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Are your heights wuthered? Would you like us to assign somebody to wuther your heights?

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

That entry is totally sagacious!

Thanks for the replies

The version of this in our family is, "English is the de facto lingua franca (soi-disant)"

I was a bit disappointed to be way out from any of the clusters where I thought I might belong... but then I guess I don't really skeet much.

About what?

Glad to hear I'm not alone in still boycotting!

I had this!

It's Coopers Hill near Brockworth in Gloucestershire. It's very steep! You can google the traditional annual cheese-chasing

👀 -47.9pp

That's the best one I've seen

It wasn't one of their better songs

YouTube video by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Topic The Taking of Peckham 123

Did you know that Carter USM got there in 1990?
See also: 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill ...
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New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

I'm tired of seeing Wes Streeting's face on my feed already and it feels like this is just the beginning

MASA

Make Automotive Small Again!!

I thought it might have given you some material! Your cartoons are brilliant, I don't know how you do it.

I feel like the person who enjoyed Liverpool v Manchester City the most was probably @davidsquires.bsky.social

Due to a bureaucratic mixup, Ed Davey is now the Prime Minister of Japan and Sanae Takaichi is scheduled to walk a tightrope over the Humber

BBC News presenter asking Chris Mason whether McSweeney going means the heat is off Keir Starmer and Mason gave a waffling answer which ended with ‘I think the key question now is whether or not McSweeney’s departure means the heat is now off Starmer’

This went really well! We had 26 singers, the venue was great, we made a great noise! I am hopeful that many of the people who came for their first Sacred Harp experience will come back for more next month.

The 30 Rock Steve Buscemi meme with the caption "How do you do, fellow worms?"

It made me think of the meme (I'm sure I'm not the first Sacred Harp singer to do this)

This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

a chart showing a search trend spike every year for "roman numerals" around the super bowl

maybe my favorite all time correlation

No, the melody is nearly always in the tenor part. Many Sacred Harp songs didn't even have an alto part until the 1911 Original Sacred Harp, and a few still don't.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

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