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Mark Veater

@medgull.bsky.social
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Mostly birds and politics.

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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 21h
Like everyone else, I came here to say this.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are not enough 'likes' in the world for this article.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saw them play a small venue in Glasgow in December 2003, a few years before Isbell's departure. They were so drunk on JD, passing the bottle around the stage between songs.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The British Government are planning..."; "Labour are the party of...". You see/hear this all the time in the UK media.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a different world, man.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Didn't Aldous Huxley say that an intellectual is someone who's found something more interesting than sex? I'm probably wrong. Didn't bother to Google it.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Or camel milk, for that matter, which is bloody lovely.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It screams "late-stage civilization, navel-gazing decadence, ripe for conquest by the barbarian hordes."
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I could hazard a guess as to why he likes being on his knees.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Still on my list.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Achaean Horse, you mean.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It works because of jackpot theory. And it was much worse before the introduction of 3 points for a win, btw.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The solution with nachos is to position them upright. Difficult to achieve with chips.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Three harvest mice on a shirt" doesn't really have the same ring to it.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not to mention nicking the mama 'se mama sa mama coo sa' chant from Manu Dibango. Shoulders of giants, and all that.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rebuke. You are using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's always about the money with Trump. He wants Greenland so he can brag about making the US bigger (Putin-envy), but mostly so he can open it up for oil and get a huge backhander from the corporations.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Same thing happens with Tories and Labour in Britain. Truth is that the right wing have the media on their side enough to convince a majority of voters that the opposite of the truth is the truth.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good support workers in social care do a job that is at least as complex as nurses, but without any professional recognition.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One word: Hallowe'en.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The worst kind of gaslighting. Everyone knows that lamb and mint are mutually exclusive flavours.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
No-one thinks this is about oversupply, then? Has the constant mantra about too little housing stock over the last decade been overstated? Agree that we need more Council housing and affordable rentals, but what's being built is not that, as far as I can see.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's 'Mam' where I live.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Obviously, that was just an add-on to existing design and backed up by the EU, but the principle stands.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Seems to me that EV's are the aspirational choice nowadays, so why not take advantage of that and promote them further? When catalytic converters were introduced, John Major's government didn't cave to corporate lobbying, which is most likely what's happened here.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have two tickets available for the all-dayer at Anarchy Brew Company in Newcastle on 29th August. I can no longer attend because my daughter's booked her engagement party on the same day. 🫤 It's a great lineup and I'll give a significant discount on the tickets. DM me and we'll sort something out.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dates and cashews usually go well together.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I regularly get emails asking me to help find 'shit cover'
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's less than £70 a year, Michael. Treat yourself. 😀
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Seems like an easy game to win.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Undisclosed £75m fee, isn't it?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
'Teaching your nonna to suck eggs' is surely the correct phrase here?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just how big is this sauna?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You could have stopped after the 5th word.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Probably need a bit salt.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And a sailboat hardly seems like a good suggestion for getting over all those hills and mountains. What was she thinking of?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yep.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's important to listen to your kids, but also to know who is the ultimate decision maker in the relationship - and it's not them! Our kids were given repeat "no thank you portions" with every type of food, and they both grew up with strong food opinions, but also happy to eat almost anything.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
💯
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Didn't they just win £21.5 million at the World Cup?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And that man is Bibi Netanyahu.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Heard them today on Smooth Radio at my in-laws' house, more's the pity.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lives have already been lost. The lives of the millions of plants and animals that either burned in the wildfires, or will subsequently die from lack of food and habitat.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I returned from a holiday and accidentally deleted about 2000 photos. I was distraught, but managed to recover the lot after downloading Recuva. So this is good advice.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Definitely a Sunderland fan.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I think you'll find that in older books it's listed as "The Wolverine, or Glutton"
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Everyone knows this except football managers, it seems.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Annoying all the right people...
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Private sufficiency; public plenty. Why would any truly free society choose differently?
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Worst thing about this is the further normalisation of 'invite' as a noun.
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