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@CheckersSA Will you stop with the block screen for Discovery health? I'm not a member of Discovery, so what is the point?!!! You make it almost impossible to do my online shopping!!!

Wow. And - read the reactions in here. --- Why everyone’s mad at Apple’s new iPad ad wapo.st/3WyY9pH

FYI Neil Gaiman @neilhimself has requested masking at his live events. 😷😷 He also encourages people to get vaccinated.

I’m sitting outside my daughter’s place of work because a man she declined a date with on Tuesday has been waiting for her nightly after her shift. If you don’t hear from me in an hour, send bail.

I Love Jennifer Eccles (Pencil and Watercolour on Paper) by P.F Bennett (needs a tap 🤏😉)

Swapping a promising career in medicine four decades ago for a lifelong pursuit of service through humanitarian relief, Dr Sooliman and his NGO, @GiftoftheGivers, have become household names in South Africa and worldwide. See: bit.ly/3QdsWnr #CivicHonoursCT

This is Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko. They spent 18-20 hours a day writing and signing transit visas by hand in Lithuania for thousands of Jews for 29 days from July 31 to August 28, 1940. Yukiko described their last days in Lithuania: "He was so exhausted, like a sick person. Even though he was ordered to go to Berlin, he said he couldn't make it to Berlin and suggested we go to a hotel and rest before leaving. When we got to the hotel, the Jewish people came looking for us there. So he wrote some more visas in the hotel. The next day when we got to the train station, they were there too. So he wrote more visas on the platform until the train left. Once we were on board, they were hanging on the windows, and he wrote some more. When the train started moving, he couldn't write anymore. Everyone was waving their hands. One of them called out, 'Thank you Mr. Sugihara, we will come to see you again,' and he came running after the train. I couldn't stop crying. When I think about it, even now, I can't help crying." As the train left the station, Sugihara said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best." It is estimated that the actions undertaken by him and his wife are responsible for the present lives of around 100,000 people. After the war, Sugihara was forced to resign and work menial jobs (selling light bulbs door to door). He languished in relative obscurity until 1968 when an Israeli diplomat managed to find him and finally got him the recognition that he deserved. Sugihara never told anyone what he had done during the war. Even his closest friends had no idea. "I may have disobeyed my government, but if I didn't, I would be disobeying God. In life, do what's right because it's right, and leave it alone."

One of the biggest "mistakes" I see new editors (or even new critique partners!) make is doing too much editing. I say it in quotations because while you're not doing something dead wrong, you're setting yourself up for work redundancy and tension with cost. Let me explain.

@CpmGray No. Search function comes up with that error message for a whole range of subjects. Pretty much useless.

@Notewords One specific person?

Can anyone explain why, when you search for a specific person of interest to you, this message is sometimes flashed, consistently. Is it the new "blocked" message or something else?

@TinyWriterLaura No problem! Banana republics do this all the time...

even for a country as weird as we are this is a ridiculous idea no one needs a portrait of the king

A thread of 20 ancient sites and wonders brought to life by virtual reconstructions 🧵 1. The Colossus of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece (c.280 BC)

@HiddenYorkshire One of my favourite movies of all time. Massively underrated.

Galaxy Quest is massively under-watched, especially because Alan Rickman *perfectly* captures the vibe of an actor who did a sci-fi show for a paycheck and then realises they're going to spend the rest of their life at conventions being asked about what really happened in ep 42

@JDaviesPhD Anyone who has a CFS “recovery” program/ protocol would generally use this method. Its pathetic

@fasc1nate For some reason people think playing the guitar is easy. And that they don't have to practice... Teacher for 30 plus years.

Fender Guitars did a study and found that 90% of new guitar players abandon playing within 1 year. The 10% that don't quit spend an average of $10,000 on hardware over their lifetime, buying 5-7 guitars and multiple amps. What other industries are like that?

“We first sent to a Nature journal, and within 24 h, they rejected it as an incremental contribution. I started learning English only at university, so I had to look up the meaning of the word incremental!” Katalin Karikó, in 2021, on her paper that led to a Nobel Prize today.

@Dakota_150 Screenshots, last page in next tweet