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David Lennard

@davidlennardgijon.bsky.social
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Provincial pensioner, news junkie, often grumpy, increasingly resistant to excitement

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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cold iron and/or silver always works when you're trying to eliminate the occult from your environment
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One ticket sold? Could be worse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’
Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy
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kathrynmccary.bsky.social @kathrynmccary.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#Philosophy
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Imup2late @imup2late.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Neil deGrasse Tyson “ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
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Politico @politico.com · 23/04/2025
A startling reality about Gen Z, backed up by multiple studies: The most online generation is also the worst at discerning fact from fiction on the internet. How Gen Z became the most gullible generation👇 ow.ly/kUhk50VGrBF
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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ReneePaints @painthike.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters
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Penguins Against Trump @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Most birds have a fight or flight response. He forgot we’re flightless birds.
A meme photo of an Adelie penguin holding an AK-47.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
When I was in a high school creative writing class, I had a character say, "Las Vegas means 'The Vegas' in Mexican" to convey how ignorant she was. Still works.
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Donald Trump is Johnny Rocco. Nothing changes except the length of the ties.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
True.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves.
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I'm now taking bets on how long it will be before the "Agent Orange - weird South African" bromance ends in tears and a really messy divorce.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“Prickled vanity can strut as courage.” A line from Henie’s memoirs that captures so much about today’s ‘strong men’.
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hypochondria gets an undeserved bad press: it's better to worry needlessly than to die carefree but ignorant
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
There’s something about Schopenhauer’s pessimism that always cheers me up.
Title page of On The Basis of Morality saying “not awarded a prize by the Royal Danish Society of Scientific Studies at Copenhagen 30 January 1840.”
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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 10/12/2024
A joke that makes you feel smart is a good joke.
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You need to delve into Reformation theology and social mores, and then look at the music hall song of that title to fully grasp the coy vulgarity of the notion
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/12/2024
I know it's a cultural thing and I know it was my own choice to move here and decide not to adapt but god it is depressing to turn up to a restaurant for a post pub dinner at 9pm - A NORMAL DINNER EATING TIME - and be literally the one customer there
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Now that's the sort of information we need👍
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The election petition has created a fresh journalistic subgenre: headlines asking damn silly questions to which they already know the answer inews.co.uk/opinion/elec...
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Malmqvist @malmqvist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Exactly
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/11/2024
Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.
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Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/11/2024
know this is a v serious story but the phrasing here is very funny, how about some festive terrorism then lads, as a treat
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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🧵2/2 Like Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper. Haaretz will not balk and will not morph into a pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader. Subscribe here 🔽🔽🔽 bit.ly/49lXFYJ
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Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🧵1/2 The opportunist resolution to boycott Haaretz, which passed in today's government meeting without legal review, is another step in Netanyahu's journey to dismantle Israeli democracy www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties and pulls advertising
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David Lennard @davidlennardgijon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Another refugee from X
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