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Not sure of source but this is 🤣

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Sometimes I love Cambridge. On the table next to me in a cafe a 30-something woman was making a Lego model of the International Space Station…

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Here are a few colourful thoughts on AI in music (& other areas) - a crack at updating the Buggles’ magnificent “Video Killed the Radio Star” 👉 youtu.be/qDzFOl7ynNI?fe… In solidarity with others concerned by current 😩government proposals.

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Amateur music making is a marvellous thing! Very thrilling being in the massive wall of sound that is the chorus for the Verdi Requiem. To be performed in the magnificent setting of Ely Cathedral.

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Excellent poem by #MichaelRosen describing what may become of #Gaza

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Here’s to Dalmatian pelicans and their possible reintroduction to the UK. Beautiful and fascinating. A thread to lift the spirits when the news seems so constantly grim. #DalmatianPelicans

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youtube.com/watch?v=yiAz.... Haha! Someone just sent me this. The flu cures of yesteryear. A boiled onion and a tot of whiskey or try rubbing some warm goose grease and mustard on your chest …

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So long Marianne 💧

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Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds. Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin

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SpaceX: Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn. Everyone else: It blew up.

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As a borderline boomer this would be my complaint too

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Do something amazing - give your blood. Be a hero 🙌

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The things we find. #beachcombing #plasticarchaeology #anthropocene

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

submitted 53 days ago • 867 comments

A c++ professor in college once said, “What’s the difference between a smart oven and a bomb? One line of code.”

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This little film of ‘just a healthy coral reef’ is just fabulous.

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Fascinating world of (broken) ancient #glass: Fragments of more than 600 #Roman glass vessels, found in #Augsburg. The vessels were produced around 100 AD in Italy and broke presumably during transport to Augsburg, where they were buried in...🧵1/2 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

submitted 59 days ago • 13 comments

Snow Shovelers, New York, 1929, by Clare Leighton.

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Attention all shipping! The perfect broadcast for a very blustery New Year’s Day.

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The submerged forest at Borth, Ceredigion, Wales. A woodland which flourished between the late Neolithic & Early Bronze Age 3000-2500 BC, before being inundated by sea level rise The remains are exposed following storm scours & low tides & encouraged local legends 📷 My own, Oct 2020 #FindsFriday

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In reality, it must have been back breaking, but a beautiful little film nevertheless.

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#12days2solstice Happy Solstice from The Discovery Programme! Explore Newgrange Passage Tomb like never before - this 3D model was created from scans taken by Discovery Programme in 2014 & reprocessed in 2024 as part of the #5Dculture project skfb.ly/psBEK @timemachine.eu @opwireland.bsky.social

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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

submitted 76 days ago • 232 comments

Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.

submitted 78 days ago • 104 comments

‘Houses of Parliament destroyed by massive black-headed gull’ would make a fitting conclusion to 2024.

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Good morning early birds! Welcome to rise-and-shine Saturday! A happy, hopeful day to all!

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Fugitive

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Welcome to an IRL game of inverse battleship.

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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...