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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Anyone else drove west on the A303 this afternoon?
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a u-haul truck is sitting in the middle of a busy parking lot .
Alt: Huge non-moving traffic jam
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This popped up on my phone and I remembered the respect and awe I felt in the presence of such dignity and bravery I hope her life is now opening up some peace and freedom to her
Gisele Pelicot being applauded and supported by women around the time of the trial of her husband
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Andy and Lance from the Detectorists tv show sitting under a big old tree with Tupperware tooThe 5 dinnerladies from Victoria woods ‘Dinnerladies tv show
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Fame has come my way #thecricket
My message was posted on bbc cricket - I wrote “Re Martin @ 11.53:1am
welcoming back Gus Atkinson.
He has 55 wickets in 12 tests at
22.3. I think that's probably a better average than any current
England bowler.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Songs with a groove that works whether you’re up very late and flagging or up early and flagging #JJCale open.spotify.com/track/2xijkd...
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Who's Talking
J.J. Cale · Travel-Log · Song · 1990
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Love this and the replies
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Always thought my time at Four Elms village cricket club qualified me to play for England men’s test team. But apparently not
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Blueberry escort 💋
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Happy birthday Kate Bush. My son can be like this song describes too youtu.be/kRd2kfZO_wA?... #pi
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Pi (2018 Remaster)
YouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What is weird is realising that today would have been your silver wedding anniversary but you separated 6 years ago #solitaryman
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
And so his business model continues #griftPLC
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
To my bank, Sending me an email with the title “keeping your money goals on track” is not a great way to inspire interaction from me #Corporatebollocks
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Wondering if Lucy Bronze is related to George Headley……
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/07/2025
BREAKING: At least 43 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces across Gaza since dawn today, including six aid seekers, sources in Gaza hospitals tell Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kguo3g
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
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Dr Seán Ketchem @cskwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What's the oldest word in the English language? It's 'dragoman', a rare term that refers to professional translators (Agatha Christie used it). English borrowed the word from the Turkish 'tercüman', which in turn was borrowed from the Akkadian word 'targumannu', first written down 5,000 years ago.
A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A dragoman had to have a knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and European languages.

In the Ottoman Empire, Dragomans were mainly members of the Ottoman Greek community, who possessed considerable multilingual skills, because Greek trading communities did substantial business in the markets of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. To a lesser extent, other communities with international commercial links, notably the Armenians, were recruited.

In Arabic the word is ترجمان (tarjumān), in Turkish tercüman. Deriving from the Semitic quadriliteral root t-r-g-m, it appears in Akkadian as "targumannu," in Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) as ትርጓም (t-r-gw-m), and in Aramaic as targemana. Hebrew makes a distinction between מתרגם (metargem)—referring to a translator of written texts—and מתורגמן (meturgeman) referring to an interpreter of spoken conversation or speeches. The latter is obviously more closely related to the other languages mentioned, though both are derived from the same Semitic root. There has been speculation of a Hittite origin of the term.

