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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

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At 8pm every 4 May, the Dutch remember and honour the war dead with a 2-minute silence. Then on 5 May they celebrate Liberation Day, the day they were liberated, by Scottish Canadian troops, among others. My mother’s Scottish Sergeant, by Anna Schurer #Dodenherdenking #Remembrance @bylines.scot

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Here we go! ‘Here I stand’ round one as the French.

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www.gofundme.com/f/gun-kinder...

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "People feel the economic strain right away...but when you layer on top of that not just one but many stories of wild incompetence...that's where you get the total sense that no one has their hands on the wheel."

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Quick reminder that not only is The Horror At Highrook launching later today, its doing so as part of the @fellowtraveller.games LudoNarracon Festival 25 official selection! tune in at 6pm BST to check it out. LNC is always a great collection of though provoking streams and great games!

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Be safe today America, but do go out and make yourself heard.

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This is Elias (human) and Bruce (cow) and today they're making cupcakes! Yum.

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80th Anniversary of Operation Manna. Here's my friend Sgt Alastair Lamb's logbook page He did 3 drops at Rotterdam, The Hague & Valkenburg. He said it was 1st time low flying on mission & worried they'd hit civiliians in drop zone He'll be 100 in September @rgpoulussen.bsky.social #WW2

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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I've been having some fun lately drawing all the characters from the Hobbit.

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In April and May 1945 the Russian photographer took photos of Berlin that were published in the book “Berlin Mai 1945”. Here are some of the locations then and now:

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Ik heb nog maar drie standaard (21,5 x 16,5 cm) kabinetjes op voorraad en ga voorlopig geen nieuwe maken. (Tenzij ik een gericht opdracht krijg, dat kan in DM) dus mocht je er nog eentje willen: deze heb ik nog! Nu €465,- ipv €490,- op is op. DM bij interesse, repost is lief.

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Nieuws: ruim 40 ambtenaren van het ministerie van #Asiel en #Migratie plaatsen een bijzondere advertentie in #Trouw om te doen wat hun minister naliet.

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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#Protest

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This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

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Fridaynight Frosthaven.

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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Politics affects everyone.

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Time to play Magic again.

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Starship is the cybertruck of SpaceX - the moment when a Musk company runs out of plagiarised, borrowed and bought technologies and start having to rely on the deeply shitty brain of Elon Musk "how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"

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I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...

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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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Fokke & Sukke via nrc.nl

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I think it’s fascinating how this administration’s guiding principle on every single policy is just “be evil.” Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.

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