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Speaks for itself.

I hear Zuck doesn't think fact-checking is necessary.

@vegos_f06 Leonard Cohen flirted with just about every religion and every woman and every lifestyle, without committing to any of them.
The only thing he ever really committed to was music, which is what this song is about. I suspect it was the same for Bach; the church was the only employer for musicians at that time.

@openculture

@openculture I love Leonard Cohen, but that song turns my stomach.

I just came across the phrase -->political affiliation as a team sport<-- to describe the over-polarisation of politics today and I think it really hits the nail on the head.

Many people, (esp men) are from an early age indoctrinated to feel they have to identify with a particular team in a particular sport as part of their identity, and this makes them vulnerable to also seeing politics in this way instead of looking at the issues and policies, problems and solutions.

@ekis You can do both

I don't know who made this, but I salute them 😘

@dansup I sent you some coffee money, I hope it at least helps a bit.

I am trying to remember a single xmas when the CND postal workers have not gone on strike, but...

@dansup I think we should do all we can to keep crypto currency (a synonym for grift) out of the fediverse.

@davetroy He's 72, how can he think he'd live long enough to head up something like that?

@Gargron 👍🏽 👍🏽 😊

@kim_harding We want slow tourism. NC500 people blitz through in over-powered cars, treat Caithness like some scenic backdrop on their high speed weekend jaunt, spend one night in an AirBnB, spend as little as possible money and leave behind tons of air pollution.

It's STILL snowing. Around here, snow just usually melts as soon as it hits the ground, so this is amazing! Scottish weather, eh?

@persagen Cool statue. But note that the "Celts" were not an indigenous people in Britain, but migrated there from the continent. They were pushed back into Scotland and Wales by the Romans.

In Scotland the Picts were around before the Celts arrived, and cohabited with them. No one knows where the Picts came from.

Keltoi was a name given by the Greeks to a tribe of people living in the south of France. It was not what they called themselves.

@feorag Everyone I know has, or has just had the norovirus, aka winter vomiting flu. Was awful, awful, awful. I read somewhere they are working on a vaccine for it, so fingers crossed that comes out soon!

@dansup 🎶 I'm dreaming, Of a Green Christmas...

"There is a special curse for SF writers. Not ‘interesting times’ but ‘may you live to see the future you wrote about.’"

- Adrian Tchaikovsky

@CloudyMrs Surely England is one of the four nations of the UK?

@CloudyMrs Where did you see this?

In case you were wondering why your rent is never regulated.