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Laurel
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Anti-authoritarian atheist lefty. Translator. She/her, English/Spanish. Brexit? No, ex-Brit!
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Poking around, I find you can recover some folder functions if you go to the Labels tab in Settings, and click on "show"
Gmail settings tab for labels Gmail sidebar showing the Updates and Promotions labels with unread emails counts
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Guess who likes cat food
Seen from above, a fox sashaying around in my garden, next to a dish of kibble A fox on the garden wall, looking quizzical
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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editorial cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon, titled "how tariffs work", depicting Donald Trump pissing into an electric fan marked with a Canadian maple leaf emblem which blows it straight back in his face
February 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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AI mattresses! I assume full of bricks and dachshunds, who tf knows
Display in a Spanish mattress shop advertising the first mattress created with AI
January 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Great Depression anyone?
Poster for the 1973 movie Paper Moon, set in the Great Depression of the 1930s
January 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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What tf happens if you install this bad boy
Box containing a ceiling fan with the name "Destroy" in a "live love laugh" type font
November 19, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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It looks a lot like a wild boar, which is what pigs would have looked like AFAIK
European wild boar
September 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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There's evidence for earlier fried fish street food, cf the Oxford Companion to Food
Fish and chips may fairly be said to constitute one of the national dishes of England and Scotland, but does not have a very long history... Fried fish, served in pieces, cold, nust have been established as a standard street food i London by the 1840s or earlier... As claudia Roden observes, there was a strong Jewish tradition of frying fish in batter and eating it cold. And it was "fried fish in the jewish fashion" which Thomas jefferson discovered When he came to London and which was included in the first Jewish cookbook in English (1846>
May 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Titian, man with quilted sleeve
November 8, 2023 at 1:38 AM
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A detail from the Gates of Hell a large bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin
October 23, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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Uncanny
The Treasures of Satan by Symbolist painter Jean Delville
October 23, 2023 at 3:25 PM
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Ah yes, who could forget
On the left, Barack Obama on a state visit to the UK. He is wearing a perfectly tailored formal suit of the kind known as white tie and tails, and looks very dapper. On the right, Donald Trump on a state visit to the UK, also in white tie and tails. He looks like a sack of shit.
September 24, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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E.G.
Dolphin sculpture from the Piazza dei populi, Rome. It looks nothing like a dolphin, more like an angry pug with webbed sideburns
September 15, 2023 at 3:03 PM