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AL the editor

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Copyeditor, proofreader and picture researcher. SFF über-geek. http://bluebamboo.org.uk Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

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"A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar..."

Sarah Dempster@dempster2000.bsky.social

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

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Just for once, Guardian, couldn't you frame it as deregulation in pursuit of maximising profits at the expense of safety and welfare, rather than as disposing of all that pesky stuff that's holding us back as a nation? Have you really lost that much of your soul?

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Chancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics live

theguardian.comChancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics liveJohn Healey is expected to cut red tape requirements, particularly for smaller businesses Good morning. A week today John Healey, the chancellor, will be doing a media round defending the budget he is presenting on Wednesday next week. Ahead of that, he has given an interview to Patrick Maguire from the Times. As you would expect, there is no real detail in it about the measures he will be presenting to MPs. But the big picture message is very clear – and quite surprising, coming from a chancellor serving a PM who in some respects is steering left compared to his predecessor. Healey says that he wants to be on the side of bloody-minded entrepreneurs who make a profit, he acknowledges that government has made their life harder over the past two years, and he suggests that cutting the ‘cost of living’ for business is just as important as cutting the real cost of living for families. In the quote that gives the Times its splash headline, Healey says: I want to be a chancellor who backs business in Britain making a profit, and those entrepreneurs who, in the end, are the ones who challenge the status quo, come up with innovative ideas and are trying, some of them through sheer bloody-mindedness, to keep going through these sorts of pressures … If you’re not making a profit, you’ve got nothing to put back into the business. And for the people who start up these businesses, the ones who really thrive and grow, they have to make a profit — and they will be much more inclined to put it back into their own business. But we want it to grow here and stay here. If you talk to any of the businesses that have come in and have either had one-to-ones or round tables with me, I have recognised that in recent times there’s been a lot of pressure: employment law, regulation, tax, input costs, supply chains. And so when I talk about the cost of business, and recognising that in the same way as we’re recognising the cost of living pressures, I’m conscious of that as I go into the budget for both businesses and households. [Healey] is expected to use the budget to make significant cuts to regulation on businesses that one senior Treasury source described as “the sludge choking firms”. Reporting requirements are likely to be abolished for many smaller enterprises, The Times understands. Continue reading...
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I think... I *think* I might be a hagfish.

IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC)@sscmarine.bsky.social

Happy Hagfish Day! Today we’re celebrating hagfishes - hagfishes are ancient marine animals perhaps best known for their remarkable ability to produce large amounts of slime when threatened. When the slime hits seawater, it expands to form a gel which can clog a predator's mouth and gills.

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Uncle Duke
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HOUR 5: Legs beginning to cramp and I really have to pee. Nice lady brought me pretzel from food court. Still awaiting further instructions, but am starting to have my doubts. Must stay strong.

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I am a wiener!

Girl’s Own advice@girlsown.bsky.social

The worthy winners of last Sunday’s #GirlsOwnCC 🥇 @kayemcelle.bsky.social =🥈 @mrsnodes.bsky.social @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social 🥉 @catju.eurosky.social Highly commended @mandapen.bsky.social @grynneman.bsky.social @altheeditor.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Peter Jukes
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The only other logical explanation for Trump going all in to support Putin right now (apart from the Kompromat/Krasnov theory) is that he needs Russian hacking/information warfare help in the mid terms. Which just underlies how much they helped in the past

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My new spirit animal just dropped.

Niall Harbison@niallharbison.bsky.social

Last week little Gigi was dumped in the jungle and came close to death. She weighs just under 5lbs. Today Hank came in to see her. He said she is under his watch from now on. Anybody messes with her call him immediately he said ❤️