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The ‘step’ in words like ‘stepmother’ or ‘stepsister’ has nothing to do with our word ‘step’. It comes from Old English ‘astiepan’ (‘to bereave’), which produced ‘steopcild’ meaning ‘orphan’. So ‘stepmother’ originally meant someone who became mother to an orphan.

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Word of the Day: 손맛 (son-mat; Korean) - "hand taste", the unique taste each person making a recipe adds to it, usually used to describe how no one can make food like your mum

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Over the course of the Apollo space missions, an estimated 96 bags of human excrement and vomit have been left behind on the Moon.

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Bloody oath we don't.

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The verb ‘to don’, as in ‘to wear’, is a contraction of ‘to do on’, and the verb ‘to doff’, as in ‘to doff a cap’, is a contraction of ‘to do off’.

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In Swedish ‘att glida in på en räkmacka’, literally ‘to slide in on a shrimp sandwich’, refers to someone who didn’t have to work to get where they are.

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The metric I use to quickly and roughly determine if automation is good or bad is how they’re marketing the automation. If it’s marketing as a time saving and safety device then it’s probably good. If it’s marketed as a cost saving device compared to human workers then it’s made by the devil.

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When I was young, movies like Back to the Future or Indiana Jones felt like historical landmarks deserving national holiday because of multi-level marketing. Now everything feels like a flash in the pan. Wonder if It's age (impressionable), the access to multitudes with internet(abundance) or both.

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0 o 0

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New Words of Wonder! Dream Words

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In the 18th century, ‘to twitter’ meant ‘to sneer or laugh scornfully’.

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"If the actions of an American hurts this nation, I of course will take a stand against them" claimed the PM Read more: chaser.com.au/national/alb...

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I don’t know how to fall asleep. It’s something I’ve managed to do almost every night of my life, but I always forget what I did that worked so well the night before.

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Cartoon by Dave Whamond

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Hit fantasy series Wheel of Time debuts new sapphic couple, in a change from the original books

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Area Pagan Dreading Big Family Vernal Equinox Celebration theonion.com/area-pa...

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As of 2022, only 29 US states required some kind of sex ed in schools—and about half of those didn’t require the information to be medically accurate. Where you live shouldn’t dictate your quality of education. The first episode of Crash Course Sex Ed is available now! youtu.be/SkSItIS_Xl0?...

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This is Lemon. She was just told you aren't supposed to eat the leaves. This would have been good to know 20 leaves ago. Still 13/10

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Season 2 incoming... 🚀

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Watch: Lady Gaga hilariously channels inner 57-year-old in SNL 'Little Red Glasses' skit

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🤞

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This is Dennis. He was asked to do the same trick over and over again with no compensation. 13/10 justice for Dennis

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👾 TONIGHT! A new episode of Um, Actually launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Featuring host @ifycomedy.com, fact checker @briamgilbert.bsky.social, and guests: 🤓 Raph Chestang 🤓 @samreich.bsky.social 🤓 @katiemarovitch.bsky.social

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Do feel like we could just start calling this place Twitter. What’s he gonna do about it huh

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“Those who don’t study history are bound to repeat it” doesn’t mention what to do when you DID study history and you have to watch all the people who didn’t take charge of everything

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Living the life

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shoutout to nathan barnatt, the incredible dancer featured on make some noise last week -- a man whose moves and comedic mind i envy equally

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Exploring Townsville | Drive From Railway Estate To And Along The Townsville Strand And Return | 4K UHD. So Jump in and come along for the ride. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYVi... #townsville #queensland #australia #navman #4k #dashcam #drive #love #beauty #viralvideo #thestrand #youtube #bluesky

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ai art is like being a runner and youre excited for a marathon and youre training and then someone comes up and says 'why not use this new 'car tech' it can drive you to the finish line and youll have run the marathon without that pesky running'. then theyre confused when you say no and run instead

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good morning

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Now he gets it!

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Amen to that

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🤪🤪😂

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Why is there so much pain involved in being alive, why is the advice always "you have to not care". When the problem is that I want other people to care. To care enough to change my material reality.

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Australia's east coast has been pounded by rain, wind and surf for a week, with Brisbane recording its highest daily rainfall in half a century.

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Self-acceptance may seem like a bunch of #rigamarole but it's really not. You just have to be willing to admit you don't have to have all of the answers. Just be willing to let go of what you thought you knew about you. And be willing to hurt a little when your wounded heart is healing. #vss365

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Dolly Parton says fan-support after the death of her husband Carl Dean ‘means the world to me’

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Status report, "Today's Wisdom from Tumblr Tags" Dep't... 😅 (www.tumblr.com/lunarsorcere...)

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A hard-won lesson of my dark years has been that the secret to feeling better is to ask someone else who might be struggling how they are doing.

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Exploring Townsville | Drive To Bunnings & BP Truckstop Fairfield | 4K UHD. So Jump in and come along for the ride. #townsville #queensland #australia #bunnings #bp #navman #4k #dashcam #drive #love #beauty #viralvideo #exploreaustralia #youtube #bluesky #townsvilleshines youtu.be/ADE6OF-mI_w?...

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We have reached the joke stage in the break with the U.S. That's a very good sign.

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But playing video games IS woke. You're being put in the shoes of another person who you inevitably grow empathetic towards. It's not like a book where you can relate to characters in the third person - in video games you are the person things are happening to.

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