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JDW Leighton retweeted
For #RemembranceDay, the Commando Memorial near Spean Bridge
[photo: J.M. Strachan]
I got nicked by one run by Greater Manchester Police in the 80’s. That one was unmarked. 3am on a rainy night in Rochdale.
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I've said it before, but come and spend a couple of hours with me in Manchester @rustyrockets You might get a different perspective.
Based Poles. “We didn’t do very much, but we did what we could”
Two surgeons from Krakow, Mateusz Wierdak and Michał Pędziwiatr, were at a nearby restaurant when a gunman opened fire in the Polish city’s Main Square on Saturday. Both immediately rushed to help the victims.
“We didn’t do anything extraordinary,” Pędziwiatr said.
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Some new work from Prague 1989 on my print sale site. justinleightonprints.com/pra… with a forward by @fharris2011
Tractor production is up.
NEW:
Brent crude oil now $93, lowest since late August.
UK natural gas has fallen 23% from peak on October 23rd, just dipped below £2 a therm.
Still 2.5x pre war price, but some relief for energy prices, pretty sharp drops since mid terms led markets to start to price Gulf deescalation.
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Voyager 1 will be one light day away from Earth in a couple of weeks.
I was 10 years old when it was launched in 1977.
People don’t understand I work on Voyager 1 time.
50 years is like a day for me. Its not that difficult people. One light day is my deadline from now on.
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One of the main reasons I haven’t drunk myself to death. It’s such a fucking expensive way to go these days.
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One thing about packing one’s house up. It is a great time to declutter. Probably 3/4 of this stuff will be sold/charity shops or the skip. Not paying storage for a box of USB A cables :)
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Village fireworks cancelled due to the insane cost of insurance. Another bit of our shared collective culture gone. What’s the effing point.
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All the food groups covered.
Sartre's diet in the late 50s, while he was writing Critique of Dialectical Reason: two packs of cigarettes and several pipes stuffed with black tobacco per day, more than a quart of alcohol – wine, beer, vodka, whisky, etc – 200mg of amphetamines, 15g of aspirin, several grams of barbiturates, plus coffee, tea and rich meals.
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