The Plodding Historian (Lisa)

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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)

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Taking PhDing to new levels of avoidance, procrastination and delay, but, maybe this time, there is an end in sight. BlueSkying history, Musical Goddess Kate Ceberano and clouds. I do love clouds. Even though they are in The Outside. Which I don't like.
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Just which leaders over the last 20 years have had star power other than for a brief time Tony Blair?
Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’
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"Oh SHIT we're running out of GAS we gotta extract MORE GAS" is one of the filthiest lies from Aus' fossil fuel industry, yet somehow it's also extremely successful and largely received completely uncritically every time it gets repeated by their cheerleaders www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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And the Telegraph winds up its election coverage with one last ‘fuck all of you’.
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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.
Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, 61, at his clerking job in Los Angeles, 1975
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Not what I was looking for, but even better: The Royal Historical Society has a complete (I think) list of the historical calendars etc published by HMSO files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u... #History #Archives 🗃️
files.royalhistsoc.org
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In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorshipwww.wsws.org In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able t...
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"In an economy as regionally unequal as the UK’s, higher education is one of the few countervailing forces, spreading revenue and jobs to parts of the country that otherwise have little to fall back on....a financial crisis in this sector does not only impact on lecturers."
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...
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Continuing with my #HughJackman and the #XMen film marathon. Just in the final scene of #Logan. #RheumatoidArthritis has me limping and flopping around like Logan is this scene. It’s no wonder my aura was yellow yesterday. Logan must be blindingly yellow. #LastLeg 🥴🥴
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Min. acceptable energy rating for housing in Australia is now 6-7 stars. “…the average existing home built before 2003 has a rating of just 1.8 stars.” My flat, c. 2015, in #Canberra, is currently at 7°C. This is not a #Winter to not have a heater. Or to not be able to afford to get it fixed.
Bloody typical. 1st winter in #Canberra in my 10yrs here where it’s been really cold; my heater dies, I’m too poor to get it fixed & I get rheumatoid arthritis. #TheFates are bitches. “A winter game… This consists of gently touching drying laundry and asking yourself if it’s cold or just wet.”
If you’re cold and miserable this winter in your freezing Australian home, try this fun game | Deirdre Fidgewww.theguardian.com Cold or Wet? You think, squishing a sock betwixt red, swollen fingers. Cold or Wet? You wonder as you slide into icy bedsheets
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Bloody typical. 1st winter in #Canberra in my 10yrs here where it’s been really cold; my heater dies, I’m too poor to get it fixed & I get rheumatoid arthritis. #TheFates are bitches. “A winter game… This consists of gently touching drying laundry and asking yourself if it’s cold or just wet.”
If you’re cold and miserable this winter in your freezing Australian home, try this fun game | Deirdre Fidgewww.theguardian.com Cold or Wet? You think, squishing a sock betwixt red, swollen fingers. Cold or Wet? You wonder as you slide into icy bedsheets
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Luckily, for now, I’m not homeless, but the impact of my health glitches, which has led to #RheumatoidArthritis, has now left me in a position where I don’t earn enough to cope with the bills, but I still earn too much as far as getting help while I work thru this. the-riotact.com/being-employ...
Being employed no longer means making ends meet | Riotactthe-riotact.com Brian Stacey began volunteering at Vinnies in 2013, proudly doing his part in shaping a more just and compassionate society.…
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We can’t sell them and we can’t afford to fix them because the dodgy property developers deny that the issues are the result of their dodginess. How did those bastards sleep at night? Stealing our money and leaving us in properties that could literally be the death of us.
“The #ACT will become the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce a #LicensingScheme to regulate #PropertyDevelopers, following the passage of a #NewLaw.” I hope this helps other Canberrans not suffer what many of us are going through? Stuck in crumbling down, rotting properties we can’t sell.
Soon after Shane bought his newly built apartment, he started noticing issueswww.abc.net.au The ACT government will implement a developer licensing scheme after laws are passed by the Legislative Assembly. It's hoped it will better protect buyers.
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“The #ACT will become the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce a #LicensingScheme to regulate #PropertyDevelopers, following the passage of a #NewLaw.” I hope this helps other Canberrans not suffer what many of us are going through? Stuck in crumbling down, rotting properties we can’t sell.
Soon after Shane bought his newly built apartment, he started noticing issueswww.abc.net.au The ACT government will implement a developer licensing scheme after laws are passed by the Legislative Assembly. It's hoped it will better protect buyers.
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These dodgy developers screwing people out of their savings & leaving them in properties that are crumbling messes; is this just a rampant nightmare happening in #Canberra? We knew within months that there were severe problems in our complex, but they ignored us. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02...
How a Canberra developer dodged a $20 million defect billwww.abc.net.au The story behind a Canberra developer, a string of defect-riddled apartments and a government regulator seemingly trying — and failing — to hold him accountable for nearly three decades.
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I’ve been watching the #XMen films over the last 3 days. There has been 3 different versions of #Wolverine escaping Stryker’s medical facility where he got metalled up. Two of them have him escaping into snow, without his memory. #WolverineOrigins, it’s summer & his memory is intact. Very annoyed.
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Covid is on the upswing. Experts in infectious diseases say the current wave is driven by the FLiRT variants KP.1.1, KP.2 and KP.3. Of that trio, KP.3 is the cause of about 25% of current cases; KP.2 is responsible for about 22.5% and KP.1.1 is causing ~7.5% www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
COVID Is Surging Right Now. Here's What Alarms Doctors The Most.www.huffpost.com Infectious disease experts share what's different about this latest wave and what to know about the new variants.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. -Georges Clemenceau
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I really want Biden to take two minutes to say: Listen, I came here in good faith to debate you. What I am getting in response is literally a firehose of lies. This ought to be beneath you and it is not what the American public deserves—they deserve the truth and a reality-based discussion.
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FACT CHECK Trump: “Biden is a very bad Palestinian.” TRUE: Biden is far too alive to be a Palestinian.
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I think my biggest takeaway from this debate is that any terms the Trump team is willing to accept for a debate are terms that no self-respecting media organization should offer. This “no fact check in real time” rule is extremely damaging and counterproductive for voters.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at JHU have identified the Aplp1 protein, which facilitates the spread of harmful alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain as a novel therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease AND a potential therapy using an EXISTING FDA-approved cancer drug. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Sunak’s most significant political legacy is that he has brought a form of climate denial politics firmly into the mainstream of British politics, to the point that “a bland statement about a ‘cost’ both parties are committed to” is being written up like this in the Times.
Sometimes does my head in that political ‘debate’ in UK is so brainless Net Zero cost hundreds of billions. But COMPARED TO WHAT???? New fired power stations are currently subsidised, for example, and gas price crisis has cost UK hundreds of billions www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Labour say net zero by 2050 will cost ‘hundreds of billions’www.thetimes.com Darren Jones, shadow chief ­secretary to the Treasury, described the original £28 billion pledge as a ‘tiny amount’