Phil Kilner
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A work in progress. A recovering idiot. "Fix your hearts or die"
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Noah Berlatsky
4 days ago
the SC taking a year to address a major international crisis strongly suggests they are understaffed and that we need to expand the court.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
6 days ago
May Virginia Giuffre's memory be for a revolution.
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These are fantastic places to explore. There is still a lot there to see, and it brings it home what a harsh business it was. There is not much natural about the moors...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
12 days ago
Cam High Road is a historically significant well preserved Roman Road, ancient packhorse route and later, (1751) turnpike road. It connected the Roman fort at Bainbridge (Virosidum) with Ingleton. These days it is a high altitude and sometimes very 1/2
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DB Maggi
12 days ago
“I really don’t know why Farage is celebrating D Day. His side lost.” - Dennis Skinner 🎤
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Lovely
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13 days ago
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Newen Afrobeat / Opposite People
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Newen Afrobeat feat Seun Kuti & Cheick Tidiane Seck Opposite People Fela Kut
YouTube video by ALBEGX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcUwBWzziTQ&list=RDfcUwBWzziTQ&start_radio=1
15 days ago
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DB Maggi
16 days ago
I don't know guys, but is seems to me this is important info the BBC should have shared with the British people long before today.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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British Transport Films Stills
16 days ago
FREIGHT AND A CITY (1966)
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Knaresborough Chronicles
16 days ago
OTD | 8 February 1745 Daniel Clark disappears from Knaresborough. Years later, the killer is named as Eugene Aram — a brilliant but penniless philologist whose crime would become one of Britain’s most infamous murder cases.
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A tragedy that I remember vividly from my childhood.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
17 days ago
The Gauxholme Viaduct and locks are a historic industrial site in Todmorden, where the 1840s Manchester and Leeds Railway crosses the Rochdale Canal. The Grade II listed, 4 arch stone viaduct is often confused with the more decorative castellated skew bridge below and the area also contains a flight
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TerryLeopard
18 days ago
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jennifer uncoolidge
18 days ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
18 days ago
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
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Acyn
18 days ago
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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ex-Lethality Jane
18 days ago
Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
18 days ago
Lancelot “Capability” Brown, who died on this day in 1783, was remarkably prolific in Yorkshire, with around 20 sites linked to his work. He transformed rigid, formal gardens into naturalistic parkland, defined by sweeping lawns, serpentine lakes and carefully placed clumps of trees. His 1/3
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Zoe Gardner
18 days ago
How is it any surprise that “even Tories” thought Mandelson was a good appointment? There’s no difference between their supine “suck up to Trump at the expense of any moral red lines” policy & that of the government.
#r4today
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British Transport Films Stills
18 days ago
NORTH TO THE DALES (1963)
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Open Culture
19 days ago
Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought
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Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought
The animals were imperfect, long-tailed, unfortunate in their heads. Little by little they put themselves together, making themselves a landscape, acquiring spots, grace, flight.
https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/cats-migrated-to-europe-7000-years-earlier-than-once-thought.html
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3, 4, 5, 6, and even 7 Popehats
20 days ago
This is like mom hissing WE'RE GOING TO TALK LATER ABOUT WHAT YOU DID to dad in front of the kids
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Good news.
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Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/04/palestine-action-activists-cleared-aggravated-burglary-israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-filton?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
20 days ago
I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.
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EZRA đź—ť ROSE
22 days ago
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
22 days ago
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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Passed over this only today. A lovely thing, and the views from it are as good as the views of it.
