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Matthew Taylor

@mat8iou

Sydney (but until recently Slough, UK) based architect and ultra-runner. Described by Samantha Bee as the most well informed thoughtful person to ever dress like the EU flag. @mat8iou on Twitter, Threads and Instagram

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“Don’t proudly announce an international war crime for at least 20 minutes” Pentagon challenge.

13.03.2026 15:59 👍 546 🔁 127 💬 2 📌 0
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Has anyone spoken to his parents to get an understanding of what was going on inside their heads?

13.03.2026 09:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Separatist “Narva People’s Republic” idea spreads on social media – Propastop

I see that fears about Russia targetting Estonia after Ukraine seem correct. Online propaganda accounts are now working busily to promote the idea of the "Narva People's Republic", making out that it should be a separate entity between the two existing countries.
www.propastop.org/en/2026/03/1...

13.03.2026 05:38 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Nintendo suing the Whitehouse would be a fitting end to this nonsense.

12.03.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who called them the Mandelson documents and not the Peter Files?

12.03.2026 03:02 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

We are a country of light and (very) dark animal stories: Black Beauty (a harder read than many will recall); Wind in the Willows and Beatrix Potter; Watership Down and Plague Dogs (gulp); Tarka (by a fascist) and Animal Farm (by an anti-Fascist); Kes.

I think we can cope with animals on banknotes.

11.03.2026 19:43 👍 351 🔁 60 💬 25 📌 0

Are they a bit agitated about half their team seeking asylum and not coming home at the end of the Asian women's cup in Australia recently?

11.03.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are they a bit agitated about half their team seeking asylum and not coming home at the end of the Asian women's cup in Australia recently?

11.03.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 👍 3756 🔁 1490 💬 8 📌 221

Same in the UK with Brexit. They seemed shocked that it would mean no more EU agriculture funding and that trade deals with other countries would flood the domestic market with cheap imported goods.
Despite all warnings beforehand.

11.03.2026 03:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Meanwhile in Japan (one of the few exceptions globally)

11.03.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a thought - but maybe voting for a party that doesn't really believe in climate change isn't actually in their best interests?

11.03.2026 03:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just a thought - but maybe voting for a party that doesn't really believe in climate change isn't actually in their best interests?

11.03.2026 03:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In most cases, they wouldn't be donating if they didn't think they stood to gain something. The whole system is corrupt.

11.03.2026 03:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Check out this clown - who claims to be Jewish, but still wants to call out Muslims for not eating pork...

11.03.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There are people who think putting a bag with vaccine m bacon on the door handle of these people will somehow lead to them being sat or in the rain forever. I wonder at what stage in this process they will actually engage their brains.

11.03.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nowadays, the people most obsessed with bacon are the portion of white guys who seem convinced it acts as some sort of Kryptonite for Muslims.

11.03.2026 02:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“We can take them at their word.”

10.03.2026 17:17 👍 281 🔁 71 💬 22 📌 9

Does he know what died means?

10.03.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm quite surprised how well they are doing - they've won two out of their matches so far (beat Bangladesh and Uzbeckistan, lost to China).
AFAIK that puts them in the knockout stage in Perth - against Australia in three days time.

10.03.2026 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah - I doubt they get much unsupervised chillout time.
Their first match was at Olympic Park - plenty of Korean speakers in Lidcome who in sure might be willing to help them.

10.03.2026 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow. It's hard to see how any sort of sensors didn't halt the vehicle well before it reached that point.

10.03.2026 03:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But all the North Korean team head home to enjoy life there again after?

10.03.2026 03:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

During peak COVID times, the crossover between Q-anon and Woo-anon was pretty clear.

10.03.2026 03:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is coconut oil pulling after she wakes up a euphemism for something else?

10.03.2026 03:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

However close to parody you're imagining this piece might be, you're not even close.

09.03.2026 20:35 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

09.03.2026 07:40 👍 866 🔁 215 💬 15 📌 33
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06.03.2026 08:24 👍 243 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 14
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Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

Plus a third on the Zimbabwean heroes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

07.03.2026 22:13 👍 74 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1

The US is trying to make up for being late to two world wars by being really early for the next one.

07.03.2026 21:47 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0