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Looking at a local history book, a diary from the 1800s. I think this is the earliest reference to #vaccination that I've seen, from 1837.
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Looking at a local history book, a diary from the 1800s. I think this is the earliest reference to #vaccination that I've seen, from 1837.
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Let's just have a tax on Second Range Rovers.
July 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Let's just have a tax on Second Range Rovers.
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Just switched on BBC News.
There is NEVER any need to ask a bereaved person how they feel in the immediate aftermath. Just SHUT UP.
Furthermore, wider opinion: if you're someone who has opinions about the correct expression of grief... keep it to yourself.
There is NEVER any need to ask a bereaved person how they feel in the immediate aftermath. Just SHUT UP.
Furthermore, wider opinion: if you're someone who has opinions about the correct expression of grief... keep it to yourself.
June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just switched on BBC News.
There is NEVER any need to ask a bereaved person how they feel in the immediate aftermath. Just SHUT UP.
Furthermore, wider opinion: if you're someone who has opinions about the correct expression of grief... keep it to yourself.
There is NEVER any need to ask a bereaved person how they feel in the immediate aftermath. Just SHUT UP.
Furthermore, wider opinion: if you're someone who has opinions about the correct expression of grief... keep it to yourself.
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Since SUVs are evolving higher and higher with the driver having little awareness of ground level, their ideal form will be:
June 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Since SUVs are evolving higher and higher with the driver having little awareness of ground level, their ideal form will be:
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So the thing that was anyway for years not very promising given conflicting wants, and now a thing offered by a highly ureliable actor that just ripped up a lot of deals, is now not going to be on offer just now, but maybe this unreliable, not promising thing might be talked about later. OK!
Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers
Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers
Exclusive: US officials have split negotiations with countries into three phases, sources say, with South Korea taking priority
Donald Trump has made a trade deal with the UK a second-order priority, sources have told the Guardian, hampering British attempts to meet their mid-May deadline.
US officials have decided to split their negotiations with more than a dozen other countries into three phases, with the UK being placed in either phase two or three, according to people who have been briefed on the talks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
So the thing that was anyway for years not very promising given conflicting wants, and now a thing offered by a highly ureliable actor that just ripped up a lot of deals, is now not going to be on offer just now, but maybe this unreliable, not promising thing might be talked about later. OK!
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Pope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statement reut.rs/3GhDmRE
April 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Pope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statement reut.rs/3GhDmRE
This is for business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer shipments only. Formal entry is costly, and it will be interesting to see if the US government u-turns on their recent decision....
DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers reut.rs/3YFARyF
April 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This is for business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer shipments only. Formal entry is costly, and it will be interesting to see if the US government u-turns on their recent decision....
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What's the point of chasing a "trade deal" that will be signed by a guy who tears up agreements on a whim anyway?
April 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
What's the point of chasing a "trade deal" that will be signed by a guy who tears up agreements on a whim anyway?
Random pamphlets found during decluttering, philosophical arguments for mass civil disobedience...
April 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Random pamphlets found during decluttering, philosophical arguments for mass civil disobedience...
Found an old political cartoon, funny how pictures can tell such a story... this is from March 1997
April 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Found an old political cartoon, funny how pictures can tell such a story... this is from March 1997
We have the problem of too many books and not enough shelving. So some books need to be hidden behind others ☹️ which is sad. How to choose which books see the light?
March 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We have the problem of too many books and not enough shelving. So some books need to be hidden behind others ☹️ which is sad. How to choose which books see the light?
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One difference between Trump and the Nazis is that the latter promoted the Volkswagen, a popular and useful vehicle, whereas...
March 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
One difference between Trump and the Nazis is that the latter promoted the Volkswagen, a popular and useful vehicle, whereas...
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Thread, scroll up. Do not eat during this reading.
This sort of thing is why US foreign aid matters, even if you are an absolute sociopath who doesn’t care about starving babies. That one program has saved the US like a billion dollars at this point.
February 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thread, scroll up. Do not eat during this reading.
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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We provide water and electricity to the US as part of our trade agreement -- the trade agreement that you keep threatening to rip up.
Your executive orders don't mean shit in my country.
Your executive orders don't mean shit in my country.
Hands off our water asshole.
"I'm signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible ... you're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada." #cdnpoli
"I'm signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible ... you're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada." #cdnpoli
January 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We provide water and electricity to the US as part of our trade agreement -- the trade agreement that you keep threatening to rip up.
Your executive orders don't mean shit in my country.
Your executive orders don't mean shit in my country.
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This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’
‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week
www.independent.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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WE'VE MISSED A WHOLE WEEK OF STUCK BOAT JOKES!!?!?
A ship that has been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve will remain stalled until at least New Year's Day.
Ship stuck in St. Lawrence River near Montreal stalled for another day | CBC News
A ship that has been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve will remain stalled until at least New Year's Day.
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2024 at 12:39 AM
WE'VE MISSED A WHOLE WEEK OF STUCK BOAT JOKES!!?!?
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There’s a lot of popular myths about the pagan origins of #Christmas, and every year they get asked on the subreddit. @kiwihellenist.bsky.social tracks down many of the traditions to Victorian England, from trees to cards, and then looks for the origin of the “pagan” meme.
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December 27, 2024 at 11:50 PM
There’s a lot of popular myths about the pagan origins of #Christmas, and every year they get asked on the subreddit. @kiwihellenist.bsky.social tracks down many of the traditions to Victorian England, from trees to cards, and then looks for the origin of the “pagan” meme.
Trying to post happy things, not sure if this counts but it's a start.... love a bit of edible glitter 🤩
December 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Trying to post happy things, not sure if this counts but it's a start.... love a bit of edible glitter 🤩
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"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze
July 31, 2024 at 8:37 PM
"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze
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get in losers
we’re tasting the rainbow
we’re tasting the rainbow
December 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
get in losers
we’re tasting the rainbow
we’re tasting the rainbow
Lil bit of positive thinking at Brixton tube this evening
December 8, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Lil bit of positive thinking at Brixton tube this evening