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Larry Manoir?

(I'm going to copyright that and sell the rights, so hands off...)

06.03.2026 09:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

<Berlin lifts receiver and asks "what's the dialling code for Moscow?">
Heeeeey, guys...

(I mean, I know that's literally what's happening anyway, but...)

06.03.2026 09:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This Sri Batchu? I'm not sure he can really blame Chamath for losing the money.

06.03.2026 09:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 09:29 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
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06.03.2026 09:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...

06.03.2026 00:08 👍 248 🔁 136 💬 11 📌 10
05.03.2026 20:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Which silly sausage decided to build an oil refinery in a war zone?

05.03.2026 17:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Did you finish that article on the US-Iran conflict?"
"Yeah, real happy and positive, just like you asked"
"..."

05.03.2026 14:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.

05.03.2026 09:41 👍 2576 🔁 574 💬 64 📌 33
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Neil Warnock returns to management in Torquay United's 2-2 draw with Farnborough Neil Warnock reflects on his first game back as a manager as the 77-year-old guides Torquay United to a 2-2 draw against Farnborough.

Everything I know most assuredly about morality and the obligations of men, I owe to football
- Albert Camus

Fucking run around a bit
- Neil Warnock

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

05.03.2026 08:11 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

This story is staggering.

05.03.2026 09:24 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

"Sinn Féin has not explained in public its opposition to the BBC's involvement."

05.03.2026 09:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 👍 7295 🔁 2300 💬 181 📌 50

"James Cartlidge, who according to Google is the Shadow Defence Secretary, was anxiously explaining something to Badenoch. Possibly why the speed of a Mark XI Spitfire in a dive meant it would definitely be able to shoot down a drone."

05.03.2026 09:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz sitting on a kitchen top smiling

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz sitting on a kitchen top smiling

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz in black and white with no top on

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz in black and white with no top on

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz with no top on and smiling

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz with no top on and smiling

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz playing with a dog

Javier Bardem photographed exclusively by his wife, Penélope Cruz playing with a dog

Good morning to Penélope Cruz' photos of Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz' photos of Javier Bardem only

05.03.2026 08:39 👍 78 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 3
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Drone that hit RAF base in Cyprus 'not launched by Iran,' Ministry of Defence says

A drone which hit a Royal Air Force airfield in Cyprus on Monday was not launched from Iran, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said

05.03.2026 08:09 👍 26 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 7
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04.03.2026 10:34 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Wikipedia: "In 2019 he moved to Suffolk"

Yeah, that tracks.

04.03.2026 10:25 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Really there was no way to predict this

04.03.2026 09:30 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lincolnshire holidaymakers describe 'horror' of Dubai missile strikes Two couples from Lincolnshire took shelter in their hotel basements after a missile attack on Dubai.

Graphic description of tax dodgers puking up in basement shelters. Some of this local reporting is really good. Hope they all get home safely

03.03.2026 07:48 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

That "80% of employees" line just seems like it's not a great bit of marketing.

04.03.2026 08:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would have thought it was pretty high. Not just the code behind the software but also things like SQL for data analysis.

04.03.2026 08:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Greg: What was the wording on the task?

Alex: Make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the Styx. Most invulnerable Achilles wins.

Greg: Dip the baby. The whole baby. They’re not going to hang onto a heel or anything stupid like that.

Alex: First, let’s see Thetis’ attempt.

03.03.2026 17:54 👍 131 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 6

(I assume that's departments like HR and finance, but it still feels like 80% is a pretty low number to boast about)

04.03.2026 07:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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One-fifth of Anthropic employees do not use Claude Code.

04.03.2026 07:58 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I occasionally look at the list of Premium Bond winners.

1. Playing the long game...
2. That's an *incredible* rate of return - I hope they invest it wisely.

04.03.2026 07:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Advertising is targeted to you based on your interests"
The algo never misses.

02.03.2026 21:39 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*eye twitch*

02.03.2026 20:51 👍 587 🔁 46 💬 32 📌 1

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

02.03.2026 15:25 👍 2909 🔁 302 💬 19 📌 10