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I'm fine, life is just whooshing past. And at the moment, so's the weather:

Storm Eunice: Three people killed as strong winds sweep across UK

Photos here, mostly from the coast: Storm Eunice reaches the UK. Some are just extraordinary ( Read more... )

Accurate:

February is the worst month of the year and this man is wonderful pic.twitter.com/vV73ZF2Qn4
- Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) February 4, 2022

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In UK politics news, Jonathan Pie is back! :D

“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by ( Read more... )

Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay.

In this clip from 1965, Richard Dimbleby returned to the site of the Belsen concentration camp where he had reported from shortly after its liberation in 1945. He recounted the horrific scenes he witnessed that day.pic.twitter.com/bC8Q1xzj2L
- BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) January 27, 2022

I have previously pondered the lack of cultural impact of the Spanish Flu (not sure that's the best phrasing, but I'm tired), although it makes sense considering WW1 and everything else. However, having just re-read Dorothy Sayer's 'Whose Body' (the first Peter Wimsey novel) I wonder if it's just not having been tuned into looking for it? 'Whose ( Read more... )

BBC: Census 1921 - 100-year-old secrets revealed
(Fascinating, and includes Dorothy Sayers!)

The Guardian: Russell T Davies: ‘I genuinely thought - who wants to watch a show about Aids?’
It’s a Sin has been voted the Guardian’s best TV show of the year. Russell T Davies reveals why it took him 30 years to write, who the real Colin is - and why he just ( Read more... )

Today was the dullest day for me (and it's SO COLD, I don't like it), but have been looking at the news from Kazakhstan...

Al Jazeera (4 Jan): Protests erupt in Kazakhstan after fuel price rise

BBC (5 Jan): Kazakhstan unrest: Staff flee as protesters enter airport

It's rather unsettling to follow a new interest*, and then everything blows up. :( Not ( Read more... )

Jameela Jamil: Happy Hanksgiving

And this is peak 2021:

If you're having guests for dinner, do you put the Covid rapid tests on the front table with the flowers or...? pic.twitter.com/hcwYg76tZE
- Tananarive (Team Pfizer) Due (@TananariveDue) November 25, 2021
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It's Transgender Day of Remembrance #TDOR. We remember trans folks we have lost to violence this year. Their lives mattered, still matter. 2021 has become the deadliest year on record for trans people in the United States surpassing last year's record numbers. pic.twitter.com/fK9QsPNp5q
- Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) November 20, 2021

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Fall in America:


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