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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 16h

While it’s totally awesome to hope for a connection, don’t let hope keep you from living. The show must go on, but not for an audience. Keep going, because your life is happening now, not later. gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/dont-postp...

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Don't postpone living until a connection is made

While it’s totally awesome to hope for a connection, don’t let hope keep you from living. The show must go on, but not for an audience. Keep going, because your life is happening now, not later.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16h

Think they are. Just not old enough to have puffed up and the contents developed into brown spores.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 03/10/2026

I guess our commercially-installed fast charger networks are trying to pay for themselves a lot faster than they need to.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 03/10/2026

She's wearing a bird glove, so the owl was there for the photo, although why you'd photograph yourself with a captive owl on your wedding day beats me. I'm sure the owl was not to blame for whatever happened.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A bit of news, a bit of background and a petite pinch of ranting. It's all in Almost Breaking News on the Everything Electric tech channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1N...

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BYD 'flash' beaten? Tesla Roadster! Truck Off? Texas' toxic wastewater crisis"?!?

YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 01/10/2026

Richard Murphy saying similar things, but blaming all the right people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nDJ...

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How the AI boom could make you poorer

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Rereading it, yes. Bombs away! 🙃🙃

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Well, that's the thing... Mainly can't decide which they are. I only found a couple of youngsters so no acorns yet, but the leaves definitely have stalks. I bought five supposedly Sessile saplings from Woodland Trust a few years ago and they look like English oaks!

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Pity the power station isn't still running, really. Interesting place, Chapelcross.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

When you consider that the previous referendum didn't have any effect on the decision to leave, but only made the morons brave enough to do it...

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

The good thing about tracking collars is that you can go and find them, which I have done on multiple occasions including once from an Owl nest in a hole in the top of a tree! No idea how or why our cat was up there...

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

I live in Cornwall, but the oaks around me (I look after a good number of nice old ones) are all Q.Robur, except for a couple that could be Q.Petraea hybrids. And one Q.Cerris that I refuse to cut down because I like it and it's been in the woods for at least 200 years. No nationalism between oaks!

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Mine have 'wildlife-style' tracker collars now. If I need to, I can find them, which would have saved the one that was run over. I'd hate to not know where they were these days, although the collars are obsolete and I can't get spares, now, so I might need to change the system at some time.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Yup. I know brown people that don't like dogs, but not the other way around. We all smell like people, and the first dog+human partnerships happened when we were all brown. Wildlife does not need us to persecute it. Life's hard enough for them with us around as it is. 🙃

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

I know how you feel. I badly bruised the joint in my left thumb in August, and it still doesn't stay in the socket when I'm using it. I keep it strapped up when I'm doing things, because it's painful. At least I'm now only using cohesive vet tape and not a brace, so I hope it's getting better!

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

I did wonder why it seemed to stop helping me pedal at what seemed like quite a pedestrian speed. It's a lot better now, and I wouldn't have a bike without a motor now. Comes of living in a valley - you have to go up a steep hill to get out in any direction.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

I lost a cat because the local farm boys thought driving over cats was funny. But then they liked badger baiting, so probably had a few screws loose. Luckily, I live a long way away now.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

He knows you, and knows that all you need to do is turn it on. My bike came with a basic box to select 'speeds'. It wasn't until I finally got a display controller that was programmable that I noticed the motor was set up for tiny wheels like yours. The 20mph limit was 10mph on 26 inch wheels.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Ah, it's illegal to pick up your own road kill, but if you were in a following vehicle.. 🙃 Talking of lack of empathy: I once had to work with a bloke who kidnapped and dumped cats for fun, because he 'hated' them. I always hope that he died a horrible death.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 30/09/2026

Country life can be a bit lacking in empathy. I seem to be the only person who keeps pheasants who doesn't shoot them, eat them or eat their eggs. The dented waifs and strays I have would have simply been killed as 'unproductive'. However, I do have all of Jack's shows on DVD!

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 24/09/2026

"It's Noot a Podcast" 🙃

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 24/09/2026

One of my pheasants has only got the use of one leg. She's safe in a cage, though. I know pigeons can survive for a long time on one leg. My brother has had one visiting his bird feeder for the last three years at least.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 24/09/2026

I can understand that. Reading through zillions of comments on a document I helped write at the moment. That GIF describes the feeling perfectly.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 24/09/2026

The duck was in paradise. A nice warm, safe, nesting box. The answer is to make more nesting boxes. :-D

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 22/09/2026

That's the thing.. Without pensioners spending government money into the economy, we'd have a much smaller economy and no jobs for younger people. Pay us more, I say!

