The Greatest Story Ever Told
22.01.2026 12:57
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
On this day long ago a child was born, who by the age of 30 would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton, born Dec. 25th 1642. 😂
Credit: Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Merry Festive season everyone, have a fabulous day. Do eat and drink too much, I sure will.
Religion; a force for good.......
Breaking: Disturbing scenes out of Portland, 2025 — authorities warn the situation could escalate.
@rachelparris.bsky.social hi
I was listening to the Eggs podcast and you mentioned your book was available as a fabric hardback and as it's my daughter's birthday in Nov, I thought that sounded wonderful. Are all the hardback covers fabric, or is there a special version? If hate to get the wrong 1.
@kiwiev.bsky.social Hey, are you on the invite list to view this? I'd love to see your review, and PSC for a ferry
Stop all this sexy talk!
Oh, what a massive surprise. Do you mean to tell me that oil companies extract the oil until in runs out, and then move onto the next well and just leave millions of wells leaking methane.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
I have seen Brian Tyler Cohen since, where they discussed it. 86 is not something the rest of the world use, so it was a new one in me
MFA by accident?
Which ones?
Your good
Thank you, but unlikely
Te ao Māori had more of an effect on me than I possibly realised. Pēpē in uk pub standing in a table.... I'm appalled. Get those feet off!
That should be funny, not true
I'm back in the uk for 3 weeks while my mother is in dementia care and my father is in hospital being told he has incurable bone cancer. I return to Aotearoa New Zealand in 5 days.
Sitting in a British pub, with a point and food is a balm.
For the Ford rAnger drivers with size issues?
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social While sat under a full moon in Auckland on Saturday night, my wife and I wondered if you had thoughts on a documentary on The Lunar Society and the Birmingham Enlightenment?
This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.
Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
1898 Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition (Alexander Turnbull Library)
1 December 1898 – The first movie shot in New Zealand 🎥
The first motion pictures to have been taken in NZ were by W H Bartlett for entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’, a Thomas Edison invention that showed moving images to one viewer at a time.
