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CeciliaIsSmart

@ceciliaissmart.bsky.social
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Linguistics, German Culture, Golden Retrievers and gardening

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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
On today’s @jamesobrien.bsky.social @lbc post-analysis of PMQs Political Editor Natasha Clarke insisted PM @keirstarmer said those demanding an inquiry into historical grooming gangs were following a right-wing agenda. JOB rapidly and repeatedly reminded Clarke this was not true
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#RecipeOfTheDay is Butternut and Sweet Potato Curry – a blaze of colour, and bold flavour to match, to bring cheer and bright sustenance in this grey and dismal weather! It’s also #vegan, by the way www.nigella.com/recipes/butt...
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Butternut and Sweet Potato Curry
This is a rambunctiously vibrant curry, both to look at and eat. It is rich, sweet and hearty, with tomatoes providing a balancing acidity and the curry paste bringing uncompromising fire. I like the ...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Boris Johnson, who wasted billions of taxpayers £ on useless PPE, making a sick "joke" about a mass murderer for clicks. What an appalling little man.
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Profound implications within neurolinguistics and second-language acquisition studies
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine” Christopher Morcom Paraphrased in “The Imitation Game” to reflect genius, but rather more apt when considering the list of ordinary men capable of sexual sadism in the Giséle Pelicot trial
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/12/2024
Your friendly local Muslim & lawyer here to remind you Islamic Sharia permits abortion to 120 days, for rape/incest, when fetus is non-viable, to save the mother’s life—as a decision between a woman & her Dr Stop using our faith as your punchline. MAGA abortion bans are 100% ‘Christian’ nationalism
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Jackson Earth Restoration Project @jacksonerp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
WRT Farage, when I see any image of him, I remember: “You're a vile one, You got termites in your smile You have all the tender sweetness Of a seasick crocodile” I cannot help but imagine thousands of insects nesting in his unhealthy, toothy, and overly smug grin.
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Farage’s grin is menacing and he doesn’t laugh. He cackles
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Kiss the sky #toronto #fog #fogTO
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
😂😂😂
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Totalitarianism book review of essential reading for the next 4 years in the US. All of these titles are worthy of a position in a Xmas stocking! vm.tiktok.com/ZGdMTUeMD/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The media manufactured consent for Capitalism is really nostalgia for Socialism vm.tiktok.com/ZGdM3vWVX/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
In that entire debate yesterday, only one MP made a cheap political point - trying to link winter fuel payments with assisted dying. But he's new and it was an intervention, so I didn't know him or what right-wing party he's from. Well, meet Adnan Hussain - one of Corbyn's 'Independent Alliance'. 😶
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... This podcast on WEF and The Great Reset conspiracy theory propaganda is worth a revisit
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Things Fell Apart - S2. Ep 7: You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy - BBC Sounds
A strange incident at Chipping Norton Town Hall.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
OMG this is amazing. From 2019: “More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU - the highest number of signatures in Essex - but MP Kemi Badenoch says ‘we run the country based on elections and not petitions’.” 🤣 😂 🤣
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Saw an old friend last night. Back in 2016 our conversations got a little dicy when he became something of a fervent Brexiter... In pub he suddenly volunteers to me: "Brexit was a shit idea wasn't it. I mean - a really shit idea." I think we may be entering the time frame where people accept that.
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Even as the ill-informed words tumbled from her gormless gob during #PMQs her own petard was dancing a jig around her neck
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” appeared on the surface of the Amazon blurb to be a petty, shallow, violently patriarchal version of all WW2 cultural meme, and therefore a film outside of my target audience demographic. That said. I absolutely loved it.
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
He f*cked around. Let his ‘finding out’ be a lesson for the current intake of idiots
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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 26/11/2024
Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees? We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share. We escaped hell to be here. Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’ve just heard “Won’t You Stop the Cavalry”. Fuck. It’s Xmas, isn’t it? Bollocks
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A lengthy but spellbinding Thread. 55 Tufton Street fingerprints are all over this evidence of political science 🧪
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This message from Sturgill Simpson is everything 🔥🤘
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Woefully pathetic
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
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How the British Library cyberattack disrupted research
Academics who rely on the British Library’s unmatched collection are still feeling the impact of a devastating cyberattack a year ago. Jack Grove hears from those affected and considers how another ca...
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Elon’s feelers are hurted. Do not repost.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Elderly men in tears…tears God-dammit…and all the little children turning to their apron’d mothers, wi’trembling lips uttering “Will papa honour his commitment in hosting the 2025 grouse hunt on t’top field, mammy?”
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
All my existing plans this this evening are cancelled
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
My new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is an expose of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. Out 12th Sept 2024, you can order a copy here: lnkfi.re/dsHR7n And here's my list of upcoming book talks: lnkfi.re/dwdbjr
My new book, 'The Lie of the Land', is published on 12th September 2024.Here's my list of book tour dates - for full details and to book tickets, follow the second URL link in my post.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2024
New paper where Mel Andrews, Andrew Smart, and I outline how machine learning is laundering long discredited harmful pseudoscience and offer resources for research best practices to developers/practitioners www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Four more nudibranchs from #Humboldt tide pools for #Nudivember 🦑🤿
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/11/2024
Sweden is prepared. “A new Swedish version of the brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ will be sent to all households from 18 November for two weeks. Here you will find a version in English to download, order or listen to.“ www.msb.se/en/advice-fo...
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The brochure In case of crisis or war
A new Swedish version of the brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ will be sent to all households from 18 November for two weeks. Here you will find a version in English to download, order or listen to.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“Look at the figures. 50% of UK trade, broadly, is with the EU. We cannot afford to ignore that. Then again 15-20% is with the US. So, we will have to duck and weave, but we have to do so within a very straightforward principle: Geography matters. That makes Europe more important than the US.”
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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Cutting winter fuel payment set to push between 50,000 and 100,000 extra pensioners into poverty per year, DWP admits - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Starmer says most farmers won’t be affected by inheritance tax change as Clarkson tells rally it’s a ‘hammer blow’ – UK politics live
Jeremy Clarkson tells Westminster protest that government should admit plans weren’t ‘thought out and are a mistake’
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Another splendid punctuation of two-tier hypocrisy
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Five years in chokey. Right there. Presumably, the driver was arrested immediately? Nah. Didn’t think so?
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AVK | Wide World of Batshit @avk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You can literally see the German number plates. Because Einstein here has used a photo of a GERMAN protest in 2023. 838 people have shared it.
Tweet showing German tractors in 2023 and telling Labour to listen
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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CeciliaIsSmart @ceciliaissmart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Real-world Farmers problems
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Taraustralis @taraustralis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Found this in Austria….
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