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Andy, 2026ing

@andyg64.bsky.social
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Ancient. Oligomath. Left-hander. Socialist. Arthur Ransome, Patrick O'Brian, loads of SF. Sails dinghies, loves cooking and gardening and woodwork and diy and numbers and puns and stuff like that. Has a horde of cats.

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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 11h
Sorry, but the first rule of Tufty Club is...
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 11h
Good one, Hookland. May your dreams be untroubled.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 11h
That's a win. ...I guess?
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm nearly 34. ...in Mars' years.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Replace the cat with a cow, and kittens with a veal calf. It's really just as disgusting as the fess, I suppose.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I suspect the actors got stiff necks playing at that one.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wait: The YouTube offering of the said track just force-fed my mind, halfway through, with shite. Edit that bit out. Carry on.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NEU! Hallogallo. ...Awesome. Trust me.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Much as I love Radio 4, the words "and now Moneybox, presented by Paul Lewis" evokes a Pavlovian response: I've never heard the end of his "Hell-".
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I loved Flash. Peak internet. ...There, I've said it.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Following two weeks of shifts, my Fridgeofax (TM) suggests I have a day off on the horizon. Maybe.
List of workshifts stuck to the fridge.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two points: 1/ If they're cat people, all is good. 2/ I once viewed a house with Artex on the living room walls. I went a solid "NO" in approximately 3.2 seconds of entering the front door.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You got off lucky. As a kitten, back in those COVID days, Bandit had to go to the cat for his urinary problem. Five nights & treatment = £1300.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Much more annoying is using the exit door handles with clean hands, after filthy bastards like the 'fessor have left.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
...That's Hoth for you.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not so sure ... I'm guessing it's about 3rpm. So, say 100m radius for 1g at the floor? That's something people could acclimate to.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday's shift ended at 10. Today's starts at 8. Had six hours sleep. No days off on the horizon: a fortnight away, maybe? Dunno! ...Ugh.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I approve the balance. Something to flatten, and something to unflatten. 👍🏻
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That sounds amazing! It's got all the food groups: cheese and gravy. Mmm.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Result, though!
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was four-and-a-half, and recall that cover. Not least because I was a big fan of this: "Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old."
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah. Sorry about that.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Truth.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Droning on a bit, this one.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have been known to hand, reef and steer. (...Not all at the same time, obviously.)
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It used to be so much better than this.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not funny. But Funny. He'd have laughed his feckin' head off.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
... I noticed a sign stuck in some immaculate lawn perhaps 30m from the building. "Fire assembly point".
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My head. Left Colleen off at Falkirk crematorium today, at ten, as the husband of her best friend died of a mahoosive heart attack ten days ago. I was working, so left before the service. As I was 15mph-ing past the beautiful building, woods (covered in squirrels), gardens and lawns...
sorry.my
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"He risks his life in a dangerous experiment!" One /look/ at that thing parked on a runway, and I'd be catching the bus, thankyouverymuch.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Clifford's family disproves this point
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Since the early years of the UMSF forum, I've gazed at innumerable images of the Martian surface, and thought "That would look great in the garden". This is another one!
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What 3 words?
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meh, we're permanent features of Spacetime.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You beat me too it. ...Again.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Early shift today: out in the back garden at 5.30. Sky clear. Couldn't see the Moon. Of course. #September13th
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's a majestic tree on the left as you drive from Arnprior to Stirling that is my favourite tree in the entire country. I utterly bet others know it too.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Goodnight again, Hookland. You make my days better.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🤔 indeed.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chimney needs repointing, and that roof looks a wee bit saggy? (Might be the way the tiles run.)
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I would run away from that. ...Or get a really good survey and lop the repair costs off the purchase price.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Goodnight, Hookland. Same tomorrow. Please.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm a balanced individual, in political terms, but the /absolute ranting/ by Israeli speakers on UK radio tonight (and elsewhere/elsewhen) since these events makes me wonder who's trying to drive the narrative.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just weeks after Israelis are killed in a horrendous and coordinated attack by Palastinians, apparently unseen by Mossad, Mossad detonates fake pagers in the pockets of Hamas leaders across Palestinian territories. There's something seriously 'unreal' in all of this. Who's leading who?
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Are you always here?" a customer asked today. I've done 26 shifts in 27 days. So, in truth, not /always/ here. #RetailHell (Day off this Sunday!)
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The "English" monarch might run for a few more generations, I suppose.
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When I was there in 2024 - I sailed over rocks that I see in your picture!
Secret Harbour, Wildcat Island, with more water!
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm old enough to recall, as a kid, TV News containing reports from the front lines of the Vietnam War. The UK was an ally of the US, but the UK didn't participate. "Why not,", I asked my Dad one night, "if we're allies?" "Because it's a stupid war, nothing to do with us, and it's unwinnable."
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Revelation, of course. Or maybe revolution. Who knows?
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Andy, 2026ing @andyg64.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*worse than digital? I dunno. My ears are shit. But it's a relavation to Those Olden Times. When the act of placing a plastic disc on a spinny thing was part Intricate Tea Ceremony and part Do Not Scratch The Flipping Artifact. As an archaeologist, I kind of love it.
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