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Feeling sluggish and uninspired? Just take a moment to imagine an octopus with a human hand at the end of each tentacle.

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After posting Robert F. Sargent's photograph taken on D-Day, with the title 'Anti-fascists disrupt a white supremacist gathering,' I felt compelled to explore the story behind it.

Please boost, historical stories like this are so important.

open.substack.com/pub/boushmir

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"Let them eat brioche"

The French are launching historic protests and strikes against the government's pension reform, which raises the retirement age by ONE year. Roadblocks, shutdowns of universities and schools, and closures of oil refineries are among the planned actions for an entire week.

The French don't take any s**t.

Historically this doesn't end well for the ruling class.

#TakeNotesWorld

theguardian.com/world/2023/mar

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People be like “there are two types of people”, while I have at least 10 personalities within myself.

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In high school, I was voted Most Likely To Get Beat Up For Sarcastically Playing A Slide Whistle When People Say Stupid Things

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Day 7, Dr. Shirley Jackson

Dr. Jackson is a physicist and was the first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT & chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

She conducted groundbreaking scientific research that enabled the invention of portable fax, touch telephone, solar cells & fiber optic cablet to name a few

It was news personnel who decided what got before the public eye and what did not, and in choosing what got out and what didn’t, it was they who controlled the news, and decided what, exactly, the public had a right to know.
-Tom Clancy

How bitter it must be to lie in bed, without the sleep one needed to think clearly, and wonder and curse oneself for chances missed and chances lost.
-Tom Clancy

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Must be a lot of people getting pleasure from me right now.

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Whilst you can’t predict what life may throw at you, you can always make sure your underpants are clean just in case.

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Is it just me or do headlines feel like they're being generated randomly by AI lately #NotTheOnion

"Holy anointing oil for King Charles III's coronation will not contain the intestinal wax of sperm whales or civet secretions"

businessinsider.nl/holy-anoint

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Freedom is not a zero-sum game.

You don’t lose yours by allowing others to have theirs.

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The ancient city of Nimrud stood for 3,000 years (in what is present-day Iraq) until 2015 when it was reduced to dust in a single day by ISIS militants.

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@swagpussc @Miriamm "Initially they were used in telegraphy, which developed in the late 1830s and 1840s as the first use of electrical engineering... The machines were adapted to provide a user interface to early mainframe computers and minicomputers, sending typed data to the computer and printing the response. Some models could also be used to create punched tape for data storage (either from typed input or from data received from a remote source) and to read back such tape for local printing or transmission."

So there ya go!

Well, it's March 4th.

Is everybody ready to march forth?

Where you going?

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Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state

“Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. DeSantis, Attorney General Moody, and other members of the executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.”

He says bloggers are lobbyists. I’m speechless— or literally about to be

wfla.com/news/politics/florida

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