Which crazy fool gave a tortoise internet access?

Oddly, there was an effective treatment for malaria at the time, the bark of the Cinchona tree, which contained quinine. Supposedly, Cromwell refused this “Jesuit bark,” which Protestants regarded as a papist poison. The man was literally killed by his own bigotry.

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Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

When I was growing up, my mum would quite often say, "If so and so jumped off a cliff, would you?", presumably in an attempt to rescue me from the teenage hive mind, and I find it *very interesting* how much social media encourages lemming/social fit behaviour among otherwise sensible adults.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Maungy Thursday more like, am I right, Yorkshire folk?

This is absurd. Either we needed those training posts or we didn’t. You don’t train specialists as a special treat to reward junior doctors for not striking.

www.maptap.gg April 2 95🏆 97🏅 70😁 91🎉 100🎯 Final score: 905 It’s a metaphor for life, this game: you’re always a peg or two down from where you think you are

Wordle 1,748 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Early next morning, Bob still snoring, Martha took a stroll Birds on the wing Starting to sing Martha fell into a hole

Langland Bay, Swansea

Nonchalant animal noises This is what the internet is made for 😭😭🤣🤣

That’s one hell of a cover…..

dogs can’t LOOKUP, in fact many of them lack even a basic understanding of Excel or other spreadsheets

Pitch an unnecessary sequel: Herbie goes to the garage for an MoT

Pitch an unnecessary sequel: 102 Dalmatians

Pitch an unnecessary sequel Shaun of the ill

🎶🎵 I fought the bins and I won I fought the bins and I-I-I wooooon 🎶🎵 #WednesdayEvening

It’s just wild to me that we didn’t know what the far side of the Moon looked like until the 50s. Here’s a globe from that era that lives in our university library. They used the far side as a legend, since they did have any images to use.

Its almost as if the argument about learning from history isn't being made in good faith

I find the defence of statues - that we need them to learn from our history - is puzzling If that were the case, each statue would have a proper interpretation board with links to more resources, updated as historical analysis grows But most statues do not seem to have this, I find

⬇️ Which is why media should spend less time reporting his words like there's a big thing happening, and more time reporting on what those around him are doing and how the US populace is reacting

And that was Robotaxi Malfunction, who are playing at the Roundhouse this weekend, check them out if you can

No, no, its all going to be fiiine ...

Imagine if you missed your bins on the moon - given a lunar day of 29.5 Earth days, it might be half a year before the next bin day

Tagging in @ciaraioch.bsky.social

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I made these! well, designed them anyway! ✨

April fools! We're all fools and it's April. Anyway

For 1.4.26 here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Harvard University Harvard was originally to be a college of Cambridge University, but Oxford objected, leading to Harvard being granted university status in its own right If you like this image, please repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

I agree wholeheartedly with this piece BUT the blame for this lies squarely at the door of the legislators and regulators whose whole approach has been to treat anything that addresses the quality of speech as an interference with it.1/n

shoutout to this magnificent piece of public art

www.maptap.gg April 1 97🏅 98🔥 98🔥 98🔥 96🏅 Final score: 973 Could’ve, should’ve done a bit better on 5 …

Wordle 1,747 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bob and Martha walked home from the theatre in the moonlight What an evening it had been! An incomprehensible plot, histrionic acting, and fabulous special effects!

What a fabulous thing to know and be able to demonstrate!

There’s a post circulating out there today comparing AI refusal to vaccine hesitancy, and that’s obviously bullshit but got me thinking, what is the correct analogy? And it’s teetotalism. All kinds of folk don’t drink for all sorts of reasons. Drinking is socially normalised in many spaces. 1/n

The Royal Navy should go and blow up something Trump uses and tell him to fix it, maybe a golf course or Epstein's plane.

Trans people are human beings who deserve full human rights.

The Happy Hoodie strikes again. Sound is a requirement here. Cc: @darthbluesky.bsky.social @floregonian.com (I promise he is perfectly fine he’s just dramatic)

Sound advice for life

My #HigherEducationPostcard blog on Teesside University, for @wonkhe.bsky.social, also helped Jacksons Solicitors in Stockton understand more about their connection to Constantine College I find origin stories fascinating! jacksons.law/news/history...

An advert from The Era, published March 1895. 'TALKING PARROT, a Beautiful Grey. Would suit a Public House. Anyone being particular about the language don't apply, as some of the sentences could not be termed parliamentary.' Hope they went to a fitting establishment! 🤬🦜😆

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

www.maptap.gg March 31 82✨ 65🙃 83🌟 76🌞 60😐 Final score: 721 In my defence, for round 2 it interpreted an attempt to rotate the globe as my guess

Wordle 1,746 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The play was the over, and it had gone down well The audience leapt to their feet in wild applause, hats, bouquet and opera glasses thrown in the air in delirium

I got the sack, with 6 weeks' pay so we're in Scunthorpe.

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

To be fair, that's not the only thing it doesn't have enough of to keep humans healthy

The beach at Langland Bay has a blue plaque for Ludwig Wittgenstein

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