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Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸

This is why I hate the word "#terrorism". It creates Mexican standoff scenarios like this. A terrorist is someone who causes terror. But that is so vague. The #irish have done that, the #english have done that, the #US has done that. Hell. I'm a #gay man and my people are terrorized by #christians. But we don't call them terrorists. It's so vague anyone can scream it because it has no meaning anymore. bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ve317 #words #news #Palestine

A man is wearing an Irish tricolour balaclava and an orange jumpsuit. He has a mic in his hand and his arm is in the air. He's onstage and lights are shining.
www.bbc.comKneecap: Sharon Osbourne call for US visas to be revoked after CoachellaKneecap performed at a music festival in California where they ended their set with pro-Palestinian messages.
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bookworks Harris Walz💙

@briankrebs Believe it or not, we did this right through high school with our kids. Actually managed to sit down for dinner quite a few nights per week. I know it “stuck” because as adults with family for holidays, or just dinner at our house, one of them would surprise us and suggest to the group. We call it “one good thing”. And to change it up a little when they were older we instead took turns choosing a word from the dictionary to share. (Thanks! Writing this made me smile). #tradition #words #OneGoodThing

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Wm.son

#Words #AWordADay #AnuGarg

Today's Word is Podsnap:

"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”

As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”

Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."

Indeed! This seems so familiar...

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