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@PolitlcsUK And the poor person in the car ahead has bloody whiplash.

🚨 WATCH: A driver crashes her car after calling Nigel Farage a “wanker”

@SkySportsNews Ah man. The hits keep on coming.

Former England player and manager Kevin Keegan has died aged 75.

@Boba_Ball_ Except your dad.

Becoming a man is basically realising no one gives a fuck about you

@CreativeDeduct @BBCNews Cool story bro.

@eruditesvault @BBCNews Yes and I was ok without the government telling my future employer how to communicate with me. I don’t need to be infantilised.

Salary information to be shown on job ads under new laws bbc.in/4vyrGhd

@CreativeDeduct @BBCNews Have you ever looked for a job?

@BBCNews Why? Just why do we need this sort of mad legislation?

@LoyalTipsters02 No way Holland made it out alive as an independent nation 🤣🤣🤣

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@pensandpoison They both suck. Just the one on the right sucks more. The one on the left is trying too hard to sound clever.

If you're wondering why fewer people read literary fiction today, compare these two novel openings. One was originally self-published. The other reflects the dominant style in contemporary publishing. The difference is night and day.

@Cooper866348 Also comes with a free dose of dysentery.

Why is ice made in India so cheap 🧊

@shaams But you ain’t seeing that $1.5k brother.

Actually technically I have $18.7k because my friend owes me $1.5k

Peak net worth of $45M. Now sitting on roughly $17.2k. Ask me anything (AMA).

@Math_files I have this book! It’s great.

@Old_But_Gold50s Goosebumps.

Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest duets of all time, this 1987 archival footage from Ibiza captures the iconic song "Barcelona." It stands as a vivid testament to the perfect fusion of Montserrat Caballé’s sublime operatic vocals and Freddie Mercury’s captivating stage presence—a masterpiece that left an indelible mark on music history and went on to become the official and defining anthem of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

@VinnieSull1van @devonboy3410 @BygoneBritain @Lost___London Woah. Easy now. Topic was great. But it was ahead of its time… it was TINY even then. 🤣

@devonboy3410 @BygoneBritain @Lost___London Couldn't agree more. And topic.

Behold, the lost view of the 1990s corner shop. When a chocolate bar wasn't only dirt cheap, but big enough to eat in two sittings. ⏳️

@Thecargi01 Man… 3 great choices. But it’s got to be the Testarossa 😍

Which classic do you prefer?

@Dr_Shiv_kumar_ @DocPriyamMD @msimanga_wela Would we see similar results for ruptured brain aneurysms? I mean, do they happen most regularly at a particular time? My anecdotal evidence seems to agree with early mornings too.

Correct answer: B) Monday morning (6–10 AM). The highest number of fatal heart attacks occur during the first few hours after waking, with a noticeable peak on Monday mornings. While a person is asleep, his heart works in a low-demand state. When he wake up, the body releases stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, causing a sudden rise in heart rate, blood pressure, and blood clotting activity. For most people this is harmless. But if someone already has cholesterol plaques in their coronary arteries, this morning surge can cause a plaque to rupture, triggering a clot that blocks blood flow to the heart muscle and causes a heart attack.

Statistically, at what time does the highest number of fatal heart attacks occur? A) Friday night (after heavy drinking/eating) B) Monday morning (between 6 AM and 10 AM) C) Wednesday afternoon (peak stress) D) Sunday evening (anticipatory anxiety) Bonus: WHY does your cardiovascular system suddenly fail at this specific time?

@lennartprimal Forgot to include cigars 🤣

Living like an old italian man

@CatherineTread6 @AuthorGFAllen I have not! At least, not yet! Thank you, I’ll look into it 🙏🏻

@eruditesvault @AuthorGFAllen Have you read Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog? Brilliant. Another I’ve read and reread.

What’s one book that you will never stop recommending?

@graangeluk @giveashitnature That’s amazing. Are you seeing similar results to those of the trial?

@giveashitnature That’s what we’re doing already since 2018

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

@EvaLovesDesign What a fantastic graphic!! A whole series of these with different cities would make a great account!

Train travel under an hour

@zipperzero @StatisticUrban It’s a tendon 👍🏻

@eruditesvault @StatisticUrban Is this the artery or the muscle?

Here's an example of ongoing human physiological change: some people have a third artery in their arm. Some don't. ~10% of people born in the 1880s had the third artery, but ~33% of late 1900s babies have one, and a 2025 Australian cadaver study found it in ~43% of upper limbs.