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Smacula

@smacula.bsky.social
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Tech. Engineering. Dad jokes. Bits of scribbles. Random musings. A lot of woohoo. Some cats.

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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning. After a hectic 48 hours in the US but 14 hours travelling each side (door to door) kind of week, I am hoping to have a more normal Friday. Waking up in my bed. Usual breakfast. Actual sleep. And a weekend to follow. Doesn’t help I averaged about 3 hours of sleep per night all week.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Back in good old Blighty. On the good old M25, on a good old bus. Always amazes me that you can just sit on a plane and go to the other side of the planet, even if I have done it many many times. Also kinda bonkers that I went all the way to the US and was there less than 2 days.
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Tina @tinanotthewife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What do you call a man with a rubber toe? Roberto 🤣🤣🤣
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Upside: I can see the New York skyline from EWR. Downside: 3 hours till my flight.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sat at an airport with 3 hours to wait. Who can keep me company?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good evening, good morning (and is it the afternoon somewhere ?) everyone. Hope you’re all well and it’s been a brilliant week so far. Have lo me good things about what you’re up to 🙂
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They love Family Guy in the US. It’s on 3 different channels right now.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A selfie, if you will. Trying something with hotel lights and filters.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Do you ever find that people kind of weaponise their taste in music? Just to sound cool or put others down? I know it’s a hipster thing to do but it’s like so prevalent. My folks hated music so we didn’t get a chance to listen to as much growing up. None really.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Awesome Audible suggestions. Go!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There’s a muntjac (tiny deer) in our garden this morning!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today’s hmm moment. Do gyms have a particular music subscription? I wonder as I moved gyms from Gym Group to Pure Gym and the music playlist feels remarkably similar mixed with songs I’ve never heard outside of these gyms.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good morning. Today I wondered how Wednesday was named and apparently it is named after the God Woden. Woden was a major deity in Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythology, associated with wisdom, poetry, war, and magic. So let’s be wise, poetic and magical, but keep the wars away 🥰
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today I ate a chicken wing that had been spiced up to 1.6 million (!) on the Scoville scale. It was definitely punchy. But so tasty though. I still ate it all 😂
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just finished the Songs of Magic trilogy by S A Patrick. I initially picked it up thinking it was a kids book, but I have thoroughly enjoyed it myself. From A Darkness of Dragons to A Thunder of Monsters, they’re all brilliant!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Show me your secrets and I’ll keep them in a box, where I also keep some socks. Stored nearly by the docks with that mural of the fox.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning! This week may have been shorter as far as days go, but things got pretty busy at work! Hoping everyone has a great friday and an awesome weekend.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning! This week may have been shorter as far as days go, but things got pretty busy at work! Hoping everyone has a great friday and an awesome weekend.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have gone very boring.the most exciting thing to report is that I accidentally clicked on a phishing test email and had to do extra phishing training at work. In my defence, I’m new and the ‘attack’ was my manager sharing something with me. I could totally have been more careful but clearly wasn’t
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@beersandbrotanks.bsky.social wasn’t I already following you?
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good philosophy when you think about it.
A warm, lighthearted photo of two otters with their eyes closed in a tender embrace.  
Text on image: “Snuggles, not struggles.” (top) and “In Öter News” (bottom right)
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Return to gym successful with a 5k.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good morning. Today brings us September, a cooler morning,a return to work after a bank holiday weekend, & schools are starting to open up too! Quite a week. I’m heading to the gym as my new gym membership starts today, plus a busy work day ahead! Hope you all have a wonderful day, week and a month!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Growing up in Pakistan , the arrival of rain the summer always inspired songs and dances and general joy. People go for samosas and pakoras. I always found it weird how rain was considered depressing till I spent around 20 years here in the UK. But today,there is joy in everyone again 🙂
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good morning, today we return to work after a week off. The weather seems to be getting cooler. Hopefully, things are all falling into the right places for everyone and this week offers great news and joys to all.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@xxhi-its-lauraxx.bsky.social did you start your new role this week? How has it been?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If second, the unit of time, was the second, what was the first?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What if your cat was part bunny travelling through the stars on a giant carrot?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good morning! Let the Friday commence!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sometimes I think about people from Pakistan who have the surnames Butt or Nazi (totally innocent coincidences, course), and how they may be perceived when they go around the world. Like are any of them living in the UK? Did they change their surnames?
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tranquility at sunrise. This morning on Glastonbury Tor as the sun rose centrally through the archway of St Michael's tower.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Good morning, my little chunky monkeys, my skinny tinnies, my wavy gravies , my tubular pumas, my floral corals, my eeny meanies! Hope you all have a wonderful day
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I had some crazy dreams which in my mind all happened at once: - a shower head where the water came out of a mouth of one of the 1D boys - playing cricket on a very hot day with not much grass left on field - being interviewed by this guy called Sajid Hassan (90s, Pakistan)
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Can we all talk about our lord and saviour, banoffee pie?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Evening, my lovely people. Have we survived Monday? Have we thrived on this yet another hot day? Have we arrived when others were just expecting us to leave? Did we drive the annoying ones away? Did we sharpen the knives?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What did you realise too late in your life that it was a trap? I hate the grammar of the above sentence but you get the gist.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The year is 2034. It’s called AS now. Artificial Stupidity.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Good morning, you beautiful people! The sun is shining, there is a cool breeze blowing, and it’s supposed to stay under 25 degrees. Seems like the good of all worlds. Have a tremendous day, and tell me all about your joys today!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Right. Time for gym!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Also last day for a lot of schools across the country too, before summer holidays. Even more emotions there!
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A bit misty this morning. Haven’t seen that for a while.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Last day at my current job today. Feeling a wee bit emotional. Feeling also a wee bit emotional about last day at the gym I go to nearly every morning before work too. Also feeling a wee bit unproductive 😂
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Some people say think twice before you speak I eat twice before I speak. That way, even if I said something wrong, it comes out all garbled.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Today’s doodle: when it’s so hot, your smiles start to melt.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Isn’t it funny how eye centric our experience of faces is. We’re so visual as species and so focused on eyes for anthropomorphic assumptions. We got googly eyes but no googly ears or lips or noses. Or do we?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Right. Today starts the last week at my current job. Let’s get it done without any new things picked up or any dramas. Hopefully 😂
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When it comes to ticking boxes, a cross is the same as a tick.
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Good evening. Today’s question: what’s your relationship with hype? The hype about the little things, like coffee or a sandwich or something similar. Does it push the expectations too high? Or does it still work for you and you can see it and enjoy it?
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Smacula @smacula.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Good morning! After the defeat in the T20 World Cup, I was expecting a similar fate for our lads in the footie. But have woken up pleasantly surprised. This on top of the fact that I woke up somewhere in the middle of the night with our neighbours angry shouting at their screens.
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