James Gander
@gandersm.bsky.social
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Breaking: Disturbing scenes out of Portland, 2025 — authorities warn the situation could escalate.
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Breaking: Disturbing scenes out of Portland, 2025 — authorities warn the situation could escalate.
@rachelparris.bsky.social hi
I was listening to the Eggs podcast and you mentioned your book was available as a fabric hardback and as it's my daughter's birthday in Nov, I thought that sounded wonderful. Are all the hardback covers fabric, or is there a special version? If hate to get the wrong 1.
I was listening to the Eggs podcast and you mentioned your book was available as a fabric hardback and as it's my daughter's birthday in Nov, I thought that sounded wonderful. Are all the hardback covers fabric, or is there a special version? If hate to get the wrong 1.
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@rachelparris.bsky.social hi
I was listening to the Eggs podcast and you mentioned your book was available as a fabric hardback and as it's my daughter's birthday in Nov, I thought that sounded wonderful. Are all the hardback covers fabric, or is there a special version? If hate to get the wrong 1.
I was listening to the Eggs podcast and you mentioned your book was available as a fabric hardback and as it's my daughter's birthday in Nov, I thought that sounded wonderful. Are all the hardback covers fabric, or is there a special version? If hate to get the wrong 1.
@kiwiev.bsky.social Hey, are you on the invite list to view this? I'd love to see your review, and PSC for a ferry
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
@kiwiev.bsky.social Hey, are you on the invite list to view this? I'd love to see your review, and PSC for a ferry
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Oh, what a massive surprise. Do you mean to tell me that oil companies extract the oil until in runs out, and then move onto the next well and just leave millions of wells leaking methane.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
June 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Oh, what a massive surprise. Do you mean to tell me that oil companies extract the oil until in runs out, and then move onto the next well and just leave millions of wells leaking methane.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
Te ao Māori had more of an effect on me than I possibly realised. Pēpē in uk pub standing in a table.... I'm appalled. Get those feet off!
April 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Te ao Māori had more of an effect on me than I possibly realised. Pēpē in uk pub standing in a table.... I'm appalled. Get those feet off!
I'm back in the uk for 3 weeks while my mother is in dementia care and my father is in hospital being told he has incurable bone cancer. I return to Aotearoa New Zealand in 5 days.
Sitting in a British pub, with a point and food is a balm.
Sitting in a British pub, with a point and food is a balm.
April 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'm back in the uk for 3 weeks while my mother is in dementia care and my father is in hospital being told he has incurable bone cancer. I return to Aotearoa New Zealand in 5 days.
Sitting in a British pub, with a point and food is a balm.
Sitting in a British pub, with a point and food is a balm.
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@profaliceroberts.bsky.social While sat under a full moon in Auckland on Saturday night, my wife and I wondered if you had thoughts on a documentary on The Lunar Society and the Birmingham Enlightenment?
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social While sat under a full moon in Auckland on Saturday night, my wife and I wondered if you had thoughts on a documentary on The Lunar Society and the Birmingham Enlightenment?
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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
@moudhy.bsky.social
We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
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Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
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How did it happen that a group of people became so filled with fear and hate for the trans community that they would rather a misogynist racist as world leader so long as he’s anti trans - so many people in USA now facing threat to their very existence - how barbaric thought thrived on Twitter
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
How did it happen that a group of people became so filled with fear and hate for the trans community that they would rather a misogynist racist as world leader so long as he’s anti trans - so many people in USA now facing threat to their very existence - how barbaric thought thrived on Twitter
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Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
January 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
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1 December 1898 – The first movie shot in New Zealand 🎥
The first motion pictures to have been taken in NZ were by W H Bartlett for entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’, a Thomas Edison invention that showed moving images to one viewer at a time.
The first motion pictures to have been taken in NZ were by W H Bartlett for entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’, a Thomas Edison invention that showed moving images to one viewer at a time.
November 30, 2024 at 8:28 PM
1 December 1898 – The first movie shot in New Zealand 🎥
The first motion pictures to have been taken in NZ were by W H Bartlett for entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’, a Thomas Edison invention that showed moving images to one viewer at a time.
The first motion pictures to have been taken in NZ were by W H Bartlett for entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’, a Thomas Edison invention that showed moving images to one viewer at a time.