Samuel Oddity England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941

As as child, I thought Joseph and Mary were Mr and Mrs Christ.

Acnestis [ak-NEES-tis] (n.) - The part of the back that cannot easily be reached to scratch. Used in a sentence: “Ever since our illicit dalliance in the back garden, my acnestis has been afflicted with a most infernal rash of Poison Oak, and Miss Drollup has ceased returning my correspondence.”

I think, if Democrats ever get back into power, they have to make anti-monopoly a core policy focus (ideally, as part of a larger anti-corruption focus). This will be a very hard sell considering Ellison’s Saudi sponsorship, but a foreign-backed media monopoly is simply incompatible with democracy.

Paramount Skydance Secures $24 Billion From Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Funds for Warner Bros. Deal

Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has received commitments of close to $24 billion to back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, Variety has ...

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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 19h ago

Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC

More than 200,000 people displaced since fighting in Yemen began, says UN agency reut.rs/4y6qbIo

More than 200,000 people displaced since fighting in Yemen began, says UN agency

More than 200,000 people have been displaced from ​their homes since fighting in Yemen began in recent ‌weeks, according to data released on Wednesday by the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.

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She's putting herself forward as the Nicole Kidman or Hugh Grant characters in the films?

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 1h ago

Kemi Badenoch labels Andy Burnham a 'Paddington Bear Prime Minister'. What is that even supposed to mean?

Azerbaijan denies report of link to German spy scandal reut.rs/47FiEFC

Azerbaijan denies report of link to German spy scandal

Azerbaijan on Wednesday denied a report that former German intelligence chief ​August Hanning, accused of buying secret ‌documents and using them in an analysis for a foreign spy service, had been in ​contact with an agent from Azerbaijan.

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Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3h ago

🚨 BREAKING: An internal investigation at Reform UK has found Nigel Farage’s close aides broke no laws over the undercover documentary Farage now intends to “aggressively” sue the journalists

considering an amended version of this, where all politics, everywhere in the world, is gradually becoming more Northern Irish over time

Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · last yr.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

At the risk of asking to be publicly mocked by Chaminda, I do think that the divergence between affordable Waterstones books and extremely expensive university press books doesn’t help. Many famous academic texts of the 40s to 70s were quite dry but also affordable. Eg..👇

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 4h ago

There are vast numbers of academics, researchers etc whose only route to being a "public intellectual" is some mix of posting enough on social media to become a columnist or talking head, and/or writing one of those Waterstones books that explain some aspect of the world in one sellable theory

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · 12h ago

In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been honoured for their work on making molecules form the correct mirror images

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules | New Scientist

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Congratulations to Geelong for a direct station to the Mountain City of Chongqing

And through it all She offers me protection

7 October 1943. Author and poet Radclyffe Hall died (aged 63). Best known for novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in Lesbian literature. She died of colon cancer and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in North London.

Morning (New Yorker cartoon, by Rose Anne Prevec)

What next? He's going to follow his daughter with a translation of the Odyssey?

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · yesterday

AN Wilson here, with the slightly mad claim that Jeffrey Archer arranged for a drug addict to crash a stolen Jag into Monica Coghlan’s car

This came up on my Facebook memories and reminded me how fascinated i am by people who share this meme and don’t stop to think “hang on, how can these radically different dystopias overlap and how are we at the centre of all of them?”

20 parakeets furiously mobbing a young buzzard (a little-known outtake from Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma)

7 October 1897 | A French Jew, Roger Lucien Levy, was born in Boulogne. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

Last night, Indonesia downed Thailand in the soccer and the joy of winning is very real but Prabowo has been relentlessly cyberbullied today for just being generally odd during the broadcast and that's the real win

7 October 1900. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich, Germany. He controlled the SS, concentration camps the Gestapo and the police. He was also a central figure in planning and carrying out the Holocaust. In May 1945 he committed suicide using cyanide while in Allied custody.

I’ve just encountered my first Charles III coin in change - which shows how things have changed. Really pretty, though. (I also got a Great Fire of London £2, which I didn’t even know had been struck!)

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

Ray Pride@raypride.bsky.social · 11h ago

“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday” GETTY IMAGES

More than 137,000 students in conflict zones lose access to education, deepening Yemen's already dire schooling crisis.

Yemen's displaced children dream of returning to school

More than 137,000 students in conflict zones lose access to education, deepening Yemen's already dire schooling crisis.

aljazeera.com

"waterfront" You Canberra peeps are so adorable.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6h ago

Is a waterfront city stadium actually on the cards for Canberra?

I am absolutely a broken record on this but it is notable how much more coverage the French students (and good on them!) are getting in Australian media vs when Indonesian students get into it (and good on them!)

Tina Fey was so real when she said that the daily show went downhill when they started focusing more on cheers than laughs

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h ago

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

‘He loved that little bat’: Richard Morecroft’s passion for wildlife rescue praised in tributes

‘He loved that little bat’: Richard Morecroft’s passion for wildlife rescue praised in tributes

Former ABC presenter, who died aged 70 after a cancer diagnosis, kept an infant flying fox tucked under his shirt * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “There’s a small, furry animal, wrapped up in a handkerchief, keeping warm inside my shirt.” So begins a 1989 documentary featuring the late ABC broadcaster Richard Morecroft, one of Australia’s most celebrated news anchors. But Morecroft had another deep passion – for wildlife rescuing and advocacy. Continue reading...

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