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Previously (occasional) Flathead Valley Police Blotter amanuensis. Mental detritus etc. @ @[email protected]

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Here we go. I'd started anor book already but decided to sneak in a short one. Books read in 2024 No.1. The Outsider/ L'Étranger - Albert Camus (trans. Joseph Laredo). Hadn't revisited since I read it when young, so it was like reading it anew. Is it best read young? #books

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Morgan S has contacted investors ahead of a planned sale of up to $3bn of debt they and others such as Bank of America & Barclays lent to EM to complete his Twitter buyout. The banks hope to sell senior debt @ 90-95c on the $, retaining more jr holdings

https://t.co/aTnUIoY1WI

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I remain hopeful that everyone on my book-related list (dealers (incl rare books), libraries, archival institutions, bookshops etc) https://t.co/NDVUZGue0Z will make the move to Bluesky. There's an active (and growing) number of ppl and orgs, there.

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@dkfcdotnet Looking as it does, it's not even about how much it costs. At any price it looks dreadful.

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[Sports Scran @SportScran]

Hotdog at Sydney FC @SydneyFC

$14 (£7.12) ⚽️

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More than a quarter of English councils expect to have to sell homes to balance their housing budgets while over a third have cut back on repairs and maintenance in what has been described as a crisis in social housing finance.
https://t.co/zBb6jms2dF

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@damiankelleher Can't just go around changing the things that one must do.

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@EtcFairs Are you on bluesky? I can't find you there.

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@damiankelleher You will go back again as per usual practice, though.

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@damiankelleher Oh there are more expensive ones than that here, but they are say bigger books, coffee table books with decent photography, reference bks. But we don't have a $2.50 section.

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@damiankelleher Your Lifeline bookfairs are better and lower priced than ours.

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"a rapid unscheduled disassembly"?

I think you mean it exploded.

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"It's sad to say that since the 1980s we've said this is what's going to happen and it's happening just as predicted, if not a little bit faster and a little bit worse."

This.

[ABC News @abcnews]

One in 10 homes across Australia will be considered uninsurable within the next decade, according to climate change risk analysis modelling. https://t.co/TLZ0qvdBHg

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US Securities and Exchange Commission - Musk failed to properly disclose his ownership of Twitter, which allowed him to buy shares of the platform at “artificially low prices.”

https://t.co/BmBA0F2LP4

The official press release and details:

https://t.co/edWKGlAEhf

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@drng

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Hospitals balk at Biden cybersecurity upgrade https://t.co/m7cIfkoL3f

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@ABSStats No bluesky?

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@tony_robbo Noice.

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@tony_robbo I learned of it today on bsky. I had no idea either. She's worse than I thought.