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A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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White-tailed Eagle from the door of the cottage. #birdingScotland.

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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

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This half of Steelers football is why DK Metcalf’s salary was never in jeopardy

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I sent in my edits for a story I sold a while back but which will only be coming out next year.

It was very strange rereading a piece I clearly wrote in the immediate aftermath of my mother's death.

Sometimes I put too much truth into the lies I tell for a living.

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This excerpt from the Washington Post article, "Bankruptcies Soar as Companies Grapple With Inflation, Tariffs," is yet another example of the intensifying multifaceted divergence in the US economy:
"At least 717 companies filed for bankruptcy through ...

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We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension

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This artists name is grandma Moses and she didn’t start painting until age 78

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Thank you Cleveland for giving us a meaningful week 18 game 🙏

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2025 comes to an end.

It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics.

Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate.

Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.

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How far back depends on exactly how you reckon it, but it’s beyond serious dispute that Trump has raised taxes more than any president in decades.

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10 trays of cookies. Clockwise from top left: Andes peppermint cookies, coconut snowballs, Russian tea cakes, heart thumbprints, hazelnut caramel linzers, lemon thumbprints, Vietnamese coffee brownies, birthday cake truffles, more Russian tea cakes, cranberry orange icebox cookies, ginger molasses cookies

A box filled with a variety of all the cookies, with Hershey's kisses scattered throughout

A card reading "Christmas cookie menu" in red and green type atop one of the boxes. It has photos of each of the cookies to identify them

Four cookie boxes wrapped in large red ribbons

the great cookieing of 2025 is complete! 550 cookies in 10 varieties

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oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

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Katie Miller • @KatieMiller • 1h Feminism failed to liberate women. Women were told we needed to work to be as successful as a man. We were told we had to chase the next pay raise and climb the corporate ladder. The most fulfilled a woman will ever be is raising babies in a house full of love. Family is the ultimate bedrock of civilization. My legacy is my children, not my job title.

“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”

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