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Woman who doesn't like spending money was made to spend money and didn't like it. Then didn't stay long enough to see it all.

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It's not the internet. it's mobile phones. Specifically, texting. When it's so easy to do the "knock" via text instead of wasting your time walking round, you don't. Texting, not internet, is what killed social spontaneity.

I would regularly go to the pub and see who was there. If it was none I knew, I'd have a drink and chat to the landlord then go home. Now this would need to be arranged.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

My mum's sisters and mum lived in walking distance. Their doors were unlocked. We would just walk round and go in. Calling for your friends was entirely common up to 2000. Both as kids and at uni. I'd just go round, knock, and if they were busy or not in that's fine. Leave.

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Still lost. Found a humbug with fluff on it?

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

33 bodies of water. Only one of which is a lake.

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Soon as I get back from down the back of the sofa

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I think a lot of people are hoping I might change. But I won't.

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

HOLY SHIT WE JUST WON THE EUROMILLIONS

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

With hundreds of millions of records, no. No one is going in and asking "are these people authorised". But the point is, it's there. And if you had reason to believe it had, they could check. And they obviously check high profile cases.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Quite a nice way to weed them all out

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Which is why it's so baffling. I work in the NHS, and that case in particular caused a very stern reminder to go out.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

There are two explanations. Purient curiosity is my preferred one. People do like to know stuff.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Yes, exactly. It is impossible to do without the individual record logging who and when. And EVERYONE KNOWS THIS

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Probably not a lot, since they also know it's impossible to get without logged access

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

It's like nicking a car whilst the police are watching, whilst also telling them your name and address.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Also, EVERY NHS worker knows fhis. And with a series of high profile cases in the last couple of months, it has been reiterated to every NHS worker. Every one of them knows access is logged. All of them know that a high profile case is likely to be checked. I do not get it at all.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I'm not entirely sure why people who want to protest genocide are using the slogan of a proscribed group instead of, say, "Take Action for Palestine". No one is preventing people from protesting over Gaza. There are two issues, that have been conflated

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

You'd be better than that other one

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

When NotebookLM came out with it's podcast feature, the first thing I did was upload two wildly different sources (e.g. Kylie and some random research paper) and enjoy the hosts talking about how they're related. And, usually, it's not total bollocks. Things are connected.

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes, indeed. That's an important caveat

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Fake, I'm afraid. It probably is spectacular but the cameras up there aren't good enough petapixel.com/2025/08/22/n...

petapixel.com

No, This Isn't What the Night Sky Looks Like on Mars

Fake news.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The strongest position in the game is late-recruited traitor. Ideally two days before the final.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

In fact it's far better to make people vote out other faithful, so you keep more of the most. Assuming you know who the traitors are. The difficulty is you have to vote out someone.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes! The best strategy is to be sure of the traitors, but keep them in so you know who they are at the end. Otherwise, you get someone who was faithful and hasn't dropped any clues. I think one of the international ones solves it by having cash for each one caught.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I did it in three, which is excellent for me

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I had D, N, U and E. Reasonable guess

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I was playing Wordle on my lunch. A Teams message popped up from a young female colleague, I replied, went back to my game. I typed my guess, went to press enter, was confused. I hadn't switched back to the web. So nearly sent my guess in the Teams chat. NUDES HR incident narrowly avoided.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

It would be quite an interesting defence for "he just stepped out!". That doesn't fly at a crossing, but this is not marked as a crossing

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

This is bollocks though. I was told my thermos would keep hot things hot and cold things cold. Totally ruined my lunch of sausages with ice cream for pudding.

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm sorry, what? This leaf pattern is supposed to be a safe crossing, is it? Don't we have well defined legal markings for those already?

bbc.co.uk

Colourful Berkshire junction still dividing opinion two years on

Wokingham Borough Council spent £5.5m on changing the busy crossroads in 2024.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I haven't read the books, but if we could legally prevent something as tedious as the Normal People TV series that would be appreciated

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Me too though I think he needn't discuss it with her first as she doesn't like it. And when they get there he needs to allow her time to enjoy the menu. She's bad for trying to force him not to do something that he needs for his diet. He's bad for taking away the pleasurable start to her meal

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't choose ahead of time. But if you're going somewhere new, don't you want to know a) if you'll enjoy the food and b) you'll enjoy the prices?

Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

You know you can clean them, right?

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

As I always say to my kids as I wave them off in the morning "Don't make dangos!" It's part of family lore after my grandfather, on his death bed, gathered the family round "There is something that I need to say to you all. Something important, that you must remember. Don't make dangos".

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Just a unified login for the Meta apps. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger. If you only use one I don't think anything changes, but if you use them all you can have a single login

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Today's Slow Horses was great, but that was a stupid decision right at the end. Also, why does no one use cars as weapons in these things? Run the fuckers over!

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh absolutely. The EU recognised movement has to be for people and money, else capital moves to the cheapest country and people can't follow for the work

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I find it fascinating that the very firm borders we have now are largely 100 or so years old. For most of our history, you could move pretty much where you liked. Passports were a wartime restriction that got cemented rather than lifted.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

The BBC, who owns the existing studio that was previously used for Home Front but is now used solely for The Archers, would know better. But if you're aware of other radio dramas looking for production facilities, I'm sure they'd be pleased to hear from you.

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Curious Iguana @curiousiguana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

How can they not know that flat breads should be flat? #gbbo