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Doing lesson planning for three separate things I'm teaching right now. I feel like I owe every professor I ever had a belated "thank you" muffin basket.

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Appearing today in The Week:

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Man Puts Glass Of Water On Bedside Table In Case He Needs To Make Huge Mess In Middle Of Night http://theonion.com/...

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This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

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If this account suddenly goes quiet, it's because the Library Assistant who manages it has booked a spontaneous trip to Delaware. No particular reason... (Seriously though, this is incredible! Thank you for sharing.)

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Newly added to our online archive, our vast collection of digitised images of the remarkable Kindertransport rescue of children from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia 📷 Jewish refugee boys playing a violin on train to the Netherlands Explore now 🔗 www.whlcollections.org/kindertransp...

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The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

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Banned/challenged books are often difficult reads with jarring content, but we can't shield ourselves nor our children from the realities of the world forever - it's better to build empathy and understanding through books, especially by reading books by/about marginalized people.

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The lackluster performance of the MiG-25 against the F-15 is a clear demonstration of what happens when you grow up in a country with an education system only capable of teaching kids a single system of measurement. All that practice converting inches to centimeters simply made better engineers.

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One of my good friends from childhood is teaching high school lit in Texas and looking for donations to help teach the Holocaust and needs money for books - anything you can give would go a long way to help create a better future www.donorschoose.org/project/holo...

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Neat thing I learned! The American practice of artificially coloring cheddar cheese orange actually comes from England, because that used to be considered a sign of high-quality cheddar cheese, which got the color naturally from the grass the cows ate. www.uwl.ac.uk/why-are-some...

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In case you're wondering, a taxonomy of suspect account icons: Default icon: Likely a bot Marble Greek/Roman bust: Probably a troll Trump/MAGA hat: Definitely a troll Dude with Oakleys: 90% troll (boo), 10% skier (cool) Cleavage with or without face: 90% bot (boo), 10% actual sex worker (cool)

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Apropos of nothing, you'll never guess who appeared in my Insta feed today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFB...

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Evening All👇😁😆😂🤣💜

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Can you imagine how crazy the podcast scene would’ve been back in Ancient Greece like welcome back to the cave, I’m your host Plato

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In an online discussion about identifying bodies from dental records, the topic came up of how they find those records. Evidently there's no national dental database (dentabase?) in the US, so they have to hope a local dentist had that person as a patient.

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#NoContextValentines

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I am unreasonably excited for this sequel to a movie about forensic accounting. Of course, it helps that in the first film, he was a forensic accountant whose work often led to other types of forensics being necessary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqTR...

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In order to once again address the nonsense that is the existence of the Space Force, I propose the following actions to correct this out-of-hand spinoff situation: Merge the DoD into two main branches:

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This reminds me, if I ever end up with a large pile of disposable money, I want to buy a grey Prius, stick a rubber shark fin on the roof, and paint fighter plane-style shark face nose art on it.

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Few mundane things make me as angry as discovering that those "Liquid Death" sparkling waters are actually pretty good.

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Polycute?

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As much as I love that film, it has an unfortunate shortage of dogfights or canyon chases.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Do British websites use biscuits instead of cookies? 🤔

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#transpanic #transrights

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So Kid Rock is in the news lately.

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Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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Two months after UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was murdered, the health insurance giant is sick of everyone complaining about its claim denials — and moving to protect its image.

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Just finished "Alien Space Nazis Must Die," by Chuck McKenzie. It's a short read, about struggling with your inner nature in the face of overwhelming odds, the ethics of imposing your beliefs on others, and not judging books by their covers. #AlienSpaceNazisMustDie #NetGalley

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