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Her parole officer keeps taking your fries 😠 #DatingRedFlags

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@SeabrookCrisps A single crisp per bag

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

If the world is getting a little too much may I recommend the inexplicably obsolete word ‘latibulating’, from the 17th century? To latibulate is to find a cosy corner somewhere and hide in it.

[The Simpsons @TheSimpsons]

Number One, always. Thank you, Sir Patrick Stewart.

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#IPreferMyMagicDarkLike and subscribe for more cauldron unboxing videos

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

UK crime was four times higher when Oasis first played Knebworth than at last year’s reunion gigs.

The collapse of crime and safer streets is one of the biggest stories of our time.

But one almost never told - or believed.

My take on today’s figures: https://t.co/Qgzowy6IDL

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@SW_Help What if I just paid to use a 461 bus after asking you if I could use my train ticket and getting no reply?

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@SW_Help I’m on my way to Hampton Court from CLJ as a workaround for the closed Woking line. Can I claim for a Falcon bus to Hersham, or use my train ticket?

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@Osint613 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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@YouGov @lewis_goodall How many of the general public wanted a referendum in the first place? 🤷‍♂️

[Dominic Hauschild @domhauschild]

Putin’s drone campaign in Ukraine is actively targeting something far more insidious than just energy grids or military bases: the nation's culture, history, and future.

Over the summer months alone, Russian strikes incinerated an estimated 13 million books.

In Kharkiv, a targeted drone strike on a major publishing warehouse turned hundreds of thousands of student textbooks to ash just as children were preparing to return to school.

This is a calculated assault to erase Ukrainian identity and deny a generation their right to learn.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Peace never comes through weakness. Today, representatives of the U.S. Congress were in Kyiv – a bipartisan delegation – and I am grateful to them for visiting Ukraine at such a difficult time. They asked: what is needed to end the war? The answer must be strong. There must be sanctions under the Lindsey Graham bill, there must be support for Ukraine in protecting lives, and there must be pressure on Russia for its war. And today, there was a conversation between the leaders of America and Russia. A conversation that leads to something different.

Recently, there was a European decision to lift sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Since then, Russian strikes and the torment of people have only increased. This past week alone, there was a brutal Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pryluky, aerial bombs were dropped on Kramatorsk – on ordinary city buses – and there have been constant attacks on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure and on the life-sustaining infrastructure in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odesa, and our other cities. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded.

The Russians are compensating for their inability to achieve their objectives on the battlefield with this kind of terror. This year, Russia is weaker on the battlefield than at any other point in the war. That is why Putin is relying on terror. That is why he is relying on attempts to strike backroom deals to secure some form of pressure relief for Russia, in order to buy more time and more opportunities for war.

Any easing of sanctions against Russia without a clear and lasting de-escalation agreement with Russia is an obvious weakness. It plays into Russia’s hands – allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer, have even less respect for America, and inflict even greater losses and damage on the world.

Ukraine is ready to take symmetrical de-escalatory steps, and the American team knows our position. Our strikes on Russian oil refineries and other oil facilities are a response to Russia’s years-long campaign of terror against Ukraine’s energy sector. Ukraine will not set Russian oil refineries on fire if Russia does not destroy our energy infrastructure. This is the kind of agreement we are proposing to America, and we believe the United States has enough power to achieve such a compromise.

Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world. Russia will “repay” the diesel with further terror and perfidy. Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged. What is needed is real de-escalation with Russia on a reciprocal basis.

We count on America’s fair support for our defense of life, for our defense of people in Ukraine – and on the United States having a correspondingly strong conversation with Russia. A strong one, not a weak one.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My last ever Guardian column!

https://t.co/TgxkQWBN5j

[Armchair Admiral 🇬🇧 @ArmchairAdml]

“What is the purpose of our defence policy?”
“To defend Britain!”
“No Bernard. It’s to make people believe Britain is defended”
“The Russians?”
“No, the British. The Russians know it’s not defended”

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99% of the questions I’m asking AI chatbots

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began.

Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019.

That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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@SimonHarrisMBD More evidence that people can be manipulated to hate just about anything. Asking volunteers who are real-life heroes to look at the people in the water and make a decision on whether to save them, based on the vague tantrums of cowardly masked simpletons, is insane and idiotic

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent.

This week, an undocumented migrant who is facing imminent deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”

This comes as Catholics across the nation, inspired by Pope Leo XIV, are standing up to the White House’s immigration policies.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

What would happen if Xi Jinping posted a map where 🇨🇳 has taken over all of East Asia, and Putin one of 🇷🇺 having absorbed all of Western Europe? It would have been seen as either insane or dangerous - or both.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

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I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blue Screen of death
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