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British Transport Films Stills
23 days ago
EXPERIMENT UNDER LONDON (1961)
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Kat Abughazaleh
23 days ago
CHICAGOANS!!!! Voting is open for the annual snowplow naming contest. And “Abolish Ice” is one of the options. You know what to do (vote):
chicagoshovels.org
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Kat Abughazaleh
24 days ago
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
24 days ago
I once saw Staithes (which was locally often pronounced Steers) wonderfully described as a "jumble of whitewashed, pantile-roofed cottages clinging to the hillside, threaded through with narrow ginnels leading to the pretty harbour." and with the the Cod & Lobster, practically
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Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n
almost 2 years ago
So at least 1 congresscritter said the quiet part loud: They genuinely don't think of the things they accuse tiktok of maybe being made to do by the Chinese govt— surveillance, manipulation, etc— as actually bad. They think of *China Doing It* as bad, but U.S. companies doing it is fine; good, even.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
24 days ago
Introduced in 1815, the Corn Laws imposed tariffs on imported grain to protect British landowners by keeping food prices high. While they safeguarded rural interests, they were bitterly resented in industrial areas, where expensive bread weighed heavily on working-class 1/5
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Chad Loder
24 days ago
opsec is like dating. nobody actually follows their own advice
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Visit Wakefield
26 days ago
Lofthouse Interchange - Heritage Open Day. 6th February. Guided tours of the bridges and underpass. High-vis vests supplied.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
25 days ago
Yorkshire's Green lanes are ancient, unpaved rural routes, often former Roman roads, medieval packhorse routes, or drovers' roads that fell into disuse as modern roads were developed, yet remain as public highways (Byways Open to All Traffic or Unclassified County Roads). Notable
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British Transport Films Stills
25 days ago
JUST LIKE THE REST OF US (1983)
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Sean Walters
26 days ago
The late Ari Up from The Slits performing the Junior Murvin song "Police and Thieves" with her band the True Warriors live at the Joe Strummer celebration live in NYC in December 2003. Length: 7:42.
#PostPunk
#Reggae
m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oR...
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YouTube video by Punkcast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oRwxdh43Y
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The only thing you have to pay to feel electric is attention!
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26 days ago
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄
26 days ago
People are finally realizing that politicians and laws are not going to save us, that we have to take liberation into our own hands, and it honestly has me feeling electric every day. Something in the air is really, really different right now
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
26 days ago
Built using stone imported from the same quarry that was used in the construction of the Taj Mahal in India, the Suffa Tul Islam Central Mosque, Horton, Bradford took some twelve years to finish in 2014. Image Early Morning Tim Green. CC BY 2.0
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
27 days ago
Two images of the cabman's shelter taken on my May 2024 visit to Ripon. Dating from 1911 it was supplied by Boulton and Paul who also supplied the huts for Captain Scott's expedition. It was used by drivers of horse-drawn cabs who were waiting for fares. The company's origins 1/2
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Charlie Stross
28 days ago
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too! *Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
28 days ago
It’s that time of year again, and in Wakefield that means celebrating the area’s most distinctive tradition: the forced rhubarb grown in the historic Rhubarb Triangle. Harvested by candlelight in darkened sheds, this delicate pink crop was so prized that special night trains ran from Christmas
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White Rose Resistance
28 days ago
Don't repeatedly call the ICE hotline and play audio clips from the Nuremberg trials when someone picks up. That would be childish. Not 1-866-347-2423 from US or Canada nor 1-802-872-6199 from other areas around the globe.
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British Transport Films Stills
29 days ago
GO AS YOU PLEASE IN BRITAIN (1975)
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
about 1 month ago
A little Sunday morning romance. The Beggars Bridge at Glaisdale. The bridge is the centre of the wonderfully romantic legend of Thomas Ferris, a poor man who had been denounced as a beggar by the local squire. Thomas was in love with the squire’s daughter Agnes Richardson. Before Thomas 1/3
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Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n
about 1 month ago
Starfleet Academy is perfectly positioned to have an episode that goes back in time to "Trials and Tribble-ations"
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David Ho
about 1 month ago
In France, they would have brought out the guillotine already.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire
about 1 month ago
Beyond the old Norman entrance of Skipton Castle is the gem that is Conduit Court. This paved and cobbled courtyard, surrounded by a range of domestic Tudor buildings, contains the famous yew tree reputedly planted by Lady Anne Clifford. The courtyard takes its
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