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X with a hat on top, if you can picture the Roman numeral that marks this moment. Do Twitter users say "the magic ten thousand"? I don't know whether to feel pride or shame.
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Paul Beecher
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Paul Beecher
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Science, technology and innovation, plus global affairs; armchair sportsman; washed up quizzer; occasional scribbler - https://t.co/ikvCTSmqbb
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack wins a BAFTA Award
Executive Producer Ben de Pear, "Just a question for the BBC, given you that you dropped our film will you drop us from the BAFTA TV screening later on tonight?"
And guess what, they edited it to this shorter version
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Exactly. Financialisation. The rule of private investors, who, as Michael Hudson and others have been warning us for decades, are essentially parasites who eventually kill the host. The death spiral begins with the big finance players killing democracy.
Natalie Wolchover@nattyover
On billionaires, please read this by Cory Doctorow, summarizing Thomas Piketty's 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺.
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On billionaires, please read this by Cory Doctorow, summarizing Thomas Piketty's 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺.
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sisqo talking about his inspiration for writing the thong song simply one of the best things i’ve ever heard
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Reform Latest
2 councillors died before election
Several now suspended for various bits of bigotry
At least 1 doesn’t exist
Others want to stand down cos they didn’t know it’s unpaid
1 thought he would be in Parliament
They don’t need a Whip, they need a Missing Persons Officer
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You’ll recall that any suggestion the press engage in highly political hate campaigns intended to damage people they don’t like is completely insane, tinfoil hat derangement, and often extremely racist.
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Ireland should have a population of 30 million today. The island has fewer people now than 200 years ago! The only remotely similar national demographic event in modern European history is Poland before & after WW2.
Yet we barely think about it in Britain.
NW Nature Lover@nwnatur
Ireland's tiny population is a staggeringly unnatural outcome given its rich soil. I am convinced that Ireland had at least 10 million people before the Great Famine. A thread on how Ireland's huge population losses after the events of the 1840s have been underestimated 🧵
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From the way people speak about the French Revolution, you'd be forgiven for believing that it was a uniquely bloody and violent event. It was not. Around 30,000 people were killed over 2 years - in 1798, the British would kill 50,000 in Ireland in under 6 months
tedfrank@tedfrank
Even in my day, schools never adequately conveyed how *evil* the French Revolution was, perhaps because it paled to the evils of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and the Nazis. Can’t imagine how it’s sold to kids today.
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You really had to be there for the lunacy
LBC@LBC
Jeremy Corbyn champions universal benefits with free school meals policy. Is this the nasty face of Corbyn's Labour? #IanOnLBC
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The vast majority of the world views America's war in Iraq as a major failure. It destabilized the region, spread radicalism, and gave birth to ISIS.
But when John Bolton casts it as a success, he is not lying. He just has a different metric of success.
It achieved the key thing Bolton and his ilk aimed for: Iraq was eliminated from the regional chessboard as a major player that could project power and challenge the US or Israel.
We see evidence of that today, as Israel built a secret base in Iraq during the Iran war to attack Iran.
That is, 20 years later, the Iraq war has still left Iraq in such a weak state that Israel can willy-nilly set up secret bases on its territory to attack other countries.
It was never about human rights or democracy.
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Sanctions are not an alternative to war; they are an even more deadly form of unconventional warfare.
Western sanctions killed roughly 38 million people over 50 years.
The US government has imposed sanctions on approximately one-third of the countries on Earth, including more than 60% of low-income nations, according to a 2024 report in the Washington Post.
A peer-reviewed academic article published in 2025 in the leading medical journal The Lancet concluded “that sanctions do kill: economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths … annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths)”.
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AOC refused to vote for my amendment to strip funding for Israel.
She can run her mouth all she wants but votes are the only thing that matters, not a bunch of words and nasty name calling.
Acyn@Acyn
AOC: I personally do not trust somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene—a proven bigot and anti-semite—on the issues of what is good for Gazans and Israelis. I don’t think it benefits our movement to align with white nationalists.
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Hi Dave. I am a gay kid who went to gaza. Went for 9 weeks to do humanitarian work in 2025 with a medical organization. My life was threatened by Israeli bombs. Gazans knew I was gay. You’re full of shit. Cc: @mattxiv
Dave Portnoy@stoolpresidente
I don’t get what the gay kid doesn’t understand. If he went to Gaza they’d murder him for being gay. Doesn’t seem that complicated.
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So if they're using Aliens to distract us from the Epstein Files, is this technically Alien vs. Predator? 🤔 
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Update: the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.
courtneybonneauimages@cbonneauimages
What does terrorism mean to you? If it’s no double-tap killings of paramedics, journalists, and today a 12 year old girl, then what is it? Westerners, where is your humanity? Cameraman: @aliezzedine7
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Israeli drone chased and struck a man on a scooter with his 12 year old daughter, killing the father. The little girl ran, wounded, ran and was hunted by the drone and struck again. She has succumbed to her wounds.
courtneybonneauimages@cbonneauimages
Update: the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.
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When the USA invaded South East Asia the region became the largest heroin producer on earth. When the USA invaded Afghanistan it became the largest heroin producer on Earth. Probably a coincidence.
ສະຫາຍ ສຸວິ 🇱🇦🇵🇸‧₊˚ ✮⋆˙@Souvie
Nixon established one of the biggest heroin factories in Laos using USAID funds with a Pepsi factory front that never produced a single bottle of soda
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