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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day. No explanations. 15/20 With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45365/...

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As a boy, the epitome of summer for me was the friendly hoverfly. In their unassuming ways, they reassured & enchanted me: as they still do. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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20 female authors whose work I admire. 1 per day; any order. 2/20

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Paintings that have influenced me; 5/20 #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal #MarineArt Holbein: drawings (William Fitzwilliam)

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 14/20 Three summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe—but more’s to do At harvest-time than bide and woo. When us was wed she turned afraid Of love and me and www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoF...

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"[Self-driving cars] may actually make the climate situation worse." I agree. Consider: 🔹 Huge increase in total driving 🔹 More gridlock, leading to slower transit 🔹 AV software/hardware requires tons of energy 🔹 Inducement to live in bigger homes (w/ bigger carbon footprints) on the urban edge

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20 female authors whose work you admire. 1 per day; any order. 1/20

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⚡️MH17 victims' relatives want Russian admission of responsibility for crash to be part of peace deal, media reports.

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Paintings that have influenced me; 4/20 #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal #MarineArt Vincent van Gogh, The Sower

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'W1A BBC and All Souls Church' (2024) by John Duffin cattogallery.co.uk/artists/john-duffin/john-duffin-exhibition-2024/w1a-bbc-and-all-souls-church.html

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Friedrich Merz was the most pro-US politician in Germany – his shift could be historic for Europe | Jörg Lau for Europe |

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Frans Halsstraat in 1982 vs. today: Once a space for children to play, cars took over, pushing them out. Now, Amsterdam removes 1,500 car parking spaces annually, transforming streets from car parks into safe spaces for kids to play and people to walk or cycle

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 15/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge 💙📚

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge Day 13/20

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚 #Booksky #Bookish #BookChallenge #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #sciencefiction #comedy Day 08 of 20

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 20/20: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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#30DayBookChallenge Day 6 - Book That Broke Your Heart: Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles #BookSky #BookNerds

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Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would not be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️ So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 13/20 LARS Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade englishverse.com/poems/horatius

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Paintings that have influenced me; 3/20 #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal #MarineArt Veronese, The Family of Darius before Alexander, NG London.

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 12/20 Binu was twenty-three when illness struck her. Doctors and drugs Became a greater torment www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/article-dece... idata.over-blog.com/0/54/22/42/d... idata.over-blog.com/0/54/22/42/d... etc.

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‪paulrapley.bsky.social‬ ‪@paulrapley.bsky.social‬ Paintings that have influenced me; 2/20 #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal #MarineArt Ships in a Stormy Sea, Willem van de Velde the Younger (c.1672)

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Today is the day! AIR-BORNE is out. Thanks to the Associated Press for this review, calling the book "gripping"--"reads like a combination of detective and horror stories." 🧪https://apnews.com/article/book-review-airborne-zimmer-1adb7f2db55012be5f0d383d5908f3cc

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Paintings that have influenced me; 1/20 #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal

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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you. One painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting #Nocturnal #MarineArt Day 12 "Fishermen at Sea" 1796 Joseph Mallord William Turner

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 11/20 #BookSky #PoetrySky #Poem Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink... www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/the-fly-by-w...

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One book per day 20/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election today and is on track to take the reins of the EU’s largest economy. Here’s what a Merz-led Germany means for the EU 👇

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 10/20 #BookSky #PoetrySky #Poem The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon poetryarchive.org/poem/waste-l...

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The silence of the universe—not a mystery, but an opportunity. If we are the first life in our supercluster, the future of intelligence depends on us. We aren’t just one civilization—we are the seed of something greater. What we do next matters. #FermiParadox #FutureOfHumanity #LongTermThinking

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"I hate fashion." That'll do for me.

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If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

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One book per day 19/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 9/20 #BookSky #PoetrySky #Poem “next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn’s early my country ’tis of centuries come and go and are allpoetry.com/next-to-of-c...

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20 Poems that have influenced me. 1 poem/day; 20 days. No explanations. 8/20 #BookSky #PoetrySky #Poem A man that looks on glasse, On it may stay his eye; Or if he pleaseth, through it passe, And then the heav’n espie. www.georgeherbert.org.uk/archives/sel...

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