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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This was the moment when Trump's political career should have ended. He was never suitable for public office but when he stood up on stage and mocked Serge Kovaleski, that was the moment when he showed the public exactly who he is. #NeverTrump

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Musk enters the "find out" phase of his own actions. Does he actually think he'll reverse his fortunes now? After all he's done?

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The reason is given in the same book. They've been bamboozled. They can't admit that they're wrong.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ah, I guess I'm going to hate therapy.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Labour can't do everything in the manifesto in the first year. They've only had 8 months. GB energy is starting. Laws are being introduced to limit water company CEO bosses bonuses if they continue to fail to meet standards.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

And some from the "sweet" table.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Some of the options from last week's #Vegan potluck in Portsmouth. I bought the vegan seitan charcuterie board and the vegan cheese straws.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

On Sunday night I was out in the garden, wrapped up in my big coat and gloves trying to see what all this fuss is about. You wouldn't have thought that I had to work in the morning, but there I was, just trying to see this Superb Owl everyone's talking about....

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The minister for propaganda has arranged for a police visit to discuss your lack of patriotism. If the leader says there were cheers then there were cheers. Even if there was actually booing.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
― George Orwell, 1984

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There is power in malicious compliance. Do what you're told in exactly the way you are told to. To the letter. Execs tend to provide vague instructions because they don't know the detail and rely on workers to figure it out.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

There are plenty of alternatives to eggs. In cookies they're a binding agent, use half a banana for each egg. Or applesauce if you're not a fan of bananas.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Americans, apparently you guys have some sort of issue with egg prices. There are alternatives that are cheaper and cause less harm. Tasty too. #vegan

Substitute banana, tufu, and many other ingredients for eggs.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If we accept whataboutism arguments then nothing can be deemed wrong as long as we can find examples that are also bad or worse.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Probably not an actual Goebbels quote.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This was yesterday. Seitan Christmas dinner.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I've spent every weekend this month volunteering in the Christmas Grotto. On Sunday we had a call from the parents of a child who had just gotten out of hospital, asking us to make a special visit to their home rather than bring the baby out in the cold. Who could say no to this face?

Photo of me, dressed as Santa, visiting a child for their first Christmas.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You don't jail someone for chucking a milkshake. You fine them, order them to pay damages, and tell them not to be such a prat in future. That's exactly what's happened. Why does Farage want to be treated differently? What makes him so special?

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It isn't their money. Once they gave it gto you, it's your money. Can you politely (or not) decline?

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I think this is fake but it is funny so I'm happy to share. For the record, Covid taught us that we don't need CEOs. Like, at all.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Name one thing about Christmas, other than the name, that is explicitly Christian. I mean, you could possibly find something but it'll take some effort. I need to go and decorate my yule tree now.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My favourite Sean Bean story is when my friend Lucy Glennon met him at a Downing Street disability event. David Cameron showed up for photos and munchies while Sean spend the evening chatting and really getting to know her. She always said what a lovely man he was. She said Cameron was a prick.

Lucy Glennon meets Sean Bean. David Cameron was also there.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Somehow this IRA quote got credited to Thatcher and used as an inspirational quote by Americans. I find it quite funny.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Did you know that if you go to your Chat settings in BlueSky you can disable Chat completely? I didn't and now I do. Chat Disabled. No DMs any more and I don't have to tell people to Read. My. Bio before I block them.

Visual of how to disable messages from random strangers, whether they are selling nudes, crypto, or whatever.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Reform party Nativity scene. No unmarried mothers, no Mddle Eastern people, no Refugees, no people seeking emergency accommodation, and definitely no wise men.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Andrea Jenkyns has announced that she'll stand in the county elections as Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire for Reform. I really hope she does nothing but split the right wing vote. Lincolnshire is overwhelmingly Tory so she could well achieve that.

Andrea Jenkyns sticking two fingers up to members of the public.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is what Labour’s free breakfast clubs will mean for you.🌹 #LabourUK

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Why doesn't he pray for weight loss? See how that works for him.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

But...but Star Wars had a Resistance and we loved Princess Leia. Who wouldn't want to be in the Resistance? I'm saying it's an easy sell to romanticise the word. You can even get it on a t-shirt.

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Pineapple is a warrior's fruit.

Star Trek TNG four panels.
Panel 1: Worf sitting in 10 forward with Guinan. She says "I brought you something to try. Pineapple."
Panel 2: Worf takes a bite, "Pineapple?" he asks.
Panel 3: Guinan, "It has an enzyme that digests your flesh as you eat it."
Panel 4: Worf, "A warrior's fruit."

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hoverFrog @hoverfrog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

From The Origins of Totalitarian, essential reading in a post truth world.

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.
With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
—Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

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