Believer in Sturgeon's law, optimistically | Linguistics student and music nerd |🏳️‍🌈✡️(atheist) | En/Fr

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Social Media ban / curfew Phone scanning Digital ID Online Safety Act Smoking ban Facial scanning Face covering ban Sentencing protesters as terrorists What the actual fuck is going on and why does nobody seem to give a shit?
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads
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The French word for "beep" is "bip"
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Very occasionally, my YouTube recommendations are purely blessed
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The drawing's title is "thirst"
Other 19th century artists: “what if our country was a beautiful lady 😁?” 19th century French artists: “what if our country breastfed us 🤤?”
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Discontent with being merely mediocre, Rouvali splashes in at random intervals micromanaged nonsense to excite the audience. Perhaps he thinks that being distinctive equates being good? In any case, he suceeds at being entertaining—I laughed many times while listening!
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Not liking a food is a skill issue and I'm tired of society acting otherwise. (Except vegans)
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court cases being called [blank] vs. [blank] is one of the hardest choices our political system has made
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Cleveland deserves to be a Great American City
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Louise Arbour has the oldest Wikipedia article of any Governor General who has served since Wikipedia was created, and the fourth oldest of any overall.
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Notice how everything except his skin is vividly coloured.
Fun fact. There are Roman frescoes that depict Roman statues. So we actually know the paint wasn't technicolor slop. It was very modest and realistic.
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There is a full-colour photograph of Leo Tolstoy
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Guide to flags 🇺🇦🇮🇱 - Stop reposting this tweet format it’s annoying 🇺🇦🇵🇸 - Stop reposting this tweet format it’s annoying 🇷🇺🇮🇱 - Stop reposting this tweet format it’s annoying 🇷🇺🇵🇸 - Stop reposting this tweet format it’s annoying
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This is one of the most evil things Canada has ever done
Until Mulroney ended it in 1990 Canada had a "tap on, tap off" immigration policy. At times we turned the tap off for years or a decade. Kind of makes sense, right?
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My grandmother was born here—there's a reason she left the USSR as a stateless refugee.
#Russia: in a village not far from Moscow in 2008, a local was asked why the population was so antisemitic: "It is because the Jews have a secret vegetable they eat so they don’t become alcoholics like the rest of us. And they refuse to share that vegetable with anyone else."
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Newfoundland's provincial parks sure are something...
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We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption.
The fact we have this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen
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You're stupid if you do any of these, except for the ones that I always mess up, which are dumb and should be changed.
This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’
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Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and violoncello, op. 115 —Johannes Brahms.
songs where the title isn’t said anywhere in the song are artistic af
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I would do unspeakable things
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