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://twitter.com/ladyogrady/status/1350275055834574848
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
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
— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) January 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/jaynooch/status/1349007291559931906
https://twitter.com/BobbyDukeArts/status/1349454716066009091
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 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology (@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
— 𓃹 (@moto444ngel) January 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/JenYetAgain/status/1348436248613019651
https://twitter.com/GodsWhisper__/status/1349832220782059521
https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1350138450389950467
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
https://twitter.com/GlamShatterskll/status/1349907406562725888
History will remember this as the "Can I Tweet Again Now Speech" https://t.co/chSa3y9SIO
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/em_humble/status/1350415232234098689
Image credit: Sasin Tipchai