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Wow. And - read the reactions in here. --- Why everyone’s mad at Apple’s new iPad ad wapo.st/3WyY9pH

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FYI Neil Gaiman @neilhimself has requested masking at his live events. 😷😷 He also encourages people to get vaccinated.
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I’m sitting outside my daughter’s place of work because a man she declined a date with on Tuesday has been waiting for her nightly after her shift. If you don’t hear from me in an hour, send bail.
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I Love Jennifer Eccles (Pencil and Watercolour on Paper) by P.F Bennett (needs a tap 🤏😉)
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Swapping a promising career in medicine four decades ago for a lifelong pursuit of service through humanitarian relief, Dr Sooliman and his NGO, @GiftoftheGivers, have become household names in South Africa and worldwide. See: bit.ly/3QdsWnr #CivicHonoursCT
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This is Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko. They spent 18-20 hours a day writing and signing transit visas by hand in Lithuania for thousands of Jews for 29 days from July 31 to August 28, 1940. Yukiko described their last days in Lithuania: "He was so exhausted, like a sick person. Even though he was ordered to go to Berlin, he said he couldn't make it to Berlin and suggested we go to a hotel and rest before leaving. When we got to the hotel, the Jewish people came looking for us there. So he wrote some more visas in the hotel. The next day when we got to the train station, they were there too. So he wrote more visas on the platform until the train left. Once we were on board, they were hanging on the windows, and he wrote some more. When the train started moving, he couldn't write anymore. Everyone was waving their hands. One of them called out, 'Thank you Mr. Sugihara, we will come to see you again,' and he came running after the train. I couldn't stop crying. When I think about it, even now, I can't help crying." As the train left the station, Sugihara said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best." It is estimated that the actions undertaken by him and his wife are responsible for the present lives of around 100,000 people. After the war, Sugihara was forced to resign and work menial jobs (selling light bulbs door to door). He languished in relative obscurity until 1968 when an Israeli diplomat managed to find him and finally got him the recognition that he deserved. Sugihara never told anyone what he had done during the war. Even his closest friends had no idea. "I may have disobeyed my government, but if I didn't, I would be disobeying God. In life, do what's right because it's right, and leave it alone."
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One of the biggest "mistakes" I see new editors (or even new critique partners!) make is doing too much editing. I say it in quotations because while you're not doing something dead wrong, you're setting yourself up for work redundancy and tension with cost. Let me explain.
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A thread of 20 ancient sites and wonders brought to life by virtual reconstructions 🧵 1. The Colossus of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece (c.280 BC)
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Replying to @RandiMcCallian
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11 Oct 2023
Replying to @JDaviesPhD
Anyone who has a CFS “recovery” program/ protocol would generally use this method. Its pathetic
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2 Oct 2023
“We first sent to a Nature journal, and within 24 h, they rejected it as an incremental contribution. I started learning English only at university, so I had to look up the meaning of the word incremental!” Katalin Karikó, in 2021, on her paper that led to a Nobel Prize today.
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2 Oct 2023
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Life lesson for lads who would be men Aggressively trying to overtake a car on a dark road isn't clever Using your main beam & driving too close to intimidate is reckless. Bullying 2 women driving at night isn't funny - until you find out they're CID, then it's hysterical 🚔💜
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12 Oct 2021
Just leaving this here..
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“I’ll mask if there’s a disabled person” Yes because every time a disabled person steps into a supermarket they hold up a big megaphone and shouts “everyone put on a mask!” and everyone just happily takes out a mask which they always bring with them just in case and puts it on
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I know this place's days may be numbered but if you're looking for an account sharing simple nature-based & creative ways to improve your mental health backed by research, thoughts/hacks from someone recently diagnosed with #ADHD & #autism & some very nice twigs,then I can help🌿
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Agreed. Maybe don't qwiz them on the Dewey Decimal System, though.
The cutest librarian I've ever seen !!
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