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Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/Ie9yHgU9yc4?...

This is BBC One, for the Eleventh Century. We now break into our scheduled programming to bring you an urgent newsflash.

In the early 60s Oxfordshire decided to start experimenting with its own road signs. They were strange, totally illegal... and years ahead of the curve on road sign design. Uncover the forgotten history of Oxfordshire's renegade experiment. #oxford www.roads.org.uk/articles/oxf...

This is so funny, but true

Petrol at 10p/litre!

[43] Haute Loire, du coté de LE PUY, BRIVES CHARENSAC avec le supermarché Mammouth, face au camping ''plein air'' en 1978

UK friends please sign and share far and wide or nothing will change at the EHRC

Thinking about the time Twitter was running ads for a site that made realistic police badges...

States should be passing laws that make concealing one's identity while dressed as a police officer presumptive probable cause for an arrest for impersonating a police officer.

Plenty of white people got killed opposing Jim Crow. Just like how many white abolitionists were beaten or killed for saying slavery was wrong.

Israel’s prime minister sees himself not only as the protector of Israel, but the saviour of the West. This, he believes, is how he should go down in history, writes former Israeli diplomat @alonpinkas.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/israe...

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

Absolutely horrifying news out of Minnesota. Political violence and assassination attempts against elected officials has no place in our society. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

I will give the Americans this one, given circumstances, but George III *wishes* he was "the most powerful despot". Couldn't even get radicals executed for after *the French Revolution*, weak sauce

Well Started this on Audible. Probably my craziest choice yet. A batshit crazy book, but in French

A reminder that not only are most migrants on settlement routes subjected to what is known as "no recourse to public funds", meaning no state support, the majority actually pay more into state finances than take out, on top of tens of thousands in visa costs, and the immigration health surcharge. 1/

This is one of the best - and most terrifying - images from my bird feeder. 😬

A real President

Your Bretwalda wishes all his Yingees serfs a very happy Barack Obama appreciation day.

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

Congratulations to Jocelyn Bell Burnell but also to the King’s advisers for trolling Trump in the citation.

The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

It is far from unusual to have a military parade in a democracy. France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, India all have them on big national days. Just the ones I can call out of my head. The president or the king takes the salute, but is not the centre of the parade. The people on parade are.

Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day!!! #ObamaAppreciationDay

Comedy is not dead

Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/NqNIZnKmC6w?...

Probably true

#Trump #VanityParade

I AM HAVING THE CHINESE FOODS. Because, fuck it.