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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 3h

Watched @darwilliams.bsky.social (with @heathermaloney.bsky.social) in Hassocks this evening (don't know if the accounts are official). Great singing and playing, and their refusal to anger or despair in a hostile world was a challenge. Also ...

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 14h

One of those days when being outside reminds you of being in America in more innocent days - the warm humidity. Feels so far out of reach.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 18h

It's easy to assume that care for the environment was something new to this generation. There have been plenty of artists making a noise about it for decades. youtu.be/cBSeEcFiTWA?...

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Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Look Out Any Window (Official Video)

YouTube video by BruceHornsbyVEVO

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A sword-day. A red day. A day for eating 2500 calories of processed food.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many lawyers have had a bad rap over recent decades - "overpaid, underworked". That is too much of a generalisation, and this thread gives some idea of how the professional skills of a lawyer can be stretched in a real situation. What interests me about this is that many of us ...

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mrwamble.bsky.social @mrwamble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Poets of Bluesky — I built something small. You send a poem to a random stranger. They read it and write back with honest feedback. No profiles, no metrics. Just the poem. penpalpoets.com #poetry #poetsofbluesky #amwriting

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Possibly Un Coeur en Hiver. Possibly Manon des Sources.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aside from the racist subtext (one wonders whether he'd ask me the same question, given my non-British surname but white skin - it has been known), there's also the ad hominem argument. Basically, one's tempted to say, go back to the shadow ... of X. But I'll probably just block.

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Lord Of The Rings Gandalf

ALT: Lord Of The Rings Gandalf

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Properly made my way through to the end of LOTR films this week - first time in ages (Fellowship gets much more play). Was startled by how much time I spent sniffing.

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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beyond disgusting. The same guy who called fallen soldiers suckers and losers. For anyone on the fence about whether to vote for an R or D this election, they really need to ask where their R candidate stands on this. If they are silent, that’s tacit approval and they have no f-n business in office!

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can't take this seriously as The Expanse isn't even on the list. It should be ahead of Game of Thrones - which puts it about top 5.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know, we wouldn’t have to “breed smarter people” if we’d just allow the educational system to let people learn the way they’re wired to

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another friend selling books. More here: www.dianejholland.com/madonna

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am struggling at the moment with the system that is so indifferent to so many people, that is so hard to achieve anything in.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There have definitely been times that I've felt resting was arcane.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Destabilising is also effective - I get the sense that where access to government is not working for them, they just fund troublemakers. I don't get why that's not being talked about more.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have serious problems. We rewrote the rule book so we could arrest people protesting for Palestine. We ignore the rule book to not arrest people protesting against immigrants. The best LDs can offer - with their history of liberalism - is tax cuts.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's the reason for 𝘯𝘰𝘵 arresting Thomas? ITWSBT.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If Microsoft label this "The White Cliffs of Dover" there's not much hope for their AI.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Waah! We created a barrier for entry level job applications which people were supposed to spend days working on that we could let AI screen in 5 minutes - and now we are upset because people are using AI to apply in 5 minutes!"

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Bristol’s Local Artists @bristolslocalart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Note how many media organisations have been sharing stories about how “so many people want politics out of concerts”, clearly they are trying to be manipulative. The media want politics out of concert halls, because they want to keep us controlled and docile.

"Art is political" in colourful letters - but the words have been covered by labels saying "Censored"

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Bristol’s Local Artists @bristolslocalart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Allartispolitical no matter what Ed Sheeran says. By being “apolitical” he is saying that he wishes to prop up a system that lets the rich do what they want, while the poor suffer in silence. His pop songs are therefore used to appease the masses as the “circuses” that go with the “bread”.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thursday's latest clash with Goliath (Book 5 - First Among Sequels). Is there an opening for a GSP (Global Standard Prophet)? If so I would like to nominate @jasperfforde.bsky.social

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the things I/we/my company has the ability to do (which also can't be monetised!!) is scan old books. This is what <ahem> certain companies are doing and then destroying them, in the hope of exploiting the asset later on. I have no interest in destroying them, but with the median number of...

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If a nation is credibly charged with war crimes, what should happen is that nation should be sanctioned until it has either been acquitted or the regime has changed. That would give countries a motivation to remove leaders who are "willing to dabble".

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have spent far more time in Thursday Next 1-4 than 5-7. And reading "First Among Sequels" I'm now wondering why.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daughter is reading "The Eyre Affair" for the first time and I'm so envious!

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The people who went to watch the T20 match saw just over 28 overs of cricket.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Let's travel by miles," advised the Humbug; "it's shorter." "Let's travel by half inches," suggested Milo; "it's quicker."

DIGITOPOLIS
5 Miles
1,600 Rods
8,800 Yards
26,400 Feet
316,800 Inches
633,600 Half inches
AND THEN SOME

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you respond like that, then this is going to end with people blocking each other. So don't waste time: either cut to the chase and block now or let it roll off your back.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How far we have fallen as a society since 2012. How many years will it take to undo? And we haven't even started to undo anything yet.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of assisted suicide. We can lose sight of how hard people will fight for another few months. What would we have done with another year, month, week, day? I have answers to all of those, and they still tear me inside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

bbc.co.uk

Cancer patient told she will get drug which could make her life longer

Patients in England with an incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The big story is not what Ed Sheeran did. It is a billionaire using money and power to try and control a narrative. (About Israel, as it happens) The second big story is how the Streisand effect completely undid that billionaires intentions.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another new design: "No man is an island ... never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Okay but I bet if you're angry with Ed Sheeran you never liked him in the first place and wanted a reason not to. Of course he should be using his position to campaign for justice - though given the derision that faced U2 when they did that, there's not much incentive.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@russincheshire.bsky.social - where's the best place to buy copies of "The Wolf that Chews Rocks" from? I see that Amazon works - any other sellers?

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People who are scared of Muslims and start rumours about Sharia law ... ... but you don't hear them talking about universal human rights themselves, like this guy.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

By failing to adequately sanction Russia, US is permitting them to support Iran destroying its assets in the Gulf. Now by not having the resources to protect its allies, US is arming its enemies. The war with Iran is at best a strategic failure for the US and at worst self-destructive treason.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's almost like Norton Juster was warning us about something.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How much will British politics have been bought before donation rules have been reformed? Tomorrow I'll reform the fool does say. Today's too late: the wise did yesterday.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So Russia wants to mobilise half a million more people and chuck them at the North of Ukraine. With what weapons? And what training?

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pay me just $10m and I'll NOT come and refurbish the pool - you won't have to undo the damage afterwards.

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looks like a very interesting first session of test match cricket tomorrow ...

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Jane @janeb1234.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay I'm raising funds for The Samaritans by taking part in their Dawn Walk. If you would like to donate the link is below. * An estimated 18 people in the UK take their lives each day * Please share. Thank you. dawnwalk.samaritans.org/fundraising/...

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Donate to Jane's Dawn Walk?

I'm taking part in Dawn Walk for Samaritans

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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So in the last few weeks, proper journalism has exposed Reform's finance, Musk and Tommy Robinson. Are we getting somewhere?

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