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lorbla.bsky.social
@lorbla.bsky.social
Teacher, lover of books, animals and social justice.
From Northern Ireland.
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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April 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Jesus would denounce everything about the MAGA movement.

Everything.
What Would Jesus Undo?
America’s Not Losing Its Religion. It’s Weaponizing It.
www.tealandorangereport.com
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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y’all are wild
March 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Dear USA

The UK NHS website is a free to use, impartial (i.e. not influenced by drug companies) medical information resource. Free feel to use it as a reference tool if what you need has disappeared from federal sites.

#vaccines #diseaseprevention
#viruses #medcines

www.nhs.uk
NHS website for England
Find information and services to help you manage your health.
www.nhs.uk
February 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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He stood over Trump while the president sat behind the Resolute Desk, “delivering a picture of presidential subservience the likes of which we have never seen—the most powerless image of a president of the United States ever created by a camera,” O’Donnell said.
February 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Endorse
December 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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History tends to repeat itself.
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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The fucking sin of empathy? I know this daft prick is a rat, but when the fuck has empathy been a sin?
January 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Imagine having all the money in the world - so much you could eradicate world hunger, solve the housing crisis, set up universal health care and create a safe haven for oppressed people but you use to cause grave harm and suffering. What black shriveled souls
January 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men* for how to live your life is even sadder.” -Rebecca Shaw

* Tate, Musk, Zuckerberg, Peterson
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Perfectly put.
January 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Funny how that works.
December 27, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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This is an absolutely wonderful Christmas story. Grab a cocoa and settle in.
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
December 21, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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5000 years ago some Irish folk built a burial tomb engineered exactly to maximize sunlight during the winter solstice.
Winter solstice: What is it and why is Newgrange so important?

The discovery of a 5,000-year-old secret at the prehistoric site in 1967 has made Newgrange world-famous

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
Winter solstice: What is it and why is Newgrange so important?
The discovery of a 5,000-year-old secret at the prehistoric site in 1967 has made Newgrange world famous
www.irishtimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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gotDAMN
December 7, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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This is the most correct thing posted online in the history of the Web
this is the greatest Christmas movie ever made and if you disagree you're wrong
November 30, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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I don’t think there is anything more soul crushing than believing that joy is going to defeat hate and then hate wins.
November 15, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Wow. This is incredible. New Zealand's parliament is brought to halt by MPs performing a haka. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke begins the ceremonial group dance after asked whether her party supported controversial bill seeking to reinterpret country's founding treaty with Māori people
November 16, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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Welcome to Blue Sky.
November 15, 2024 at 5:24 AM