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Brett Holman

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PhD historian (aviation, bombing; WW1, WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
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once again imagining what the headlines tomorrow would look like if joe biden had mixed up hezbollah and hamas. but they want our senile golden boy to win the election so they'll say "pointed criticisms of biden's embattled middle east policy"
Um. What?
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Finchley Health Clinic, Oak Lane, Finchley 1938 Percival T. Harrison of the Municipal Borough of Finchley https://buff.ly/46EeHQa
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A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (330.81665, 0.57109). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
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Wonderful to see the First World War memorial at Greenwich University. I’m especially proud of it as I designed it (based on the lost original), researched it (adding names) and commissioned it. It was a special moment to see it come to fruition
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absolutely miss me with the paper straws
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We all do it. But arguing that “many people believed …” when your evidence base turns out to be precisely one person is naughty.
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Oh yeah, and accounts called things like ‘Western Warrior’ arguing for a return of absolute monarchy.
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I still log into the old place occasionally to check Leeds United news and it’s literally now all just threads about how ‘The Turin Shroud was real’ and ‘Rhodesia was good’.
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Lewis Baston, Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges; Interzone (@interzone.press) 300 #FridayReads
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Tesla sales have plummeted in Australia. Even EV groups are starting to feature a majority turning against Tesla specifically as a brand due to Musk's bigotry and Trump support. Only the 'Tesla Owners Australia' group still likes the brand.... www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life
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Here’s my hot take: I don’t care if USPS loses a boatload of money every year until the end of time. We need to stop thinking about these things as businesses and start thinking about them as SERVICES. Your tax dollars are an investment in honestly one of the coolest things in our country. I ❤️ USPS
“The money-losing US Postal Service,” says @npr.org , which is one way to describe this vital democratic institution.
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Last night, Bill Clinton offered up an unbelievable stat about jobs added under different presidents. But it was true. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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the last few months really have been one of the most extraordinary sequence of events in american political history. like, no exaggeration whatsoever
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Last image for today. #Saturn playing peek-a-boo at mid-emergence, early yesterday morning. Captured with an EdgeHD from my front driveway. 300 frame stack from a single video file #occultation #astrophotography #ThePhotoHour 🔭
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i try not to ask much in life but please let this be Grimace
Please please please let this be Taylor Swift
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Watering places of the #Regency, including Swansea #C18
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Avala Tower, Belgrade, Serbia r/brutalism
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ALL OF THIS
You may have heard that tonight is your chance to see a rare 'blue supermoon'. A reminder that: - The term 'Blue Moon' was invented in 1937 and has no astronomical significance. - Supermoons look just like any other Full Moon - Looking at the full Moon is always fabulous! 🔭🛰️
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It strikes me that the "it's rude to tell a writer you hated their book to their face" is really a subset of "have you tried not being an unbridled asshole to total strangers."
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Remarkable Roman stones, just piled up in a disused church in Narbonne. Remnants of old buildings in rows and rows of wonders, up close. Now placed in a museum where you can't see them properly #ancientbluesky #history #roman
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One of my favourite pieces of ancient glass! Decorated with scenes from the arena, including a retiarius (Pulcher) fighting against a secutor (Aurica): from Trier, ca. 3rd Century AD. #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (EV 1906.16). Link - rlp.museum-digital.de/object/5742
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This isn’t the first time they’ve randomly been like hey this dude can GAME as if that’s the main concern with all this and I feel like it’s designed to eventually get an ad deal with Raid Shadow Legends
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer company, said surgery for its second implant in a human “went well” and the patient is now able to design 3D objects and play video games like Counter-Strike 2
Neuralink Says Second Brain Device Implant ‘Went Well’www.bloomberg.com Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s brain-computer company, said surgery for its second implant in a human “went well” and the patient is now able to design 3D objects and play video games like Counter-Strik...
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Nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: - your vast and trunkless legs of stone - your frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command - your works, ye Mighty