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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 2h
Liechtenstein, the country famous for the witch hunts that led to 200 executions in just five years, 10% of the population of the capital city killed and the fall of its ruling house. Liechtensteiners even have a special word Tobelhocher to vilify the false accusers.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 3h
Is Crusaderism a protected Christian belief?
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18h
If you don't care, why did you comment?
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 20h
I have sympathy for her suffering because of self-hatred and body dysmorphia driven by societal expectations of women. I think it a shame that she did not get treatment. Choice-shaming not body-shaming. Certainly not misogyny. I feel the same for rich men who have done the same. Misopulence, maybe.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 21h
Silicone on the left, sili-con on the right.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 21h
It is not the body people are shaming, it is the bad plastic surgery addiction. She has enough money to get therapy but chose legal self-mutilation instead. Look at her, she could have aged beautifully.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or set up subsidiaries in Mexico and Canada.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was subscribed to the channel for months and I am not disappointed, very cool production. Just passed 1 million views in two days.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He has stopped the war between Israel and Iran at least ten times now. Every other week.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think he said warts, but his doctor stopped those. Still hundreds to go.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Settled, not ended. He has settled the war with Iran into a steady pace that should last for years. He has supported settling in the war-torn West Bank and Gaza. He has settled into annexing Venezuala.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are going to use them to protect electoral integrity during the midterms by declaring martial law and pre-emptively bombing districts that might not vote in the right way.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They have some electoral districts in the US to protect from democracy by bombing them.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"How awful that my brilliant writing and show-running did not attract the audience back to the most iconic British show."
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And hate from actors who had worked for him. "Groundbreaking" as in digging down deep to lower the bar on quality and entertainment until it was well subterranean? The audience figures don't lie.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When did he last read some modern SF? Despite the massive output there are still new ideas, new stories and brilliant writing. Not that any of those writers have been considered for Dr Who.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or, people liked looking at a young, handsome Tom Cruise and forgave him the ham and weirdness because of that. Though I must admit I haven't seen his later films.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perhaps they should have started the film with the twist?
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So many sublime alternatives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyx...
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Moondance
YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@tomgauld.bsky.social
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sold complete for a symbolic $1 to a Star Trek fan.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A successful merger of hydrogen and oxygen.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full Steam ahead!
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's not fair, some of them are Nigel Farage sycophants.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Might be? All of them, they are the ethic-free tech monsters who need to be jailed for the good of humanity. Turn their facilities over to the unemployed game developers as co-ops.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"In other industries..." Who is not calling these crimes? I am calling them crimes and the obvious responsible party is the company who has programmed the conbot to be the best at cons.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And it was also the Falklands War that halted the Disappearances and horrendous oppression in Argentina. Don't let hatred blind you to reality. My grandad hated Churchill for all sorts of very good reasons (he was at Gallipoli and in the General Strike) but had to agree that he helped us win WWII.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That was one of only two things I approved of that she did, along with fighting fascist Argentina and starting the downfall of the junta (she would rather not have, but she had to). I hated that disgusting warm milk at school.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am hoping for some reactive nationalisation as well. Stockholders have a responsibility to hold a company to a certain standard of practice, they are not just there to take money. More sewage pollution? The penalty is the confiscation of all the company's assets.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Crown immunity. Which did not apply in the US until very recently.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
4% less stupid war?
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for the quick reply!
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If they are going to reuse it, they had better start practising landing properly. 14 not reusable, so far. They did not achieve the planned six orbits, only 1¾. Of course, you don't need all the engines to function all the time as long as most do, if you don't mind returning to Earth abruptly.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How many orbits did they manage? I am seeing a lot of times and that they had wanted to do 6 but no numbers on the actual number achieved.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am the embodiment of weltschmerz.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine being a music journalist and having to listen to constant pap for professional reasons and thinking everybody should suffer like them.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nobody cool reads a magazine that objects to your adblocker.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Most of my music comes from BBC Radio 6 Music. Never heard this song or the singer. They do play lots of American music and occasionally a classic that could be regarded as country. They play all sorts of weird stuff. Not the mainstream hyped pap. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 6 Music - Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Stuart's featured album is The Congos' 1977 debut Heart of the Congos.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are three possible positions to argue. If you have four people two of them must agree.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mamdani is not an actor so that does not apply - he seems to be genuine even in the presence of supremely banal evil.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And the entire Star Trek franchise gets sold for $1 to an old lady who has been writing k/s for 60 years and actually cares about the stories and the ethics.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Note that by buying just 50 grams you can get the price down to $24 per gram. A better price than most hard drugs - healthier and more euphoric. Buy 1 kg and it is only $18 per gram and Christmas presents all sorted. 2/2
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mass-market perfume factories charging for a fancy bottle & a dreamy advert but no floral ingredients fake gardenia with synthetics. The real stuff is available for a huge price, because you need skill & lots of lovely flowers to produce it and there is more demand from parfumiers than supply. 1/2
hermitageoils.com
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Real men are a lot cheaper.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Said and dead rhyme.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I understood that reference.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Michael Moorcock has written a canon Dr Who novel. With one of the avatars of Jerry Cornelius.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Half hour film set immediately after Return of the Jedi about the invention of an antibiotic that kills midichlorians and the epilogue says that the entire galaxy lived happily ever.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Find a backer, write a script, cast some actors, direct the episodes, do the advertising for us and we may let you broadcast it on our network.
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Paton @paton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am not sure curing Fenric would be advisable but I am sure hilarity would ensue.
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