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always making me think of @nushpowell.bsky.social's article about Capt. Hook's hook and prostheses in the age of piracy, also. like, how common they were in the early modern and victorian eras.

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It's #WomenInHorrorMonth? Have you read @sarahday.org's book GREYHOWLER?? It's a creepy western deeply rooted in its desert landscape, about community, secrets, and where dreams go when they die. www.amazon.com/Greyhowler-S...

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Everybody get your shocked face on real quick: "The study found that religious teens who attended gender-segregated schools were more inclined to have sexual experiences w/members of their own sex than those at coed schools: 12% of boys vs 7% in coed schools; 13% of girls vs 9% in coed schools."

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"Come and have a go, If you think you're hard enough!"

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you should cut down on your pork life mate, get some exercise

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Come on. Who of us has not accidentally, etc on.ft.com/41jj5lt

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Oh wow, a crime writing great is gone. RIP Joseph Wambaugh.

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Zelenskyy has really raised the credibility of comedians, but also given the world a wildly misleading bar for what most of us are capable of.

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The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

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If you look at the catastrophe unfolding and one of your reactions is to gloat to me or attack Starmer, let me save you time. The fact that the Zelenskyy meeting went horribly wrong, does not invalidate every effort to give it every chance to go right. It was a long shot and still worth taking. 1/2

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You can send donations yourself direct to ukraine here: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ #SlavaUkraïni

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I've been too tired and distracted to do proper marketing this month, so I'm phoning one in: If you enjoy our magazine or podcast, please consider subscribing/supporting us today: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Each new or returning subscriber makes a difference.

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This is a superb thread from a genuine expert. 👇🏻

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MAGA fellow travellers find the UKs consensus on this difficult to understand, but in some ways it's quite simple The British national myth is rooted in "the darkest hour" of a small island facing off against a fascist invader steamrolling across Europe. Britain looks at Ukraine, and it sees itself

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on this day when everyone is grappling with how to stand up to empire and if one individual can can even make a difference, remember Porphyrios

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Offering the visit to try and warm him up for the Zelenskyy meeting didn’t work, now we should rescind the invitation. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

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this is the kind of science we need more of

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I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art. 'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it. No, what needs democratisation is basic income.

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I'm now borrowing this from the library!

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Today I learned that the bees on the Candyman in the original movie were real, including those in his mouth. Actor Tony Todd was fitted with a mouthpiece to protect him from stings. Todd negotiated a $1,000 bonus per sting - and earned $23,000 on top of his base salary.

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This is classy. I think Starmer has got it wrong on where we should stand relative to Europe and the US but this is one of the first times I've admired him since he became PM.

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realized while emptying the dishwasher that Yoda is precisely wrong. not malevolently so. but there is no do and there is no do not. there is only try. this is clear to a man in his mid-fifties and so should be clear to a 900-year-old Jedi knight

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oooh I am so looking forward to this! Such a good idea. Plus I read a whole book on the Heptarchy once so it would be good if that finally came in handy.

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Channeled my existential dread into responding to my MP on the AI copyright consultation.

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Just in case anyone's looking to discover some really cool artists/creators/designers from Aotearoa New Zealand. Here are some of my favourites. They are really lovely people. They're small business owners operating from their homes. They ship international. Here we go:

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So the name Ursula is fairly unusual and tends to throw people, so I have gotten in the habit of saying “Ursula, like the sea witch,” when baristas or whoever ask for a name on the order. Twice this week, I have said this and the person has looked at me absolutely blankly and said “the what?”

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It's 1922, and everyone at Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls has something to hide - even the staff. Go to classes, or sneak out and explore. Befriend the other girls, or spread rumours. But watch out: you're not the only one playing for keeps... www.inklestudios.com/expelled 👀

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They are one of the most regular winter visitors to our yard and their nasal beep beep calls are adorable! This red-breasted nuthatch paused for a moment to contemplate which spruce cone to attack next! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

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I read If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzalez and Cale Dietrich today and I loved it! It's a YA romance about a boy band, and the writing is brilliant and tells a story of far more than just two young guys in love, it's about all four of the boys and how they struggle with tte pressure of success. 1/2

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Professor X: Hold, old friend. If you wish to take this military base hostage, you first must kill these five fifteen year olds I found. Magneto: for fuck’s sake, Charles.

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I'm going to start adding "due to gravity" to the end of random bits of advice

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By order of Hegseth: “Kristen Geist, the first woman to graduate from the Army's grueling Ranger School, has been erased from some of the service's social media and its publicly accessible media database, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS.”

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IMMIGRANTS ARE GOOD ACTUALLY the negative impact exaggerated, the positive impact utterly erased.

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When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

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Pika.

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STRANGE CASES is gonna be published by Andrews McMeel 🖤✨ Combining my love for legal dramas with my vision of reimagining gothic horror in a Filipino context, my debut GN is a tale of family inheritance, justice and retribution, colonial theft, and beastly secrets!

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The National Portrait Gallery recently acquired a portrait of Walter Alvarez done in copper and depicting the iridium layer at the K-T boundary and the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 🧪

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Happy Pokemon Day, I’m recovering from stomach flu so here’s a lil bubbasaur from memory 🪴

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As a young man I realized that exercising your mind is far more important than exercising your body. Powerful ideas are more powerful than any muscle. But then I saw Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee and was like "fuck that nerd shit I want to be able to punch someone so hard they go through a wall."

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The ume plum tree flowers earlier than the iconic sakura in Japan when it's still cold and you really need hope that spring will come. It's planted at shrines to god of scholarship Tenjin who wrote a farewell poem to a beloved ume in his garden which then flew to heaven to join him #folklorethursday

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In Japan, when rain falls from a clear sky, it's said that foxes are having a wedding #FolkloreThursday art by Mizuki Shigeru

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Breaking: Starlink Contracts Cancelled in Latin America Costing $29 billion. This is excellent news. Elon Musk is over extended cash poor right now. Has billions in loans leveraged against his companies.

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Hey, this auction is for someone I consider to be part of Romancelandia, who I am hoping will be able to get some real help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-bel...

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