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TIL Province Wellesley (Seberang Prai) was named after the guy who later became Duke of Wellington, the guy who defeated Napoleon.
And it was not random, he and a boatload of soldiers stopped at Penang while on a naval mission.
0·11 days agoIf it won’t follow the UN, maybe it shouldn’t be a member of the UN.
Someone make a cover of this.
252·13 days agoHow is this one country be bombing other countries with impunity, without international outrage or sanctions? What is the textbook definition of a declaration of war again?
All the panhandles makes for good sauce-dipping handling
0·20 days agoLoad bearing books, now that’s new to me.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
— Animal Farm
I’m otterly shocked! 😧
Btw in the local language their name can also mean something like “warring” so that kinda tells you something.
It comes out the way it went in 😂
531·2 months agoChristians in 1st century: the world is ending very soon!
Muslims in 7th century: the world is ending very soon!
Mormons in 19th century: the world is ending very soon!Given enough apocalyptic religions one of them would be right, but I think that religion doesn’t exist yet.
Fyrefest 2: Electric Boogaloo
0·2 months agoHack? It’s not even that. Just musk in his infinite wisdom enabling pay-to-get-checkmark on Xitter so all the fake/satire accounts immediately jumped on the opportunity.
I see what you did there
Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.
You know that meme where a guy in uniform was giving lessons to a few cobras? This is that uniform. He was a member of the Malaysian fire and rescue service.
He passed away a while back though, from, yup, cobra bites.
Guys, I’m not ready for a global pandemilympics that comes by on a 4 year schedule.
0·3 months agoIs it finally time? The beginning of the end?
I figure only nerds know this but back when Agensi Pengangkutan Awam Darat was a Suruhanjaya, its acronym SPAD was actually very ironic because its also the acronym for when trains run the red light: signal passed at danger.