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‘it’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind’

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Taking part in the Bristol Pear quiz with our good mate @danroan! #danbeerroan

[OnlMaps @onlmaps]

2026 Purchase Power Standard (PPS)

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.

[🍉 🕊️ @sgnrdrizzi]

@Clair3Mari3 Is this still available? I’d like to buy it please

[Adam Faze @adamfaze]

Some stories from the making of this episode...

We missed Knicks in 5 because we were en route to Syria

This episode cost us almost $100K to produce (far cry above the existing average of ~$20K/ep). It would not have been possible without the generous support of @DorisDukeFdn and @airHQ.

We shot it on June 17th, two weeks before President Macron arrived in Syria and three weeks before President Trump announced his intention to rescind Syria's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.

We had a permit from the Ministry of Information that allowed us to film in the country, but otherwise had zero interactions with any members of the new Syrian government.

Damascenes are some of the most welcoming people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

The shawarma spot we went to was the greatest shawarma I've ever had in my life.

Kareem has Subway Takes fans in Syria. The internet is making the world a really really small place.

I did in fact buy the cigarette music box from IKareem

Rama Duwaji (whose parents are from Damascus) illustrated beautiful Damascene drawings for our intro

We actually cleared the rights to Chiquitita by ABBA for this. Credit to my chief of staff Jack for chasing them -

I got a worm in Damascus that lasted for a month. 10/10 would eat everything I ate all over again.

We were devastated to leave and can't wait to go back.

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You can really clearly see the point where smartphone use became widespread c 2012/13

[Dion @2024dion]

This is a really worrying chart

[Dion @2024dion]

This is a really worrying chart

[Arnold Platon @Arnold_Platon]

Saw an insane map in a a Bilbao souvenir shop. Not even as an item to be bought, just there stuck to the entrance door...

[Nick Harrison @NickHarrison73]

Graduate premium has grown in most other countries as numbers going to uni have increased. UK declining graduate premium is unique, and likely linked to poor economic performance rather than "too many kids going to university". Critical piece of info as we think about HE policy, and says to me we need to focus on economic growth to provide valuable opportunities for grads, not knock the value of uni.

Brilliant report from @jburnmurdoch in the @FT last week.

@suttontrust

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

people are dramatically underappreciating how much this discovery rewrites history

> for decades, archaeologists believed the amazon could only support small, scattered communities because its soil was too poor for large, complex civilizations

> then deforestation started exposing giant circles + squares carved into the ground, and the theory began falling apart

> the intact jungle still hid the true scale, so researchers flew lidar over 4,500 km² and digitally peeled away the trees

> they found 396 previously unknown earthworks, some surrounded by ditches 5m deep + connected by roads

> across the full region, they estimate 20,000+ structures spread over an area roughly the size of syria

> most belonged to a 2,500-year-old society researchers call the aquiry

> its peak population is estimated at 1.25-3 million people (the city of rome had roughly 1 million)

> so while rome ruled the mediterranean, this supposedly impossible forest society may have supported 1-3 romes worth of people

> which raises the obvious question: how did a region archaeologists thought was infertile feed millions?

> it turns out this part of the amazon has unusually fertile soil, and they grew maize + squash while actively managing the surrounding forest

> then around 850-950 ad, their ceremonial centers were suddenly abandoned, and researchers still have no idea why

> and all of this came from a territory covering less than 3% of the amazon

what else is still hiding beneath the other 97% of the Amazon??

[Fight Club 🥊💨 @FIGHTZINCLUB]

Com a eliminação da Colômbia, só sobraram dois países sul-americanos pra torcer.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Thomas Piketty says people are getting 'disgusted' with wealth inequality and governments need to overcome their fears to adopt a wealth tax.

Piketty spoke to Channel 4 News Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi ahead of the release of the World Inequality Report, which he helped coordinate.

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

‘You have worn our badge, “Coal not Dole”, and you know what harassment means, as we do. Now we will pin your badge on us; we will support you.’ — Dai Donovan

The Pits and Perverts gig, hosted by Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, took place on this day in 1984.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

When you privatise a monopoly that cannot be allowed to collapse like water, energy, or transport - you are giving private companies licence to treat it like a cash machine, because they know that no matter how badly they fuck up, there will always be a public bailout.

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@claim_centr I have followed back your account

[isaiah @tlop444]

netflix wants you to think that this is the same as watching a movie on your ipad

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Defunding local authorities.

Building a long term financial crisis across English higher education.

Failing to invest adequately in infrastructure at record low rates of borrowing.

Cook the country’s long term finances with the triple lock.

Defund the criminal justice system.

Introduce the OBR.

Randomly do poorly worded referenda. Nobody actually knows if it’s formally binding or not. Presume you win every time.

Restore slave markets to Libya and accelerate the European refugee crisis by removing Gadaffi.

Cameron and Osborne were imbeciles. The media loved them.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Paul Dano is f-ing brilliant

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Stevenson has popularised policies advocated by highly eminent economists - including Nobel prize winners.

Why wouldn’t a politician reference him?

https://t.co/7puqXNdBEP

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Britain saw one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history through widespread privatisation—40% of the total assets privatised across the OECD 1980-1996. We need a massive correction back in the direction of public ownership, whether via nationalisation or municipalisation.