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Actress and singer Marilyn Monroe — dressed in an elegant black dress suit and black leather gloves — captured facing the camera while seated on a light-coloured couch, legs crossed, her left hand resting on the seat, right hand on her knee as she smiles broadly and glances to the left, a standing microphone positioned in front of her, in a full-length black-and-white shot taken during a press conference in the waiting room at Los Angeles Airport

Marilyn Monroe during a press conference at Los Angeles Airport, 1956

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Mine faded too, such a shame! Fab back up collection you have though 😊

Rumbledethump Pies in crispy golden puff pastry on a baking sheet.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 As it's Burns Night tonight, I'm sharing a modern twist on a traditional Scottish recipe. Rumbledethump Pies.
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Sláinte Mhath!
#plantbased #vegetarian #vegan #veganuary #dairyfree

'Honest labelling: why transparency on meat and dairy matters' - LabourList Terry Jermy MP for South-West Norfolk urges Defra to introduce Mandatory Method of Production (MMOP) food labelling as a priority.

"Shoppers should be empowered to seek out products that more closely align with their views on animal welfare, but to do this will require the Government to introduce robust labelling regulation." - @terryjermymp.bsky.social 👏👏

@humaneworlduk.bsky.social @animallawfdn.bsky.social

Vegan haggis served with neeps, tatties, broccoli and a creamy whisky sauce.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I can't talk about Burns Night without sharing my recipe for easy plant-based haggis. Serve it sliced or crumbled with creamy whisky sauce (less traditional- gravy or a my red pepper sauce).
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#plantbased #vegetarian #vegan #Scotland #burnsnight

Scottish clapshot served with sausages, veg and onion gravy.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We celebrate #BurnsNight on Sunday here in #Scotland, so I thought I'd share a few traditional Scottish recipes the next few days, starting with this comforting creamy clapshot, that's good served with haggis or sausages. www.tinnedtomatoes.com/2024/05/scot...
You'll love it!
#vegan #vegetarian

Your database feels slow… but do you actually know why?
Grant Fritchey is walking through how to find slow queries using the tools built into PostgreSQL.
Jan 27 - 1 pm ET
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Looking at photos of my dog while I'm on my way home to my dog. Is it time for an intervention?

Blink and you'll miss it: Today, callfordataspeakers.com celebrates 500 email campaigns in the almost exactly five years since its inception.

Big thanks to all the organizers and speakers who make the site useful by, well, using it. ❤️

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

Photograph of Feast on your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day by Tamar Adler

And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for Feast on your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day by the exquisite writer Tamar Adler. This book of reflections and observations has the bare honesty of diary entries and the chiselled beauty of prose-poems. I’m so grateful that it’s in the world.

Buttered scotch pancakes on a plate.

From the lunchbox today fluffy vegan scotch pancakes.
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#vegan #veganuary

Death of the DBA (Again) Every few years, something comes along that's definitively, no-questions-asked going to replace us. Let's review the historical record. ...

Reading: The Death of the DBA (Again): www.sqlfingers.com/2026/01/deat... Rebecca Lewis gives us a timeline of when the DBA has been proclaimed dead before, and explains why it won't be true this time either.

Sessions Archive - PASS Data Community Summit

On-demand content for PASS Summit 2025 is now available to those who purchased it! We're sorry this took longer than originally planned. Also, videos from previous years are freely available to all: passdatacommunitysummit.com/video-librar...

This is Aki. He just realized how to unify Einstein's general relativity theory with quantum mechanics to solve the black hole information paradox, but then remembered he's supposed to be a dog. 13/10 (TT: katelyvxxn)

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Cauliflower, Garlic and Turmeric Soup Packed full of vegetables and phytonutrients, it is undeniably true that this soup is both soothing and bolstering as well as easy and gratifying to eat. Baking the garlic gives a lot of depth while t...

#RecipeOfTheDay comes from The Royal Marsden Cancer Cookbook. I was asked to contribute, and it was an honour to do so in support of this great hospital. Obviously, I make no curative claims for my soup, but I can promise it provides comfort and tastes delicious www.nigella.com/recipes/caul...

The AIs are always there. On a zoom meeting with friends we were talking about laptops and Lenovo came up.

We get off the meeting and I get a ping from LinkedIn in a browser tab. The message?

So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie.

It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.

I wrote a new post about how volunteering shaped my entire 2025. From data community work to mental health advocacy, foster care support, and 22 years as a Guardian ad Litem—service is simply how I live.

As 2026 begins, I hope you’ll choose one small, sustainable way to serve. Small acts add up.

Uncovering the Secrets of Dashboard Design, Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup Great dashboards don’t just show data, they guide users to insights effortlessly. In this fast-paced session, we’ll unlock the power of alignment, white space, and page sca

Start the New Year off right! Join us with Juliana Smith presenting: Uncovering the Secrets of Dashboard Design. And don't forget to share the #DATAWIT knowledge by sharing this link!
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You have about one week left to submit your abstracts to @datasatsto.se. Beautiful early-summer Stockholm awaits!

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Looks SO good 😋

Redgate Software announces strategic growth investment from Bregal Sagemount for next phase of growth and portfolio expansion | Steve Jones I helped found SQL Server Central in 2001. That grew into an amazing job that changed my life. When we sold to Redgate Software in 2006, we did our due diligence to find a partner that wouldn't change...

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My cockapoo puppy curled up in a ball giving side-eye.

Judgemental croissant.

Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.

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