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Iain (一言) Dooley
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In honour of the re-establishment of US fascism here is a brief thread about money and the concept of #basicincome and #crypto 🪡 🧵
Money is a word used to describe both a state unit of account in which assets and liabilities are denominated, and physical tokens issued by the state …
Money is a word used to describe both a state unit of account in which assets and liabilities are denominated, and physical tokens issued by the state …
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Christian Handies
Father
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
Father
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Christian Handies
Father
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
Father
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
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No honour among thieves...
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
No honour among thieves...
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Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
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Algebra was easy in Ancient Rome.
X = 10.
X = 10.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Algebra was easy in Ancient Rome.
X = 10.
X = 10.
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Will always be funny
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Will always be funny
What’s still interesting is that MTG obviously knows what’s right and wrong. She just plays a part according to her own interests
youtube.com/shorts/pT5J-...
youtube.com/shorts/pT5J-...
AOC Spills The Tea On Marjorie Greene
YouTube video by TYT Investigates
youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What’s still interesting is that MTG obviously knows what’s right and wrong. She just plays a part according to her own interests
youtube.com/shorts/pT5J-...
youtube.com/shorts/pT5J-...
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
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It’s all just a little bit of history repeating
Who's shocked that career-racist Pauline Hanson has, in a desperate please for attention, has donned a burqa again?
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
#auspol
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
#auspol
Hanson suspended from Senate for wearing a burqa in the chamber
Labor and Coalition senators united to condemn the One Nation leader’s stunt and vote to have her removed.
www.theage.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating
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This rules
“We’re not here for revenge. We’re not here to destroy the Post-Gazette. We are here to rebuild it,” said Goldstein to management. “You get to decide on your role in that. We’ve already decided on ours.”
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a court upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision for the union.
www.publicsource.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This rules
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Trump entering the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children is as Masque of the Red Death as you can get.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Trump entering the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children is as Masque of the Red Death as you can get.
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Botswana built its development on diamonds since they were discovered soon after independence in the 1960s. It became an African success story. But now it's crashing down because of the rapid rise of synthetic gems from Russia and India.
This African nation built its development on diamonds. Now it's crashing down
Diamonds helped transform Botswana from one of the world’s poorest nations into one of Africa’s success stories.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Botswana built its development on diamonds since they were discovered soon after independence in the 1960s. It became an African success story. But now it's crashing down because of the rapid rise of synthetic gems from Russia and India.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving next year in a 10-month new military service program as France seeks to bolster its armed forces to address growing threats.
Macron unveils new French voluntary military service
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new military service program for volunteers aged 18 and 19. Starting next year, they will serve for 10 months.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving next year in a 10-month new military service program as France seeks to bolster its armed forces to address growing threats.
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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
The long read: The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated – and for the next decade, I worked for the party. But I ended up quitting politics in disappointment. What happened?
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
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I’m trying to think of a situation where I had less sympathy for someone’s complaints and I’m having a hard time coming up with one
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I’m trying to think of a situation where I had less sympathy for someone’s complaints and I’m having a hard time coming up with one
Heavy liver is more like it
looks like he dropped in to the front bar to tell the lads his missus kicked him out again
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Heavy liver is more like it
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Let’s check in on the MAGA ‘patriots’ from Russia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and Iran - spreading their ‘patriotism’ worldwide.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Let’s check in on the MAGA ‘patriots’ from Russia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and Iran - spreading their ‘patriotism’ worldwide.
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Everyone who has played those traffic jam sorting phone games stepping up as their time has finally come “we’ve trained for this!”
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Everyone who has played those traffic jam sorting phone games stepping up as their time has finally come “we’ve trained for this!”
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Considering the way Elon Musk has incompetently run X and DOGE as first and foremost opportunities to pry through records looking for embarassing information, you're gambling with your life by buying internet service or a remotely-controllable vehicle packed with internet-connected sensors from him.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Considering the way Elon Musk has incompetently run X and DOGE as first and foremost opportunities to pry through records looking for embarassing information, you're gambling with your life by buying internet service or a remotely-controllable vehicle packed with internet-connected sensors from him.
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