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Spotted in Belfast

A sticker in the style of an safety warning notice showing the standard image of two people on a lift surrounded by a black circle with electric sparky things on top. Red flames lick in from both sides. Below, white text on a red background reads “In case of fire do not use Time Machine”.

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can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

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"75% did not know it was after 2000 that British taxpayers finished paying off the money borrowed by UK government in 1833 ... to compensate enslavers for their 'loss of property'."

I'm in that 75%. I had no idea it was only after 2000.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds

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Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times. 0% of its original phrases remain.

A Wikipedia page for Ship of Theseus is shown. The article reads "According to an ancient Greek legend, Theseus had a warship that was preserved as a historical relic by the Athenians. Some of its boards rotted and had to be replaced. After many, many years, many such replacements occurred. Eventually, none of the original boards were present. Philosophers could then debate whether it was the same ship that Theseus had used, and if not, when it had ceased to be so.
A modern embellishment
If Theseus paid a nontransferable fee, allowed to be used for only one ship, for the privilege of docking in a particular harbor, would he violate the non-transferability of his license if repeated replacement of boards eventually had the result described above?"

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to be a professional dickhead.

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For my European friends now waking up.

How far did Bilbo and Frodo walk?

The Shire is a barely hidden reference to the Garden Counties of England. Before the Ice Age, it was possible to walk into Europe.

The superimposed map shows the Lonely Mountain near Chojnice, Poland, and Mount Doom down around Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

That's some hiking.

#books @bookstodon #reading #AmReading #LotR #LordOfTheRings

Burnout, shame and heartbreak are accurate themes, Donald.

A screenshot of my timeline, showing two posts that were displayed one after the other.
The first says: "Trump reveals the three themes of his inauguration."
The second says: "Burnout, shame, heartbreak." Although it's about nurses, I thought it was about Trump.

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𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 2 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦.

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Meanwhile in Canada and Greenland....

#USpol #resist

An army of snowmen holding spears on a flat snowy landscape.

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Davide Chislagi, the Italian inventor, testing his single-wheel engine. 1933. Yes, yes...I know it's not a weird car but if I tag it this way, maybe someone will have a different tag for it. Ta! #weirdcarmastodon