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“Infantry, these guys are the guts of war. They go into hell every day. I’ve seen guys injured for the tenth time and they still go back, because this is their land they are fighting for.” #SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦

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Northern Saltivka was once a thriving residential area in Kharkiv, home to over 300k people. Today, it’s a shadow of its former self, devastated by russian shelling. russia has torn apart thousands of lives, leaving this district in ruins. #RussiaIsATerroristState

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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I want to tell you a story. In 2015, I was in the small Lithuanian city of Panevežys, standing with the locals, watching a military parade. But this was no ordinary parade, because marching alongside the Lithuanian troops were our American allies.🧵1/17

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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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Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

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In Japan, festivals to celebrate the appearance of sakura (cherry blossoms) occur in spring and are known as hanami. Sakura were a favourite subject of Japanese woodblock prints so I thought I'd put together a virtual hanami (flower viewing) thread for #FolkyFriday today. Please enjoy. 1/5

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That looks like lava. It’s amazing how life always finds a way. 🌋🌱

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Holy shitballs... The NY Post putting a hard honest truth on the front page? Have they lost their minds? Who is holding their staff hostage?!?

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The late Anglo-Saxon ‘Abingdon Sword’ which was found near Abingdon in 1874. The sword dates to the late 9th or early 10th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #AngloSaxon #Archaeology

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Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Escape,1940 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, painted just after the artist arrived in the US and it evokes the hardships of war in Europe #WomensArt

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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Do you know the link between antifreeze, frogs and slushies? ❄️🐸🥤 If not, there’s no time like the present to find out - and spoiler alert, there’s some incredible science involved! Find out (and never be caught short on this question again) in this week’s #SurprisingScience.

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This is not a peace negotiation. This is a business deal between two gangsters. #TrumpPutin

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The Alley of Glory in my hometown. The song in the video says: The Ukrainian sun has risen, Let it shine brightly. The price is paid high. We will never forgive.

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The Trump Administration is now actively supporting this.

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A calm forest walk amidst the world’s turmoil.

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Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

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Tuesday has been sponsored by the bedroom of your wildest dreams. www.instagram.com/p/ClquEnmtJ_... Scanned from a Sears catalogue 1992.

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Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.

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17/2/25 - nocturn

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Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

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Waterstones nailed it again 👌🏻🤩

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the problem with the “listen to your body” thing is that mine is always telling me it’s the perfect time to get cozy in bed 😔

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Starmer confirming the UK is willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. An immense moment. Hard to overstate how important this is or how impressive it is that he's done it.

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Hello, Monday! 🌞

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My first* attempt at Wolf’s End of the World Pie. 🥧🐺 *I didn’t have time to make the pastry myself this time so planning to give that a go, probably next weekend as this is really tasty. 😁

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Northern Netherlands painter Rachel Ruysch, Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, c. 1682-84 #WomensArt

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Mission impossible.. It’s the combat roll for me.. 😂

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Julius Caesar’s fate was whispered in warnings and etched into history. “Beware the Ides of March” wasn’t a threat, but a promise from destiny itself, unbreakable even by an empire #BookWormSat

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This:

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OK, this increasing temperature thing really is going to be a problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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President Zelenskyy addressed Europe at the Munich Security Conference. #MSC2025 Here are the main points 👇 (1/6)

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Mud and puddles along the Thames Path. A surprisingly enjoyable long run despite the continuous drizzle. 😅🌧️🏃🏼

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I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔

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Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out (Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

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Important notice for Munich.

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Meet Zhuoma, a snow leopard mother in Sichuan, and her suitor Dawa. WWF has been following the family’s paw-some journey for the past five years, who have now raised nine cubs over three litters. A love story worth celebrating! 🐆❤️ #ValentinesDay

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Superb, by Brendan Loper in the New Yorker. Simply superb. ~AA

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