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Robert Kibble

@robk.wsocial.eu
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Writer, lover of information, boardgamer, occasional rantcaster. Yes, that's a word. Find more at www.philosophicalleopard.com

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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026
Always hear the argument for "First Past the Post" electoral system as being "it leads to strong stable government". [Looks at the last decade in the UK] Got any other arguments...?
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026
Impressive cafe - van Gogh cafe in Bucharest.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026
Bonus museum - the Little Paris Museum in Bucharest. Includes a very rare pre-war Romanian passport the Russians post-war tried to collect to destroy because the text says valid everywhere except Russia.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026
Today I found out that @in-otter-news.bsky.social is on here, and truly I am otterly content.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026
Corporate motivational toss. In over eight words, foolishly.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 21/09/2026
Every time I go through the non-EU passports it makes me sad. We had that. :-(
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 20/09/2026
Tomorrow I'll be flying to Romania. Bucharest? No, I'm going for work. *tap tap* Is this thing on? Tough crowd.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 20/09/2026
As part of my Every Museum In London project (early days, this is number two) went to the Soho Museum, which is a very small volunteer-run museum taking part in the Open House Festival in London, which had a two room exhibition on the West End at War. With a broom-based bomb remover...
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026
Tottenham Court Road, ever captivating with their giant screens.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 16/09/2026
What new madness is this? A socket in a sofa? Pleasing alliteration but why? So if you move the sofa it gets stuck and someone shouts that it's plugged in? If you can plug into the sofa surely just plug into what the sofa's plugged into? I do not approve. Someone somewhere designed this.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 11/09/2026
Pleasingly I was on BBC Upload yesterday with a rant of mine. #WAMTM www.philosophicalleopard.com/wamtm/2026/8... (or www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... for the broadcast, I appear 22min in)
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247 - How Was Your Experience — Philosophical Leopard
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026
rnli.org/about-us/our...
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Why does the RNLI launch to small boats in the English Channel?
RNLI lifeboat crews have always launched to the rescue without judgement or preference. Men, women and children in danger in the Channel are no exception.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026
The RNLI are volunteers committed to saving lives without discrimination, because people drowning is bad. This does not seem controversial. And yet there are people who hate migrants so much, they will attack those volunteers. If you do that "to defend British values", you've already lost.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 07/09/2026
Just finished "No Friend To This House" by Natalie Haynes. Extremely powerful retelling of the myths around Jason and the Argonauts, and a book I felt she must have enjoyed writing, given how much I enjoyed reading it. Highly recommended.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 04/09/2026
I've just heard someone point out that "mark as read" has two meanings, and they are opposites of each other, depending on how you pronounce it. I am now deeply troubled. In fairness it doesn't take much.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 01/09/2026
Since it's so common now for people to say "the interwebs" I'm going to go the other way to balance. I'm speaking to you over the World Wide Net.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 31/08/2026
Just off Tottenham Court Road is an unexpected little garden, with an unexpected little friend. Phoenix Garden. Lovely little place to pause.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 31/08/2026
...and for what it's worth, Islands in the Stream? Really? Does that make any sense? robertkibble.blogspot.com/2018/01/wamt...
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 31/08/2026
Dolly Parton dying the other week was odd. I just realised that I wrote two rants about her songs (both songs I love - the rants are touch in cheek, e.g. robertkibble.blogspot.com/2018/01/wamt...), and one short story: www.philosophicalleopard.com/jolene/ She clearly had an impact on me.
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Jolene — Philosophical Leopard
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 28/08/2026
You know one of my ambitions in life, which I doubt I'll ever achieve? To go to an airport and see flights, in order, to "London, New York, Paris, Munich" and then turn to the person next to me and say "Let's talk about pop music." Yes, it might be niche. But yes it would make me happy.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 26/08/2026
I do find this kind of thing very pleasing. Someone went to some effort. I know nothing about the company or its ethics, but at least someone made a broccoli tree in front of a loaf hill on the side of a delivery truck and slightly brightened my day.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 25/08/2026
Ah, that joyous moment on the way to work: I can't feel my phone in my pocket, did I even remember it, did someone sneak up (no one came even close on the way to the station) [begins patting down pockets with hand which has phone in it] oh no, I've... Of course the station guard was watching.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 24/08/2026
Ah, Zorro's off on his holidays I see.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 22/08/2026
And by way of introduction, here are my two cats. Pepper (L, mother) and Coco (R, daughter). Black cats (mostly, in Coco's case) are allegedly less popular because they don't look good on social media. I disagree.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 22/08/2026
I DMd a session of Call of Cthulhu last night. First time in over 30 years. Feels like as I get closer to retirement I'm regressing - I'm remembering the things I found fun when I was young and putting more effort into them.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 14/08/2026
One of the nicest things in London is the big room opposite Tottenham Court Road station with a weird thing on massive screens. This week it was a giant Tetris played by the observers, and then a weird Japanese garden with giant fish - it's just always worth stopping to watch. Free public art.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 13/08/2026
I was on the radio on BBC Upload again this evening. Complaining about heat. And the stairs at Maidenhead station. Which is nice. 1h:51 into www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Upload with Leo Ulph - 13/08/2026 - BBC Sounds
Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Leo Ulph.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 12/08/2026
People seem tremendously excited by the prospect of the sun becoming darker for a bit. It's as if they've not experienced what I call "curtain" technology.
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Robert Kibble @handle.invalid · 08/08/2026
Well, hello W. Hoping you'll be what Twitter and Facebook once were - a nice place to share weird esoteric stuff and say hello. I'm about to start on a project to visit every museum in London, because's a guy's got to have a hobby, so... Tuesday I'm starting with the London Transport Museum.
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