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Poppyscotland Pride Pin | Poppy Scotland Shop

As we're getting into poppy-fucker season, if anyone wants to give them an apoplexy, may I present the Poppy Scotland Pride pin? (The Scottish ones look more like a real poppy...)

poppyscotlandshop.org.uk

All profits from this Poppyscotland Pride Pin help deliver life-changing support to the Armed Forces community.

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meanwhile I need to look for my Pride flag poppy pin!

Such a slappable face (and what's he doing wearing a poppy before November? PRICK).

I've got the Geordie one (the Henry Pet).

Might have something to do with using a broad-nibbed (therefore wet) fountain pen, and much paper not coping well with that amount of ink?

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

I looked online for a barometric pressure thing, because it's been all over the place the last week, found one (although the verbiage is obviously GenAI), it's going to carry on being bonkers.

Graph of forecast barometric pressure over the next week in central Scotland

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

I've got them on Kindle, so can't lend them unfortunately.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Have you read the Strange Practice series by Vivian Shaw? Dr Helsing (she/her) is the modern-day doctor to the differently alive, and some of the great fictional vampires are central characters (Lord Ruthven, Sir Francis Varney etc.).

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

I remember watching a documentary (probably Channel 4) on Savile, and it gave me a mini mental breakdown! So I thank you deeply for your service. But won't be watching it myself.

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Guardian of the night watches! Do you also fight off the vampires?

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

I was recommended UBlock Origin as better than AdBlock.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Fingers crossed you escape it! (Have my vaccination booked for the 4th Nov).

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

9/10, that's better. Just got the rugby one wrong.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

The Anne Droid, from an episode of Doctor Who. Ms. Kensington (played by Liz Hurley) in Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, who turns out to be a fem-bot.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Depends on the climate... I wouldn't be without mine (but at least it's a new heat pump one, so less greedy).

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Reminds me of the plug-in "EMF shields" sold by charlatans... (Yes I had a friend who would have liked nothing better than to live in a Faraday cage, and had a high-tech tinfoil hat/snood thing to wear when exposed to things like Bluetooth and WiFi).

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Well we know it was the good stuff! Finest Falernian perhaps?

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

WTF is a "Fischbrötchen"!!! (I get elegant borosilicate glass dildos).

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

The smart thing would be for Lime to *sponsor* the jousting!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Timeline cleanse from son who is a marine biologist in Fiji. The marine research centre became a turtle hospital for a few days.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

I refuse to use GenAI, get very frustrated when a colleague says they use it to tighten up their emails. (They have a bit of, a Carrot Ironfoundersson usage of commas, but I'm guessing that's down to inadequacies in how they were taught).

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Time for the wool coat to come out of the cupboard!

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Yeah, the tit-holes need to sit about an inch lower.

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Can you imagine the MOT on that thing?

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I usually cook rice on the stove top with the same proportions, bring to the boil fot 1 minute, then let it stand at minimum setting (1 on a 1 to 9 halogen hob) for about 20 minutes or so. If you cook long grain that way anyway, it should work in the oven too :-)

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Because the mechanical ones need to be that big so you can actually use the fiddly little setting bits?

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Ok. When American writers set their books in the UK, we'd appreciate it if you got wee details you decide to use correct. Latest gripe... someone referring to an AGA as having "burners", or, indeed, being "banked". They just ARE... particularly if they are older ones.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Well that was easy; cooked rice in the oven (as wanted it on anyway). 1 mug rice, 2 mugs boiling water, sprinkle of salt, knob of butter, in a small heavy cast-iron casserole. About 40 minutes at 185⁰C.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

All the hugs. Do you have a hot water bottle?

Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I never bought them either... but for a totally different reason. Classical music only and always! Have around 500 CDs, and still buy them.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

You know he didn't write it himself because the names are correctly spelt!

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Is it to much to ask that we treat all people who are not consciously doing evil to others as equal? Meanwhile remove access to the Internet for the actively evil, such as Musk, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Farage and Rowling... which will severely limit their ability to harm others.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

FFS. I hate how people think they're doing the right thing by infecting their colleagues. Particularly egregious when they have the option to WFH, if not ill enough to take a sick day. People who come to choir while snotty & sneezing can also get in the bin.

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Catherine RW @polyhymnia.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Home Secretary sounding more racist than Reform on this morning's news!