PeterB
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November 24, 1859, first publication of Charles #Darwin’s Origin of Species 📚 & it all started with a geological field trip 🪨🔨
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November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
November 24, 1859, first publication of Charles #Darwin’s Origin of Species 📚 & it all started with a geological field trip 🪨🔨
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
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Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?
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every sunday harry liked to come to the park with a big bag of werther’s and feed the old men
June 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
every sunday harry liked to come to the park with a big bag of werther’s and feed the old men
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Sometimes I like to take a break from the online world of billionaire-manipulated news channels, crypto scams, and hallucinating google searches to visit a tree and appreciate its inability to lie to me
June 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sometimes I like to take a break from the online world of billionaire-manipulated news channels, crypto scams, and hallucinating google searches to visit a tree and appreciate its inability to lie to me
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To Prince Edward Island
Alex Colville
1965
Alex Colville
1965
June 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
To Prince Edward Island
Alex Colville
1965
Alex Colville
1965
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“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
-William Wordsworth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
-William Wordsworth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
June 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
-William Wordsworth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
-William Wordsworth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
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A #FrockingFabulous silver screen stunner, worn by Anna May Wong in Limehouse Blues, 1938, via The Met.
June 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A #FrockingFabulous silver screen stunner, worn by Anna May Wong in Limehouse Blues, 1938, via The Met.
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On my way to donate blood I noticed they are knocking down the Banting Institute, built in 1930. I once took a cutting from a vine that grew at a window, a window I imagined Frederick Banting once peered through.
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On my way to donate blood I noticed they are knocking down the Banting Institute, built in 1930. I once took a cutting from a vine that grew at a window, a window I imagined Frederick Banting once peered through.
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Reading Les Miserables and the scene where Hugo describes Wellington and Napoleon feels like reading the average shonen manga powerscaling meta #booksky
May 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reading Les Miserables and the scene where Hugo describes Wellington and Napoleon feels like reading the average shonen manga powerscaling meta #booksky
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Terraforming Mars - reality check
May 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Terraforming Mars - reality check
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when someone dies earlier than expected it's a shock, but there comes a time when you have to admit that it'd be surprising if they were still alive at this age -- you release them from the tragedy of early death, but you still miss the years you could have had with them if they had remained alive
May 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
when someone dies earlier than expected it's a shock, but there comes a time when you have to admit that it'd be surprising if they were still alive at this age -- you release them from the tragedy of early death, but you still miss the years you could have had with them if they had remained alive
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we didn't host King Charles, but we did have two teenaged British rugby billets, and they left us with this loot, God save the sultana:
May 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
we didn't host King Charles, but we did have two teenaged British rugby billets, and they left us with this loot, God save the sultana:
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Ginger Ale and Tomato Sandwich No. 1
Mary Pratt
1999
Mary Pratt
1999
May 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ginger Ale and Tomato Sandwich No. 1
Mary Pratt
1999
Mary Pratt
1999
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Manniapiga (My Lovely Egg)
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2024
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2024
April 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Manniapiga (My Lovely Egg)
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2024
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2024
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We once lived in a world where Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter sang together.
Happy Birthday my Ella.
Happy Birthday my Ella.
April 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We once lived in a world where Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter sang together.
Happy Birthday my Ella.
Happy Birthday my Ella.
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kid begged me to buy him a loaf of white sliced bread, so I did -- first loaf like that I've had in many a year, but I just toasted up two slices and spread mayonnaise and cut up a tomato and sprinkled pepper & salt and wow that is a nice sandwich.
April 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
kid begged me to buy him a loaf of white sliced bread, so I did -- first loaf like that I've had in many a year, but I just toasted up two slices and spread mayonnaise and cut up a tomato and sprinkled pepper & salt and wow that is a nice sandwich.
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I gave blood today and the nurse who pricked my finger said, "You're well-hydrated," and no one has ever said that to me before.
April 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I gave blood today and the nurse who pricked my finger said, "You're well-hydrated," and no one has ever said that to me before.
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‘Peasant assertiveness was born not of desperation but new-found political confidence: being better off made serfdom even less acceptable.’
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War
The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
‘Peasant assertiveness was born not of desperation but new-found political confidence: being better off made serfdom even less acceptable.’
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the German Peasants’ War of 1524-25: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Someone on TikTok repeatedly messages me with, “do a TikTok on each of your books, what they’re about!”
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Someone on TikTok repeatedly messages me with, “do a TikTok on each of your books, what they’re about!”
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
You mean like…the books I’ve written, in which the words sort of (hopefully) explain what the book is about?
I am happy for people who can do all that work but Jesus the internet has worn me out
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Every time I read a book of the collected letters between two writers, the book always ends the same way -- one of the writers dies and the letters stop.
April 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Every time I read a book of the collected letters between two writers, the book always ends the same way -- one of the writers dies and the letters stop.