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Retired English professor. Like dogs, motorcycles, good poetry, other things, selected people, and oh yes my four kids and eight grandkids most days.
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I say this a lot: One of the most notable differences between Ireland and the US, for me, has been the vitality of the local news in Ireland.
farhip.bsky.social Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · Dec 5
New: Trump won the popular vote narrowly. But in news deserts—counties where there are no local news sources or reporters —he won in a landslide. Latest by me and @volk_maps for Medill School’s Local News Initiative. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...
In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide
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December 6, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 12:01 PM