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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

genuinely adore the nostalgic comments on music on youtube (basement jaxx - romeo www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wU...)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

only just found out about the similarities between the flag of Arizona and that of North Macedonia

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-w... fascinating bird behaviour fact about the white winged chough. kidnapping fledglings from other groups so they'll help make your own group more successful. wild

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

visited the hunterian museum (medical and natural history specimen collection at the royal college of surgeons) a few days ago

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh yeah dude Korean comfort food which looks like it's made of bugs mmmm yeah I'm totally visiting

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

incontrovertible truth: they're literally called "Him a Layin". "him" is obviously a giant. qed

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

here's me with mallard (holds the world record for steam locomotive speed, 125mph), evening star (last steam locomotive built by British railways in 1960) and replica and semi-original rocket (early steam locomotive that successfully demonstrated it could work as a way of hauling passengers)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

saw a grey wagtail hopping around a muddy area looking for insects!! love these birds, you can tell how they got their name with the tail constantly bobbing up and down haha

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of wallsocket by underscores, which is my fave album ever I think. and it was life changing to me. like first listen blew me away. and it suddenly made me pay attention to a whole world of music made by trans women that meant so much to me

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

do you think kkb played civilization ii

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if u dont use "x the everything app" you miss out on stuff in your notifications like "rate this community note" and you look at the tweet and its some guy who belives MH370 actually got abducted by aliens through a wormhole. and thats like, 90% of his deal. and he has 300k followers

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

lemme brag about my top 0.3% score on catfishing today catfishing.net

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this was at the Yorkshire museum which has some really incredible stuff from Roman/viking/medieval York I was astounded

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also have to cope with wind rain and all weathers and would like to be taken in for some TLC. I also feel over 240 years old

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Roman memorial inscription to a dead daughter. "I, a pitiable victim of unfair hope"

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I keep getting an ad for something which is like a map of the counties of Ireland but with soil in each county. and the video goes round showing each cup of soil with the county written on it. fascinating concept

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

just found out that because the leader of the mormon church is determined solely by seniority within the top officials most of their leaders have been 80+ when they became leader

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

this by the same person is also a fave

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of my fave Tumblr posts: the laundry competition

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

good morning everyone inspiring quote of the day let's get that bread

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Poor Room—There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever without End. by Ivan Albright www.artic.edu/artworks/938...

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

basically I'm just this. get me together with another person over 30 and we can just exchange Things That Happened Over Five Years Ago forever and be quite happy

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

funny example of ai degrading thinking: guard on a train refusing to sell a super off peak ticket when it was available cause he used Google ai and it said you shouldn't www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wron...

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

why do student loan emails include the first 2 sentences. is it just to give me a heart attack

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

absolutely fascinated by this unlabelled, undated one which appears to be using 9/11?

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

now i'm looking at some of the anti smoking posters. this one from 2008 in india is cracking me up tobacco.stanford.edu/antismoking/

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

for a book called "mated to the monster" lol i support this reviewer

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

framing it as a "debate" with no simple answers and claiming the real agents of doubt and mistrust are the ones with the clear evidence

Can we have an open debate about smoking?

But this is far from the truth.

The issues that surround smoking are so complex, and so emotional, it's hard to debate them objectively.

In fact, many of you probably believe there is nothing to debate. Over the years, you've heard so many negative reports about smoking and health-and so little to challenge these reports-that you may assume the case against smoking is closed.

Studies which conclude that smoking causes disease have regularly ignored significant evidence to the contrary. These scientific findings come from research completely independent of the tobacco industry.

We at R.J. Reynolds think you will find such evidence very interesting.

Because we think reasonable people who analyze it may come to see this issue not

as a closed case, but as an open controversy.

We know some of you may be suspicious of what we'll say, simply because we're a cigarette company.

We know some of you may question our motives. But we also know that by keeping silent, we've contributed to this climate of doubt and distrust. We may also have created the mistaken impression that we have nothing to say on these issues. That is why we've decided to speak out now, and why we intend to continue

speaking out in the future.

During the coming months we will discuss a number of key questions relating to smoking and health. We will also explore other important issues including relations between smokers and non-smokers, smoking among our youth, and "passive smoking" Some of the things we say may surprise you. Even the fact that we say them

may prove controversial. But we won't shy away from the controversy because, quite frankly, that's our whole point.

We don't say there are no questions about smoking. Just the opposite. We say there are lots of questions-but, as yet, no simple answers. Like any controversy, this one has more than one side. We hope the debate will be an open one.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the other popular thing was emphasising freedom of choice and compromise and restrictions on smoking as extremist, too expensive and a threat to social wellbeing. all very familiar stuff

A word to smokers (about people who build walls)

It's no secret that there are some folks these days who are trying to build walls between smokers and nonsmokers.

The theory behind all this is that some smokers annoy nonsmokers and, of course, that can happen.

But if you want to get an idea of the ridiculous lengths that some of the wall-builders would like to go to, you have only to consider this: In one state alone, it was estimated that the first year's cost of administering and enforcing a proposed anti-smoking law and building the physical walls required was nearly $250,000,000. The proposal was, of course, defeated-for the plain fact is the one you have observed in your own daily life, that the overwhelming

majority of smokers and nonsmokers get along very well and don't need or want to be separated.

This infuriates the wall-builders. Since they cannot have their own way in a world of free choice, they would like to eliminate that world by government fiat, by rules and regulations that would tell you where, and with whom, you may work, eat, play and shop. And the enormous

burden that would place on all of us, in higher taxes and costs, does not bother them.

Certainly no one, including smokers, can properly object to the common sense rules of, for instance, banning smoking in crowded elevators. poorly ventilated spaces or, indeed, in any place where it is clearly inappropriate. And individual managers in their own interest should see to the mutual comfort of their smoking and nonsmoking patrons. It is only when the long arm, and notoriously insensitive hands, of government regulators start making these private arrangements for us that we all, smoker and nonsmoker alike, begin to lose our freedom of

choice.

In the long run, the wall-builders must fail. and the walls will come tumbling down-if not to the sound of a trumpet, then at least to the slower but surer music of common decency and courtesy practiced on both sides of them.

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

also reading the way the cigarette industry reacted to the firm evidence on lung cancer (this one in 1954) is so revealing, they really pioneered so much of the right wing cultural sphere around evil things = good en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Frank...

A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers claims:

That medical research of recent years indicated many possible causes of lung cancer.
That there was no agreement among the authorities regarding what the cause is.
That there was no proof that cigarette smoking is one of the causes.
That statistics purporting to link cigarette smoking with the disease could apply with equal force to any one of many other aspects of modern life. Indeed, the validity of the statistics themselves was questioned by numerous scientists

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it shows far less information in the same space and you completely lose all the per hour information for things like UV and humidity

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this advert for an 1895 patent medicine that supposedly stops nicotine addiction appears to emphasise how tobacco causes erectile dysfunction

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

also it seems one of the earliest mandated health warnings on cigarettes in the usa said "Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health" which is the most confusing way to write it. maybe the mandate was vague and cigarette companies chose the way that makes quitting sound bad

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