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Cllr Alec Sandiford 🔶️ @alecsandiford.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Looking forward to listening to a new podcast (new to me) on Trump news called Cleanup on Aisle 45. There's been a lot of legal stuff going on this week alone and I need some commentary.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I'm listening to Vanity Fair on Audible. I'm sure I read it once but don't remember it, and bloody hell, this book is LONG. Thought I was near the end but still have six hours to go. It's like War and Peace. (Worth it, though). #Books 📚

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 30/01/2024

my dearest, the burden of age rests heavily upon me, and i grow weary of this world and its trappings. much as time came even for the fearsome spinosaurus and carcharodontosaurus to make way for new masters of this world, i fear it has come for me. please tell radiohead and nirvana that i love them

headline: True Detective Season 4: What That 'Mrs. Robinson' Reference Means

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Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Exempt state pensions and benefits from income tax. Petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

I'm not the main character, but that doesn't mean I don't have a life and a backstory, even if it is only to doppelganger the protagonist.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/01/2024

“your jokes are so bad an AI could write them,” the new insult of our times

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

That's more like it! Wordle 942 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Wordle 941 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not getting any letters on the first two attempts is a bad start, so can I count this as getting it in two?

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Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️ @criticalcupcake.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

70 years old, but as relevant as ever. 😞

This Restaurant Serves Only One Person is a 1953 caricature by Yuliy Ganf that appeared in the Soviet magazine, Krokodil.

The caricature shows a restaurant in which а slew of busy businessmen-waiters are eagerly serving a soldier (with "War" written on his back) piles of money. Meanwhile, at the other tables in the restaurant sit representatives of "Health Care," "Schools," "Libraries," and "Art." They'll go hungry and won't be receiving any money, though, as the restaurant only serves one customer - war.

This powerful piece of political satire gives a universal and timeless critique of government's enormous military spending. That the Soviet Union consistently spent a greater share of its GDP on its military than did the United States does slightly take away from the message, though. Nevertheless, there's a reason this work of art resonates with so many people around the world to this day - it reveals a deeply held feeling many of us have about misplaced government priorities.

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Jeopardy’s Ken Jennings: NASA’s rockets are powered by hydrogen & oxygen in what state? Me, at home: FLORIDA! Ken Jennings, thru the tv: no, kd. liquid. it’s liquid, you stupid b

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." ~L.R. Knost LOVE VERSUS FEAR: Please vote for candidates who aim to make our world a little less cruel and heartless :-)}

The same Knost quote in white on grey, plus my own addition, "LOVE VERSUS FEAR. Please vote for candidates who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." :-)}

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Duolingo again seriously ticking me off. I I have no idea what the answer to this is. The answer given is no help whatsoever because the letters look different when joined up. I'll have to give up and lose my progress with still no clue as to how to do this!

Screenshot of deolingo exercise for Arabic to build the word kijaak with four letters out of a pool of five.

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Richard Banner @richardjbanner.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Absolutely, there are some constituencies where if all of those who didn't vote had turned up and spoiled their ballot papers 'spoiled ballots' would outnumber the papers in favour of the winning candidate. Politicians would HAVE to take notice of our dissatisfaction with the voting system.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

This is a great article. I wanted to quote post from it, but would have ended up with most of it, so easier if you just read the whole thing.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

What's clearly needed is a "sex ban". Women of the USA should all refuse it until the men come to their senses. There is precedent... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistr...

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Lysistrata - Wikipedia

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/12/2023

Iceland xkcd.com/2874

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Haha 😂 Wordle 923 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

this year, I have had to explain trans people and the idiom "learning the ropes" to a seven year old trans people took like 30 seconds, "learning the ropes" took days of the most annoying follow-up questions you could possibly imagine, including watching videos about 19th century sailing

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

I've just finished listening to the audio book of Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier, which is a book I'd never heard of before I borrowed it, and now it's finished, I'm stunned by the sense of loss 😥

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Call the Nightingale @oldlights.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Again, racism is not necessarily a feature we look for in fascism. There are three hallmarks my poli-sci professor gave me, but the most important one is Mussolini's dictum: 'Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State'

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Watched the first episode of Dark last night. I am intrigued.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Happy Christmas, everyone. Very best wishes and love xxx

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

I've gone and overdone it, today. I'm shattered. Hope this bout of exhaustion doesn't last too long.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Oh. One of *those* days. Wordle 918 6/6 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Interesting seeing what people are watching on TV since I seem to have totally given up on TV. One issue is that programs have become so damn long & I don't have the bandwidth to concentrate. I've recorded old episodes of MASH to watch. Half an hour a time with adverts that I can skip. Perfect.

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bacon popsicle 🧴 @gupton68.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Occasionally I’ll look at the cat and pity him for not being able to enjoy a coffee as well as for his relatively brief lifespan, but then I catch him licking his own genitals before settling down for an 18 hour nap and wonder who’s the real loser here?

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Looks like it's my turn for a Twitter outage now. Just keep getting "content not available". I keep wondering how long it can keep going and carry on like this.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Hershey says, hey, the holidays are hard. Everybody be nice to each other. And if nothing else, you be nice to you.

Hershey is a brown goat with blue eyes and he loves you.

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Quite pleased. Wordle 914 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I was on a zoom call last night, the only Brit in a roomful of Americans. In the small breakout room, I mentioned our church is holding our Christingle service this Sunday and the others didn't know what that was. Is Christingle not known in the US?

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

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Ginny @ginny65.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Not everyone wants to tell you why they don’t want your offer of alcohol. Just accept it and offer something non-alcoholic instead

Drawings of men and women giving reasons why they don’t want to accept an alcoholic drink

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Lion-O Hutz @lion-ohutz.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Tech scope-creep/enshittification's genesis is that the types of info you share in your IRL relationships is highly contextual. I don't want my bank to know about my dating life or my Dr to see my memes. Consolidating/commingling that info anywhere but your own head feels deeply weird...

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Hey, if you think 2023 was bad, 2024 is the year when Silicon Valley discovers Swift’s* “A Modest Proposal”. *Jonathan not Taylor. But they only work that out in May.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

“Deaths from cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke are 33% higher among this age group, with diabetes deaths also up by 35%” This trend is being seen elsewhere in the developed world, in part due to post-Covid vulnerabilities but in the U.K. also due to problems accessing care

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Listening to music in my car today, realised that I'm of the age where a lot of the musicians I like are dead... Shame McGowan, Kirsty McColl, Leonard Cohen, Freddie Mercury, George Michael...

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

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Sparrowhawk @sparhawk28.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Well what do you know, it's raining again. I suppose we have had quite a drought recently as it hasn't rained for at least 16 hours. Does anyone know if this is from Fergus, whatever G is, or just bog standard rain?

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