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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First giant spider in the house last night, looks like autumn is really here 🕷️

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unexpected new friend in the Peak District 🤨

White emu peers out from behind long grass

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Dude, if you're hammering on my front door like that on a Sunday afternoon, my house had better be on fire. 😡 Yes, X needs doing on my house, I am aware. I'm also quite able to ask people to come and quote me for it, you won't be one of them.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Looking forward to visiting this, need to get myself organised before the end of term 🤞

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's tax rebate time, no argument with HMRC required after all (knew it could be complicated when I retired mid-tax year & then had 2 pensions but my spreadsheet was correct!). 🥳

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Many tiny froglets on the path at my local nature reserve 🐸

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In a restaurant in Rome, which has really weird easy listening playing. So far we've had a cover of Dynamite and one of I Shot the Sherriff, really not what I was expecting 😂

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Started my holiday with a drunk guy at the train station trying to persuade me to go to Cornwall with him. 🤦 Nah mate, I'm off to 🇮🇹✈️

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Note to self: don't go into The Range wearing a dark blue jumper over a bright orange shirt because people will think you work there & ask where stuff is...

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

All I want is a short sleeved shirt that doesn't look like I'm wearing my pyjamas outside, apparently this is a request too far 🤷

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

a film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

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a man with a beard sits in a chair

Alt: a man with a beard sits in a chair, then puts on sunglasses

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hung my washing out to dry, naturally now there is a hailstorm going on. That was not what the forecast said! 🤷

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Blackthorn well and truly out. Birds singing. 😘

Blue sky on a path lined with trees, lots of white blossom on them all.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Guess where I am this morning? 🤔

Dark green military style building on a slight hill grey metal railings

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Fern Brady wearing a camera helmet on Taskmaster and opening the task, which has a red wax seal, and reading the contents. She has a purple set of coveralls on as well, which is just fun.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I've gone from a sprained wrist to a spasming back, I am not liking this getting old business.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I am so done with this weather. ☔

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Another tyre fallen victim to potholes, at least I managed to stop off at a garage and put enough air in the tyre to get home. Hopefully I've not cracked the wheel like last time (different one). 💸

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Dr.Meronym the 6th, MD, PhD, and others unverifiable titles @meronym6.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Quitting Twitter is the way. Nazis bought the platform to rig the game. Don't play it.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Chasing up payment for something I did last year and the response was 'oh, the cheque must have got lost in the post'. Cheque? What century are we in? 😲

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Before we run out of 2025, here are my fiction books of this year (in no particular order): The Everlasting - Alix E Harrow The Iron Garden Sutra - AD Sui Audition for the Fox - Martin Cahill The Incandescent - Emily Tesh The River Has Roots - Amal el Mohtar

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

At some point before the end of the year, I'll try and do a top 5 books and top 5 dramas (k- and c-) of 2025, as usual. Meanwhile, here's a rec outlier: the phenomenal Listers, about two brothers driving around the US after they get into competitive birdwatching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Been having a bit of a clear out, today's prize discovery was a half-eaten jar of homemade peach chutney dated 2014 lurking at the back of the pantry. 😂

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

As I plan my holidays for next year, I've been entertaining myself with various travel subs on Reddit. Poeple post itineraries, like the one with a day trip from London to Haworth (minimum 4 hours each way) where they want to visit the Parsonage and also walk on the moors *before lunch*. 🤣

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Nothing says local power cut like the chirping of dozens of burglar alarms nearby. 😏

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

For some reason, after months of Isla by Beluga Lagoon being my earworm of (not) choice, my brain has now moved on to Where's Your Head At? by Basement Jaxx. 🙈

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Currently in St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, which is normally closed, waiting for the Bella to be rung 😍

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Unexpected hedgehog encounter just now. 🦔 Went to put food out as usual only to find a small one (mango sized, the others are more like pineapple sized adults) hanging about - definitely not one of the two I see regularly. Must be one of this year's babies...

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Share your favourite black and white movie. Sullivan's Travels

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Retirement kicking in properly this week. Everyone at my previous workplace is back, I'm watching Murderbot and thinking about lunch. 😍

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Phone keeps bugging me to do a 66Mb update. My dude, I am on a boat in the Hebrides, I'm lucky if I can get 1 bar of 4G. ⛵

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/08/2025

Musk has made clear he is not a ‘fit and proper’ person to be given a foothold in our essential services. Giving him any influence in our energy market is a risk the UK can’t afford to take. 👉 Will you write to Ofgem? www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo…

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Many female athletes can make more money as a right-wing grifter complaining about trans women than she can as an athlete. Therefore, trans women in sports greatly enhance the career prospects of mediocre cis women in sports.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Advent calendars on sale in B&M 😱

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Weird beeping noise in my house when I got back this evening, initially thought it was my smoke alarm but then realised it was a fledgling blackbird sitting on the arm of my sofa 🐦‍⬛ Eventually caught & put outside.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Having done all the paperwork over the past few months, the next milestone to pass is actually *getting* my pensions. Got my first tax code notice today, so that's something. First payment is due this weekend, the other one pays at the end of the month, so I guess we'll see... 🤞💸

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

🦔 stand off in my garden just now. I'd suspected that I had more than 1 but hadn't seen them at the same time before - lots of disgruntled huffing noises from the newcomer who then stomped off.

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Just scheduled my out of office (basically "I've retired, email X instead"), now 5 💐 and plenty of chocolates in the house - work get together planned for Thursday so there may be more yet, also off to all-you-can-eat Indian buffet on Friday night. Feels a bit surreal at the moment!

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Yesterday was my last official teaching day, now just paperwork left. Feels a bit unreal but 4 💐 in my house telling me we're nearly there...

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just when I thought I'd got away without changing my work laptop password before I leave, nope... must change it with a deadline of roughly 3 days to go! 🤣

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This year's top end of year present from a learner: vegetarian haggis from her recent trip to Scotland 😆

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

After the police blocked off my street in the early hours of this morning, blue flashing lights and all, I could have done without getting woken at 5.15am to ask if I'd seen/heard anything last night (I did not). It's going to be a long day. 😴

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We're in the home straight, baby. I think I've mentioned before that I'm leaving work for good in the summer and now the summer is nearly here - about 6 weeks left! 😱

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Looking for a hotel in Cardiff for later in the year, I did not expect to see a hotel in Weston-super-mare included in the listing as being '12 miles from Cardiff'. This may be *strictly* true but I have some news for you... 🤣

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Being hassled for documentation to renew my DBS but guess what, lots of the stuff they want me to show a paper copy of are now things I deal with online (and they don't accept downloads of things like bank statements). 🤷

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Graculus @graconline.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Small board with white writing on a black background, all capital letters. The writing says: every dead body on Mt Everest was once a very determined individual so... maybe calm down

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Every feminist I know supports their sisters, cis and trans, and their non-binary siblings, concerned with domestic violence, public safety, equal pay, employment protection, access to healthcare, and other discrimination issues. Obsessing over who uses which loo isn't feminism. It's bigotry.

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