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Labour can’t out-Reform Reform. Farage’s party is winning voters by fixing potholes and helping pensioners - not just shouting about immigration. Labour must be the party of real change, starting in communities. By Georgina Laming 🏡 Read more: eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/ref...

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I'm looking to share some of my new research on the moral and medical dimensions of breastfeeding and breast cancer (1600-1900). If you know of any seminar series, conferences, or societies that might be interested in having me present, please let me know! I rarely see CFPs on here nowadays...

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Today's great podcast rec: Marquis Bey speaks directly to my soul open.spotify.com/episode/4J4v...

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Sun set over Govan Old's ancient churchyard. Image taken from the confluence of the Kelvin and Clyde, a vital transport corridor to control in an early medieval period that saw Northumbrians, Picts and Vikings challenge the Britons for supremacy over the Clyde valley. 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social

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Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

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25% OFF pre-orders for Waterstones customers this weekend only, exclusively on the Waterstones website and app. Until midnight on 24th Feb, get 25% off when pre-ordering these forthcoming hardbacks, simply enter “PREORDER25” at the checkout: https://buff.ly/3EW0K6i #WPreorder

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

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Putin's poodle #Trump doing his masters bidding www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

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Private schools are massively overrepresented in the UK's arts and culture while students in state schools increasingly struggle to access arts at all – and decades of cuts to affordable housing, social security, and education mean that gap will likely widen.

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North East Mayor Kim McGuinness joined basketball champions Newcastle Eagles, Britain's most successful basketball team, to promote togetherness, unity and tackle racism in the North East

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I’m reading through The Fellowship of the Ring right now and, having finished book 1, I’m struck by the Bucklanders’ response to the Black Riders at Crickhollow. Upon seeing one of their one in distress (Fredegar), they immediately jump into action. Fire! Foes! Awake! 1/2

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#Magic #Cats

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Clear Blue Skies. 9°C and a gentle breeze. Snowdrops by the church

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World Wonders What Trump Has On United States That’s Forcing Nation To Keep Him In Power theonion.com/world-w...

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When your chickens come home to roost. More info: pen.org/julianne-moo...

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Happy Saturday. 😄

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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"The Gulf of America"? More like "The Abyss of Ignorance."

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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He nails it.

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In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra. I have a Mabel.

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

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*Okay, when is the next useless hand-wavey panic-attack

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As that well known phrase has it: Those who do not know their history are perfectly happy to condemn the rest of us to repeat it.

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit a house near Peterchurch in Herefordshire which had deliberate burn marks, a void which had been filled with many broken metal items and a kitchen door covered in concentric circles. There were also some items of local furniture which had apotropaic marks.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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We're welcoming Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr to the @ihr.bsky.social this week for a talk about "Proprietary Victims: Holocaust Commemoration and Right-Wing Consolidation in the Netherlands" Fri 14 Feb, 17:30 (UK) Free & all welcome, register to get link: www.history.ac.uk/events/propr...

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I remember when I read Dracula and found out the one American character is a Texan rancher who tries to shoot Dracula with a gun and I realized that stereotypes about Americans haven’t changed that much in 120 years.

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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The manufacturer has outlined a major shake-up of its global operations as it faces turmoil

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I only just discovered this account and now I'm obsessed with it, and imagining the landscapes I would love to have an embroidery of - like Kernavė and the sacred hill of Šatrija

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#TROP season 3 given the official nod. #Tolkien Let's grach-ing go!

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TIL about this amazing project in Poland to publish the works of Stephen Langton: langton.uw.edu.pl

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I'm sure this must be a thing but I've never come across it... are there any podcasts that are podcast versions of mockumentaries, i.e. the whole thing is a pisstake? We could surely do with satirisations of some of the more notorious podcasts out there

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Okay we have Tombi Bombi in a fried-out Kombi driving trim Tumbi Umbi to…?

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Wait does the TROP S3 timeskip mean we might get long haired Elrond??

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Poppy Proudfellow, with some little design changes 🌸🍃 #art

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A Puritan Valentine, “If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.” ‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’ Anne Bradstreet, 1650

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Thames Water asks UK competition watchdog to approve 53% price hike. OFWAT approved 35% price hike. Sewage will continue to be dumped, dividends and high debt will continue. Regulators now have a duty to promote growth of industry. No one protects trapped customers? archive.ph/MnzFh

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Here To feel the elements To watch wild lives Mind-broadening space Breathing room Restbite, from petty things From trend & contest For a while No noise — only the salted wind & wildfowl cries

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Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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“I’ve downloaded your article as a PDF somewhere” #honestacademicvalentines

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Took a stab at a more rattlesnake design for #Glaurung, Father of #Dragons, from #Tolkien ‘s #Silmarillion ! #procreate #creaturedesign #fantasy

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he's baaaack! 🧙 #Tolkien

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