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That lien in breaking bad about "why don't you just die already" is now starkly recontextualised. RIP
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After watching "No Kings: Vote Early" and the "October 17th manifestation" in France at the same time, Americans should shut up with their quasi-protests.
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All they tell you about mexico is the drug cartels
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Today I saw 8 cops and two confused looking immigration enforcement agents arguing over what to do and generally acting puzzled outside of a Kurdish barbers' before leaving
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Guess I won't be going to france any time soon
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I fucking walkmog these car drivers lmao. I love walking past cars stuck in traffic. Also Gloucester City Council (which currently has no leader or cabinet because of the 39 wankers who hate each other known as members voting out the leadership and refusing to come up with an alternative one) has diverted a dual carriaegway traffic down a one lane road leading to 25 minute delays (for a stretch of road that takes ~30 seconds to drive down normally)
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Now if you're in Brazil, and you weren't going to vote, after this farce, make sure to vote now. :D
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Wow. It's not over until it's over!
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I am just now discovering the carrotcypher drama and would like to publicly state that: - trans lives matter, especially if they are that of young students oppressed by their teachers and parents - ICE should never send people to prison because of their activism (nor for any other reason really) - FOSS is political and as such cannot dissociate itself from other political struggles Context: https://floss.social/@janet/114501020787694470
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So I've been thinking a lot about the right (fair) price of digital content lately (software, music, games, movies, 3D models, you name it). Because all the cost is up front, and once it's done it can be copied endlessly, digital content has always been the capitalist's wet dream, and effectively a great money milking machine for big corp. (Because they charge the same for every copy. Forever.) My conclusion is that fairness can only be achieved through pay-what-you-wan...
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Puppygirl supremacy
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🛢️ 💵 🛢️ 💵 👀 Price tracker: ownership claims on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Light Sweet Crude Oil as followed by the United States Oil Fund, LP. The price today stands at $145.55 per barrel which is a 39.51% increase over a six month period. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/USO:NYSEARCA?window=6M. #WTI #Oil #Data #Markets #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Business #Finance #News
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Afternoon all.
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📚️ The Aljamiado Phenomenon in Early Modern Europe: A Shared Written Culture of Muslim Communities "By proposing ‘European Aljamiado’ as a new analytical framework, the authors show how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script." 🔗 https://lup.nl/publications/history/cultural-history/the-aljamiado-phenomenon-in-early-modern-europe/ #History #Histodons #Euro...
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Afternoon all.
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Afternoon all.
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🏴 🛢️ 💵 👀 Price tracker: ownership claims on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Light Sweet Crude Oil as followed by the United States Oil Fund, LP. The price today stands at $168.44 which represents a 5.94% increase over the last five days. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/USO:NYSEARCA?window=5D. #WTI #Oil #Data #DataViz #Markets #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Business #Finance #News
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Pro tip: if you want to predict how humans will act in the future note how they have acted in the past. #History #Histodons
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📚️ 🇺🇸 Immortal Confederacy: Jubal A. Early and the War for History "Early’s use of emerging historic methods—such as primary sources, citations, numerical data, peer review, objective tone, and archives building—enabled his revanchist narrative to appear as truth." 🔗 https://www.ugapress.org/9780820381176/immortal-confederacy/ #History #Histodons #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #Confederate #LostCause #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #No...
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📚️ 🇺🇸 Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England "This new annotated edition of Slave Life in Georgia presents the most comprehensive and accurate account of his life before and after the publication of Brown’s narrative." 🔗 https://www.ugapress.org/9780820381428/slave-life-in-georgia/ #History #Histodons #Slavery #Georgia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfict...
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🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🎥 The Russian Revolution and the legacy of the White Army 🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/between-the-czar-and-hitler-the-russian-revolution-and-the-legacy-of-the-white-army/video-79740826 #History #Histodons #C20th #21Century #Russia #Germany #Europe #Video
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🧬 Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM "Our analyses reveal previously undetected gene flow between eastern and western early Gravettian populations in southwestern Europe, challenging models of regional genetic continuity from the Aurignacian to the Solutrean (∼24 to 19 ka)." Pere Gelabert et al., Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM. Sci. Adv.12, eaeh 6128 (2026)...
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📚️ Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation "Enhanced by illuminating commentary, this accomplished translation transports us back to the very origins of civilisation and storytelling." 🔗 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571357246-gilgamesh/ #Poetry #Literature #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon
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🇫🇷 A prognosis for the future. #FT #News #Essay #France #Europe
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