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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@parallax2112.bsky.social
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Tech author/carer, books (sf/f/h), astronomy, beer/homebrew, weirdness, Rush (the band) fan. #RejoinEU #MaskUp. No #AISlop. Banner picture = my book hoard. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." Slave to my tsundoko. This account kills fascists.

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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 1h
I am so far. 😁
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
#NowReading 'Beasts of the Wild Black' by @rjbarker.bsky.social. Space opera with uplifted corvids and cats. What's not to like?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
The #Tory veneration of the rotting corpse of #Thatcher is really creepy, isn't it?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
These #ReformUK clowns are priceless, aren't they? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
So, it's October. Autumn, my favourite season. Mists and mellow fruitfulness, the smell of fallen leaves, the crispness of a morning, time to crack out the supernatural stories...
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
Can't wait for #AISlop to be unleashed on the manuscript to reveal that it's actually the recipe for KFC's secret blend of spices.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 3h
Fuck Camilla. Fuck Archer. #AbolishTheMonarchy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Archer: Queen Camilla pays tribute to 'irrepressible' author and former politician
The bestselling author and former politician died on Monday at the age of 86.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 3h
New take on the Voynich MS. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 3h
WTF is 'frontier-level' #AISlop?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 5h
Is British Iron Dome what Toby Young and Brendan O'Neill call their foreheads?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 9h
All this bollocks about Archer, but nothing about George Fenton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
The Blue Planet and Gandhi composer George Fenton dies aged 76
The musician received five Oscar nominations, and soundtracked dozens of memorable nature films.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 9h
Next issue of @privateeyenews.bsky.social is going to be fun, isn't it? #JeffreyArcher
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 9h
Not only do we get #BBCBreakfast eulogising Archer, they then inflict Gyles Brandreth on us.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 19h
Ooh, another Boeing fuck up. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
London to Chicago BA flight declares emergency after dropping 28,000 feet
British Airways Boeing abruptly lost altitude over Ireland due to ‘technical issue’ and returned to Heathrow
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 20h
So, #JeffreyArcher has died, but he still left one final shitty novel like a turd in the toilet pan of literature.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 20h
Eyam, not Irkutsk, obviously, right?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 21h
For clarification, I shop at Sainsbury's, but would rather gouge out my eyes than vote Tory.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 21h
Utter bollocks from More In Common, who I've stopped following because of their repeated nonsense. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Sainsbury’s for Tories, Waitrose for Labour: Does where you shop reveal how you vote?
One supermarket may be Britain’s most divided, new research shows
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is very 'New Labour, New Danger'.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Has she got evidence to support this claim, or are #UKLabour doing a Daily Mail? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, 'Splendid Isolation' by #WarrenZevon. My karaoke song.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyway, cheering myself up by listening to 'Transverse City' by #WarrenZevon.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, 15°C by the end of the week. Bliss.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incoming @ianbetteridge.com law. I'm Gen X, but, really? Also, I'm not rich in money. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Are my gen X peers the influencers the world has been waiting for? | Emma Beddington
Their careers are peaking, they’re rich in money and time – and young people think they’re cool. But maybe it’s not as simple as that, writes Emma Beddington
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reached for a glass of whisky and coke and almost grabbed my Bluetooth speaker. Everything's okay.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burn the traitor to the ground! #NigelFarage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift
Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Inspired' by the death of Chronos, I've just ordered... I thought I'd bought it before. Interesting linkage between black metal and fascism. amzn.eu/d/04M3Epi9
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Lords Of Chaos - 2nd Edition: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground (Extreme Metal): Amazon.co.uk: Moynihan, Michael, Soderlind, Didrick: 8601200433852: Books
Buy Lords Of Chaos - 2nd Edition: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground (Extreme Metal) 2 by Moynihan, Michael, Soderlind, Didrick (ISBN: 8601200433852) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday l...
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh, the #Tory party conference is going to be an utter car crash, isn't it? #KemiBadEnoch's address is going to be gloriously fucked up.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Larry calendar! As I suggested to @dinahrose.bsky.social, we need an Ozzy calendar. You can never have too many cat calendars, right?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Latest 'found' band names. Now, name the genres.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, ITV have buried the second season of 'ST:Strange New Worlds' in a late evening slot tonight. So, now I need to re-watch S1 because it's been so long since I last watched it.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On the subject of #PervSpecs, there were signs in Bromley on Friday warning people that the Met were using live facial recognition. No vans, but guessing that existing CCTV cameras were being co-opted. Even as a white cishet male of a certain age, I do not consent to this shit. 😡
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fact that there are 'Five Best' anti-pervespec apps says everything you need to know about this creepy tech.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fuck, #TimLovejoy really is fucking ignorant, isn't he? #SundayBrunch
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Urgh. Grammar disaster there. Apologies.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, #TimLovejoy doesn't like foxes. Another strike against the wanker. #SundayBrunch 🦊
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'The world weighs on my shoulders/But what am I to do?/ You sometimes drive me crazy But I worry about you/ I know it makes no difference To what you're going through/ But I see the tip of the iceberg And I worry about you.' @rushisaband.bsky.social
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pondering some (obviously not all) managers over the years, and there have been some real horrors. Mostly male, with some exceptions. Anyway, fuck work. The older I grow, the more ridiculous it becomes.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know that people say that we shouldn't threaten violence against people who threaten violence against us, but... 🤔 Don't want to invoke this, but...
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that this guy needs protection reveals the utter corruption of sport and politics. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Manchester City whistleblower ready to help UK authorities in return for protection
Rui Pinto, whose leaks helped to trigger the Premier League’s investigation into Manchester City’s financial affairs, is prepared to help authorities in the UK with their legal case in exchange for pr...
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the current utterly (udderly) dreadful Confused dot com ad, why does the 'cow' character with a male voice have udders?
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Time for eight? #CROENG
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Evil little shits. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mad woman former manager has just posted on LinkedIn. Dare I Iook at what's she's said? Nah.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rock you like a Harry Kane! #CROENG
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I couldn't possibly comment, but just imagine if he was a suspect of a 'different' hue. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Ann Widdecombe murder suspect charged with planning terror act against Nigel Farage
Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, say police
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#ElonMusk is a genocidal mass-murderer along the lines of fascist dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Putin, etc. Welcome to The Hague, you cunt. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Peak Grauniad. Chiles will write a column about it, before it's turned into a transphobic screed.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Er, no?
250ml bottle of poncy Grauniad soy sauce going for a bargain £17. Yeah, right.
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, fuck you #NigelFarage and #ReformUK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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