joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Post your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.static.klipy.comNigel Farrage's Amusing ExpressionAlt: Nigel Farrage's trout expression 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026static.klipy.comAngela Lansbury's Magical Dance from Bedknobs and BroomsticksALT: Angela Lansbury's Magical Dance from Bedknobs and Broomsticks 000
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 21/06/202618. Holding an opinion doesn't make you right; your belief in a thing does not make it true. 000
Reposted by @joempt.bsky.socialRichard Wiles @richard-wiles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026La Source! Bilingual Dictionaries, an imprint of my own Plátanos Publications, includes Dictionary of French Building Terms, Dictionary of French Tools & Materials, and Dictionary of French Gardening Terms. All available (paperback/ebook) from Amazon or www.richardwiles@platanos.co.uk 001
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 21/04/202617. Fooling yourself is the outcome of inner conflict. ... because part of you wants it to be true, and that part silences/ignores the parts of you that know it to be false. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 20/04/202616. Every system necessarily contains the seeds of its own destruction. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 04/04/202615. When packing for a voyage of discovery, leave your expectations at home. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 01/04/202613.Advertisements are not trying to sell products to you. They're trying to sell you to advertisers. 14. If you think something is free, then you're the product. ... Look! Two for the price of one! 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 20/03/202612. Everyone has traits you may consider faults. Perhaps labelling them as 'faults' is one of yours...? 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 05/03/202611. Check other people's 'facts' - you'll soon learn who you can trust. And, be careful where you check your facts... 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 05/03/202610. People are just people; no label can change that fact. When you hear people described with a prefix, what does it tell you about the speaker, the culture, the situation? What's in the foreground, what's in the background? Imagine if we saw blood group instead of skin colour. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 05/03/20269. It's OK to fancy other people. You have no control over who you fancy. You can control what you do about it... But that's a whole other thread. 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 02/03/20268. Always start a list with the item 'Make a list' so you can tick it off as soon as it's written. Yes, it's an oldie, but it's important to recognise that organising before doing *is part of the work* - forgetting that is part of the landscape of getting psychologically stuck about certain tasks. 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 02/03/20267. Everyone needs time & space to be creative. Give yourself the time and space you need. ...Creative is anything you like. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Are you sure it was Mr Portaloo? ... Actually he's unmistakable. Top ex-minister action high above the Iberian Peninsular. 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 28/02/20266. You will never need anything in those boxes. (You know which boxes) 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I went on a plane this week and saw absolutely no elderly British ex-pirate radio DJ legends. Nor, incidentally, did I knowingly see any of their spouses or significant others. What am I doing wrong? 120
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 26/02/20265. Functioning relationships rely on 3 things: Openness. Honesty. Acceptance. Sure a good relationship needs other things, but without those three it's not going to work in the long term. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 25/02/20264. Check your expectations; life is not a fairy tale. Make of that what you will... 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 19/02/20263. A little planning gets you a long way; too much planning gets you nowhere. This falls into a family of similar things like 'perfection stands in the way of progress' and 'procrastination is the thief of time' and I didn't let this so me from writing rule 3. SWIDT? ;-) 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 18/02/20262. There's no such thing as a 5-minute job. Whilst this may not be literally true, it's also true that anything for which you have only allowed five minutes will expand to fill the whole afternoon and require a trip to the shops. 200
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Reminds me of Madeleine Peyroux: "I have to concede/that wherever you are/you're still driving my car" ... Also contains the excellent: "I asked a boy for a few kind words/he gave me a novel instead" 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/20261. Never eat anything bigger than your head. (Thanks to whoever it was on Radio University of Sussex around 1991, possibly 'DJ Fatty Acid' - still the best DJ name I have ever heard) 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026So I am going to post them here, my intention is to post one a day. It will be wildly exciting and you will all transcend something or other by reading them. I hope you enjoy them. Maybe you can buy my imaginary book! So. Today we start at the beginning. 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I have been thinking - what am I to do with this curated wisdom, this distillation of experience, mine and others', this invaluable resource? ... Obviously the way to retire in luxury on a super yacht is to write a self-hello book, but on balance that's not my bag. I get seasick, there it is... 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026... It stuck in my head and a couple of other bits of equally sage advice joined it, and gradually I started collecting 'rules'. And now I have over 40 of them. Admittedly they're not all strictly rules, and mostly somebody somewhere will disagree or whatever. But they are what they are... 100
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The List of Rules ... When I was at university, at least a year ago (ahem) I spotted a poster advertising a show on the campus radio station (for which you needed an actual radio, naturally) It said 'never eat anything bigger than your head' and that seemed like pretty good advice. Well... 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I keep coming back to this and marveling at the Ladybird books artists. So beautiful, so life-like, so Ladybird. 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026My current lesson to myself is this: 'And this is the story I am telling myself' ... in other words, whatever I am imagining about various situations is exactly that, and nothing more (even if it turns out to be broadly accurate!) 000
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Oh god grief, how is the poor kitten going to get any work done with all those people about?! 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Labubus Keep cropping up for me in the last few weeks... I think they look like Maurice Sendak's Wild Thing. And congratulations on top pub-quizzery! 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Somewhere in the GBD past is the 'I lost my knickers at the house party we crashed' date and I strongly suspect that is a once-a-lifetime tidal event... 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Correct! How lovely, I love their high pitch calls and their bobbing... I'm going to go looking for our local kingfishers this morning :-) 000
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Read that as '... Swearing Bee...' which is something I would watch, and possibly win. 210
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 25/12/2025In which I start Christmas Day by coming down with a highly productive cold in the middle of the night. Sore throat, gallons of mucus, uncontrollable sneezing. Joy! 000
Reposted by @joempt.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. 511982505
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025An odd few days for me. Beautiful weather in a place I love, but it's not enjoyable. My dad died on Monday night, and I am broadly fine, but feeling the gap, the ending, the change, and it is a heavy, solid sadness that I am holding and carrying. ... grieving is a complex process, and this is mine. 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025On the subject of tidying a lingo, have you come across the 'Portuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990'? The Wikipedia article is interesting and contains the word 'Lusophony' which is reason enough to read it IMHO. You're welcome :-) 000
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I sometimes drive past 'Poppinghole Lane'... *pops* 010
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Neigh! Shirley Knott! *makes horse noises, canters off* 110
joempt.bsky.social @joempt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025As your 2nd home you'd have to pay extra stamp duty, obvs. It's so hard being loaded. 110
