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Making pop records for 30 years. Antifascist, atheist, Mercator projection defender.

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@DocCyber_ @_InfoGram_ And where has all that killing and destruction led? Is everything better now than it was before?

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@marie_mirrat @seb_locke_ @martycon73 The US

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@georgegalloway Worst police state of all.

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@fizzyknitting @BladeoftheS The Olympics may have more competing participants but the World Cup has bigger crowds and more people wanting to come from those banned countries. If they can do what they're doing to the WC, the Olympics will be a doddle. They're ruining the world's biggest event.

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@Normanjam67 Never been less excited about a World Cup. Too many teams, too expensive, and shit hosts who interfere and ban fans from countries they don't like. Hope Iran and Iraq do well.

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@fizzyknitting @BladeoftheS The World Cup is a much more popular and important event than the Olympics though, so this ought to be the big one to boycott.

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@deutscher_fi @glenn_tunes @eptruji But you're taught that they're all part of one continent, aren't you?

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@deutscher_fi @glenn_tunes @eptruji Yes, but Central America is part of the North American continent: it's never regarded as a continent itself.

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@deutscher_fi @glenn_tunes @eptruji Two: North and South. Nowhere is Central America regarded as a continent.

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@deutscher_fi @glenn_tunes @eptruji Americas, since there are two of them.

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@TitchMaphosa @Thendeavortobe @_AfricanUnion It was the other way round: the colonial powers wanted to show off to their rivals how big their colonies were; they were proud of how small their home countries were. Why would they want to downplay the size of their colonies?

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@Orth0doxCaveman @x_Aurelion @daveylittle @vintagemapstore If you're including them, you'd have to include at least half of Europe as Celtic.

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@Orth0doxCaveman @x_Aurelion @daveylittle @vintagemapstore They died out about 2000 years ago, long before Franco. Franco suppressed existing languages, such as Galician.

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@vintagemapstore What's Celtic about Northwest Iberia?

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@Orth0doxCaveman @x_Aurelion @daveylittle @vintagemapstore But those weren't Celtic languages.

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@TheRealJamieKay Worst and most uniform press in Europe - most of the journalists went to the same posh schools.

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@MrRaffles51148 @TheRealJamieKay Don't forget the C of E

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@RyanLambley @polarbear1066 @drivinginkorea @amazingmap Usually the more logical version, and often the more historic version.

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@DouglasVertexCC @JoshuaBarzon @grok It has nothing specifically to do with Mercator: it's the same in any rectangular projection such as Gall-Peters etc.

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@JoshuaBarzon @grok In all rectangular maps each line of latitude is as wide as the equator, for obvious reasons.