Kim Laykin

High School English teacher, Istanbul

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Juvenile lesser spotted woodpecker, Validebağ Korusu, Istanbul.

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@WingsScotland Only a single regard? Sounds a bit mean.

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@umerspain123 @RadharamnDas No it is not. There is nothing in the Qu'ran which requires such large-scale and appalling cruelty.

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@ossi_gaming @07yigitkaradag @MoreBirths And how is that going to happen?

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@theiaincameron A bit like Mississippi-Missouri, I suppose.

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@theiaincameron It seems that the Gaelic element "b(h)eir" is cognate with both English "to bear" and Latin "ferre", meaning "to carry". Presumably "(to) ferry" is also etymologically related.

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@theiaincameron My parents were brought up in villages in County Durham about eight miles apart. There were noticeable differences in their accents.

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In Turkey, an elderly man who makes a living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat who asks him to brush his fur.

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@MajorDMalpas @murdo_fraser Not for Rangers, for sure.

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@Heccles94 @EUautocrat St George was not born in Turkey, as Turkey didn't exist at that time. He was an Anatolian Greek.

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@athenaeumbc I have always considered Down & Out to be slightly disingenuous, as the very real poverty Orwell describes is - for him - consciously experimental and easily escapable. He simply asks an English friend to send him some money for the ferry fare back to England.

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@theiaincameron I realise it's quite a bit to the south of Cheviot, but do you think there is any likelihood of snow patches remaining on Cross Fell? It is after all approximately 300 feet higher.

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Hoopoe, Burgazada, Istanbul

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@PaulEmbery “Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why? … Because she never let them in.” James Joyce, Ulysses.

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@geoff_spuhler @LozzaFox She was a newsreader - not an investigative reporter.

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@theiaincameron @chimpaction Grew up in Consett, Co. Durham in 70s and 80s, a town which got a fair amount of snow. The emissions from the steelworks would turn the snow red; since closure, like in your photo, snow which lasts any length of time - which can be as late as April - tends to be blackened.

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@georgegalloway And Hamas and the Iranian régime have never murdered anyone, I suppose.

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@georgegalloway Oh, for heaven's sake, Mr Galloway, give it a rest.

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@nxt888 @georgegalloway I lived and worked for two years in the Persian Gulf - in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; to a man, all of the Arabs I met referred to it as "The Arabian Gulf".

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🚨DERANGED: RAF Illegally BLOCKED 160+ White Male Pilots to Boost Diversity — MoD Confirms

“This is one of the craziest decisions ever made by any branch of the British state ever!”

The RAF literally paused hiring white men, preferring to recruit NO ONE over a qualified white male pilot, all to hit woke diversity quotas for women & ethnic minorities.

A senior female recruitment officer resigned in protest, calling it illegal & immoral.

MoD inquiry confirmed: it WAS unlawful positive discrimination. Over 160 male pilots had training suspended. 31 got compensation.

This is deranged. Putting ideology before competence doesn’t make our military stronger, it puts national security at risk.