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52% intelligent, 9% modest. More monkey than bear. #MultipleSclerosis #SPMS #Cats #History #Cricket #books #ScottWalker #JohnnyCash #BillyBragg #Music #Rock #earworm […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@swisslet, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Watching Lord Finkelstein getting emotional on #Newsnight about the Green’s motion on Zionism and a very patient Ellie Chowns (who actually opposed the motion) trying to explain that she opposed the motion because of the danger of getting into endless debates about words with disputed meanings […]

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Andrew Benedict-Nelson @albnelson.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17h

I tried getting hired on LinkedIn by writing an essay about Spock, maybe that will work better here. When folks have asked me why I’m moving from consulting to seeking a job, I’ve sometimes said “I want to be part of a bridge crew.” It’s my Trekkie way of saying […] [Original post on beige.party]

Spock plays a musical instrument while other members of the Enterprise crew socialize. Meme text says: "I don't need friends, I've got this thing."

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fak @fak.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Anyone commenting on the Green Party Zionism is racism motion should be forced to replace 'Zionism' with the definition from the motion 'a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Well, this should definitely shore up his continuing popularity with the good folks of the UK. Great idea. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oc…

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Experimenting with OneNote for note-taking on my iPad. Pretty good. Especially now I’ve worked out how to insert spaces.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I’m earworming Livin’ La Vida Loca. Send help.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I’ve lived in Nottingham for 29 years and I’ve never been to Goose Fair. Just not bothered by it. People seem to find this remarkable. I just don’t really like fairs. Being a massive one doesn’t put it on my ‘maybe’ list. Also, minted peas, Nottingham. WTF?

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I’m about 16 or 17 or so here. That cat was called Crumble and was a rabbit killing machine, but me and her had an arrangement. She knew I’d leave the bedroom door open for her whenever I was home and she could sleep on the bed when she wasn’t really allowed. My now […] [Original post on mas.to]

Me aged 16 or so. I’ve got hair (!), biggish glasses and I’m wearing a Thunder t-shirt. In my arms is a white a grey herringbone tabby called Crumble. Crumb looks like she’d rather be out murdering rabbits. Or maybe she’s glaring at my girlfriend.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Carl Weathers’ leisure wear in Rocky 3 is quite the vibe.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky 3. He’s standing on a beach wearing a blue crop top, tiny shorts and white socks pulled up. Well, he beat Rocky in the beach race too, so we must be due another montage.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

One of my friends has always been a bit weird about Israel. He’s not Jewish, but he likes to use social media to broadcast his unconditional support for Israel. The Palestinians? They’re not innocent in his eyes and seem to deserve what they’re getting. Any criticism of Israel is , to him […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The “up to 100% effective” you hear in adverts always makes me chuckle. Um… obviously that’s as effective as it could be, no? Then I head an advert the other day only claiming “up to 90% effective”, and I wondered at their lack of ambition for their product.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Flu and covid jabs done. Moderna Spikevax XFG, if you’re interested in the particular flavour.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

T’is the damn season. #beer

A bottle of Paulaner Oktoberfest marzen beer. Mmmm.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Marina Hyde is leaving the Guardian. Please keep a close eye on John Crace. I’m not sure if cope if he went too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Goat morning to you

An absurdly beautiful sunrise, with silhouetted trees along the horizon, and bright pink and orange clouds stretching across the blue sky

The same view, slightly later in the morning just as the sun is about to peek above the horizon, with a whole bunch of goats back to eating the corn stalks in a frost-killed garden bed, the same place they were eating a couple of days ago. There's also a floofy white dog in with the goats, and just visible on the edge of the photo is a large yellowish dog overseeing the whole scene.

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Just filled out the monthly Peakon survey at work. It’s nominally anonymous, but it’s usually as clear as day which are my answers. I’ve let them have it this month, albeit as constructively as I could manage. So now I await the fallout. Make me redundant!

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

By the time you hear snoring from the chair, it’s fair to say that you have royally fucked up your lethal injection. Civilised country, my arse.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

9 years since I had the pleasure of ushering at my oldest friend’s wedding. I wore a hat for the day, and the bride’s father (from Northern China), I’m told, was very impressed at the cool, distinguished English gentleman in the hat.

A black and white picture framed through a window of a man in a suit, Raybans and hat. It’s a sunny day and, yes, he does look very distinguished! (It’s me)

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Ian Robinson @ianrobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I love these time-lapse videos from on board a bulk carrier ship operating on the Great Lakes. The sequence of the ship going through the locks on the Welland Canal between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie to get over the Niagara Escarpment is ace. A remarkable piece of engineering. 12-minute video […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Watching Andrew Neill on #Newsnight spitting venom about the idea of Harry and Meghan having tax payer funded protection. Leaving aside what a piece of shit he is, it got me wondering if the former Prince Andrew is currently benefitting from any. My hunch would be that he is, although they […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I’ve barely eaten today and napped for a total of about 2 hours, even after a reasonable night’s sleep. I guess my body is still fighting something. I thought about not going out #rowing, but I’m really pleased I went in the end: a gentle paddle at 7 in the Eight, easing a couple of novices in […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Strapping in to play Witcher 3 properly on PS4. I’ve only dabbled before, but I’ve finished re-playing RDR and RDR2 in exhaustive detail and I think it’s time. Just need the various updates to download and I’m going in.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Watching David Olusoga’s documentary on the investors behind the slave trade, I was once again struck by the thought that we really need to be actively teaching this and facing into our role in the trade. I can’t forget Kemi Badenoch, a woman of west African descent, loudly proclaiming that […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

A collage of the 9 video games I’ve sunk the most time into.
From the top left:
Skyrim
Elite
Red Dead Redemption 2
Championship Manager 2
No Man’s Sky
Civilisation 2
Fallout 4
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Bard’s Tale.