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 22/09/2026

I heard he's not a strategic thinker, and at the moment I'm not seeing anything to convince me otherwise. The best candidate from a small field is not always the best candidate for the job.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 21/09/2026

My bike is so old it doesn't even have a cartridge crank axle.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 21/09/2026

I hit them with the mower at this time of year if the grass is deep enough to hide them. After the first year I now wear a mask when doing the field....

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 21/09/2026

I'll have to photograph the ones I come across today. The most appealing one I've seen looks like a huge hazelnut. Probably instant death. And another one that might be Chicken of the Woods, or some woody bracket fungi.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 21/09/2026

I'd guess it's not an edible one, and even if it is, it's past it's best. There are quite a few large and nutty-looking brown fungi erupting from the grass and woodland floor at the moment. Some may well be edible, but I don't know enough to be sure, so to me they're all 'death stools' (Todesstuhl).

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 20/09/2026

The last train home from Kings Cross was (unimaginatively) known as the 'Vomit Comet'. I remember one of my very occasional trips on that service where the trolley fella and a passenger were singing drunken ballads to each other at the back of the carriage on one trip. 🎶

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 20/09/2026

Well, the data is starting to accumulate, but I don't know yet if this is good or bad. I used to listen for pings whilst working and I am sure I heard more than one or two an hour. #MeteorRadio #UKMON

A mere four days of meteor 'ping' data collection. Not showing a pattern or a great deal of activity as yet, but early days and the whole system is a complete lashup.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 20/09/2026

Well, it depends which states. If they're in the east, they'll probably go right. There's a lot of dissatisfaction with the lack of modernisation since reunification, although they've done pretty well, actually.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 19/09/2026

But tax doesn't raise funds. Government spends money into existence and taxes it out of existence. All that people hiding money offshore and avoiding taxes does is put an additional tax burden onto the rest of us, which means we get to keep less money. So they're basically stealing from taxpayers.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 19/09/2026

Well, the Radio Meteor detector (records reflections from the ionised trains left by meteors burning up in the atmosphere) software I've installed seems to be working. A few more things to tweak, but it's getting there. #MeteorRadio

Output of a bash script that calls a python script that produces a graphical representation of the number of meteor pings detected by my receiving system in each hour of each day. The system has only been running for a few days and still needs a bit of work, and the script has almost certainly been superseded by other functions in the software that I have yet to explore or get to work, but this modified script works fine for the time being.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...

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Passport to Piddington

Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?

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Faraday-in-Kernow @faradayinkernow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

IT'S A FUCKING MUSEUM!!!! IT'S A FUCKING MUSEUM ABOUT VOLUNTEERS WHO RISK THEIR OWN LIVES TO SAVE ANYONE FROM DROWNING...EVEN A RACIST CUNT IN A BALACLAVA FUCK'S SAKE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers

The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 18/09/2026

You only have to 'start' work after permission is granted. Just dig a hole, lay a single brick, etc. That's enough to have 'started' work, legally. It makes nobbling these companies very difficult. A rejustification after 5 years, however.... 🙃

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David Bull CBE @davidnbull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"we’re quite close to a moment where countries will start desperately competing for immigrants". Aging populations & declining birth rates mean changing dependency ratios where there are too few people of working age to support public services and fill jobs. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters

The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dating apps to unaffordable housing and the climate crisis

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16/09/2026

It does look like he's wearing a green trug, but noooo. That's covering the electrical system until I can get a roof on the pheasant run and install everything.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16/09/2026

Pity I can't inflict them on you, but I'm not allowed to. 🙃

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16/09/2026

I have an enclosure just down the drive from the house with three rescue pheasants in it. And now we also have 'Sherwood'. He's a lonely wild male who'd rather like to be in the cage too, except that my Dennis isn't keen on having a rival in the cage with him. They'll fight. Male pheasants do that.

Male pheasant outside my pheasant cage. He's been arguing with the pheasant in the cage, and the female pheasants in there rather like him. I'm calling him Sherwood, because he has a green head and neck with no white ring like a hood, and Robin Hood didn't quite work as a name.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16/09/2026

You asked for it. This is the photo I took so I knew what was on the tape. Done on an actual typewriter, no less.

A photograph of the inside sleeve of a tape cassette from 1985 listing the songs recorded on it by a primary school choir as a Christmas tape for parents, etc.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 16/09/2026

I was copying off to digital a tape cassette of Christmas songs done by a primary school choir in 1985 last night. It's part of a parish heritage project. The earworming is doing my head in this morning.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Asylum seekers are not illegal – people have a right [under international law] to seek shelter" via Truth Against Hate

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cubs, like these ones, are being killed by hunts training their hounds on them. Report hunts, strengthen the ban.

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Sïmon 〓〓 @euroscanner.net · 15/09/2026

Pretty desperate indeed. They could have eaten that cow.

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