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Lovely Nancy!


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RT @PickleAndNancy
It’s early Tuesday morning I need ☕️ and 🐈 as I start work! The coffee machine is on and here’s Nancy! Happy furpals, love Pickle and Nancy 😸😹
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"Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster

Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives."

Unusual to see The Times coming out with a strong critic of the PM's inaction and ineptitude.

thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2

"Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time " by Polly Toynbee at The Guardian UK. Excellent read, plus a link to The Times similar denunciation.

"Everything unravels with almost indecent speed. After a brush with death, the prime minister is still recovering at Chequers when one of his many supportive newspapers drops a grenade straight down his Elizabethan chimney. No period of grace and convalescence: the Sunday Times didn’t even wait for him to stumble back to Downing Street before firing off its devastating attack on his cavalier incompetence over the coronavirus outbreak.

What makes the insiders’ account so devastating is that it chimes with everything everyone already knows about Boris Johnson’s character. An unnamed “senior adviser” to Downing Street “broke ranks” to say: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@AngharadHafod OMG, I am glad you were not so badly impacted. Scary thing.

Having recovered, the possible immunity is a good thing indeed, until a vaccine is developed there's nothing much else that can be done, quarantine or acquired immunity.

Hope you all get well soon!

@Phaedrus I did read an article yesterday on how some traders are hiring Supertankers as oil storage, a play to wait for price rise. At a cost of about USD$350,000 per day, they are leaving those tankers close to the ports, in the Gulf of Mexico and near Singapore, apparently.

Takes guts or madness to make such a play, could go badly wrong. I hat to see the price so low too since predators will come out sniffing for whole companies to buy out at distressed prices. Happened in 2015, likely again now, argh. The worst of capitalism is when this kind of non-sense is permitted to happen.

Trump's buddy Mohammed bin Salman did not give him a break to stop the savage damage to american Fracking companies and workers. (and he did ask, nicely)

@Phaedrus This is damaging a lot of small producers and countrie who depend on oil exports as their main revenue source. Iran, Iraq, others.

Two big producers powering this non-sense, the Saudis mostly as they would like to wipe out some of the American and Canadian competition.

The Gates covid-19 conspiracy theory 

This is what mass insanity looks like: nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technol

When the internet was new to the public and things like the web were young and exploding in use I thought it'll bring humanity together and create a better world - instead we get this.

I guess I watched too much Star Trek growing up.

Make your own pasta

Comfort food and kids’ entertainment, from anelli to ziti

“IT CAN BE bought everywhere and in all the shops for very little money,” observed Goethe on a visit to Naples in 1787. “As a rule it is simply cooked in water and seasoned with grated cheese.” Pasta’s economy and convenience have since helped it conquer the world. Supermarkets from Kansas City to Qatar have recently been stripped of the stuff.

Full article :

economist.com/books-and-arts/2

This is just the first on a whole series of Tweets with different graph data and analysis by John, who is on the Financial Times newspaper.

Quality work, thank you, and useful for anyone wanting better understanding. Suggest looking at the whole series.
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RT @jburnmurdoch
NEW: Sun 19 April update of coronavirus trajectories

Daily deaths
• Still too early to say if US & UK peaked
• Su…
twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/statu

Basil's got the chair, hahaha... too late, Saffron.

But you can have the corner. 💕 are fun too...


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RT @fox_gox@twitter.activitypub.actor
@TreasuryMog Basil is a handsome black cat from @RSPCA_official.
He also recommends two for the price of one...here with sister Saffron.
twitter.com/fox_gox/status/125

lovers unite...


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RT @fox_gox@twitter.activitypub.actor
@CallMe_Governor @TreasuryMog They do know how lovely they are. And they are cheeky!
twitter.com/fox_gox/status/125

Ephesus, then and now.
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RT @romanhistory1@twitter.activitypub.actor
Ephesus turkey ❤️
Just imagine walking in those ancient streets 🏛️
twitter.com/romanhistory1/stat

Gorgeous tabby. Those yes, that fur.


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RT @poet_yorkshire@twitter.activitypub.actor
@jwillisdovetail When the slaves of the type humanoid finally get to sleep walk over their heads and if they complain do it again!
twitter.com/poet_yorkshire/sta

PlutocratsFirst!
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RT @teacherdude@twitter.activitypub.actor
@doctorow @MacJuanma America's Billionaires First
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