Andy Brice

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But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Will be interesting to hear how this went. I've often thought about it, but always found a reason not to.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

If they close shops, that is also a win isn't it?

That is pretty feeble.

I can't imagine she is going to last long enough as leader for it to matter too much.

Guns at Annunciation I was baptized at the church where kids were murdered. It's a canary in the coal mine for a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns.

It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:

The first Total War Shogun game was great. Never got the same feeling from later ones I tried.

If you want to convert it to tennis courts, soccer fields or parking spaces, see:
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In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

How is this not front page news?

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Updating application icons for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass The application icon for my data wrangling software looks like this on a Mac up to macOS 15.x: However, Apple has once again nuked everything from orbit. Now it looks like this in macOS 26 Tahoe wh…

Updating application icons for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass:
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MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children Paracetamol should be taken as directed in the patient information leaflet

Just a reminder: there is no evidence to support the claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism.

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@adamrutherford.bsky.social I did a little side project that might be of interest for science communicators: howmanyelephants.co.uk

A little side project:
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Unfortunately not. He didn't have time for a separate L3 attempt first, with a less mad motor (which was the original plan). I'm sure he will have another go.

Launch video (sound on).

This is the launch. So close!
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Just heard that the rocket had a 'spontaneous disassembly' right at the end of the burn. The infamous N5800 motor shreds another rocket. Too bad.

My son John (right) is in the Black Rocket desert at BALLS33. He is planning to launch his monster rocket today. He is hoping to get his level 3 high power rocketry certificate and smash the UK amateur altitude record. Fingers crossed!

Four arrests after images of Trump and Epstein projected on Windsor Castle Police said four people remain in custody after the

Free speech alive and well in the UK:
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They might not be so keen if Reform wins the next election (sadly, it looking more of a possibility every day).

I wish that had happened to Hatie Kopkins.

Shockley's wikipedia entry is a rather sad read.

Claire is your side. I'm on your daughter's side.

YouTube video by Larry & Paul Epstein Scandal "Now Over" - #BrokenNews

Epstein Scandal "Now Over"
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The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?

TIL: Medievals were mad for a fruit known as 'open arse' and 'dog's bottom':
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