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Sue Smith

Wikipedia should shut down an hour before the #Olympics opening ceremony and demand a ransom from all the broadcasters frantically trying to come up with facts about the different countries

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:

10 years from now you'l put on a jacket and find a mask in your pocket.
"Oh man, what a weird year that was," you'll chuckle to yourself.

Then you'll pick up your machete and Continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders.

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Gonna be looking on eBay for a slightly water damaged grand piano.

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Dgar

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

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Radical Anthropology

The evolution of #pasta ripiena in Italy and Eurasia: 2 phylogenetic branches setting the origin in Northern Italy, while Sardinian Culurgiones are in a separate clade.

#culturalevolution #gastronomyn#phylogenetics

link.springer.com/article/10.1

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Dave T-W

I absolutely love Anderson.Paak, and fair play for some recent pop collaboations. I'm having fun visualising the pearl clutching as people go back to some of his regular and older tunes like "Silicon Valley" and "Milk and Honey"

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Dave T-W

Paris Olympics opening ceremony going for river spectacle and parade. Seems incredibly risky, excitement guaranteed!

theguardian.com/sport/article/

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Dave T-W

Before Kamala Harris came on, this mashup was great. Can't find it online.
Anderson.Paak "Come Down" x "Jill Scott Golden"

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Sarah Taber

In the US, there's been a lot of talk & concern about foreign investors buying up US farmland.

And there is, in fact, a tech startup that helps them do that! It's like Robin Hood for buying US farmland.

And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?

J.D. Vance.

Who Trump recently chose as his VP to "represent rural America."

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Dave T-W

Video chat with ISS astonauts at last week's UCL Festival of Engineering. Not mentioned in the video, but the square devices on the side are Astrobee robots. Several UCLC academics contributed to the machine vision and navigation elements for these UAVs.
youtube.com/watch?v=oMnm_9eVNS

Astrobee paper: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20

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Neil Brown

Violence against women and girls 

The UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council’s report on VAWG - cdn.prgloo.com/media/5fc31202d - makes for distressing reading.

Yes, there is a key role for police here, but it is also incumbent on men to do much more, and to do much better.

It is curious that the BBC’s news coverage of this report - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cne4vw - focusses on so-called “online influencers”, but these are not mentioned in the report.

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jessie • 🕊️🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ(⧖)🟩

Hey UK-educated #trans folk,

You can get your senior school/college exam certificates reissued in your new name for free, as long as you've had it legally changed.

Can confirm AQA, Edexcel and OCR do this, and very respectfully too. ☺️

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Taylor Lorenz

"Our information system has split into an endless number of micro communities all learning about news and major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats." taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/th

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Robert Reich

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

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Tinker ☀️

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid

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Dave T-W

Timothy Snyder on "both sides" - a cult of duality which we should have learned from by now. Have seen people get sucked into fascist thinking because of this.

snyder.substack.com/p/both-sid

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NanoRaptor

Stargate

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d a t green

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

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Pseudo Nym

May all the rest of your times be boring and precedented.

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Joan Westenberg

Here’s a question for you.

Why is it that advocating for universal healthcare or affordable education instantly earns you the “Socialist” stamp, while demanding mass deportation isn’t enough to get you called a “Fascist?”

(Hint: it’s not because you’re *not* a Fascist)

Today’s daily essay:

joanwestenberg.com/the-f-word-

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