Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay. We pick the posts you don’t want to miss so you can laugh, commiserate or ‘aww’ along with them.
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Now, here are our favourite picks from everywhere else this week:
Alice Walker on the beauty of seeing revolutionaries in old age pic.twitter.com/jWWqR0IIO2
— Mutual Aid 4 The Homies (@aid4dahomies) January 14, 2021
Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread:
1. 📸 Dan Dinu pic.twitter.com/FYfohHAucq
— Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa) January 17, 2021
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKHSfS6Febr/?igshid=1miy2flabc41o
Absolute mic drop. I’d love to hear someone answer this question. pic.twitter.com/L8KHaNdYO1
— sarah o'grady 🤷🏻♀️ (@ladyogrady) January 16, 2021
The Jacob Rees-Mogg Wellerman Shanty. pic.twitter.com/lg3jyzYC3b
— Jon Harvey (@jondharvey) January 15, 2021
With the benefit of hindsight, would you say that the Nuremberg Trials were divisive ?
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) January 12, 2021
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJyDiouFZ9E/?igshid=t3wrfzfpocf6
Me giving a sprited defence of the fact that it's not the economy vs health but the economy *and* health on the BBC earlier today. @IndependentSage @GabrielScally pic.twitter.com/l9y55Za1HX
— Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) January 15, 2021
Absolutely no reason for a sea shanty remix to go this hard pic.twitter.com/hbtKolCxyF
— honest jabe (@jaynooch) January 12, 2021
Short edit of me turning a rusty nail into a beautiful miniature sword. pic.twitter.com/ALv6DwusSW
— 𝔹𝕠𝕓𝕓𝕪 𝔻𝕦𝕜𝕖 (@BobbyDukeArts) January 13, 2021
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKCRxVOj0MO/?igshid=1pjigv14nw8g0
Just another morning in Mongolia pic.twitter.com/Fp5p5LHC3i
— Ungerni Khooloi (@Nicholastrad) January 15, 2021
SNOW-BONES is a 19th century word for the lines of snow left on a road between the tracks of wheels. pic.twitter.com/4XmrkIxBLa
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) January 8, 2021
A kid's tooth fell out at school and no one could find it, so his vice-principal @shandeemay1 wrote this letter to the tooth fairy pic.twitter.com/ghsSskBY5K
— Andrew Kurjata 🎙️📻 (@akurjata) January 14, 2021
Finished on New Year’s Eve – my record of local daily temperatures during 2020… in blanket form 🧶 ❄️ ☀️ pic.twitter.com/XKKBlUe0Tl
— Susie Hailey (Grant) (@susie_hailey) January 12, 2021
heavy snow in madrid and it was enough for someone to sculpt venus de milo pic.twitter.com/az5lycHJgh
— 开 (@Iairdutemps) January 11, 2021
"Arctic" doesn't mean pole, it comes from arctos, meaning bear. Arctic means "bears here". Antarctica means "no bears here".
— '21 Jen Street (@JenYetAgain) January 11, 2021
"Book Face" movement created by the employees of the bookstore pic.twitter.com/n1AnN8L108
— God's Whisper (@GodsWhisper__) January 14, 2021
Scots word (phrase) of the day: TAK TENT OR IT'S TINT
Meaning: pay attention to something, or it will be lost
Example: Tak tent or it's tint means the same hing as a phrase ye might be mair comfy wae: if ye dinnae use it, ye're gonnae lose it.
Apologies fur the lateness. X pic.twitter.com/VumouiB6EN
— ✨ Miss PunnyPennie ✨ (@Lenniesaurus) January 15, 2021
Yesterday’s view from Howth in Dublin to a snow capped Snowdon in North Wales is just incredible.
It’s 140 kilometres away.
📸 Niall O’Carrol pic.twitter.com/tF8pnPyfDm
— Sam Greenwood (@Sam_Greenwood_) January 13, 2021
I see your sea shanties and raise you Ukrainian folk. pic.twitter.com/uft56wTB04
— Glam Shatterskull 🌌🧙♂️ (@GlamShatterskll) January 15, 2021
History will remember this as the "Can I Tweet Again Now Speech" https://t.co/chSa3y9SIO
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 13, 2021
Every “Northern” character in a musical. pic.twitter.com/rYq1Ze0sQd
— Em Humble (@em_humble) January 16, 2021
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJ-OkgNAO1N/?igshid=18anmys39747m
Image credit: Sasin Tipchai