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The Olympics and politics are more intertwined than ever before. Maybe that’s a good thing

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News,2026 Winter Olympics ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In 2018, snowboarder Adam Rippon objected to then-Vice President Mike Pence leading the US delegation to the Olympics in Pyeongchang, citing Pence's record on LGBTQ+ rights. At the time, Rippon, who came out as gay in 2015, said Pence "doesn't stand for anything I truly believe in."Eight years later, Rippon says it takes a lot more courage for athletes speaking out about Trump administration policies during the 2026 Games than they did less than a decade ago.The echo chamber…

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TV Tonight: The new must-watch drama for Marian Keyes fans | TV and radio

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Walsh sistersSaturday, 9.15pm, BBC OneFinally, Marian "Queen of Romantic Comedies" Keyes brings her flawed, funny, and painfully relatable characters to the small screen. It begins by forcing Rachel to confront her relationship with alcohol - but does she really think she has a problem? Meanwhile, estranged mother Claire is finalizing her divorce. Heart-tugging and thoughtful, with that cracking Irish comedy sprinkled throughout. Holly RichardsonNavigating the Shipping Forecast with Pastor Richard Coles6.15pm, Channel 4Visibility is good... Sailing the Shipping Forecast…

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The search engine for OnlyFans models who look like your crush

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Made You Look 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For three days In February, porn star Alex Lynx traveled to Miami for her first exclusive creator gathering where she was in full grind mode: filming reels and talking strategy with other creators. “It was like an all-girls SoHo House,” she says of the experience called The Circle that attracted more than a dozen sex workers, including Remy LaCroix and Forrest Smith.Lynx, a former webcam model turned OnlyFans star, has a combined 2 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and…

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‘This shouldn’t be normal’: Developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s largest PC gaming storefront | steam

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Steam,PC,Games,Culture,Race,LGBTQ+ rights 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: FOr years, the Steam gaming storefront has allowed abuse and bigotry to slip through its moderation, according to players and developers who use it. The platform now hosts batches of content that violate its own guidelines.According to developers who spoke with The Guardian, abuse — specifically directed toward trans creators — is a fact of life on the platform. “Everyone is fighting each other all the time in reviews, discussions, forums, anywhere you can find them on Steam,” says creator and…

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Review of Tony Blair’s story – perhaps it would have been good to do some closer analysis of his time in office | Tony Blair

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tony Blair,Television,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Politics,Factual TV 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eThe first episode of Michael Waldman's new three-part autobiography is subtitled "Who Are You?" In addition to his usual work of collecting archival clips and interviewing his subject's colleagues and rivals to build a picture of past events, Waldman interviewed Tony Blair, his wife Cherie, and several of their children in an attempt to capture the character of the politician who was twice re-elected as Britain's prime minister. The question is: What kind of man is Blair?It's an…

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“People in Awe”: An Exhibition Unveils the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | Exhibitions

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,Egypt,Art and design,Culture,Museums,Art,New York 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the ancient world, the journey to eternal bliss was not easy. For the Greeks, you'll have to take a ride with Charon across the River Styx and hope to be one of the lucky few to make it to Elysium. If you lived among the ancient Aztecs, your journey to Mictlán involved many struggles, including climbing a mountain made of obsidian and crossing a desert where there is no gravity and you are buffeted by tremendous winds.For the…

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‘Bald, rawhide skinny, just under six feet tall’: The real soldier behind Robert Duvall’s role in ‘Apocalypse Now’ | film

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Robert Duvall,Apocalypse Now,US military,Vietnam war,Culture,US news,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TActor Robert Duvall, who died this week, was known for many memorable movie roles, but none were better than his breakout turn as Stetson-wearing Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. In Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic, Duvall plays a helicopter squadron commander who flies into battle with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" blaring from the speakers and uttering the immortal phrase: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."Duvall's scene-stealing portrayal earned him two…

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TV tonight: Inside a famous potato factory – and its controversial new flavours television

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Dismantling Walkers: Inside the Crisp Factory8pm on Channel 4Hot honey chips, anyone? The controversial new flavor is one of a few launched as part of Walkers' rebranding. In this program - which verges on being an infomercial - cameras are invited to watch the birth of potato chips from soil to shelf, and to go into the kitchen to learn how flavors like chicken masala and sticky teriyaki are invented. Holly RichardsonDeath in heaven9pm, BBC OneThe death of a kindly…

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Interviews revealed that L. S. Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless L. S. Lowry

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: LS Lowry,Ian McKellen,Painting,North of England,BBC Two,Manchester,BBC,UK news,England,Art,Art and design,Culture,Greater Manchester,Documentary 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: L. S. Lowry was convinced that his paintings would be worthless after his death, he confided in a never-before-heard interview.Although the artist had some success in his later years, Lowry never imagined that he would become one of Britain's best-loved artists or that his paintings would sell for millions of pounds.Going to the Match, his 1953 painting depicting crowds of spectators streaming into a football stadium, sold for £7.8 million in 2022.Half a…

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British pop star Skye Newman: ‘I come from a vulnerable background and there are vultures in this world’ | Pop and rock

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Soul,R&B,Culture,Brit awards 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAlthough she is on her way to pop stardom, with two Brit Awards nominations next week, 22-year-old Skye Newman lives in a cottage beneath her sister's garden in London. It's the backdrop to the music video for her song Hairdresser, which has 7.5 million views on YouTube. In the clip, she is seen wearing make-up, with her hair in rollers, as she hangs out with a group of friends. She licks her fingertips to roll a cigarette, and laments…

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