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You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️

#DorothyThompson

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Fake cobwebs like these may look spooky – but what's really scary about them is that they can trap & injure wildlife, including birds, insects & small mammals. And fake webs aren't recyclable – so will end up in landfill for many years.
More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-i...
#Halloween

18 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh—built around 1820. Eight flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Notable former residents include:

The inglorious 12th tomorrow. On the left the devastation of a driven grouse moor on the right an alternative vision 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“Newton had a way of making everyone in the movie react to him like astonished children, agog at the snarling, bug-eyed, peg-legged creature in their midst”

Today is #TalkLikeAPirateDay – but really it’s #TalkLikeRobertNewtonPlayingLongJohnSilverDay 🏴‍☠️🦜
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I mentioned the Portobello open-air pool in a brief thread at the weekend, so inevitably I invested *way* too much time this week on exhaustively researching the history of this amazing attraction so that you too can join me on a thread about it. I mean who doesn't love an "Art Deco" lido?
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Here’s some #FingerpostFriday inspiration for the summer! 🌞 Volunteer Rod recently replaced our missing sign at Diabaig in #Torridon, it points along the stunning coastal #ScottishHillTracks route 306.

Does anyone know where our old sign from this location has ended up?

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Before I post this week's comic strip, let's take a look at the previous one, 'A Grand Adventure', with the imbecile's imbecile, Liz Truss. Frame by frame, starting with...
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JITTERS MOVIE:

Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case involving the death of Tiffany, Digging deeper, he discovers Jitters, psychological twists.

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ trailer contains flashing images and violence.

Crowdfund:
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Well Squid Game season 2 is off to a cracking start. #soutkorea

ATTENTION PEOPLE IN AND NEAR NORTHAMPTON

There are only a handful of tickets left for The Night Sky SHow at The Royal and Derngate , Northampton on Saturday.

This is your last chance to see the show here. Don't miss out.

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Please help me find aw ma pals oan here! RT please!

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The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.

Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

We live in VR. Our local café we first dated in Y2000 was called Café Politik in Edinburgh. Decades later in Germany our local café is called Birkholz. Not strange? I google earthed our old café, its changed name to Birchwood! Birkholz being Birchwood in German. Definite signs of VR memory re-use. 😆

So, I will be posting here to provide evidence that I either live in a Virtual Simulation, or, I am a character in my Partners Sim.
These will be random time events as they come to mind., as time isn't linear in this Sim anyway.

Also I think the Sim is coming to an end as events are repeating