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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 40m

My wife is a very seasoned software developer and her speciality is complex problems that nobody else has been able to solve. AI definitely does not triple her productivity but management still expects it to because they apparently don't remember why they needed to hire her in the first place.

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21h

I mean... you're on bsky right now, you can literally scroll the various Green Party accounts and see what *they're* saying and not just what *the press* say about what they're saying. Because expecting anything fair, good or worthwhile from the press in this scenario is folly

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21h

If I'm patronising it's because I'm weary of this relentless "Greens don't talk about the environment" shite that's been happening for months. They do and they have. But the media don't care about you knowing any of that so they won't feed it to you

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21h

Why do you suppose that is, hmm?

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It kinda is the point though. Labour are acting like this is some principled stance they've taken in light of recent events when it was never on the cards in the first place. It's cynical and insulting

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They literally ruled it out yonks ago and there's no reason to assume anything changed in the meantime. Them behaving like this is a brand new development is absurd and even a little insulting

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can blame either your own attention span or the news outlets you follow considering other things more important for that then, because they literally talk about tackling climate crisis, investment into renewables, wildfires, ecological effects of sewage in rivers etc all the damn time

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Age 11/12 for me too. Presumably because that was the age where I suddenly spent a lot more time standing alone at bus stops. Lots of creeps out there trying their luck with tiny uniformed girls, pulling up and offering weird comments and lifts to school

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She's another malignant piece of shit, making sure we start the week off with as much pompous bigoted whining as possible

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, what a malignant piece of shit she is.

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, quite. Like the obsession with finding a "gay gene". I don't see any way on this earth that a reliable diagnostic biomarker like that wouldn't ultimately be turned towards something eugenics-y

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When my wife came out as trans one of the first things I did was go looking on the internet for advice on how to navigate it because I wanted us to stay together. Basically *everything* I saw was misery, bitterness & acrimonious divorce. It was scary & gave a very skewed idea of what to expect

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's all so fucking bleak. I could weep at how far we've fallen. And so quickly

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I remember the optimism happening around me. I'd have to leave the room when people would talk about it because I didn't want to be a mood-killer but I also couldn't quell my creeping sense of foreboding.

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lazy false equivalence is the Guardian's specialty. They love a bit of smug handwringing about fake problems

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Twas ever thus. Doesn't even have to be meaningfully better, just has to jangle some shiny keys and promise jam tomorrow, apparently. I'm done waiting on to-do lists. I'm gonna need to see some actual, tangible improvements being made

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People insisted I wait and see about Starmer and it turns out I was right the first time 🤷‍♀️ Wake me when Burnham stops punching down on trans people. How many of YOUR rights are you eager to "compromise" on?

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are way too impressed by platitudes and empty promises of jam tomorrow. I wish they had a bit more self respect

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, the only time I ever think about Corbyn is when one of these bores brings him up. And yet they insist the rest of us are obsessed with the guy

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's hardly anything left that can even cast a shadow. The bastards razed it to the ground

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The irony that OP once somewhat understood that concept is quite funny too

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My cynical prediction is that he never intends to do any of it but he's falling back on the usual tactic of promising jam tomorrow in the hopes that he can coerce enough desperate people into giving him yet another handful of years in which to sit on his arse and maintain the shitty status quo

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

DO IT ALL NOW @andyburnham.bsky.social or accept you'll do none of it. Because if it isn't done by '29 - EU, social care, undoing the normalisation of hate, donations, fixing the media, the NHS, getting vampiric private equity out of our infrastructure - you'll hand us to the far right in '29.

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Assholes. The way they think we don't know what they're doing is just insulting

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Like bringing an apple for the teacher

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was in Spain recently and visited a local Chinese bazaar, which had a whole aisle full of these things.

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The last UK general election is a recent example. People insisted Starmer was just politicking and would veer left once he actually had power. They were the most shocked of pikachus when that obviously didn't happen Please, America. Don't hamstring yourself with the same wishful thinking

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was less findom and more just a televised mugging 😂

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes! It all looks weirdly shiny and over-sharpened... and there's no real solid idea of what the important light source is. There's a sun in the background and also something bright reflected in the glasses and everything has odd rim lighting so nothing looks anchored in space, like collaged clipart

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Emma Khaine 🩸 @emmamh.tgirl.gay · 23/09/2026

We have some good cuisine

Stampot, mashed kale and potatoes with a sausage on top

Kibbeling, fried fish with sauce, chips and salad

Hutspot, mashed carrot and potato with a meatbal on top

Johan de Witt,
A dutch prime minister that was attacked after the Rampjaar (disaster year) and killed. Contemporary accounts report acts of cannibalism happened to him after death

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Quite. Dragging a kid along to this horrible nonsense cannot be healthy

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was in a little place in Spain a few weeks ago and the hotel provided all of the usual toiletries as well as toothpaste, toothbrush and razor. I was amazed. If I'd known that ahead of time I wouldn't have bothered packing my own

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it broke me too because it's 21 here and I'm under a cosy blanket with a hot drink, fully in autumn mode

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Have fun storming the castle! Uh... Monolith!

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You like to play russian roulette with your tastebuds. I respect that

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

GPs sent my friend home with painkillers when she needed her gallbladder out. When they finally figured out what was going on and put her on a 3 year waiting list, it was almost too late. She's lucky she could afford to fly to Lithuania and get what turned out to be a lifesaving surgery

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's exactly where my mind went. I give it a week before his career pivots almost entirety to doing endless weepy interviews about how activists took his family from him

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Predictably,she's embracing the grift rather than concentrating on nursing. Mind you, having a nasty piece of work like this involved in the care of sick and vulnerable people sounds like a wretched state of affairs, so there's that

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He somehow managed to miss it even though it's been plastered over UK media for literally years. Helluva blind spot for someone whose job is to notice shit and comment upon it

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"sometimes" Funny, I've been hearing this refrain my whole life. It seems to be more of an "every time" thing and, looking around, it doesn't look like it's yielded great results. Likely because (sing it with me): The lesser evil is STILL EVIL!

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

See also: trans people. It would behoove you to recognise that the phrase has been used extensively in order to justify curtailing the freedoms of trans people. Because it's never just 1 bigotry

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The moment I first saw him firing arrows (with surprising accuracy) while hanging upside down from a pole and wearing platform stiletto boots, I knew I would follow him into hell if called upon to

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's so handy when you have a local that sometimes doesn't bother to cook them to perfection so the pastry is limp and flabby instead of flaky and golden. My local Greggs is just a couple doors away from my local Iceland so it's a no brainer really

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Weird, I find Reform and all their orbiters so incredibly irritating. Guess we're at an impasse 🤷‍♀️

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Was she always this smugly obnoxious or is she laying this on just for us?

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The last Wadjet Eye release came out just in time for my wife's birthday and this one will come out just in time for mine. I'm very pleased

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Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That is the face of a cat who is plotting your imminent doom

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