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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 20m

In ancient Rome, most of the workers lived in single rooms in apartment blocks with no cooking facilities or bathrooms. Using communal baths and buying 'street food' was common.

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 50m

Schools. Currently full of kids with stomach pains, vomiting, dizziness - just like the beginning of the first wave - yet we're collectively pretending it's nothing and pushing the government's attendance directive. Zero recognition that covid harms children at all (organs, brain, POTS, exhaustion.)

OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 10h

If they know they must do an exam which they feel almost certain to fail. If they need a long time to embed new concepts and retain information, the enormous GCSE curriculum is an insurmountable barricade. They don't need everything in GCSE to be numerate enough for work & personal finance matters.

OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 10h

There are alternatives such as Functional Skills or the Edexcel Awards in Number and Measure and in Algebra. These build confidence and give employers a clear picture of what the student CAN do, rather than what they can't. The obsession with GCSE Mathematics for all is harmful to many young people.

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 20h

The frogs are breeding in Portland. Along with the unicorns, the axolotls...

Diversity defiantly flourishing in spite of the ICE age.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 20h

And if they achieved that goal, they would set their sights on the next country to target.

Europe should have given more support much sooner. Appeasement is never going to work with Putin.

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 20h

Losing gives him a chance to rant about (imaginary) corruption and then use it to try and get everyone sacked who won't back him by going against the law and the US constitution.

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 1d

"Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize"

SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE HEADLINE.

A woman making a fantastic achievement, and they make the failures of a man the focus. FFS.

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/396...

Trump misses out on Nobel Peace Prize despite claiming to have ended seven wars

The prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 1d

"Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize"

SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE HEADLINE.

A woman making a fantastic achievement, and they make the failures of a man the focus. FFS.

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/396...

Trump misses out on Nobel Peace Prize despite claiming to have ended seven wars

The prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 1d

He was absolutely drenched and looked utterly pathetic but was happy as Larry. So when I put his cage back I decided he needed a nice warm breeze to dry off - from the hairdryer (on cool, from a safe distance.) He came over and started fluffing himself while singing away.

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OperaBunny @operabunny.bsky.social · 1d

I had a budgie when I was a kid. One day I decided the easiest way to clean his large cage was to just put it in the bath (minus the bottom tray) and shower it. I nudged him to one end of a perch and started showering the other end of the cage and he rushed straight under it!

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