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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 7h
Is that Waterlow Court?
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 12h
Headstone names: Samuel Tolson Jane Tolson Dinah Tolson Put the names in case someone is searching for them.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Historically seen on old rubble stone cottages around corners and windows used to 'tie' the structure together. Here for added effect and a bit of drama.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Called quoining.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I mean it is a really weird form of contrived classism, but then is it really any more or less contrived than any of the other provable examples? Not really.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Imagine being so privileged you can't even grasp the fundamental concept being conveyed by the presence of the crowd shown. I mean it's hardly an enigma wrapped within a mystery is it?
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Funny how they won't have that here 'for balance.' Note how that only ever works one way.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've heard from folk in the background of all of this that they've been literally hollering at the powers that be about this for about 3-5 years to little avail.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Beyond satire at this point. Might as well get a English car salesman on to talk about Scottish fisheries.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Happens in specific industries too. In my industry they call in representatives of groups set up by volume housebuilders (sub standard) and interview them about architecture, they know nothing about. None of their homes are architect designed, and they lobby the govt to keep regulations low or worse
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I mean speaking to folk in house insurance just the other year and the most high risk thing that insurers are worried about is surface water flooding. As all this construction of hardstanding on gardens is a flooding nightmare. Also if this hasn't got planning consent this isn't legal btw.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also they've put asphaltum almost level with their DPC on the left, so the rain splashes up making the wall soaked and causing the insulation in the cavity to slump down and bridge the gap across the inner and outer masonry, causing water ingress and lots of internal damp.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'd be ecstatic with some down our way where people are genuinely trying to do 70 in a 30.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That van is awesome too. We've had an even longer drought of fun vans than small cars.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Having seen the detailed poke around at it, and if they get the colour options and interior combinations right this will sell really well as there's just not anything really like it at that price.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also many sharper old folk that are properly engaged online have moved elsewhere and tend to post on Instagram etc. because they're actually doing materially tangible things and showing people.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ils sont manifiques!
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've found no one my age is active there anymore so it's just old people getting further and further radicalised by bots & AI scams resharing the same Tommy Ten Names posts in circles, forgetting they've shared the same post 3 days ago b/c they've put their brains on the equivalent of a hot skillet.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can't believe they actually did the deckchair-like seats and covered them in sunny fabric. That was a huge part of the original design. How they've managed to square the circle of that with NCAP requirements is impressive.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Some of the collabs on 'I Know' were pretty good, but ironically the later songs where he's solo are actually better. I'd almost have preferred a whole album of slightly more moody dark tracks instead. Reminds me of Abba, where I prefer the moody punchy disco over the typical poppy upbeat ones.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just went back and had a look and listen to ours and 'Never Too Much' was pretty solid (being the debut it had to be), 'Forever Always Your Love' was 50/50, I liked 'Busy Body' more, but the whole middle period is a bit wishy washy album wise. I think 'I Know' grabs some of it back again.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Need to listen to them again. Marcus you really are good at getting me to unlock all those memories of late nights as a kid watching music tele and old cassettes in the car with the folks.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yup, high numbers of self medicating for difficulty, or worse impossibility, of navigating the system. I believe that this is incredibly common.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When this selection pulled up I was wondering if anyone would mention Vandross.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If it's unsafe just to simply visit, how on earth do they expect people to reside there permanently? It's almost as if there's an apartheid within govt. information - one piece for wealthy white folk: "don't visit, it's dangerous." And another for Syrians with nothing - "oh it's fine for you though"
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well well well. And they took the time to dub it out so well against her shirt colour that you wouldn't have even known it was there. What an incredibly intense level of censoring given I have seen snippets promos of their other shows etc on YouTube and they just block blur it out rather blatantly.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thank you for sharing this @taliabhatt.itch.io . Having read people's replies it shows that I as a cis guy, and I am sure others, only had an inkling of how bad things were. I had no idea all of these experiences are what happens behind the curtain so to speak. These events are almost beyond words.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To me, a cis guy, those kinds of comments read exactly like one of those 1950s sexist job interview affairs that were satirised in sketch shows. Because I cannot grasp what qualifies them as medically relevant to the situation at hand. It makes me seriously worry how they'd respond to a NB person...
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah there's absolutely no way that chap was in a good place mentally to do that willingly.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All rw discourse is now is adult newborns stumbling about slowly discovering the world for the first time aged 50. Then pointing at said thing, bursting into tears, convincing everyone else to throw a tantrum, & demanding that everyone see their deeply off putting weirdness as normal, 'or else.'
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is a spectre across America and it's the ghost of Louis Pasteur.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've seen actual doctors say; "oh yeah they should go to a chiropractor about that." Like saying you have ghosts in your blood and you should do laudanum about it.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Almost like they're manufacturing... ...some form of consent perhaps... *gesticulates hand in circle motion*
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
O bama reinstalled them in 2013-2014.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Didn't expect you to be 51. Thought you were mid to late 40s tbh!
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After each word I was more and more confused.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think it's limewashed now reinstated.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you like that you'd love Lavenham.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FB is probably the only place online I've seen where you got people believing AI ads are real and have been radicalised to the point of needing some sort of intervention from the authorities.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"We don't currently have a stake in The Horrors™️ but would love to get involved as soon as it makes financial sense to us" - A Very 'Normal' Sounding Guy.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Certainly sounds like he fell out of a tree.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sometimes you just gotta do what you've gotta do
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel the interior is Scandi meets Tesla. And not well. I get what they're trying to do but because the exterior is boxy and aesthetically 'closed' and 'hardened' it can't be cut lined like they did with Bugattis like the Chiron where the line externally is also expressed internally flowing etc etc
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Exactly this. It's the difference between a photorealistic image that might as well be a photo, & a stylised painting. Ironically they did similar with Disney films didn't they? Also; why make a game as real as possible? You can do anything you can imagine and you choose grey, brown, lots of bloom.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now they're starting to do remakes too!
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Identical situation in the games market. Hoovered up tonnes of small firms for the intellectual properties, then mass layoffs of the people that made those IPs successful. Rinse, repeat. Now you've got massive multinational companies simply unable to make a game they could make less than a year ago.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"We investigated ourselves and found ourselves not guilty."
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At this point I'm convinced they had either a word or a time limit for the venue / event and they just kept adding words and phases in until that limit was reached.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He's been ferried about in one, but clearly never had to pay the maintenance bills of owning one as they disintegrate on contact with air.
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know, invites it in, shows it round the flat, but then has to let it leave early as you can't have all that excellence sitting round taking up the place.
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