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Journalist in NYC.
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Jim Waterson
7 days ago
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff.
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills
Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/6da50769-d669-410f-8bc0-de1e6a77abf9
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Chubby Checker's "The Twist" joyful, carefree, infectious Chubby Checker's "Twist Again" melancholy, plaintive, bittersweet
6 days ago
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Annie Wu
8 days ago
Every time I want to give up I put my clothes in the trash like Spider-Man.
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adding the New York Public Library to my close friends on Instagram
8 days ago
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fascinating
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
10 days ago
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My favorite part of this Sopranos bit is the goon immediately going "I never got that at all" even though nobody has ever looked more like the Shah of Iran than Phil Leotardo
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Phil: I Look Like The Shah of Iran - The Sopranos HD
YouTube video by TonySoprano
https://youtu.be/FBMN0i1t6nc
10 days ago
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we're going to see unprecedented levels of situation-monitoring today
12 days ago
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"Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obraining a nuclear weapon"
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12 days ago
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Jerad Walker
26 days ago
What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.
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Amazon scraps partnership with Flock surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash
apnews.com/article/amaz...
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Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring is ending its planned tie-up with police surveillance company Flock Safety after critics raise fresh worries about neighborhood camera networks.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-flock-super-bowl-surveillance-privacy-32b7d32a06d369bffe3ffdcdd31962a1
27 days ago
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it's always "they're colonizing us" and never "they're bringing civilization"
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28 days ago
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good essay
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Opinion | They Used to Rule the West. Now They’re Dying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/opinion/political-parties-west-hyperpolitics.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
about 1 month ago
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Miles Klee 🦉
about 1 month ago
fuckin brutal lol
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Isaac Chotiner
about 1 month ago
New Interview:
www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
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same energy
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about 1 month ago
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Steven (with a PH)
about 2 months ago
Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 months ago
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share
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lmao
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
about 2 months ago
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Everyone is allowed to eat a little extra plastic today, as a treat.
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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt
about 2 months ago
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it's 2026, every wikipedia entry about a song should include the lyrics
2 months ago
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed
2 months ago
"We are going to run the country" - Trump says of Venezuela.
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We are actively monitoring the situation.
2 months ago
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Relatable.
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2 months ago
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this is an incredible conversation, where John Catsimatidis keeps making insane claims without evidence and insists it's true just because he feels that way
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The Guardian
2 months ago
Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94
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Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94
Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction Cecilia Giménez, the woman who achieved unwanted international fame for her botched “Monkey Christ” restoration of a 19th-century mural in Borja, north-east Spain, has died aged 94. In 2012, Giménez, an amateur artist, decided to restore Ecce Homo, a mural by a local artist, Elías García Martínez, that hung in the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja. However, her talent as an artist was not equal to her good intentions and she produced what was described as the worst restoration in history. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-mural-dies-spain?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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What's good? This is your Spotify DJ. Starting things off with the Chainsmokers *skip* OK, let's try again. Here's the Chainsmokers *skip* All right, so you're in the mood for something different… Let's try a little Chainsmokers *skip* This next one is really popular with fans of the Chainsmokers
2 months ago
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leon
11 months ago
my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
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public health guy
3 months ago
still my favorite christmas post
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David Chen
3 months ago
I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.
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When you are definitely the bad guys.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
3 months ago
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
Everyone who is having a pleasant holiday season because they aren't in the Epstein files, step forward. Not so fast, David Brooks.
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Chomsky on the Lolita Express...
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3 months ago
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Bloomberg News
3 months ago
Breaking: Warner Bros. is planning to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms
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Warner Bros. Plans to Reject Paramount Bid on Funding, Terms
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is planning to reject Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms, people familiar with the matter said.
https://bloom.bg/3XYjVD6
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Robinson Meyer
3 months ago
You’re still trying to find the millennial Tom Hanks. I told you we can’t do it, and we can’t do it. Now, what we might be able to do it is recreate him. Recreate him but make him British.
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Didn't Chomsky justify his relationship with Epstein at some point by saying it let him meet the world's top minds? And all this time he meant Steve fucking Bannon???
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3 months ago
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I used to think Tom Jones was terrible but since getting a cat "what's new pussycat?" is the question I care about most in life. I simply must know what he's up to and how he's feeling at all times, so I think Tom Jones was on to something profound.
3 months ago
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"Food" Thoyd
almost 2 years ago
Me trying to remember the word "bluegrass"
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Finally a single place to see Casablanca, 2 Casa 2 Blanca, Casablanca Tokyo Drift, and the rest of this great franchise.
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3 months ago
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Taniel
3 months ago
I'm not exaggerating when I say following
@boltsmag.org
rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader,
@russ41.bsky.social
, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following
@boltsmag.org
yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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multiplexer
3 months ago
FINALLY.
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Colin Dickey
3 months ago
Why it matters
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Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders joined the
@sbworkersunited.org
picket line in Brooklyn today. Mamdani said he would keep joining picket lines even after he is sworn in as mayor.
3 months ago
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Laura Bassett
3 months ago
They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
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Went to see a play with nudity yesterday and they had the entire audience lock up their phones in those Yondr magnetic pouches that schools are using now. It worked really well, and now I'm wondering how long before movie theaters start doing this.
3 months ago
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Obama speaking from personal experience as a huge disappointment
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4 months ago
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jamelle
4 months ago
me waking up and opening this app
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this is depressing as hell
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4 months ago
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Financial Times
4 months ago
Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death
on.ft.com/3XxAvcx
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Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death
Ex-leader was tried in absentia after fleeing to India in wake of popular uprising
https://on.ft.com/3XxAvcx
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Julia Carrie Wong
4 months ago
There are no words for how evil this is
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Patrick Wyman
4 months ago
It'd be great if these people would just skip this bullshit and get the calipers out. They're doing phrenology. That's all it is.
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