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Simes80

@simes80.bsky.social
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Subsea engineer, mountain biker, hard rock fan.

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whatever failings he might have, Zelensky will go down in history as the bravest of leaders, repeatedly standing up to way more powerful opponents in the interests of his country. May he ultimately bring Ukraine to victory!
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 21h
Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.
Three small oriental figurines posed as if they dancing in a Thai style.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
me: the constitution says I have the right to assemble Ikea clerk: no, you have to buy it first
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep. Can’t disagree. This and the BiL rice lorry story are what got me hooked on the “Nazi-riddled microblogging site” in the first place.
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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You have to repost this when it appears on your timeline because, well, you just do.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Cuillin Hills on Skye, as seen from the Applecross coast road.
Distant mountains over a sea.
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You’ll need a nice big pot of tea, half a packet of chocolate Hobnobs and a box of Kleenex.
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Missing Missy and Permission Slip. There were plenty more.
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On World Octopus Day remember that an octopus feels pain. Its heart can be broken. All three of them. When an octopus is attacked, and squirts out ink, it writes a poem in the water, and escapes while its attacker is enraptured by the poem’s poignant cry of yearning for lost love.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kremlin: It's not Plague, it's a Special Bacterial Infection
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Forgot to put the link in
27bslash6.com
Overdue Account
"Dear Jane, I do not have any money so I am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead."
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy 18th birthday, this spider
Text of an email: From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account
Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so I am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.
Regards, David
This is followed by a crude drawing of a spider with seven legs and a smiley face
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agree. My Missing Missy t-shirt has seen better days but never fails to get people asking about it.
Black t-shirt with image of Missing Missy, from David Thorne from www.27bslash6.com website
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most of Silicon Valley seems to believe that the large scale suffering of millions of others is both a trifle, and something they are owed so they can become trillionaires
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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https://jasonhynes.substack.com/ @jhynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because I thought of it, that's why.
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the 70s Sister Sledge used to drive around in British cars. Their favourites were the Austin Music and Cortina Trap.
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’re just normal men
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Christina, mother of spiders @aikiwomannc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Meteorologist: This is a serious situation. Earth: 80085
Image of a model run for tropical storm/hurricane Humberto and potential tropical cyclone 94L. The 2 systems are side by side and look a little like colorful breasts. (I know, I'm a 12 year old in an adult body)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Former mathematician Theodore John Kaczynski, who left academia & later became a recluse in the Montana wilderness, has died in prison.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Island in the sun.
Sunlit island on a dull day.
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Michelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
theguardian.com
‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The "Russian World" in 2026: sponsored by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 06/10/2026
As Paddington leads Jeffery Archer into the great beyond, Archer excitedly explains how he's had a brilliant idea for a story about a Peruvian bear with a fondness for orange preserve sandwiches.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
NOTHING comes close
youtube.com
The Wrong Trousers 👖 | Train Chase Scene 🚂 | Wallace & Gromit
YouTube video by Wallace & Gromit
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/10/2026
UKR: We’re hitting Russian oil refineries. RUS: In that case we’re going to aim missiles at your civilians. US: OMG. There must be an immediate ceasefire … that stops attacks on oil refineries.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nothing makes me feel like more of an abject failure at life than when a beautiful woman calls me “dude,” and dear reader I once crashed an airplane. I should probably explain.
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SarahAndCo @sarahandco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone want some glove puppets? They're free. I just want them off my hands. Oh piss off! This is quality!
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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The year is 2096. In a dimly-lit facility, deep below the rubble of a society left in ruins by the hubris of heartless men, a lab tech punches a code into a dusty keypad. A cryogenic suspension pod door creaks open. “October first?” asks its occupant. The technician nods. “October first, Billie Joe”
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026
Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks
Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video
An Al video of Christopher Pelkey forgave his killer in court in what officials believe was the first use of Al to deliver a victim impact statement.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Authorities take woman to hospital after multiple failed attempts to kill her so that once she’s recovered they can try to kill her again” would be the most American headline ever if only she was also to be billed for the treatment.
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was. Until I totalled it at Newburgh 😬
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Simes80 @simes80.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh yes. Super cool. Despite my pleading, wearing it did not (apparently) give me carte blanche to fling myself over the bonnet of the Fiat Strada. 🤷‍♂️
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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