#Figures

While I profoundly appreciate people buying my books - it's literally why I'm alive - I am happy that my work is very likely available on pirating websites. Individuals accessing
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Energy Department admits the 'Tech Roadmap' is full of literal thought bubbles based on 'expert judgement' and not based on analysis. Favourable treatment of gas vs renewables ensured by assumptions
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The conservative reaction to @KamalaHarris, including questions about whether she's Black enough, is both fascinating and revealing. Here's a way to understand it (THREAD). /1 It's almost impossible to overstate
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ISKP media outlet released a 20 min audio where the group spokesman Sultan Aziz Azzam provides details of the group's deadliest attack on the central prison in Nangarhar carried on
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This thread is NOT directed at any one person but instead is my thoughts after reading through a few tweets by a handful of individuals who are confused or angry
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In this 'Vanitas Still Life' (1603) by Jacques de Gheyn II he uses the symbol of Homo Bulla, "man is but a bubble" above the skull. Human life is vanity
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Who is a Migrant? Do we have any definition of Migrant? A person going to another state for employment is a Migrant or even a person moving to another city
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Sol Invictus, Mithras, Helios, Baldr, Odin, Lugh. Somehow all of these figures come close to some misty archetype but never quite hit it. Too abstract. Then, a story of this
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It’s GERS day again in Scotland. That’s the day when we go through the annual fiasco of Unionist gloating about accounting that literally does not add up that delivers economic
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can't stop thinking about a minjoon au where joon is so excited to finally introduce his friends to his new bf jimin (who is a certified dime) but he made
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Burial of a sorceress from Natufian culture, 12,000 years ago. She was found carefully burried with animal remains around her - over 50 tortoise shells, forearm of a wild boar,
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If Auckland does spiral into high R at level 2 with huge pressure building around the polarised clash between anti-lockdown advocates and those arguing for precaution, along with politicised blame
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There are several errors in this video, but the most egregious is how it completely glosses over the scene of Persephone's sexual assault. No, not "taking." Not "abduction." Not some
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From 2007 to 2014, "South Korean firms with subsidiaries operating at Kaesong showed average annual increases in revenues (by 8%), fixed assets (by 26%) and profits (by 11%)." https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/north-east-asia/korea
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The concerns I’m getting so far re this massive anomaly/backlog in Covid statistics relates to contact tracing as much as anything else. The ‘computer problem’ the PM referred to this
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From the 1950s to the 1980s, when people talked of 'manned' spaceflight and 'mankind' going to the stars, they meant men, not women. Women were not allowed or welcome in
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