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@shanaka86

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Yesterday SpaceX launched 29 more Starlink satellites from Florida. Nobody cared. Routine. Another Tuesday. Here is what actually happened. Satellite number 10,074 entered an orbit where 300,000 autonomous collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed last year alone. Not by humans. By onboard mach...

@soft_wanning

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xue zhengyong who books a massage for chu wanning because "you need to relax, yuheng! you're so tense!" but it ends up with chu wanning being stunned when the masseur turns out to be mo ran, an old student of his....

@taesaus

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#yoonminau | hiccup Yoongi and Jimin have been hooking up for a year, nothing serious. Yoongi’s leaving in a few months to tour as a DJ. Jimin’s about to finish his masters, then he’s off to teach contemporary dance. Neither are prepared for a hiccup in their grand plans. ...

@BlakeSNeff

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Thread: While at a used bookstore yesterday I ran into a big collection of these short "Britain in Pictures" books. These books, more than 100 in total, were produced during and shortly after WW2 by the British government as a wartime morale booster, to remind the public of what they were fighting...

@alUkbari

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On the textual preservation and oral corruption of the Torah👇🏻 Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr [d. 463 AH] commented on the famous ḥadīth regarding the stoning of the Jewish adulterers: ❝And in this ḥadīth of jurisprudence: the permissibility of asking the People of the Book about their Book, and there is in tha...

@AtlanticBalliol

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🧵 I’m currently reading Edmond Demolins’ Anglo Saxon Superiority and the amount of autism in the introduction alone makes me look like a complete normie. Inspiring! Here are some amazing passages on how the Norman and the Saxon became one, forming the bedrock of the now global Anglo society that ...

@snkveo

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PAGITAN: scenery of in between — a sunsun au. wherein kael (psh), a med student sacrificed his dreams and pursued law just to prove his father’s innocence who got accused of killing eli’s (ksn) brother. but what will happen if the paths of two ex-lovers cross once more? ...

@CalltoActivism

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🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER. Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims. Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview. She di...

@heewonrchve

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