During the Middle Ages the word entered European languages: in Middle English as dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin as dragumannus, from Middle Greek δραγομάνος, dragoumanos. Later European variants include the German trutzelmann, the French trucheman or truchement (in post-Tanzimat French, and in modern French it is drogman), the Italian turcimanno, and the Spanish trujamán, trujimán and truchimán; these variants point to a Turkish or Arabic word "turjuman", with different vocalization. Webster's Dictionary of 1828 lists dragoman as well as the variants drogman and truchman in English.
The plural in English is thus "dragomans" (not "dragomen").
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Bob Vylan 
Watching politicians and mainstream media suddenly change their rhetoric on the genocide makes me feel like I've truly gone crazy. Can someone please confirm that a few weeks ago they villainized us on the front pages for being against this while they were very much pro-genocide.
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Songs that are still excellent despite their subject matter now being way way outdated due to technological advances open.spotify.com/track/3f0U5N...
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Kodachrome
Paul Simon · There Goes Rhymin' Simon · Song · 1973
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
How to start the day well: get back home at 9:15 having already taken a car load to the tip. #timetositdownnow
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“We live on a floating rock. Just get on with it” ♥️
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
‘The journey this teams been on” klaxon #thefootball
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Sinead O’Connor died two years ago today. Here she is with Sharon Shannon. #muchtooyoung open.spotify.com/track/0paEty...
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Anachie Gordon
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I agree with this thread
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Come on Stokesy 🤞 💯 #thecricket 🏏 🫣
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When your daughter arrives back from 5 months traveling and you’re delighted, sitting entranced by her tales But on her 2nd night back, she invites a few friends home after the pub & they sit in the garden till gone four chatting away So you’re still delighted but you’re exhausted at the same time😀
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Just read this masterpiece from a professional sports team’s coach explaining that the reason his team are losing is because they are playing very badly indeed (it is Kent’s crickets men’s first team coach if you are interested and his team are bottom of the table having lost AGAIN today)
There is no one in this competition. We are intimidated by, our biggest opponent is our self and we’re still trying to work out our template for success.
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Claire Harley @claireharley.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you are a Geography PGCE lead or work in climate change education research, I'd be very interested to talk to you about writing something. (Disclaimer: this is not a paid thing and is purely for the joy of linking up with teachers who like the same stuff you do) #academicsky #geography
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I’ve said it before and I will definitely say it again Roooooooooooooot
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Songs I really like but had never heard before July 2025 open.spotify.com/track/2w20fx...
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Traveling Alone
Jason Isbell · Southeastern · Song · 2013
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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025
Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
A group of handdrawn fish.
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Not a fan of Friday so far #ffs Wordle 1,497 X/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 23/07/2025
You’re so Venn
A Venn diagram showing three circles overlapping, one says I bet you think this graph is about and the other two say Don’t Dont and the middle says You
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Anyone here picked up someone from Gatwick south? I am trying to work out my parking options. Thank you.
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
When your luck is down but not quite out Wordle 1,495 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The DOJ visiting Ghislaine Maxwell in prison
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“I want to solve your problems by getting rich” Wolf of Wall Street there, hitting the nail in the head of 21st century western mainstream culture
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Scaring the living bejeesus out of yourself a) listen to music loudly on earphones from your phone b) pause the music write a long email so you forget the volume is up high c) press send d) the swooshing ‘email on its way’ sound effect will stop your heart beating & make you jump out of your seat
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
As they die of malnutrition or of being shot trying to get food and water in Gaza, don’t forget the UK is training members of the IDF www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...
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UK ‘currently’ training Israeli soldiers on British soil, despite ICJ ruling to stop military support
The UK is ‘currently training’ a number of Israeli soldiers on UK soil, the MoD admitted, despite an ICJ ruling telling states to stop supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territo...
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My son and I went to the cat protection league to choose our two cars 6 years ago. We are so delighted with Domino and Dice. They are fabulous pets. What he and I frequently do say to each other is ‘why didn’t we get MORE cats?’
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
‘I’m not a Nazi but…..’ trending in Epping I see
Actual Nazis in Essex this weekend
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
3 years out of teaching and I had a school-based anxiety dream last night
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Saturday is a day for old favourites been listening to this album for 40 years when I bout it on cassette. The bus from Dundee pulled into Perth at about 7am and I looked out the window while Morning Morgantown played on my Walkman open.spotify.com/track/6jhvDP... #Joni
Album cover for Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/07/2025
John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Me caught on the Coldplay crowd cam.
My cat Dice and I on our armchair together
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My mum used to knit us all jumpers and the like. Inbetween jobs she would use up ends of wool for squares which she’d then knit together into blankets which she then donated to oxfam. This post has reminded me how absolutely wonderful my Mum was
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What? Gill Scott Heron? Tango ads? Now there’s a cultural link I would never have guessed.
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Any day you get to eat Lime and Pistachio cake for the first time can’t be all bad #lifeisgood
Lime and pistachio cake with yoghurt yum
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Dukkhaboy @dukkhaboy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
There is one stand out candidate
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a puppet in a kitchen with a pot on its head
Alt: The Swedish chef with a pot on its head and an explosion (maybe of flour) happening.
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