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Before we talk about other stars, though, let's talk about our own star -- the Sun!! This way, we have something to compare to. (And we can appreciate how ~boring~
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SHORT THREADLots yesterday and today about Keir Starmer's speech today. @POLITICOEurope helpfully provides a link for the speech expected at 1107am https://labour.org.uk/keir-starmer-speech-securing-the-economy-for-families-during-lockd
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A few thoughts in advance of seeing the Brexit deal, assuming it's not scuppered at the last.1. It will save industries, in the short term. For all the problems it
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Spending the evening watching the 1994 movie The Paper for the first time. I'm frankly impressed by how well it has captured life in a newsroom. The paper-ridden desks, office
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USPS delivered about 800 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s last year. It delivered about 2.5 billion pieces of first class mail the week before Christmas.Even if *every one*
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The morning after defeat the night before.A mini thread of my thoughts from the game. When you lose, natural reaction can be to focus on what went wrong, there were
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A brief thread on Individual Healh Identifiers (IHI) and why we need this *urgently* in the Irish Health System. IHIs are a way of efficiently linking together a persons interactions
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I might do a thread on this later, but for now, let me point out that all electoral fraud is not the same. There is pre-election fraud, election-day fraud, and
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It's one thing to think last Admin was too tough on allies re burden sharing. But it doesn't make sense to go back to *saying* allies needed to do more
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[]In the days following the @JimOwles forum, I worried that my response to a question about cannabis would be used against me by racists who seek to reduce me –
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1/ Today on #Archaeology_Online we're going north, to a group of islands North of Scotland called Shetland. Here archaeological evidence has been found which represents almost all stages of European
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Nice White Ladies™ of Romancelandia, neither your tears nor your "good works" will save you from the consequences of your own actions. Calling you out on your bias and your
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Harry Holmes just made a billion dollars.He was really happy.for maybe a year.And then felt the exact same as before. Welcome to the Hedonic Treadmill.Keep reading... 1/ Harry's dream was
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I disagree that internal platforms are a bad thing. Teams often benefit from consistently using the underlying platforms (e.g. AWS, Heroku) they are using. There are a million ways to
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10 things I wish I knew when I was a student. 1. Be proud of your own background/path. I’m a first gen college student, with teen parents who came from
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I keep thinking that these are the latest in a long line of violehnt white supremacists. And how Whiteness erases its traces to seem seamless.I only saw these photos of
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