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They don't seem to be chocolate: Ingredients Vegetable Oils (Coconut Oil, Palm Oil), Sugar, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder (Milk), Cocoa Powder, Butterfat (Milk), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Flavouring (Butterscotch), Salt. A distinct lack of caco mass or coco butter

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 17h

Odd, i'd feel much better about these if they were called "Scoffy Choccy". Enough to try one but probably not buy any.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 21h

The box colours are appropriate anyway.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 21h

I can now log into one account on my laptop. I think it's probably that I've not used it for so long that the cached passwords are out of date.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can anyone else log into live journal now? Or is it g o n e?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

During COVID lockdowns, we kept it, with flour and nets of field side onions and potatoes, in the room known as the library. More accurately the room where I pile books when they get so deep in other rooms that we can't sit down any more. One day I will sort them, honest.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Does the TV get 4+1? That might get you another hour, though I remember spending longer trying to get hotel TVs to work than watching them. I hope it's okay to remind you of this possibility; everything flees my mind after a long bedtime.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They know me too well. I hope you get you package in-time.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh, I have an empty Tb of storage that I paid for with my live journal decades ago. I sometimes think about making use of it. I wonder if it's still there?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was having biological samples collected during the really hot weather and fretted about the ability of the, active, cold box to stay cold. Family, "don't even think about putting biohazards in the fridge!"

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I read up on your advice and took 20mg certrazine a couple of hours earlier. Just a touch of fever and hot, tender spots (flu too) on my arm, but I keep falling asleep! I think it's wearing off 28 hours later.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oops. Rereading I see I should have put a sarcasm tag.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Your freedom of movement isn't a problem. It's that it comes with other peoples' freedom of movement too. Coming over here fixing our housing stock.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A small fire yes, but I think anything with signicant heat will just heat up the CO2 and it'll rise up and away. I read about bits of fire physics, but the whole thing is complex and not amenable to common sense. Then my mind goes Li + H2O, bad idea even though it's not metallic in the batteries.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh, I wonder if I could make these with white vegetable fat? I like lard, but everyone else is vegetarian and it would seem a bit mean. They don't want to eat my lamb curry, but I think these would be popular.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Speaking as a mum, and granny, it would not matter if the stitches were uneven, and the kitty was lumpy, if it was a gift made with love.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dry ice is cold, but doesn't have nearly the heat capacity of water. If you can use it safely water is amazing at absorbing heat especially if it evaporates to steam.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So my case was earlier My sex was mis-entered because my dad was very sleep deprived and told the registrar I was named for my uncle—who had maintained he had a girl's name—but in the 50s it was just struck out and rewritten at the time. The official copies all say girl.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Isn't it just an example showing that humans can/do use their own internal LLM? What words and phrases are commonly used in this situation? Right I'll say that.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is supposed to be good writing? Ok the US is stingy with prepositions, but surely "… follow on from …" And "extracts" is not the same as "exacts". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm betting that they don't know the SUBTOTAL function exists and is designed to prevent this very error.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No one has mentioned that if you're not sedated it's quite interesting. I first had one checking on my appendectomy from the other side and opted for gas & air pain relief. The NHS keeps you until they are sure you've fully recovered from sedation, but without it you can leave as soon as you want.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mm, I went and looked at his replies, and my impression was sincere, but clumsy attempted compliments. Not someone I'd follow, but also not a block.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's not a sad rectangle. That's a rectangle where you can see your stitches are improving and getting more even.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm going to have to revise my senario 🐖❌

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I take photos of our utility meters on the first of each month as a record. This has lead to G-photos offering me collages and montages of meters as I clearly like them so much. That's better than surprise photos of our dead cat when I'm not in the mood.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Somewhere vetinary, I imagine.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was my breaking point with wizard boy. Astronomy exams and seeing Orion in June in Scotland! Without mention that you'd have to stay up to the small hours. And still wouldn't see Orion for several months. Funny what last straws can be.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's better than, "It's okay, I got that on my glasses," though.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Managed to reply to the wrong comment too. 🤦

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Briefly, but he would have been a bit young.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'd like a mute that expires after, say, a week. I do mute people I'm following when they get a bit much for my current mood, but I forget to unmute them later.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, they no longer have the money to use for anything else.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what I could have eaten with those triggers. Mine was, ridiculously, the smell of flowers. Karma for having a really easy first pregnancy, perhaps.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations on feeling well enough to be able to celebrate. May it continue that way despite previous evidence.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I drank home made protein shakes. Milk, milk powder, eggs, vitamin drops, glucose, lots of ice, and a little brandy to help keep it down, all blended together. I don't think it would pass muster today. But then I was prescribed Maxolon so I could eat at Christmas and that would be out too!

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was initially perplexed by the dirty trail up the side of the stairs, but I'm pretty sure I can blame them for that. 😸

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This morning I was cleaning and decided to wipe off the tiny coffee splashes from the wall by the stairs. Someone had treated some of them as a join the dots puzzle. 😆 I wonder who?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's the one I remembered, but couldn't find.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mm, mm, mm, Oh! Though it seems a bit too close to the canal to have that sort of working. 🤔

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And uninsurable housing estates on flood plains and … But, yes, this is the image.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People in this thread have wondered why she was not given antibiotics on exposure. That's a good way to develop an antibiotic resistant strain the old fashioned way

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a nasty "think of the misunderstood perpetrators" account—10 Jibes and blocked in its first 14 months, then 172 in support of Cofas in August, and now about 600 about gang tapes. The current posting rate suggests not human or not well.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We had a window that turned out to be the top of a half glazed external door that had been rendered over on the outside and plastered on the inside. I can't remember if the voids were filled with anything.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They seem to be able to do it in some areas, but I don't know what is the common factor. I'm pretty sure the use of external contractors is lubricated by the possibility of influence after politics.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The gvt might consider their own IT developers, which have had some clear successes. Register to vote is the one that comes to mind first. Does what it needs to, simple UI, doesn't need superfast connection to use, and survives the last minute rush. As far as I can tell it's quite secure too.

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