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Shubman Gill was given out off this catch from Cam Green.
Should this have been out or not out?
#WTCFinal #AUSvIND
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I am given to believe that Harry Styles is a popular vocal artist of some sort.
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In pictures: Fans flock to Slane for Harry Styles gig #SlaneCastle irishtimes.com/gallery/photog
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gays whadja look like in your cap-n-gown?
(I didn't have a cap on in this picture; the flat-top will have to suffice.)
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gays whadja look like in your cap-n-gown?
(Not sure why i didn’t have a cap. Maybe they hadn’t been invented then. ) twitter.com/deejay_gray/st…
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Don't be afraid to put your hand up...
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What's your first tweet when you search for "gay" in your page?
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It seems he suffered some form of trombosis...
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‘he's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment…’
All's Well That Ends Well, Act III, Scene VI
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Next time, we will apply what we have just learnt in the context of a group.
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#InterMilan played better than I'd expected and had plenty of chances to win that but didn't take them, so congratulations to #ManchesterCity!
#ChampionsLeague
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From the far right and Murdoch to the faux-left the media has not stopped talking about her “free speech” like this; 12 days in 2021, more than 40 appearances/articles.
I doubt if all trans people put together had half that number in 2021
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is hiring
"We are looking for a community engagement manager, a few good developers, a program manager, a tech writer/documentation specialist and more..."
arXiv is part of Cornell University. All arXiv employees are Cornell University employees.
info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.h
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People are asking why Trump took all those documents home. Isn't it obvious who they were intended for? Hint: it's the person who interfered with the 2016 election to have Trump installed.
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Talking about the Leaving Certificate
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From the Vault: A still super timely webinar on steps journals can take to increase transparency and trust in preprints featuring , , &
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To summarize.
Things that have to go:
The House of Lords;
The Honours system;
The Conservative Party;
TERFs;
The Academic Publishing Industry;
The Hundred;
Harpsichords
(to be continued...)
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Without googling, identify Composer X.
"X is habitually drunk, incoherent, unreliable and lazy, a mediocre composer whose music is impossible to perform. He is incompetent, childish, unmanly and incapable of social adjustment."
This has got me in it, but don't let that put you off - also it's free!
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A Pride Month reminder that @DrCarpineti and I put together a collection of interviews with 40 wonderful LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, available as a free e-book.
Direct download and links to Kindle and Apple Books: prideinstem.org/the-queer-vari
JCOM review: jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/
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There's water falling from the sky!
What is this?
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"honours"
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It’s gotta be retweeted
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Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOf
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Please get on with it.
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Conservative MP texts: “I think we are going to tear ourselves apart.”
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To the new regime everything is about marketing, include #Pride2023.
This is positively puke-making.
Tomorrow's front page:
Labour ditches climate pledge: Reeves announces U-turn on yet another promise after stating that party won't commit to green prosperity plan
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An obvious point but people shouldn’t get honours for doing their jobs, often in a middling fashion, just because they are close to those in power. The system is a total embarrassment.
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“Professor Anthony King spoke of his delight that a “genuine character” had entered the House of Commons that was becoming a “character free zone”
How New Labour made Boris Johnson | Anthony Broxton | The Critic Magazine
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It's a lovely evening in Maynooth, so I had a light supper in the garden and raised a glass to what I hope will be the demise of Trump and Johnson.
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I’m ready to disclose the details of the prior restraint of my research. The culprit is University College London, whose lawyers instructed the executive editor of their online journal THINK PIECES to pull my essay. The essay is linked here.
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I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bloc via
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I hate the honours system anyway but this just reeks of corruption.
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Why the hell is this liar allowed to nominate people for honours?
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Not a drag queen or a trans person
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The MacGuffin of Euclid, in which I discuss Alfred Hitchcock's influence on cosmology...
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Perhaps next time Sunak could stand on a box?
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Also noteworthy that at the EPC sumit in Moldova, UK's presence was hardly noticed by int press. There was no briefing about British position. Sunak was hardly noticed. His declaration that migration wd be top of EPC agenda wasn't heard. Big items were Ukraine, Moldova, energy
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