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Truly excellent docu-drama on Netflix about Albert Einstein. Long on his stay in NE Norfolk in a bothy owned by Commander Locker Lampson. Not to be missed for Norfolk types big on local history. Commander, you did us SO proud.

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81474469?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=wha&vlang=en&clip=81731275

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/10/einstein-on-the-run-how-the-worlds-greatest-scientist-hid-from-nazis-in-a-norfolk-hut

#Refugees
#Asylum

Happy Caturday! The return of Noah to Mastodon, after a bit of a break 😻

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #OneEyedCat

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"um, Dr Schrodinger? I opened the box and, well... we may have a problem" - @enniscath :twitter:

one black and white cat sitting in a small box inside bigger box also with a black and white cat sitting in it.

Seasons Greetings from Nottingham❤️✨😻

#caturday #OneEyedCat #Christmas #brussels #nottingham

A cat beneath a Christmas table full of seasonal food

@muttonchop it was a great sky!

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As indicators for societal health go, this...doesn't feel great.

The 2011 documentary 'Dreams of a Life' is particularly memorable and moving, about one such case. I thought it was rare, but I've since heard more and more media reports of this phenomenon

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/22/rising-numbers-of-people-found-long-after-death-in-england-and-wales-study

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King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-from-the-assets-of-dead-citizens
Assets of thousands of people in north-west England used to upgrade the king’s property empire via archaic custom

⚫ ‘He would turn in his grave’: the dead whose assets went to King Charles’s estate
⚫ How bona vacantia is used to collect money from dead people.

Just another reminder of what a backward and feudal country the UK is, once you scratch off the shiny surface...

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I may have a new favourite phrase…

Word of the day: Hurkle-Durkle. A 200 year old Scottish term meaning to lounge in bed long after it’s time to get up. Happiness is Hurkle-Durkling.

Brr: it’s cold here this morning. Inside and out.

#nottingham #snow #frosty

Looking out if the window through condensation to a chilly suburban view

@sbrackenborough you should have done! The structure and colour of those leaves is amazing 💛

@sbrackenborough it is Lichfield Cathedral, yes, we visited on Saturday. The Ginkgo is in a lovely memorial park, alongside a magnificent Foxglove Tree, ‘reputedly’ planted by Charles Darwin 🌳☘️

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we don't take kindly to outsiders moving in on our territory

#deer

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The Mona Lisa, but with scruffy hair like she’s just got out of bed.
Caption: Monday Lisa

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The NHS

“I love the NHS because we pay for it with our taxes, and because the care we receive is the same whether we’ve paid a million pounds or nothing. If we want to save the NHS, we need to celebrate tax. We need to think of it not as money the Government steals from us, but as our contribution to a safe and just and healthy society. It’s thanks to the NHS that my wife and our youngest son are still alive. But the true worth of the NHS is not that it saved my family. It is that it would make the same effort for every family, even if that family were destitute. The true worth of the NHS is that those of us who are lucky enough to pay tax can go to sleep at night, knowing that we have helped make that radical kindness possible.”

Mark Haddon in The Guardian

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Remember everyone, when a job is so low paid the government has to top it up via benefits, it's a direct subsidy from taxpayers to shareholders, and from the poor to the rich.

Quote from Danny Dyer which says "People bang on about benefit culture, all that.
There are piss-takers, no one doubts that but I know plenty of people on benefits who work hard, it's just they don't get paid enough to cover the basics.
Now you can say "Get off your arse & get a better job." All right, say everyone does that. Whose gonna actually do the shitty jobs then? If you're working 40 hours a week and can't cover the bills, that aint your fault. It's the fault of the slags paying you. So if you have to claim benefits then claim 'em & don't feel bad about it. It's not you that is actually getting the benefit anyway, it's your employer. They pay you shit all & expect the State to pick up the tab."

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your autumnal reminder that it's spelled 'ginkgo', not 'gingko', even though nobody says 'gink-go' as it's very cumbersome to pronounce

@sbrackenborough and this is how it looks up here in the Midlands

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Random Advice: Stay aware of surroundings during walks.

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Student loans regime of England & Wales is both COMPLTELY bonkers, & corrupt.

-Graduates get deduction from their salaries every month which is virtually all INTEREST.
-Government has sold ("factored") the debt on to commercial lenders.
-Unpaid balances cancelled after 30 years (most peoples' full career-span).
-So the Gov won't get it's capital back.
-The 'winner' is the Commercial lender.

Our young people are being sold into indentured servitude to private lenders for their working lives.

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Random Advice: Reflect on your achievements and celebrate them.

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