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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Thinking of my dad, who, amongst many other feats, saved Scouse, the cat on HMS Exeter during The Battle Of The River Plate in WW11. ❤️. #RemembranceSunday
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Stained glass window memorial to poet Wilfred Owen, killed on this date one week before end of WW1. We still haven’t learnt.
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I’m not religious but a stunning photograph
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
FACT OF THE DAY. 5 July 1948. Britain’s National Health Service came into operation. It was led by Aneurin Bevan, Labour’s Health Minister. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens irrespective of income. It’s one of the most important social reforms in British history.
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Love my new vase
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s legs (1961) 📷 Richard Avedon
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Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 @debpixcom.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#Harvard ‼️
Every U.S. Citizen

Watch for and take advantage of Harvard University's launch of free online college courses highlighting U.S. government basics, understanding the Constitution, and how to recognize a dictatorship takeover. 

TOO MANY U.S. CITIZENS desperately need a refresher!
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
How can I be feeling so good whilst crying? Well, I’m watching the final of #ThePiano
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The way they both looking.. 😅
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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We apologize to anyone frightened by "The New Panda Experience" but tariffs messed up delivery and we didn't want to disappoint the children.
Man dressed in a panda suit, leaning against a railing and looking creepy as hell.
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Egg on toast for breakfast.
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So happy for Rory
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How to give your cat a pill 1) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand.
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
March ends as blossom begins. Garden springing to life. 🙂 #GardensHour
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Gladstone (retired) & Genie 😺 @treasurymog.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In the UK the clocks have gone forward. As ever, here is your helpful guide. You're welcome!
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Forsythia hedge rampantly golden #GardensHour
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Deb Turi-Smith @debturismith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
15 years ago, I worked diligently to help pass the Affordable Care Act. As a hospital oncology social worker I saw the tremendous health disparities due to those who were uninsured. One of my patients. Who I will call “Dee”, was a tragic example. Thread🧵1)
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Today Wordle and Worldle in one. Brilliant or fluky? The latter I fear!
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Working from home.. 😂
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Come what may I know Time will change nothing And I shall miss you Just as much tomorrow As I did yesterday And I do today
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Danger of abbreviation
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I have a new bloom (but don’t know what it is!) #GardensHour
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Channel 4 @channel4.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If you don’t fancy watching the Inauguration tonight we are showing 24 hours in police custody at the same time which we aren’t saying is connected in any way shape or form…
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Josh Campbell @joshscampbell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year love Mabel ( thought I’d start the new year helping with the dishes) xx
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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
RIP Jimmy Carter. You were too good for the Presidency.
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
What Christmas toy? Don’t know what you’re talking about #packapeandbean #destructiondiaries
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas from Mabel
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Freezing cold but some colour still lights up the garden
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Steven Spielberg (born #OTD in 1946) on the set of Jaws (1974). 📷 alamy images
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#packapeandbean #destructiondiaries
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
@mrcolinmurray.bsky.social Mabel trying for a job in Dictionary Corner
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's at this time of year, when the Christmas songs come on the radio, that I like to remember one of the Pogues finest works.
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Dragonrider "Is he dead yet?" 🐠🐟 Try/Me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Today I was attacked by a group of immigrants, who drugged me and gave me a new hip! Grateful doesn't begin to cover it. #NHS
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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Delicious
An empty advent calendar
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Philip Sheppard @philipsheppard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Is it just me or is this staircase actually a stone brontosaurus hiding in plain sight?
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘Brie Encounter’. Sorry about this one.
Brie Encounter
 
the skies are gruyere since she left me
i’ve never felt so danish blue
caught between a roquefort and a hard cheese,
i stilton’t know what to do
 
don’t give edam about the future
now my babybel’s walked out the door
can’t believe i’ve double gloucester
i camembert it any more
 
i’ve ricotta get myself together
and build my life back caerphilly
cheddar tear for the final time
say goodbye to us and halloumi


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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dog saves dog.. 😊
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Jamie @gnuman1979.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Seems harsh.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.
The Importance of the Oxford Comma
 
Owing to ambiguities caused by its omission,
the Oxford comma was the subject of a petition
raised by serious serialists keen to ensure
its mandatory use in lists of three things or more.
 
And what a response! From across every nation,
the signatures poured in beyond all expectation –
from the investment bankers, robbers and thieves,
to the politicians, self-servers and exponents of sleaze.
 
There were the Daily Mail readers, the clowns and deluded;
the climate change deniers, the daft and the stupid;
the morally bankrupt, Donald Trump and Piers Morgan;
Elon Musk, a Bond villain and a trafficker of organs;
 
plus the poets, the drug fiends and chronically poor –
all supported this change to grammatical law.
This formal petition was then presented in hope
to Sir David Attenborough, the King and the Pope.


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I Love Animals @petsanimals.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
One year later!
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A popular children's Christmas present, sold in Nazi Germany during WW2, was a board game called “Bomber over England”. Points were awarded for each place bombed. There were 100 points for hitting London, and 40 for Liverpool.
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Jamie @gnuman1979.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Whimsical, we need more whimsy in our lives.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘Please Bear in Mind’.
Please Bear in Mind
 
that the Department of Visas & Immigration
claims he has ideas above his station,
having arrived into this great nation
without the proper documentation.
 
But here’s what they fail to understand:
this is not the life he had planned;
he could no longer stay in his homeland;
he’s only looking for a helping hand.
 
His wellies are red, his duffle coat blue.
He wears a wide-brimmed hat from Darkest Peru.
If you should see him, here’s what to do:
Please look after him. That’s all. Thank you.


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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘Eye Rhyme Calamity at the Annual World Limerick Contest’.
Eye Rhyme Calamity at the 
Annual World Limerick Contest
 
There was a young poet from Slough,
Who hadn’t prepared quite enough.
He started to read
Then wished himself dead,
Having failed to think his rhymes through.
 
His brain must be made out of dough,
So slapdash, careless, unthorough!
Mumbling into his beard,
He made them unheard
And ended each line with a cough.


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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A Roman solider who was killed during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BC).
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caroldisaster.bsky.social @caroldisaster.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Eating an octopus? Moi?
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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