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Dorkomatic
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Amateur Time-Traveller
Just in case anyone hasn't seen "Polite Society" it's currently available on Film4.
My favourite film that I saw last year and a great bit of British-Asian-Cinema comedy.
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Staying at a squeaky floorboard hotel with a big TV on the wall...
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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it's time to kill the music
it's time to cut the lights
it's time to fight the Muppets in the parking lot tonight
January 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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“Half nine” could mean anything. 8:30. 9:30. 4.5. Just tell us what time it is
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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You may be three raccoons in a trench coat, but Vint Cerf is twenty deer.
January 29, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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It's like a Lego Linotype machine! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotyp...
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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A timely reminder in the light of recent events.
Today, we remember all the victims murdered during the Holocaust, and we stand with those who survived.

We also mark the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This dark memory must be passed to future generations.

Never again.
January 27, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Anyone interested in #LandscapeArt should not miss the National Gallery of Art’s page on John Singer Sargent’s 1911 painting of the Simplon Pass. The zoomable image of the painting is at such high resolution that you can see Sargent’s every mark in crystal clarity www.nga.gov/artworks/166...
Simplon Pass by John Singer Sargent
The demands placed on John Singer Sargent by his unparalleled success as a painter of Gilded Age portraits on both sides of the Atlantic began to tire him soon after the turn of the 20th century. In 1...
www.nga.gov
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Some of you really need to step away from the news and go out and get some fresh air or something. It's not healthy to be constantly immersed in and drowning in horrors. Go and fuss a cat or pet a dog, for the sake of your sanity.
January 25, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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i nominate the city of minneapolis for the next nobel peace prize
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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And another piece of Blockitecture #Architecture
January 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people

🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%

baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners
January 20, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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It’s Suboptimal Tuesday
January 20, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships
keel-fawn.vercel.app
Keel - Daily Warship Guessing Game
A daily challenge game for naval history enthusiasts. Identify warships from silhouettes in 5 guesses or less.
keel-fawn.vercel.app
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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This makes no sense…

An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…

No thanks

If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote

Sign the petition & help make that law.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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"time is a flat circle" no dude youre thinking of a clock
January 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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People thought Gerardus Mercator had a massive forehead.
January 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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if i could give one broad direction to people: stop being afraid of doing something. take some initiative. find a group near you. pick up the boxes that need hauling. bring food. take out the trash.

see a need that is unmet? get some friends together and do the thing.

organize your niche.
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"?
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Charlie has figured out how to make the printer print test pages and now it’s all he wants to do.
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM