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@larspalm2025.bsky.social
poet, translator, anarchist
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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959

By Tia Ghose

www.livescience.com/physics-math...

#science #physics #history #otd
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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We're recruiting a Communications Lead to join our fantastic team. .

We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills who can run our press office and lead the way in creating and implementing our new Comms Strategy.

For more info go to transactual.org.uk/jobs

#hiring #vacancy
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Tintin, The Wayback Machine, and The Public Domain

by Sterling Dudley

What do a Belgian boy reporter, a forgotten 2008 webpage, and the Wayback Machine have in common?

blog.archive.org/2025/12/26/w...

#books #publicDomainDayCountdown
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Gorgeous Illustrations from Pantheon in Egyptien by Jean-Francois Champollion and Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, 1823

by Sheldon D.

flashbak.com/ancient-egyp...

Pantéon égyptien at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74228

#books #egyptology #illustrations
December 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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RIP English writer Christina Rossetti, died this day 1894.

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.”
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Today is Constitution Day in Ireland. It is celebrated on December 29th, the date in 1937 when Bunreacht na hÉireann, the current Constitution of Ireland, went into effect.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) zuS painter and educator of the Harlem Renaissance, who studied in Paris and achieved international acclaim #WomensArt
December 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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NO LIES DETECTED......
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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An impressive body of work

Four writers get credit on the 1930 copyright registration for "Body and Soul": composer Johnny Green, and lyricists Robert Sour, Edward Heyman, and Frank Eyton.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/22/a...

#art #music #publicDomainDayCountdown
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The polluter pays principle, big oil pays the politicians and the politicians oppose net zero.
'Fossil fuel lobbyists, polluting industries and climate deniers have donated £8.4 million ($10.6 million) to the Conservative Party since December 2019. Within the same period, they provided 92 per cent of the funds raised by the rightwing Reform UK' newint.org/democracy/20...
Big Oil is bankrolling the UK’s election
UN advisor Ibrahim Özdemir argues that urgent action is needed to protect Britain’s democracy.
newint.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings

By Alexandria Ingham

www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/chr...

#holiday #history
The Interesting Origins Behind Putting Oranges in Christmas Stockings
It’s not just for the yummy citrus smell.
www.mentalfloss.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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On Dec. 21, 1965, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was adopted. It insures everyone has equal rights, including in justice, work, housing, health, education, and political participation.
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?

Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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MORE/ Concert album coming this weekend:
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
theintercept.com/2025/12/14/h...
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.
theintercept.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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On this day in 1948, police wrongfully arrested 17 Black men after two white girls falsely reported that they had been attacked by a Black man. The girls later admitted they had lied.
Dec. 14, 1948 | Fabricated Attack Story Prompts Wrongful Arrest of 17 Black Men in Maryland
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
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