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Louis F

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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I was in the 3pm slot, shuffled slowly in a dark, crowded room for 1.5 hours and was then hurried along the tapestry itself. I mean, I loved the tapestry, it was a real privilege to see it, but the experience overall was poor
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, autumn. The season of mists and gentle hopelessness
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Life is not entertaining. Though I accept its artistic value.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well, that was fun
A partial eclipse of the sunThree people looking at a partial eclipse of the sun with special sunglasses so they do not go blind
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"We have become Jealous Satisfied with our desolation Wrapped in our vivid dreams" - Curve, Blindfold
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've seen several Jersey Tiger moths in and around Kingston, South West London, this summer, like this one resting on my door frame. And I'm pretty sure there's a Jersey Tiger caterpillar eating the leaves off one of my aubergines in the greenhouse. They used to be very rare in England
Jersey Tiger moth, resting on a door frame
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I managed to catch the underwing of one in our local park. They are very fast
The underwing of a painted lady butterfly, camouflaged against the ground
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I recently started getting my sense of smell back through smell training. The scents I chose were lavender, honeysuckle, mint, rosemary and sweet pea.
A white sweet pea flower with pink veins
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Love the dunes du pilat. One of my cousins showed me how to kangaroo hop down the back of them many many years ago. One of those holidays you never forget
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My dad used to play this all the time. He was a very gifted musician whose band, in the late sixties, supported the Kinks and Pink Floyd, but who decided to pursue a career as a theoretical physicist instead. Wherever I hear it, I well up. Sometimes even when I just think about it.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The colours in the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park make my eyes feel funny #bloomscrolling
Bright pink rhododendron with bright green leavesA small stream winding through bright rhododendron bushesBright red, pink and purple rhododendrons
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
All I see three days is style instead of art. Show me some art! I don't care for Instagram pretty. Show me the dog violets in the pavement, show me the funny graffiti. Life is more than style.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Peacock butterfly and pear blossom 🌱
A peacock butterfly on pear blossom
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"If you cross the river, a great empire will be destroyed" - The Oracle of Delphi to Croesus, King of Lydia, after he enquired about the outcome of his planned war on Persia. Croesus took this to be a good prophecy and went ahead with his war. She was right. The great empire that fell was Lydia.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The tulips at RHS Wisley this year are absolutely stunning #bloomscrolling 🌱
A field of white and pink tulips at RHS Wisley in Surrey
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Debugging one of my apps, i came across this #foundpoetry One for @greatdismal.bsky.social, I think I wonder if the people that wrote these error messages are fans of the Sprawl series?
An error message on a computer terminal that shows a message "Communicating on a dead channel" seven times before ending with "Lost connection to device"
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
LinkedIn is such a dry old place. This is a top-notch technical joke and it sank without a trace. What's that? No, it really is funny. No, it is.
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post about a BBC news article about UK banks suffering a technical glitch which led some users seeing other users' data, above which Louis has written 'I bet this was a caching issue', which had had only one reaction
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
How has it taken me this long to realise that every action film ever made is basically just a remake of The Guns Of Navarone?
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
FUCKING SPRING! THANK FUCKING CHRIST!
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Walking home whistling a sad French song from the 80s, a bleak February afternoon suddenly gave way to a bright winter sunset, "...for a moment Mending everything Before it swept out and away across the earth" - T Hughes
A winter sunset in a suburban London street
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bored is exactly right. I'm really bored that these idiots take up any of my information space, given how rich and beautiful the rest of the world is.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I used to wonder what it would have been like to live through the bronze age collapse.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
You can't appease bullies. I learned this in the playground.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"A film that really makes you ask: 'what the hell are you talking about?' 2.5/5" - Louis F, A Terrible Cynic
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Invasion of the Straw Men (2030) - A world in the grip of spurious arguments against imagined opponents starts to realise that perhaps these opponents aren't so imagined after all, as wave after wave of the so-called Straw Men start to wreak havoc on society.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
As with the immigration statistics, surely it's the duty of the BBC to attempt to correct this misapprehension, per their 'inform, educate and entertain' mandate...?
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Jerusalem under King Solomon had roughly the population of a modern English village
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
As my grandpa used to say: to thems that're here and thems that aren't 🥂
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas. One thing I learned in 2025 was that you haven't lived unless you've experienced the exquisite pain of accidentally getting hot Marmite in a fresh paper cut.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I think the problem is that when people think of themselves as 'normal', they are constantly looking for justifications for the belief that other people are 'not normal'. Epistemological permissions, if you like.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Of course, in reality, the most egregiously overrepresented section of society on TV is Reform MPs
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Swan on the Thames in the autumn afternoon sun. This is not a black and white photo, but the sharp contrast of sunlight and silhouette makes it seem so
A swan silhouetted on the glittering river Thames in the autumn afternoon sunlight
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Apologies for the comma incontinence
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I've only just discovered that if I whistle at a certain pitch, my false front tooth vibrates, creating a sensation not unlike tinnitus, except in my skull
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A gnawed chicken bone fell down the chimney yesterday. Presumably a witch having a bit of a sit-down on the roof to finish her KFC after a hard night cursin' and hexin'
A close up of items in a fireplace - scrunched-up paper, pinecones, kindling - with a gnawed chicken thighbone on top
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I've got to admit it's quite funny, in a bleak sort of way, watching Marco Rubio try and come up with a coherent foreign policy in the prevailing environment. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The garden is still sparking joy in September 🌱 #bloomscrolling
A bright pink cosmos flower lit up by the sunset on a warm, sunny September evening with a garden and greenhouse in the background
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
There was
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Large white butterfly on a dahlia 'pooh' at Vyne House, Hampshire, England. Lovely day out 🌱 #bloomscrolling
Large white butterfly on a bright red and yellow dahlia
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"You think you're making a point, but in fact you're just making a noise. Presumably to remind yourself that you exist"
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I've been thinking about this a lot. Given the alternative possible framings of much of what's going on, I have to come to the conclusion that certain journos and editors, even at the BBC, Sky, etc, actively want either chaos or a more racist country.
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#bloomscrolling 🌱 "I love you like I love the sun in the morning"
A dark red Gladiolus surrounded by a halo of pink cosmos
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This cosmos flower is actually made of atoms of the purest happiness #bloomscrolling 🌱
A cosmos bloom in the sun, surrounded by other cosmos blooms
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
They are tigerella. Fairly early, heavy fruiting and nice and sweet www.rhs.org.uk/plants/29398...
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Solanum lycopersicum 'Tigerella' | tomato 'Tigerella' Fruit Edible/RHS
Find help & information on Solanum lycopersicum 'Tigerella' tomato 'Tigerella' Fruit Edible from the RHS
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I think parmigiana might be on the menu in the near future... 🌱
Bowls of freshly picked tomatoes and aubergines on a kitchen surface
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Bumblebee and passion flower 🌱
A large bumblebee, burdened with pollen, feeding on a passion flower
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I don't think I've ever seen a tree with so many damsons on it... 🌱
A branch of a damson tree, bending down with the weight of dozens of ripening purple fruits
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I've actually started to turn into a courgette
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Can't wait
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Louis F @lfeat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I definitely will 😁
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