Martin McEvoy

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Web/Security professional, microformats/sem web/open source evangelist, former W3C Invited Expert, Green Party Member 💚. Born in 323.05ppm
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Hi everyone, I don't know who will see this.

Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Doris Day.

From Wikipedia: Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQ2IEinS2w

My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time (1945) - Doris Day

YouTube

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#MysteryPersonQuiz

Vocabulary Quiz

#vocabulary #quiz

The word ___________ means “a passing over with brief mention in order to emphasize rhetorically the suggestiveness of what is omitted.”

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paraleipsis
74.7%
metonymy
7.4%
synecdoche
17.9%
Anglicization
0%
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Vocabulary Quiz

#vocabulary #quiz

The word _____________ means “to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar.”

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codify
6.2%
indemnify
14.2%
posterize
8.8%
bowdlerize
70.8%
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People need to stop making the assumption that the UK is a responsible first world country. It isn’t.

— ‘Jacob Birtwhistle, 28, an Australian triathlete, posted the Environment Agency’s results [and] wrote: “Have been feeling pretty rubbish since the race, but I guess that’s what happens when you swim in shit. The swim should have been cancelled.”

… Another wrote: “That now explains why I spent Monday night with my head in the toilet after racing Sunday morning!”’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/05/investigation-after-57-world-triathlon-championship-swimmers-fall-sick-and-get-diarrhoea-in-sunderland-race

Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland

Athletes competing on stretch of UK coastline where reduced water quality at centre of dispute over sewage discharges

The Guardian

The surface temperature of the world’s oceans has hit its highest ever level as climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/oceans-hit-highest-ever-recorded-temperature

Ocean surface hits highest ever recorded temperature and set to rise further

Average daily surface temperature of 20.96C breaks 2016 record, with experts saying warmest month for oceans to come

The Guardian

#Sunak #CONservatives #ToryCorruption #ClimateCrisis #GTTO

" #Greenpeace activists have covered Rishi Sunak's £2m mansion in oil-black fabric after climbing on to the roof of his property in Yorkshire!"

The Tories couldn't care less about the #Climate, unless there's something in it for them. Uxbridge & new North Sea oil licences are all the proof you need.

I can't think of a better way to send a message to that uncaring bunch of privileged crooks... 🤷🏾‍♂️👏🏾👏🏾
https://news.sky.com/story/greenpeace-activists-drape-rishi-sunaks-1632m-mansion-in-oil-black-fabric-after-climbing-on-roof-12932858

Greenpeace activists released on bail after scaling roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home

Sky
Happy 40th birthday to MIDI! 🎂🎉🍾🎂

#ClimateCrisis #ToryCorruption #Sunak #BP #Shell #GTTO

"Sunak’s Russian-linked family firm Infosys signed $1.4bn deal with BP BEFORE PM opened new North Sea licences"

The CEO of Shell, one of Infosys' major clients, joined Sunak's new Business Council 2 weeks ago! 😳

From Doris to Sunk, it's out of the frying pan, into the fire. The Tories are THAT bent with corruption, they can't even be arsed covering their tracks any more!

No more Inquiries, we want JAIL TIME! 😡

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/

Sunak's family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences

The CEO of one of Infosys' other major clients, Shell, also joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago.

The London Economic