Sorry, I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
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Social media is indeed screwing things. And I don’t have an answer for that. But good governance and accepting reality over high status opinions would go get over most of it.
Can you have that with social media? I don’t know. But the whining politicians in office have a say.
Lula has won, Bolsonaro is defeated. And so now you’ve breathed a sigh of relief you don’t have to keep pretending he’s something other than an old socialist crook.
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Watching the penny very slowly drop at The Economist is always a pleasure.
A hard look at Britain’s data suggests so. But it is hardly an epidemic economist.com/britain/2026/1…
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Tomatoes used by Mutti look like standard plum 🍅. But slice them and you can see they have lots of flesh/few seeds.
They are all the rotondo di Parma variety. But there are sub-varieties. Most are bred by Heinz. Yes, the ketchup company is the world's leading seed breeder 🧵2/6
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This guy is a closer. Laser focus on the anti-Norway vote. xitter.cf/clashreport/status/211…
“Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division. No, no, hold that, Operator? Get me the President's agent.”
That’s a great bit of world building.
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Reactionary colonels in the Home Counties who wrote to the newspapers half a century ago warning that the Labour Party were a bunch of lunatic Communists who would ruin the country are some of the most vindicated people in history.
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Whatever department of the BBC is responsible for churning out these sorts of news stories, shut it down bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60q…
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FT comments never miss.
I don’t think I’ve read such a rational analysis of the situation we’re in for a long time.
I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
