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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra

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Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye. 😭

Idaho video store closes after 30 years, but one customer's routine lives on

YouTube video by CBS Mornings

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July 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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Dawlish Warren

July 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Sam Wakeling

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Will Hayward describes our ludicrous electoral system in one glorious paragraph. ☕️ 🍻 💥
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Imagine you and 12 mates are going out.
Three of you want to go have a cappuccino, three want lattes and three want flat whites.
You all want coffee but can't quite agree on which specific one, but broadly you are in agreement on what you want to do. But imagine that the remaining four want to go out to get out and get battered on Special Brew and smash up a bar. Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss.
Under the Welsh setup, and frankly those of most healthy democratic systems (like

June 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM

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This is a bit of fun!

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Jan Švankmajer - Breakfast (Food 1992).

YouTube video by Bruno D'Ercole

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June 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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May 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Jon Cooper

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Posted by @acnewsitics.bsky.social on another platform:

“Why is Pam Bondi taking so long to release the Epstein files? What is she hiding?”

February 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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‘kin freezing!

February 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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what a time to be an animator!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WG8...

DUDES OF HAZMAT - Toxic Waste Chase (music video)

YouTube video by Drue Langlois

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January 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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Emily ✨🎄

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This is a beautiful tribute.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷

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My wife's coworker was making a completely different joke when she said "dance like the microwave isn't watching" during the Microsoft prism scandal but it's never left my head in the "your shit is spying on you 24/7" sense.

Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · Jan 6

I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.

January 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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Don’t forget to take time out from all the excess to remember the Christmas story.

Massacre of the innocents by Peter Paul Rubens

December 27, 2024 at 8:57 AM

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December 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

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As we inch closer to 2025, a good time to remind ourselves (and everyone else) of the importance & benefits of membership of the ECHR

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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December 26, 2024 at 9:15 AM

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December 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM

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C.X.Turner (Luci)

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forest tracks—
the deer’s silence
echoes mine

#dailyhaikuprompt #tracks #haiku

December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM

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First snowflake
Old heart
Young again

Upon my tongue
First snowflake melts
My heart

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku

December 23, 2024 at 5:40 AM

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Paul Eggleston

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My son wants a proper drum kit for Christmas but I've only got him a miniature one so I'm expecting wee percussions...

December 20, 2024 at 10:24 PM

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Orpheus Condescending

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Wherever you are in your life, no matter how bad things may be for you right now, just know that God has a plan for you & this is all a necessary part of it. All you need is faith & everything will work out fine.

There.

See how fucking stupid that sounds? That's because it IS fucking stupid.

December 20, 2024 at 7:50 PM