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I think I have it – looks interesting. Thanks a stack

That's perfectly reasonable 👍🙂 I know I've had songs it's taken 40 years to find out I was singing them wrong😆

None taken 🙂 I shall go and see what they have – thanks

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Hey, thanks for the deep-dive on the posts

It's all according👍 Frankly, I would be vegetarian but for the difficulty of being allergic/intolerant to many cereals, dairy, and some other bits and bobs. (The only 'real' food in the picture is the meat).

At least she's stopped the two hour plus, 'so this is how people got the idea of possession by demons' meltdowns. Honestly, if her head had even turned sharply, let alone all the way around, I'd have been calling for a priest.

How many people are with me! Lighters out, phones out: "Woah, we're halfway there Woah-oh, livin' on a prayer Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear Woah-oh, livin' on a prayer" Yeah ok. Showing my age

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"doubleplusgood duckspeaker" — 1984. appendix: The Principles of Newspeak, George Orwell

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice guy vs a good man. I want to be the latter, but I'm probably the former.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But they might SEE!!! 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Keogh, Pugh, Wriothesley, Cighburmann, Featherstonhaugh... All good names with spellings that hurt if you don't know the pronunciation

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#DeviantArt #Phishing attack. Quite good, really, I must say. I'm still not going to pay them anything 😄😄😄 "Stay Safe!" indeed.

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Well SOMEBODY has to dance in the road with her – it's so much more fun with a friend.

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Cat. Nothing unusual here. Move along.

Was perspective during drawing an issue? That hand is difficult.

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Coffee. As black and bitter as my soul. Or, coffee! As strong, black and sweet as my woman¹. It was just a line. We fought. All the time 😳 It's not like I didn't try. ¹ yeah, but it annoyed the bejeezus out of most of the Afrikaners, and we should confront evil, no?

Much as I love my [autistic] child, I sometimes need to scream. She worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And worries. And begins again for the next minute. And the next. And the next...

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did this very simple recipe yesterday. Very tasty! Would Recommend Ingredients 1 cup full-fat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 cup tahini 1/4 cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt Directions whisk together the yogurt sauce ingredients until combined gimmesomeoven.com/greek-meatballs

A white plate holding, layered, a tortilla, a circle of sliced meat and dollop of yoghurt and tahini sauce, the latter spread into a circle with the back of a spoon.

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think the city was an education for Carrot (and no mistake). I'm not sure 'guile' is the word to associate with him, even if he seems guileless. Savvy, perhaps? Nous? He's still the plain-thinking Dwarf he was when he arrived, but he's got street sense. Would this save him from the Summoning Dark?

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tolkien reckoned that no mortal could resist the pressure of the One Ring at Mount Doom where said pressure reached its absolute maximum. Before that, I'd say Carrot and Vimes are absolute resistance, but for very different reasons. I wonder how the Summoning Dark would have done against Carrot.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Was it lazy to answer the question "is it raining?” by opening the weather radar app on my phone instead of standing up, walking to the window, opening the curtains and peering into the darkness?

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey thanks! I was doing research and found a man who lived in the street I grew up in, but about 40 years before. He'd been in court on the same 'outrage to modesty' charge. I never chased up exactly what that was, but you've given me both an idea and a reminder to check. 👍👍👍

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So. I Google 'The bartender rips off your arm' to find the full Star Trek/Lower Decks quote: "The bartender rips your arm off and kills you with it! It is not an honorable death since, technically, you have died by your own hand." Google cannot be too careful, so its first reply is instructions;

the bar tender rips off your arm

A severed arm is a life-threatening medical emergency that requires calling for emergency services immediately.

Emergency Steps

Call 999 right away to get an ambulance.

Press hard on the bleeding wound with a clean cloth or bandage.

Keep pressure on the wound until help arrives.

Wrap the detached arm in a clean, damp cloth and put it inside a sealed plastic bag.

Place the bag on ice, but do not let the arm freeze or touch ice directly.

Is this a joke, part of a story, or a real emergency?

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's ok, they've arrested him 😄

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It was a beautiful moment in a bad day

#GENX – WE know where the pencil goes. I was wondering what sort of image encapsulated GenX. There are many, many ideas: drinking from a garden hose (I never did that), heading home when the streetlights came on (I never had that), being a latchkey kid (I wasn't one), but a pencil in a mix tape?😀👍

Alt text: Stylised close-up of a yellow pencil inserted through a cassette-tape reel, beside the handwritten title, “GEN X — We Know Where the Pencil Goes.”

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All negative reviews are lies; every lost election was rigged; all statements are true, even the contradictions.

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Never start a post at midnight then wake up at 6am and hit send. Just take a moment to proofread 😄

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I don't doubt the accuracy, just the authenticity 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Silence of the Lambs, 1988 It's suddenly so dated. Not the story, as such, but the detail – a Rolodex. A car with a phone built in. The lack of DNA analysis. All those little things that we use our phones for now, including as torches (that's a lesser thing, but still a thing). Simpler times😄

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Would therpod dinosaurs have tasted like chicken? Turkey? Duck? Ostrich? No idea, but I'm suddenly craving barbecue.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm betting, three, three and a half thousand years ago, some guy started chanting because they had to learn this new writing thing and it helped get the letters into their head. The words have changed, the tune has changed, but that is an old song – it's a 'my father's axe/Trigger's Broom' song 😄

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Alphabet Letters LMNOP and Z

ALT: Alphabet Letters LMNOP and Z

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Why IS the alphabet in that order?

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't know that I have ever seen this before. Just enough of one colour eggs to fill up a row before having to swap to another color of eggs to do the rest of the box! Damnit, I should have put a banana in for scale – to attract similarly boring people, you understand 😄😄😄😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's The Rutpar¹! It's the opposite of The Rapture – the recipients fall through the air whilst keeping their clothes on. ¹ I left off the silent 'e', putting it in would have just confused things

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just had a wish to open my front door, shout "NEMATODE!" and shut the door again. I didn't, but it was close. What in hell was that about? 😄

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I found this image of a 14th-15th century hinge in the 'dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century Vol 8' — Viollet-le-Duc, and thought it would be cool to reproduce in #Blender Fascinating book and we can now get it translated on the page fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Vi...

This illustration shows an antique iron paumelle (lift-off hinge) from the late 14th or early 15th century, featuring ornate openwork plates terminating in stylized animal heads and a central barrel entwined with a snake.

Design features include pierced, decorative strap leaves (the fiches) secured with rivet nails. Terminal ends shaped like roaring animal profiles (resembling lions or panthers).A central pintle and barrel wrapped in a sculptural snake relief.

"... when the opening frames were of fairly great height (six to seven feet), the hinges were long and equipped with two spaced eyes, to prevent the warping of the wood. Figure 42 depicts one of these hinges, which appears to belong to the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th. The pin is free between the eyes, as seen, and is adorned with a round iron tail coiled in a spiral around it. This tail is free as well. To unhang the frame, it is sufficient to remove this pin from above...".

This image comes from Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (The Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century) (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Front-facing CGI render, created in Blender, of an ornate 14th- to 15th-century iron butt hinge mounted on a blue canvas surface. Its symmetrical, rough-textured leaves feature decorative openwork, curved edges and rows of round-headed rivets. A central hinge pin has pointed finials and a raised spiral detail.

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Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Truly! A very big, very short, surprise 😱

Quin Benson @quinb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hello, that's a straying comma!