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How The Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

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kevintoolis · 9 hours ago
@KevinToolis

I wonder will this professional gambling lobbyist @MichaelDugher address the issue of gambling and suicide? Ever? Here is a true terrible story from @guardian https://t.co/Rt9P9AVrZB https://t.co/4yhjg4hraG

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Michael Dugher @MichaelDugher
Lots of hysterical nonsense is claimed about betting & football, assertions not based on facts/evidence, usually by anti-gambling prohibitionists who just want to ban stuff + some snobby newspaper commentators who look down their noses at betting.
https://t.co/No8nu9XJtY

kevintoolis · 19 hours ago
@KevinToolis

Thanks for the reading Liam https://t.co/DiFJ7BbiW6 https://t.co/7GAriOwsDx

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Liam Farrell@drlfarrell
The coldness of a corpse has its own perverse aphrodisiac; nothing encourages the animal within us, the hunger for sexual consummation, the need of the comfort of another warm body, than death’s present denial. We affirm ourselves in heat + flesh.
My Father's Wake; @KevinToolis

kevintoolis · 3 days ago
@KevinToolis

saved millions of lives just as #albertSchatz saved mine, and countless others, through the discovery of #streptomycinn #vaccinesaregreat https://t.co/uXFQihljIT

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Deb Shaw@debjshaw
1953
Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. @otd https://t.co/NwHlO9QOJE

kevintoolis · 3 days ago
@KevinToolis

The passing flow of life, and beer bubbles #transience https://t.co/SYEjixel8O

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kevintoolis · 3 days ago
@KevinToolis

#boundless https://t.co/1AuMIXU074

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kevintoolis · 5 days ago
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#neighbours https://t.co/4lYw3xrJJW

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