrupt sportsmen out there. Rip up all the courses, rewild them and use them as public spaces for everyone to enjoy
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βSo much leverageβ: Golf starβs half-billion dollar demands after Brooks Koepkaβs shock LIV departure
Bryson DeChambeau wants US$500m to stay with LIV Golf after Brooks Koepkaβs return to the PGA Tour.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360924173/bryson-dechambeau-demands-500m-stay-after-brooks-koepka-quits-liv-golf
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It's 8:15, I've been in the office for an hour and have already seen off one migraine and a reboot. I'm invincible, but tired, and my head hurts.
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#686 (13.01.2026) I scored 746/1000ποΈ 1οΈβ£π3.6K km - ποΈ18 yrs - π₯95/200 2οΈβ£π290 km - ποΈ7 yrs - π₯181/200 3οΈβ£π1.7 km - ποΈ10 yrs - π₯185/200 4οΈβ£π789 km - ποΈ4 yrs - π₯172/200 5οΈβ£π724 km - ποΈ25 yrs - π₯113/200
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