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reallyquitetired

@reallyquitetired.bsky.social
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Academic (biblical studies, religion-culture-politics) | hobby designer | retired DJ | TV fiend | antifascist | 'tool of deep Woke' | (he/him) Exeter, UK

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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
to 1st January 2001 to keep it in line with previous centuries and millennia, and rendering stupid and pointless our collective experiences of that celebration. Makes you wonder what the point of me and my mates dressing up as characters from The Matrix and dancing to 1999 by Prince all night was.
A screenshot from the Wikipedia article '3rd millennium' which begins: "In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 (MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 (MMM)".
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A photo of a box of 90s-era Findus Crispy Pancakes (Chicken, Bacon & Sweetcorn flavour).
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Say it's carol singers
Screenshot of the bit in Love Actually where Egg from This Life holds up big cards with writing on them for Keira Knighley. This card reads: WHEN IS BINS?
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Oh no—am, am, am I a giant?
Photo of my hand holding a scaled-down box grater (intended for spices) that came out of a Christmas cracker
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
And now time to settle down for a classic Christmas movie.
A screenshot from Eyes Wide Shut.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
@nebula.tv Is this right?!? I thought you had a partner handling UK/EU sales?
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Storm Bert: Hey. Can you hear that? That sounds like wind howling and rain drumming on the window, doesn't it? Me *nodding head*: Oh yeah Bert, that does sound like wind howling and rain drumming on the window.
Screenshot of the Sesame Street sketch where Bert and Ernie can't sleep thanks to a dripping tap/faucet.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
SNOW DAY SNOW DAY SNOW DAY #snowday
A photo of our local park covered in several inches of snow.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Besides all the bad shit that neo-Crusader Christian nationalist Pete Hegseth's tattoos illustrate he believes in, let's take a moment to smile at one of them. On one arm he has what he has described as "Yehweh - Jesus in Hebrew" which he claims was done by "the only tattoo artist in Bethlehem".
A screenshot from Fox News showing a tattoo on one of Pete Hegseth's arms reading יש רצ (yeshra).
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A modified screenshot taken from The Simpsons se08 ep02 in which Homer is seen talking to the team of engineers he has been put in charge of motivating by millionaire businessman and arch supervillain Hank Scorpio. The subtitles read "Could you, um, work [more efficiently] than this?" where the words in brackets are my edit (Homer actually says 'any harder').
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Elon Musk in charge of gov efficiency will be like that ep of The Simpsons where Homer is put in charge of productivity by Hank Scorpio—except where Homer cluelessly asks people to work harder until they burn out, Musk will randomly cut jobs until the operation of gov falls apart and nothing works.
A modified screenshot from se8 ep2 of The Simpsons of a scene in which Homer is motivating the team of computer operators he is managing. The subtitles read "Could you, um, work [more efficiently] than this?" where the text is square brackets is my edit, pasted over the original, now unseen text (which is "any harder").
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Someone: Pff, frankly I've got bigger fish to fry. Our local chippy: Have you though?
A photo of a giant battered (and fried) cod fillet that I just got from my local fish & chip shop. It's like 35x15cm
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'm not totally sure, but I think the Archbishop of Canterbury might have declared war on Spain.
A version of the photograph of his printed out resignation letter lying on a table that for some reason the ABC posted to his socials, but in this version there is even more table visible and the text of the letter is even smaller and harder to read.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm reading @versobooks.bsky.social 's new collection of Rose's lectures on the Frankfurt School and lamenting time and frustration spent trying to understand and teach that material without her help. Her writing may be ardous to engage, but geez her students were lucky.
Image of the cover of Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose (2024). The artwork an abstract black and white pattern thst looks like a wide, distorted weave
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
They say 'safeguarding' a lot, but phrases like "no-one loves children more than their parents" make it extremely clear they have no interest in or understanding of proper safeguarding and just use it as a cipher for ideological control. This poisonous politics puts vulnerable children in danger.
A screenshot of a series of posts on X by Kemi Badenoch about the government's new guidance for schools on gender and transition. One post reads "The 3rd principle is that parents should be included in all decisions relating to a child's requests to socially transition.

No one loves children more than their parents and it is wrong to exclude parents from what can be a pathway to irreversible medical decisions (4/6)"
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Tell me where you were born using just one image of food.
A photo of a Cornish pasty in the foreground and a west Cornwall beach in the background.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
So when Yinon Magal tweeted to ask, with heavy subtext, how come there weren't any women among the people the IDF found sheltering in Shadia Abu Ghazala school, the actual answer was that Israeli soldiers had already executed them along with their children and just left their bodies inside?
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Someone just asked in a group chat if anyone knows a good book about vegetables. Oh, I can do better than good my friend...
A photo of the cover of The Great Book of Vegetables by Antonella Palazzi.
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reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
I don't know here yet but I need off the cursed bird site. I've been there so long I've forgotten how you start making pals.
Image of Ralph Wiggum waving and saying "Hi".
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