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Gradgrind

@ThomGradgrind

Experienced teacher (Chemistry, Maths, Physics, History). Once HoD, now just teaching. Irish heritage, home is England. Admirer of Europe, not the EU.

England انضم Ağustos 2017
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SLT Newbie@NewbieSlt·
@McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS Dude, Easter wasn’t even originally a Christian festival. Easter is named after Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of springtime and the dawn. Do your homework! Thanks x
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Niqab Nancy 🍉🍗
Niqab Nancy 🍉🍗@NiqabNancy·
DISGUSTING: In apartheid Israel, Muslims aren’t allowed to bring bombs onto planes.
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Faraz Pervaiz
Faraz Pervaiz@FarazPervaiz3·
Heaven for Islam is a massive brothel…it’s a religion for men created by a sexually perverted man.
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wokeandwoofing
wokeandwoofing@wokeandwoofing·
During Victorian times it was normal to have six or seven children because parents were aware that most children would not make it to adulthood due to limited access to gender affirming care facilities.
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Humble Flow
Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large, there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad." — Alexis de Tocqueville
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Bruce, the Infidel
Bruce, the Infidel@FireNewz·
John Wesley, a Methodist, spoke on Islam in the 18th century and it 100% applies today. “Destroyers of human kind”
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Julia Proofreader
Julia Proofreader@ProofreadJulia·
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was analysing the iron content of various vegetables. He made a decimal point error. He recorded spinach as containing 35mg of iron per 100g. The correct figure was 3.5mg. The misplaced decimal sat in the nutritional literature for decades, entirely unchallenged, because nobody particularly felt like re-testing spinach. In 1929, the Popeye comic strip launched. The creators cited the iron content of spinach as the scientific basis for their character's powers. By this point, the decimal point error was already sixty years old and fully embedded in received nutritional wisdom. The error was identified and corrected in 1937. The correction was not issued with anything approaching the cultural reach of the original claim. Popeye continued punching things. The actual iron content of spinach, 3.5mg per 100g, roughly where it was always supposed to be, is further complicated by the fact that spinach is among the highest-oxalate vegetables known. Oxalates bind to iron and calcium in the gut and remove them before absorption. The iron in spinach absorbs at around 1–2%, compared to 15–35% for haem iron from red meat. You would need to eat roughly a kilogram of spinach to absorb the iron equivalent of a 100g beef steak. There is also the kidney stone question. Spinach contains around 970mg of oxalates per 100g: one of the densest plant sources. Chronic high spinach consumption, particularly raw in daily smoothies, is a documented pathway to calcium oxalate kidney stones. The smoothie industry has not issued a correction. Popeye is still a sailor.
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ripx4nutmeg
ripx4nutmeg@ripx4nutmeg·
BBC News sent a reporter to the University of Kent to interview students queueing up for a meningitis jab. As is the rule for all BBC reports like this, at least one of the interviewees must be a cross-dressing man wearing a Palestine badge
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Gully Foyle #UKTrade
Gully Foyle #UKTrade@TerraOrBust·
"So you want the UK to join the EU?" "Yes" "So you want to give up the Pound and accept the Euro" "No" "So you want to join the Schengen area and allow completely open borders" "No" "So you want to be part of the EU Migration Pact, another 100k illegal migrants to the UK a year" "No" "So you want to re-introduce the testing of cosmetics onto animals, required by EU law" "No" "So you want to re-introduce live exports of animals for fattening or slaughter" "No" "So you want to give control of UK fishing waters and quotas back to the EU" "No" "So you want to reverse the protections of UK marine birds like puffins, who were endangered due to EU overfishing of the main food source" "No" "So you want to give up the better trade relationship the UK now has with the USA, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, and countless other countries" "No" "Well it sounds like you don't want to join the EU then"
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Eyal Yakoby
Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby·
Gazan men r*pe little girls. The UN: “It’s part of the struggle to survive.”
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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable? Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms? That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres? That men don’t belong in women’s sport? That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders? That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues? That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context? That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex? That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights? That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society? That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit? That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t? That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology? That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century? Let me have your thoughts.
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Pugh Himple
Pugh Himple@GBullstein·
Labour has agreed to a one in, one out missile firing arrangement with the Iranian government.
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Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧
Bombshell Poll by the Daily Mail for the Local Elections in May 👀 Labour are set to lose almost 2k seats and Reform to gain 1.5k seats 💥 ➡️ REFORM: 1,570 (+1,508) 🤷‍♂️ CON: 828 (−56) 🤡 GREEN: 740 (+586) 🎪 LIB DEM: 593 (−10) 🥀 LAB: 512 (−1,740)
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Jon Golder
Jon Golder@Jon_golder·
Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. You can now pay £10 to visit his grave in the ultra-prestigious upper class cemetery where he was buried. I couldn’t be happier that even in death he manages to be a hypocrite. Marx managed to be wrong in every prediction and pronouncement he ever made, while mooching off his friends because he was a failure at anything else. And that would have been comical if it weren’t for the fact that his legacy is combined with the other cults of murderous ignorance of the 18th and 19th centuries (like your Jacobins, who gave us the word Terrorism, for the atrocities they carried out in France) to give us the despicable religion of hate and greed known as Communism.
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