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Lydia

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@lydiajo over there. Banana for scale.

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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I can see the movie adaptation now.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@davidcoveney.com hey, look what ChatGPT recommended when I was asking about WP migration plugins.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The context… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Churchill’s wartime train carriage restored in Devon
The carriage, which also hosted US President Dwight Eisenhower, is at the South Devon Railway.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Taken out of context, this doesn’t look great.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The problem with most deadlines is that they’re not deadlines. They’re targets.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just been scrolling the list of Papal names. My money is on it being Pope Sixtus the Sixth en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_n...
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Papal name - Wikipedia
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Vamping is a greatly underrated talent.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So that’s a nope on a pope then. #conclave #blacksmoke
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Living in the 21st century is a trip, isn’t it? Hours and hours of watching a chimney on a livestream. #conclave
A photo of a TV screen showing a livestream of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel with no smoke coming out of it.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Sage advice there.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I have an important question… How much is *too much* chocolate (to eat for breakfast)?
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So, hit me up with some recommendations, before I start losing sleep over this?
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bruce lee says thank you for your service with a blurred background
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Hey #WordPress people, I’m after suggestions for plugins to road test. Specifically, I’m looking for a new user roles / permissions / capabilities #plugin. The one we have works fine, but hasn’t been updated in …quite a while.
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homer simpson is holding a sign that says a on it
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Don’t worry, I’m sharing.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A fridge shelf full of Tuborg Påskebryg (Easter Beer) in distinctive yellow cans featuring a yellow chick and yellow daffodils.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“So, Lydia” I hear you say. “Any plans for the long weekend?” My plans for the long weekend…
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three yellow arrows pointing down on a white background
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy Tremony At Remony At The Library Day to all who celebrate 🥳 The memories do indeed live on.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
No, YOU’RE checking analytics at 11pm when you’re supposed to be going to bed.
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a man in a suit and bow tie is standing in front of a green birdhouse .
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ooh interesting, someone is on our site via ChatGPT, and it’s not me.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We’ve been waiting for this to be broadcast for a while. It’s very exciting.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Good news, didn’t burn to death.
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a man wearing a hat that says ' here 's to being alive '
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I’ve seen enough Jackie Chan films to know that he is going to drive through that at high speed in a Mitsubishi.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The batteries in both of the smoke alarms in the house are running out, so if we die in a fire overnight before the shopping arrives tomorrow, you’ll know what happened.
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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It’s a shit business #RIP
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 31/03/2025
“why didn’t you just do it earlier?” oh sorry i left my functioning executive system in my other pants
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Absolutely rotten
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a cartoon of charlie brown with the words dying of illness above him
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Could they be pages that you were following under a different name? It’s not uncommon for accounts to gain followers with one kind of (benign) content, then swap to something else like crypto or politics.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Dammit, Richard Chamberlain too?
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Tonight, to mark the passing of the great Richard Norton, we rewatched Gymkata. A truly terrible film that we absolutely love.
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a man wearing a helmet is standing in a room holding a basket ..
Alt: In “the village of the crazies” a bearded man turns around to reveal that his face is just a mask on the back of a clean shaven man’s head.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We got elected by mistake!
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I haven’t got my glasses on and I totally read this as “Withnail”, which seems a bit harsh.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Don’t give me that, you knew who you were marrying.
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a baby yoda from the mandalorian is sitting in a crib and says `` don 't judge me '' .
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Even if I do say so myself, it was a great event last night. Next one will be ‘in about three months’ as usual.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you’re not in Leaf on Bold Street, you should be watching this live feed.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
youtube.com/live/NIz_TqX...
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Ignite Liverpool 53 - Live From LEAF March 26th 2025
YouTube video by Ignite Liverpool
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yeah, but what if I actually am an imposter!?!
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh no!
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Anyway, the important thing is that we’ve got tickets to see Stevie Wonder.
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a man in sunglasses is singing into a microphone while playing a keyboard .
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Many thanks to @defnetmedia.bsky.social for handholding me through some of the more technical bits.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
What I thought I’d be doing with my day: a bit of social media, a bit of writing, a bit of optimisation. What I ended up doing with my day: tightening firewall settings, IP blocking on the server, and dealing with a frankly unreasonable level of brute force attack. Digital - never dull.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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a woman in a black dress is holding an oscar and saying you like me
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Or the mixed use of cases in PaRroT which just feels wrong to an English speaker, although the word is technically spelled correctly.
A Japanese woodblock illustration of a yellow parrot on a tree branch. The word parrot is written in Japanese and English although the English word has a mix of lower and upper case letters.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Take these two examples. Refreshing is spelled Refreshiug, with the artist mistaking a letter u for an n. Two letters which are graphically very similar, but miles apart linguisticly. I did originally think that it was an upside letter n, but I’m fairly sure it’s a u.
A Japanese woodblock illustration of a woman fanning herself. The word refreshing is written in Japanese and English, although it is misspelled in English.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
In all seriousness though, I find things like this really interesting from a language/culture point of view. The choice of subject obviously says more about 19th century Japan than 19th English. But the typographic errors highlight how arbitrary graphemes are, with us supplying the meaning.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I guess since it’s #Caturday I should highlight the lovely cat from this work of #art
A Japanese woodblock illustration of a cat. The word Cat is written in Japanese and English. 

Detail from “A Collection of Fashionable English Words” by Kamekichi Tsunajima from 1887
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tag yourself: I’m Hoise. Image via the wonderful archive from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Japanese woodblock print called “A Collection of Fashionable English Words”, by Kamekichi Tsunajima, from 1887. 

The print shows 42 depictions of things with their names in Japanese and English. Several of the English names are misspelled, like Gaot for Goat, or idiosyncratic, like Horse car for carriage. 
A Japanese woodblock Illustration of a blue horse on a cream background. The word horse is written in Japanese and English, but the English word is spelled “Hoise”.

Detail image from “A Collection of Fashionable English Words” by Kamekichi Tsunajima, from 1887
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We had actual sunshine yesterday.
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Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is jolly good news
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