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thomaswpenny.bsky.social
Writer, editor, bereaved single Dad, Quaker, allotmenteer and very amateur musician. Lover of strangers.
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Today's English language GCSE texts were about birdwatching. I had no idea those days spent with my children at the @rspb.bsky.social reserves on Rainham and Cliffe marshes were exam preparation...

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Why are people buying Tesla shares today? Was there not enough evidence last night of how unhinged the boss is?

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"You tell me, you're the one asking the question" isn't how you pass your GCSEs kids.

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Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

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Three Serbian nationals were charged today with antisemitic vandalism in Paris last weekend. French investigators suspect Russia is behind the attacks, as a way of increasing ethnic tensions in France and increasing support for the French far-right. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

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My History Today article is currently free online www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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A year ago today Rishi Sunak made the fateful decision to leave D-Day commemorations early, our polling found it was the gaffe/blunder/scandal of the campaign that most cut through and one of the most negatively received.

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Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

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Show me someone who's never heard of Taylor Swift...

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Post the Epstein tweet, Trump has stopped poking the bear. There’ll be a reason for that and it won’t be diplomatic restraint. What else does Elon know?

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Three years ago today we lost our friend Dom Phillips in the most brutal way imaginable. He was murdered along with Bruno Pereira, an indigenous peoples expert, as they researched a book about the Amazon. On the third anniversary of their deaths the book has been completed and published.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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I'm not sure Vance will welcome this development...

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guys i need to get a 6 pack of beer i'm fucking losing it

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Expert analysis from my teenage daughter: The Musk vs Trump Twitter spat has reached Year 8 level (age 12-13).

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There’s a lot happening on The Everything App tonight so let’s not miss this choice retweet that definitely won’t age poorly

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I wish Americans could understand how much this is like Gazza turning up to "help" Raoul Moat with chicken and fishing rods.

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German Chancellor Merz: “The US and Germany share the same DNA. We are partners. We are friends. We are literally family. “Many citizens here in the US have ancestors hailing from Germany. “I just gave POTUS a copy of his grandfather’s birth certificate. He was born in Kallstadt, Germany, in 1869.”

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The Tesla share price ticked up after Musk's Epstein tweet...

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While we're all laughing, 1,500 children will have been born with HIV today thanks to Elon Musk. However much he changes sides, he's still the man who put USAID in the woodchipper.

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Welp

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I'm starting to think Elon Musk won't get to Mars after all. And probably won't return to his apartment at Mar-a-Lago either.

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Tesla down 12% today...

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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Road rage just got serious...

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Many thanks to @johnwrees.bsky.social for a great talk and discussion last night on the 'Fiery Spirits' of the 1640s as part of our Spring Lecture Series. Next weeks talk is @ericanela.bsky.social talking on Cromwell and the Quakers - more details and bookings at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

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New research shows the American public continues to support diversity, equity, and inclusion policies blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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Great obituary and report on the funeral of the wonderful John Marjoram. stroudtimes.com/pictures-hun...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIDd... This, times a thousand... How does it feel to be the father of a million dead? "...Your inhumanity stops you from realizing the pain That you inflicted, you determined, you created, you ordered It was your decision to have those young boys slaughtered."

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Whereas Ukraine is fighting a war of national survival, Vladimir Putin has choices. Yet he appears to be under little domestic pressure to call it a day https://econ.trib.al/pxBLots

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Tesla Takedown in Boston.

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I think we really need to be asking why some Reform councils are so very determined to remove Ukrainian flags. Why would they do that?

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Both Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have two children, as do Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, maybe they can't understand why anyone would have more. #liftthecap

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One of the delights of the new Observer is the restaurant reviews, with its smorgasbord of different writers eating out. This week's from Simon Armitage is a treat. observer.co.uk/style/restau...

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