Allen F Saunders

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Sometime Met Observer (Base F) & then Seismic Observer. Now in software implementation. Former river rower, became a cyclist.

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This #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is interesting bc there are two species coexisting in this one nesting spot, both gentoos (foreground) and Adelies in the background. IIRC there are only like 3 places where all brushtail penguins coexist, and they are on the Peninsula, of course. 🧪🌍🦑🦉

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Please, for the love of socks. You could not care less. Or you couldn't care less. If you're telling us you don't give a shit about something, you don't have the capacity to care about it at all. Saying "I could care less" means you DO care about it.

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If it is wide enough for a car to overtake a bicycle without crossing into the next lane, it is wide enough for a separated bike lane. If it is not wide enough for a separated bike lane, it is not wide enough for a car to overtake a bicycle without crossing into the next lane. You can't have both.

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The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility--the point farthest from any land mass, is Point Nemo, 1,670 miles away from Pandora Islet, Moto Nui, & Maher Island off Antarctica. It's so remote that often the closest humans are those in the International Space Station when it passes overhead 250 miles up.

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBlue Blue iceberg we saw from a zodiac near Port Charcot, Antarctica. #travel2024 #iceberg #antarctica

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Life is better at 20mph. Kids can walk and cycle safely. It's easier to pull out at junctions. Everything's calmer except dickheads that are frustrated with their sad lives.

TdF Chemin Blancs 👀 Loved it.

Two additional reasons I love the Tour de France. 1. It triggers anti-cyclists. 2. It triggers Brexiteers BC it is in Europe & is multi-cultural\ethnic. Can't wait for the TdFF to have 3 reasons.

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I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.

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The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.

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MOGG LOSING HIS SEAT GIVES LABOUR THE WIN. FUCKING AYEEEEEEE

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Weirdo til the end, Liz Truss didn't turn up on stage for ages and then stood there like a stuffed dummy.

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This has been a joy. A chorus of DINGS! every time a Tory falls, and just now a shower of lettuces. portillogeddon.com

PORTILLOGEDDONportillogeddon.com Conservative Wipeout Bingo 2024

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Haha. Fuck off, you cunts.

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WIth fifteen seats to declare, con now confirm that the Tories have managed to NARROWLY avoid a LMAO and cling on for a LOL.

Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL

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When people ask me why I follow British politics:

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KEIR STARMER 🎥 victory speach The Labour leader Keir Starmer said people would be waking up to the news of a Labour victory ‚relieved that a weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed’. Labour won a landslide UK election victory, bringing a crushing end to 14 years of Conservative rule.

Keir Starmer hails ‘sunlight of hope’ as Britain wakes up to Labour landslidewww.theguardian.com Labour leader promises ‘age of national renewal’ in which his government will ‘start to rebuild our country’

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Witney Lib dem Banbury where Cameron has his old constituency home Labour

x.com/jamiesont/st... And this is just for openers. And just the Retuning Officer. Waiting for Count Binface & The Monster Raving Loonies.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

Wow!!! What a finish to TdF Stage 1. Chapeau Romain Bardet & Frank van den Broek; 2 x Team DSM-firmenich PostNL.

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The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD today is of some Adélie penguins! One of two “true” Antarctic penguins, these birds live on ice free land that just-so perfectly contains pebbles for nests. Which they steal from each other. 🌎🧪🦑🦉

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Today someone asked me if a new bike lane was being built "just for me" because nobody else cycles. While we were having this conversation, there were at least 5 cyclists on the cycle lane immediately in front of us.

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What extraordinary good luck. www.lbc.co.uk/news/akshata...

Rishi Sunak's wife's firm Infosys received 50% boost in public sector invoices in 2023www.lbc.co.uk LBC has exclusively learned that Indian tech giant Infosys, in which Rishi Sunak's wife is a shareholder, received a near-50% increase in public sector invoices last year – representing the best-ever ...

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Mark Chadbourn

How dare the Prime Minsister be held to account by the electorate?

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The contaminated blood, Post Office, Grenfell and partying during COVID lockdowns ought to be enough on their own.

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Mishal Husain making this Tory tie himself in excruciating knots over Labour’s Brexit policy is today’s unmissable interview Absolute shambles www.thepoke.com/2024/06/24/m...

Mishal Husain making this Tory tie himself in excruciating knots over Labour's Brexit policy is today's unmissable interviewwww.thepoke.com It’s eight years since the referendum result revealed that the UK had not only shot itself in the foot, but had pulled out its own healthy teeth, punched itself in the face, and kicked itself up the a...

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Mark Chadbourn

Nigel Farage? Reform UK's Nigel Farage? Nigel Farage of Reform UK? Comprehensive Free Speech Bill Nigel Farage of Reform UK? He's suing someone because they said something he didn't like? Is that where we're at?

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Stephen Schwartz

The Antarctic Treaty is first of five separate treaties—the others are the Treaty of Tlatelolco (1967), the Treaty of Rarotonga (1985), the Bangkok Treaty (1995), and Treaty of Pelindaba (1996)—officially designating most of the Southern Hemisphere a nuclear-weapon-free zone.

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Stephen Schwartz

The treaty was signed in Washington, DC, on December 1, 1959, by representatives of 12 countries (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States). It currently has 54 states parties.