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Regarding made-up cursing & swear words in tv & movies--look, don't waste your time trying to think up sweary-sounding words. Just hire someone from Ireland as your Obscenity Coordinator.
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Not good at starting conversations but am happy to join them.
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This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale)
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Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administrationwww.nytimes.com
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My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.
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It's National Library Week. Make sure that if you're sharing National Library Week images you include alt text because the library is for EVERYONE. If people don't know what your image is, especially if it contains text, your post is not for everyone. Guidance: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
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fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world
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A very happy fuck all fascists day today and every day and thank you to Hungary for giving us all hope
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“In our survey of American dietary habits, we were alarmed to find that the vast majority of respondents reported eating fewer than two bees in an average day,” said the wheezing health and human services secretary
Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough BeesWASHINGTON—After manually prying his eyelids open to read from a report he had prepared on the matter, a badly swollen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a speech Tuesday in which he warned that Americans were not eating enough bees. “In our survey of American ...theonion.com
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Saffron caught in golden hour like she scheduled it herself ☀️ Majestic floof? Activated. Tail? Flawless. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky
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They're just showing off a different style of digging.
WeRateDogsThis is Nessie and Millie. Neither of them ever really learned how to dig, but Millie is pretty sure it's like giving CPR. 12/10 no one tell her (TT: millieandazula)
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one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?
The liberal case for voter IDThe SAVE Act is a bad bill, but voter ID is a good ideawww.theargumentmag.com
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Send ICE agents to Iran. They want to beat up and shoot people? They can try their skills there, and see if they work as well in that environment.
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Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
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This meme hurts because it’s familiar. In 2022, Ukraine asked to “close the skies” and heard “we can’t.” Now the Gulf is on fire—and suddenly “closing the skies” sounds possible. Air defense isn’t about geography. It’s about political will. Share if you’re tired of double standards.