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Angela Elliott

@anjgi

Writer - Artist - Engineer #WGGB #wearebellringing Repped by @julianfriedmann at Blake Friedmann Editor Middx Bell News

London, UK Katılım Aralık 2008
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Angela Elliott
Angela Elliott@anjgi·
@giottodf Here's my enlightenment. There is no enlightenment. It's all just hooey. Life's shit and then you die. There's the real 'enlightenment' for. you.
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Giotto@giottodf·
You don't need a $3,000 retreat to find peace. You need clear, practical ideas — explained simply, without the spiritual ego. That's exactly what this blog is.
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Mykhaïlo Golub
Mykhaïlo Golub@golub·
No wonder Americans voted Trump in TWO times
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@SamaHoole When they could afford it, the peasants were historically much healthier than the aristocrats because the latter ate rich food and didn't do a stitch of work. Meanwhile the peasants toiled in the fields, got all the exercise they could ever want.
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
There is a moment in the history of food that nobody marks with a plaque, but should. The moment when vegetables shifted from being the food of people who couldn't afford anything else, to being the food of people who had decided they were morally superior to everyone who could. For most of recorded human history, this shift had not happened. The direction of status was clear, consistent, and pointing firmly at animal foods. Every culture that left a record of what it valued eating valued meat, fat, dairy, and fish, in that broad order, over grain, and grain over vegetables, and vegetables over nothing, because vegetables were what you ate when the other options had run out. The Roman poor ate grain and vegetables. The Roman rich ate garum-sauced pork and roasted game and oysters carried live from the coast in seawater tanks. The medieval peasant ate pottage. The medieval lord ate roast. The Victorian factory worker ate bread and dripping. The Victorian mill owner ate joints. Bread, pottage, pulse, root vegetable: the common thread across two thousand years of European poverty is not the specific food, but the category. Low in fat. Low in bioavailable protein. High in bulk. Filling in the way that only genuine hunger makes something filling. The food of people with no other option. Now consult a modern menu in any city with a functioning middle class and find the restaurants charging £18 for a bowl of grains and roasted vegetables, surrounded by people eating it deliberately, by choice, in the expressed belief that the restraint is virtuous. The restraint is real. The choice is real. The food is, nutritionally and historically, a poverty diet. Which is not a moral failing. But it is worth being honest about. The lentil has not changed since the medieval peasant boiled it. The story around the lentil has changed completely. The lentil is doing its best to keep up.
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Angela Elliott
Angela Elliott@anjgi·
@MENA_Puls Trump is doing to the USA what he's done to every other business he's had (and yes, he sees the USA as a business), he'll bankrupt it and take what he can get from the ruins
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MENA Pulse
MENA Pulse@MENA_Puls·
🚨 🇺🇸 Breaking: An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman will lead the great US military to ruin."
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Angela Elliott
Angela Elliott@anjgi·
@SaffronKim Around the same time as you I was 'allowed' to do art because I was told I would be expected to get married and so having a career was out of the question. Not only did I end up working as a graphic artist, I retrained as a semiconductor engineer and later as a writer for TV.
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SaffronKim@SaffronKim·
1972 School careers advisor: “What would you like to be?” Me, aged 14: “A journalist (foreign correspondent), an astronaut, or an actor.” Careers advisor: “Have you considered nursing?” That’s what us girls were up against.
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Angela Elliott
Angela Elliott@anjgi·
@NASA @markaizatt @NASAArtemis When I was a child living in the UK the moon landing was on every television. Space exploration was lauded. Now its barely more than a footnote. Can we please get back to the days when it was nothing less than a miracle? I can't find footage anywhere.
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NASA@NASA·
"We can see the Moon out of the docking hatch right now. It's a beautiful sight." Flight day 3 is in the books, and our @NASAArtemis II crew is now closer to the Moon than to Earth. Check out highlights from our lunar mission. What’s been your favorite moment so far?
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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered
Left - Apollo 17, 1972 Right - Artemis II, 2026 Two photographs taken by one of us, of all of us, over half a century apart. What's changed?
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Kim
Kim@xxx_kimbo_xxx·
And she now has a new nickname 'The Growler' because she keeps growling at me like a wild dog...
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Kim@xxx_kimbo_xxx·
So my neighbour who tried to attack me earlier this week, has attacked someone else, who doesn't want to press charges, so when we finally get this injunction, how does it work if we're all too frightened of repercussions? Honestly, can't wait for her to be evicted!
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Angela Elliott@anjgi·
People on Substack: 'Do you want to be my friend? I'll be yours.' It feels like a rerun of my childhood.
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Physics In History
Physics In History@PhysInHistory·
A rare photograph of Schrödinger and his cat, ca. 1935.
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Angela Elliott@anjgi·
@JasperBeech In a twist of fate, the same vicar was caught in Tiglath giving 'driving' lessons to a parishioner and asked to leave the church.
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Professor Jasper Heathcoat-Beech
@anjgi Brilliant! Better than that (from his point of view), he conquered it. The Assyrians had all the best monarch's names - Tiglath-Pileser, Tukulti-Ninurta, Assur-Uballit etc
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Professor Jasper Heathcoat-Beech
Getting there. Just as a by-the-by... People often ask if, in my professional life, I’ve ever had a nickname. Yes, indeed. I think it was inspired by my notorious loquacity. The nickname? King of Babble-on.
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North Ages
North Ages@NorthAges·
Edward ‘the Confessor’ was crowned King of the English by Archbishops Ælfric Puttoc of York and Eadsige of Canterbury at the Old Minster, Winchester, #OTD in 1043.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.
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Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Distribution of standing stones in the British Isles. Note the absence in south-eastern England and the heavy densities in north-east Scotland, Northern Ireland, south-west Ireland, and Cornwall.
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