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tuwaqachi.bsky.social
Retired social worker exploring the renaissance of the digital era. Science, arts, dna, genealogy, computing, food, agriculture and land management.
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In 1392 Richard II eliminated tariffs on eel imports, & asked foreign merchants to bring eels "from over sea, where they are abundant, to London where they are dear." He knew that higher tariffs meant getting less of what you want. Oh, the lessons that eel history can teach us... 🗃️🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

So, the US wants to impose trade tariffs on what it describes as "the worst offenders". How about we impose tariff sanctions on those countries who are the worst offenders for environmental harm? Who would they be? Let me think...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A typical piece of hypocrisy.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I think a US state visit to the UK might be postponed, just for a decade or two.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The actions of the US government including failing to recognise Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine are acts of avarice and moral cowardice so heinous that they call for more than mere condemnation by what is left of the free world.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

So the US President wants to "make a deal" with the UK? Well, Mr President, speaking on behalf of many people in the UK I can say that you have nothing to offer my country that we want and you can just go fuck yourself.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

The new UK Land Management Scheme neatly divides the map into 3 areas of farming, nature and infrastructure, achieving a new height of folly by simultaneously creating a false trichotomy and three false dichotomies.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The people and government of the UK take a very poor view of foreign citizens who attempt to interfere in its domestic affairs. If the US government can not prevent its citizens from doing so friendly relationships between our two countries can not continue.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

The recent death of a special forces veteran in Las Vegas was not a terrorist act. It was a symbolic suicide. It will probably not be the last. The choice of location and vehicle were significant but the method of death was a sidearm. The device constructed was not a bomb but a funeral pyre.

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The Apollo 8 astronauts performed lunar orbit insertion #OTD in 1968. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, the first to see an Earthrise, fifty six years ago today. 🧪 🔭 Image: NASA

submitted 102 days ago • 9 comments

Xmas lunch cooked and consumed. I would like to express my thanks to whoever invented the dishwasher.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

There is a lot of talk about ‘food security’… So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-) unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...

submitted 105 days ago • 19 comments

The most enlightening thing anyone ever said to me was "Now that I'm enlightened I realise that I'm just as stupid as I always was".

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Creationists tried to ban the teaching of evolution in schools, arguing it contradicted the 2nd law of thermodynamics (which applies to closed systems). It doesn't. Life, evolution and food chains on Earth are driven up a thermal gradient by a massive external energy source, the sun.

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