#Shock

105 yrs ago today, the Easter Rising started in Dublin.Along with Ghadar and Petrograd, it opened a global revolutionary wave that included workers' uprisings, land seizures and anti-colonial struggles and
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The discordian operation is in full swing. Those who correctly understand motions of the Gates Foundation et al are being lumped in with discordian fascist propagandists. The COVID response is
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A series of tweets I didn't expect to write so soon.Mid-COVID QUT announced the wind down of @QUTCEA. It was a shock to the team and to the wider startup
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Who wants a saucy thread? Literally. I'm going to talk about sauces/condiments in the US and UK, and possibly by extension and replies, the rest of the anglosphere. Thread to
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I opened the #GreatBigBoxOfHats. It did not disappoint. It is a time capsule from wee!Sal's life. First, actual hat boxes! The Eaton's box is a real find as Eaton's went
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SPECIAL HALLOWEEN THREADHave you ever felt unease walking around your city? Have you ever experienced discomfort from a building or urban environment? The reason might be due to the very
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UK families have seen MUCH deeper income hits during the pandemic than those in France and Germany. Headline finding from a new @resfoundation deep dive comparing financial resilience between Europe's
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Let's discuss this after we supply the missing image description: Two photos of a tripartite metal bench with the middle seat missing, ostensibly to allow a wheelchair user to back
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Two very interesting stories from the energy transition in the FT today. Oil trader Trafigura is making "a big push into renewable energy", with plans to build or buy 2
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okay but you know how we (well, a really good psychologist) debunked laziness? Can we debunk lateness? Do people really think other people are late bc of some agenda or
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imagine urself in the year 2023... you are where nct 127 holds their last concert, then suddenly taeyong walked in front of the stage, the lights dimmed.. as u hold
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okay who's ready for my ares/hypnos thread lul important characterization notes for thishypnos builds on some ingame dialogue and pulls a lot on the idea that his family neglects him
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Yesterday I had a disagreement with @JohnTmrguk over a tweet he made that, at face value, was transphobic. We had a heated debate about the semantics, but John later apologised
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I usually leave this stuff alone & I am not going to dignify the insane column I just (mistakenly) read in a local opinion section with a retweet. But it’s
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It’s Mother Teresa’s Feast Day, so it’s a good time to mention that I’m the first person in the world to have taken her name as a confirmation name (a
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Getting an autism diagnosis late in life introduced me to a number of new concepts: meltdown, shutdown, burnout and sensory overload. Applied to my life retrospectively these made perfect sense,
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