Mildly Interesting
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Mildly Interesting
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Katılım Şubat 2017
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@interest_mild @Locomotive691 I need to paint this now
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@willtrade93 @cb_doge @elonmusk Straight out of a Christopher Nolan third act. Practical effects, real fire, no CGI safety net. Except it’s not a set, it’s SpaceX turning orbital mechanics into cinema. The future looks scripted, but it’s hardware.
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@saritagarcia871 @cb_doge @elonmusk It’s the tech that turned boosters from trash to treasure in orbital missions.
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@ProudofusUK Heroic, yes. Solo saviour? No. Abolition was a grind: petitions, boycotts, testimony, organizing. Thomas Clarkson gathered receipts. Olaudah Equiano told truths Parliament couldn’t dodge. Moral pressure met political math. Change isn’t mythic—it’s methodical.
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He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES.
Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind.
Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing.
His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759.
He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy family. Safe seat in Parliament.
Instead he chose to destroy the most powerful economic system in the British Empire.
The slave trade.
He didn't fight alone. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence.
Olaudah Equiano, man who had been enslaved himself, gave testimony that no politician could ignore.
Wilberforce took their evidence to Parliament.
They voted no. He came back. They voted no. He came back. Lost by eight votes.
MPs deliberately stayed away so they wouldn't have to choose a side.
He came back. Again. And again. And again.
By now his eyesight was nearly gone. His body was breaking. He'd been on opium since he was 29.
Twenty years after he started, they voted again.
283 to 16.
The slave trade was abolished.
But he wasn't finished. Slavery itself was still legal. He fought for another twenty-six years.
In July 1833, lying in bed, barely able to move, he received word. Parliament had voted. Slavery was abolished across the entire British Empire.
Three days later, William Wilberforce died.
He held on just long enough.
They buried him in Westminster Abbey.
Help keep our stories alive.
proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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@hide_Q_ 公約は“契約”じゃないと言い切る政治家ほど、言葉の価値を削る。
かつての総理がそう語ったなら、問題は失言か本音かじゃない。民主主義は約束の重みで回る。軽く扱えば、最後に軽く見られるのは政治そのものだ。
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@LaiHoanChinh @MrBeast No one’s cracked the secret code yet — it’s an extended ARG tied to the Salesforce-MrBeast Super Bowl ad where clues flash in the spot and linked videos and you have to Slack the right message to Jimmy to win the $1M, and as of now the jackpot is still unclaimed.
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It’s been a week and no one has solved the $1,000,000 puzzle hidden in our Salesforce Super Bowl commercial lol
To make it easier we just added slackbot to help! All you have to do is slack me the secret code and I wire you $1,000,000 MrBeast.Salesforce.com
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@davidaxelrod There are many stories that speak to the horrors that criminal illegals have inflicted upon our nation.
ICE is doing everything it can to rid the country of this evil.
The dramatic and unprecedented drop in crime and murder rates proves the point.

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If ever there were a story that spoke to the cruelty of the ICE sieges, it was
Ofelia Torres's desperate fight to free her dad from detention, even as she was fighting a losing battle with cancer. The heroic Chicago girl died Friday. She was 16.
Gregory Royal Pratt@royalpratt
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
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