Jonathan Crossfield

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Storyteller, writer, editor, content marketer, consultant & presenter. In short: professional pedant, prattler & procrastinator.

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Betting almost all those who did attend are UK journalists.

Nobody at the RNC came to hear Boris Johnson and Kellyanne Conway. How embarrassing. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.” - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 🗃️

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13yo and I are amusing ourselves at breakfast by looking up “raccoon” on google translate and seeing how many languages were like “yup, that’s a bear doing its laundry” - German: Waschbär (washbear) - Danish: vaskebjørn (wash bear) - Bulgarian: миеща мечка (washing machine bear)

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In a functional democracy, throwing that kind of money into an election would be illegal.

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

Trump/Vance 2024

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After a night that felt like Kansas in The Wizard of Oz, I'm glad to confirm Leura and Katoomba are still both here. Some trees, however ...

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This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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Good Morning.

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🤷🏻‍♂️

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LLMs be like:

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Trying to imagine what it would be like to have a Democratic Party that didn't go into a defensive crouch when literally anything happens. Same people were like "oh no big risks for Biden that Trump is a convicted felon it might make people feel sorry for him"

Why are Democrats like this?

So state records reveal Crooks to be a registered Republican … which is gonna be a difficult fact to square with the narratives certain ppl are no doubt concocting right now about leftist plots and Biden-loving zealots.

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“There’s no place in America for this sort of violence”, because if there’s one thing America is known for around the world it’s the lack of gun violence.

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Who says shame is dead? This is a Tesla.

All I see in that photo of ‘defiant’ Trump is a bunch of secret service agents following training to surround him and trying to hold him low in the huddle to prevent anyone getting a shot while the orange idiot refuses to crouch and stands up to provide the shooter a second chance at a head shot.

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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Resistant to all antibiotics.

Today in “Headlines you need to read twice …”

Footage shows snail on the brink of extinction giving birth through its neck - video

Footage shows snail on the brink of extinction giving birth through its neck - videowww.theguardian.com The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail was officially extinct until March 2020, when a local citizen scientist found it on the remote Norfolk Island. 40 of the thumbnail-sized snails were taken to a dedicated and quarantined captive breeding facility in Taronga zoo. 40 baby snails were born in the last fortnight, after initially struggling to reproduce in captivity Lion brothers make record-breaking 1.5km swim in hope of finding mates - video Continue reading...

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#2024

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Biden misspoke, called Zelensky Putin, and immediately corrected himself. Trump was shown a picture of a woman he raped, misidentified her as his 2nd wife, and had to be corrected by her lawyers. What are we even doing here?

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This is an awesome discovery! The planet is tidally locked to its star, so the same side always faces the sun. That's why it'd have that 'eyeball' look--the sun's concentrated heat would melt the ice there that otherwise blankets the world.

YOU GUYS THEY FOUND AN EYEBALL PLANET

'Eyeball' planet spied by James Webb telescope might be habitablewww.livescience.com Located 50 light-years from Earth, the beady-eyed exoplanet LHS 1140 b could be a perfect candidate for discovering liquid water outside the solar system, new research suggests.

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A blistering Goldman Sachs research report wonders if the massive investment in Generative AI will ever pay off, says stock gains are already baked in "outside of the most bullish AI scenario," and posits that Gen AI is likely a bubble: www.404media.co/goldman-sach...

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliablewww.404media.co One of the world's largest investment banks wonders if generative AI will be worth the huge investment and hype: "will this large spend ever pay off?"

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Do you believe they’ve done *any* legal discovery to determine if it even can be done and keep ballot access to all 50 states yet? Meanwhile right wing billionaires have lawyers at the ready to contest such a call and tie them up in the courts with even more fatal delays.

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Are you wearing the -? The chainmail booty shorts? Yes I am. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Jean Froissart's "The Battle of Crécy", 15th century illuminated manuscript, held at La BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France 😁

Much as we love Britbox AU in our house, it is getting a bit tiresome that about 75% of programs added to the platform seem to be murder mysteries. C'mon! British telly is known for waaaay more than just whodunnits and true crime.

Twe ... twenty five? As in 25!! Powers? As in years old? I am Methuselah!

Portland people! Free signing! Free comics class for all ages! @oeming.bsky.social and I just realized that Powers hits 25 this year. Come celebrate the beginning of what we now know to be a big anniversary situation for us. Come hang out. @tfaw.bsky.social @darkhorsecomics.bsky.social

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OMG.