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mooch jones

@mooch-monkey.bsky.social
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monkey in a banana plantation. has a bus pass and two library cards and knows how to use them! building a better world one dad joke at a time. ex glider pilot. photographer then programmer, now retired. #MS #MultipleSchlerosis #AAA #AbdominalAorticAneurysm

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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 4h
After fun in the garden, an urgent late morning bathtime was a regular occurrence with ours.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 5h
Dickens : The Cricket on the Hearth 😆
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 14h
it *was* a guess - I'm in Britain and have never come across TrumpTV, on or off YT, just that it exists. But I still reckon they will try to monetize it !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 15h
I guess it will be on Trump TV. So he gets the PPV money. 😱
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 19h
Ok ready to about face.... You go high with your book. I'll go low with my nunchucks. ‼️💥
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We knew a family* with quins who sold their story to a newspaper and could thus afford live-in help. * we bought their mini. they needed something bigger😁
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
... and kettles that pour properly.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh I was good at hand crafting specific nasties too ! A few years of assembler coding taught me how to be very devious and not just a sledgehammer.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not just UI. I did a lot of work on text processing and created many files with gibberish hidden somewhere in it by just hammering on the keyboard. Some programmers hated me for 'tricking' their nicely coded software !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agree totally, and I wish more software was tested by children, elderly, chimps, idiots, and not just the morons who designed the software !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the last 2 months I've had Norovirus, then a full on flu. If it doesn't come back I have lost enough weight to now be classed as overweight rather than obese ! After the first illness I had to put a new hole in my belt. This week I put a 2nd hole in it. Loose pants/trousers ! Pleased but....😵‍💫
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But Brigid was a modern girl, and had proposed on the morning of 29th February 1896 after they had 'cuddled' together all night.💘💋♥️
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I would not be surprised if in 20 years we find that Ukraine had many spies in Russian military design offices.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
not just in computing. Movies aren't actually 3D*, but 'stereo' (stereoscopic) and after 100 years marketing wanted a cooler term. * in true 3D you can move your head and look behind an object. /pedant
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
how I arrived on BlueSky
Mooch, the cuddly monkey, in a striped jumper sitting on a red Year of the Bus sculpture painted with books. This is outside the Croydon main library.
Behind the bus on the right is a Cenotaph. Behind Mooch is a pair of real red TfL buses.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I went to view them, and was surprised they were not made of glass with coloured swirls inside.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It does hide the large box-on-bum really well !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe it is a groundbreaking 'floaty' idea for heavy lifting, but I think you should wait a few years and then show it to your new grandson Mrs Cockerell.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Laughed at this too: bsky.app/profile/bobb...
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forecast: Light crowd with 80% chance of spittle over the front rows. Heavy gusts of air pollution expected later in the event.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Surely this counts as adult abuse by media ? 😱
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Damn, I've just started my 'dry autumn & winter' 😀🍺
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they do *very* occasionally AIUI. eg when flying transit in a gaggle in busy airspace to avoid collisions.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I usually can and do sleep through*, but the wife uses them as a reminder to go to the toilet! * it depends if I'm sleeping on my good ear and the noise is deadened.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I want to see your illustrations in colour please ! Surely GO can negotiate with George Newnes to use spare capacity on his The Million colour presses ? 🌈
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have you heard the quarrel of sparrows at 4 on a winter morning because the street lights are all on? Time to wake up !!!
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chirrup ? hah hah ! The cacophony in the morning is awful from our local sparrows, robins, magpies, woodpeckers, crows, jackdaws, wood pigeons, and of course the vociferous parakeets. Maybe I shouldn't be feeding them. At least the cats and squirrels don't usually join in. 🐦🦜🔊📢😭
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
S*x & drugs & #GirlsOwnCC - a review capturing the manic, disorienting intensity of an extended party binge.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Many years ago at a showing in a small South London cinema 5 out of 6 ads were for curry houses! The other ad ISTR was for gin.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Henry watched his daughters eyes drooping and slowly reached out to catch the falling book. Did he catch it? readers you decide: - Yes - No
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My friend Shaun says that a mossy bottom is always warm.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth has issued a command that all martians must have a testosterone test before starting to fight.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can hear the cylinders unscrewing on the common. 👾
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Followed by many repeats of 8 Gout Of 10 Cats
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ALWAYS click & leave those !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're all for Big Oil, Trump & Farage !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like on the concrete floor of an RHS garden toilet 'shed' ! summer 1990 - I remember it well...
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Awful nappy: don't panic, get stoned. 🚬🚼😃
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just considered it a natural part of the rules of marriage & parenting. I think I've previously mentioned that my office desk always had a nappy stash !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Many years ago I changed my eldest in the toilet of a BA 737 flying back from Oslo. No problems w access, straps on table etc. The cabin crew were so impressed that a man did it that I got a free gin & tonic !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A few times, of an evening, we had to put our eldest in the car and drive around for 15 minutes. Then we could go home and while still sleeping carry her to bed.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if the lady in the picture has an attack of the vapours, or is she trying to hide an attack of the giggles ?
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Combining the latest two threads: The bunny on the bus goes hop hop hop 🐰🐇🐰
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She met the Talking Drum on a trip to Africa. It talked of love and passion. Her family were unsure of the match but let her marry, and they were excited about the birth of the baby conga drums.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks, I do seem to be well over the worst !
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so I managed to get down stairs on my own. Then I could go back up to bed for a sleep. Very short term spike of problems. Last time I ran for a bus after 24 hours, this time I've powered up/down stairs several times. Nasty when it happens but I now know from 2 occurances that it is short. #MS
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bad #fatigue & #weakness yesterday, just as happened when I got Covid last year, but this time with a flu? Collapsed to the floor, but unlike last time when I needed an ambulance, this time I managed to swing my legs over the top of the stairs which allowed me to sit up. Then a pause to recover #MS
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That sounds like a line from Murderbot.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
22.00 SPIN CITY Michael J. Fox & Charlie Sheen and their team of half-wits must save the Manager from embarrassment and the media.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Surely nuclear mutually assured destruction needs discussing.
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