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Pellegrina Springlering
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Thanks! I didn’t spot the link from the preview.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Thanks! I didn’t spot the link from the preview.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Can you recommend a good place to start?
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Suella Braverman “sorry my party didn’t listen to you”? Oh, not nearly sorry enough.
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Lev Parikian
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MOGG GONE OH GOD YES YES YES YES YES YES
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Did I just hear a Tory say it’s a shame Labour didn’t go along with privatising the NHS because it meant the Tories had to run it into the ground to encourage privatisation so Labour will have to use the private sector to reduce waiting lists so the waiting lists are basically all Labour’s fault?
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ryan cooper
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"I spent a lot of money in that CVS, often multiple times a week, week after week, for years. If I wasn’t their very best customer on the consumer good side, I would like to meet my competition. And they drove me away, while providing me no mechanism to tell them why." itself.blog/2024/06/15/w...
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Juliet E McKenna
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If you're in the UK, reading the press coverage of the general election, and thinking 'yay, it's going to be like 1997 on Friday', take a moment to remember 1992. If you don't recall, find someone who does. Go out and vote tomorrow. Every vote matters. Tell your friends and get them voting too!
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Santiago Jones
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He’s making a list, He’s checking it twice, He’s extensively modelling a series of exit polls and extrapolating electoral outcomes. Professor Sir John Curtice is coming to town.
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
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Trans people's gender is no less 'natural' than cis people's gender identity. If you have to use the power of the state to coerce people into conforming to gender norms, you are making a loud admission that you do not, in fact, believe that assigned gender is a fact of nature.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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because of a technical fault with the baggage handling system at the other end (Heathrow) which will result in having to toss about £20 worth of Italian food intended for my fridge 😭😭😭😭😭
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Pellegrina Springlering
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So my last three flights with British Airways have involved a technical fault causing an hour delay getting my priority checked luggage, a 45-minute delay because they forgot to change the wheels, and a 1.5 hour delay and counting plus being told my checked luggage will be delayed even longer
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Pellegrina Springlering
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If they make the trillions from an economy in which nobody else can make it, it’s already dystopian for everyone but them.
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Lauren
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Pellegrina Springlering
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I didn’t realise Oliver Cromwell was standing for election?
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British History Online
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If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it:
support.google.com/websearch/an...
It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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If it sits on the shelf long enough, it becomes “evidence of use” for someone studying rare books.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Maybe I misread your tone…? 😳
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Are we only allowed to be mad about one thing now?
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Pellegrina Springlering
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It was necessary to destroy the environment in order to save it.
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CindyLou
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I hate it when people say “they’ve never let their disability slow them down” as if disabled people are just choosing to be lazy on certain days and that there’s better disabled people out there who can just choose whether or not to be slow a certain day this is asshole talk I don’t like it
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Coates
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A friend has just moved back here from Amsterdam with her dog. I said, “oh, no quarantine?”, and she said no, he’s got a European passport and up-to-date vaccination, and can go where he pleases. I have this uneasy feeling that a dog has more travel freedom than I do
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Elle
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First of all, has a person ever looked more mischievous? I wish I knew her. Secondly, this is a miniature portrait from around 1660. It comes with overlays that allow you to change her appearance for fun. Filters from 500 years ago lol!
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Lev Parikian
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Live in the moment. Not this one, though. Some other, better moment.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Birds or eighteenth century French explorers is my criterion 👌
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Dave
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Strange women distributing swords is apparently the basis for a system of government nowadays, so at least it's thematically consistent.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Druid Fluid all round!
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Pellegrina Springlering
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I stand with Milkshake Lady.
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John Rogers
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" Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price [...] of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains." Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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📜📚
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Elizabeth Bear
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Good luck waiting for usable public transport options in the SE if you’re not commuting to London, I expect I’ll be retired by then.
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Cat Rambo
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The thing people ignore about the Omelas discussion is that a system that nurtures billionaires requires a lot of kids in holes.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Fair.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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1623, 1632, 1666/7, 1684
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Jeremiah Tolbert
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You awaken in a filthy pit with little more than a rusty dagger at your belt and the rags on your back. Dark passages stretch to the east and west. A metal grate has just been closed overhead with a heavy clank. The guards above laugh and exchange bets on your lifespan. What do you do?
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Pellegrina Springlering
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But we’ve only just finished getting through the Brexit stockpile (2019/20) and the Covid stockpile (2020/21)…
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Pellegrina Springlering
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My hands are full of luggage and travel paraphernalia. I don’t want to have to dig out my phone to find out if I’m about to miss my flight.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Can anyone explain why Heathrow airport, a place that exists for the very purpose of people getting onto planes in time, has no clocks anywhere at all except in very tiny numbers at the bottom of the board showing the gates?
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Pellegrina Springlering
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I am strangely interested.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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This also applies to pedestrians.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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I lived in a farm cottage on the edge of a village for six months. I never found out why the machine parts business down the road had several dolls’ heads impaled on the gate.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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My first thought was, that is very red. My second thought was, why a monarch butterfly when they’re not found here? My third thought was, oh I see what he did there…
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Let’s just say that the stir fry last weekend was not improved.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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So may keeping the bottles of soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce next to each other in the kitchen.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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So that my hopes of spending the summer reading science fiction with libraries in it turned into a summer of reading about the history and definition of science fiction….
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Pellegrina Springlering
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As I found when trying to start with a definition of science fiction for my masters dissertation on libraries in science fiction.
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Pellegrina Springlering
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I never thought I’d see La Pérouse turn up on my social media!
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Pellegrina Springlering
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Pretty sure the lock of Mary Shelley’s hair isn’t one of a kind, there’s at least one other languishing uncatalogued in a library while an overwhelmed underresourced librarian figures out whether to catalogue the locks of hair in the archive module or the objects module…
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