Of these, probably Skyrim by a million miles and then champ man!

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Just blocked a page called “Europe Videos” that was appearing in my feed on a politics hashtag, but confusingly for a page with an EU flag as their avatar seemed to mainly post GB News content. Fuck that.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I have a complicated history with my weight and don’t weigh myself often as it triggers unhealthy thoughts. I did weigh myself this evening as I’ve been feeling flabby. ….I’ve lost weight. 🤷‍♀️

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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳 @gildilinie.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/1173… in a study conducted by Fleetwood Mac,

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

1st 5k erg of the winter #rowing training season. Low rate (18) and I tried to focus on steady rather than going too hard and dying. Went okay. Need to find some power, but that’s not my primary concern this year. I’m not 100% at the moment and my legs are quite a bit weaker than they were last […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Please rest assured that, as one of France’s newest citizens, I will be exercising my mandate to vote in every single election to try to keep Le Pen and the far right out of power. It may not be enough, but I will do my bit. 🇫🇷

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I’m now in week 2 or maybe 3 of a persistent, low level cold. I don’t feel dreadful, but I’m a bit achy, have a headache and a runny nose. Operating at maybe 85%; good enough to function, but ill enough to feel a bit shitty. Welcome to the next few months, I suppose. Flu/Covid jab on Saturday […]

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Lucy B @linuxlucy.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

My partner and I recently returned from cycling the Hadrian's C2C cycle route, having cycled 260km with 2,000m of ascent in 4 and a bit days. I'd never done a multi day cycle trip before, so obviously the first one I thought I'd try was a four day journey […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

A woman sits on a wooden bench looking out to sea. There are two cycles leaning up against the bench.

A black and white photo of the sea and sky. The waves are gentle and even.

A black and white photo of Hadrian's wall, with rolling hills in the background. There's a leafy tree on the right.

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Channel flicking before bed, we stumbled across the scene in Platoon where they burn a village. What I learned today is that my wife has NEVER watched Platoon before. This obviously will not stand, although I can’t realistically expect her to watch it right now.

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Sue Archer @suearcher.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I know how this rake feels.

A wire pronged grass rake, leaning against a wall. The wire teeth are bent at all sorts of angles.

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#parkrun number 315 for me this morning. I don’t run much these days and my body has been struggling this week (3x1k on the erg at 26, 28, 30 and some leg presses in the gym last night maybe didn’t help). By 4k, I was dragging my left leg… but I made it round in about 36 minutes. My PB days are […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

This bullshit is predictable, but infuriating as they know full well that this is true and we didn’t have a small boat problem before leaving Europe and the Dublin Convention. Not to mention that illegal migration has halved under this government. Fuck these people […] [Original post on mas.to]

The cover of today’s Daily Express with the headline, “Now PM blames Brexit for the channel boats crisis”

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Woke up from a nap to hear the cat flap clunking as the cat burglar from down the road let themselves out after devouring our cat’s breakfast. Our cat was asleep in her window hammock. We’re going to have to stop leaving her food down, aren’t we? #cat

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I saw a bald man yesterday with hair and Elvis style sideburns (badly) tattooed on. Takes all sorts, eh?

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

No escape from the mass mind rape Play it again, jack, and then rewind the tape And then play it again, and again, and again Until ya mind is locked in Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya They say jump and ya say "How high?" Ya […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Sorry to say, but Ted Lasso s4 is poor. There are flashes of what made the show great, but the rest of it is pretty dreadful. For a show bankrolled by Apple, it also seems oddly cheap. The extras are thinly drawn caricatures and acted appallingly. Don’t get me started on Tracy Ullman: a terrible […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

If genocide is the systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group… then the opposite of genocide must be the systematic and widespread creation of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group? Huh. Looking at the IDF in […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Two of my favourite recent (-ish. Both already more than a decade ago!) gig experiences were watching bands that were important to me as a teenager in the company of my oldest friend. There’s no way to explain the depth of the connection the music has given us than watching Metallica at […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Where do you even buy those massive inflatable dinghies? My guess would be the middle aisle of the big Lidl in Calais. Boat numbers have halved? You can prove anything with facts. That’s like saying we didn’t have a small boat problem before Brexit when we were part of the Dublin convention.

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Well, I for one feel all the safer for the gangs of white men in masks with domestic violence convictions patrolling the streets. Don’t you?

A picture of the brown shirts in Germany in the 1930s. An armed militia who beat the shit out of anyone they didn’t like the look of. Here, they’re marching in file next to a tram on a cobbled street. Say what you like about the actual Nazis, but I seriously doubt “Danny Tommo”’s mob are this disciplined and smartly presented, even if they do like beating people up every bit as much.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I’m the middle of three brothers. I was diagnosed with #MS aged 35 after 4 years of symptoms. My younger brother was diagnosed a few years later at the same sort of age, his diagnosis made easier by the fact the neurologists knew I already had it (apparently a direct family link significantly […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Woke up gabapentin groggy this morning. Ugh.

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Just bought tickets to the manic street preachers / suede tour in November. £70 a head. I’m sure it will be great, but ouch!

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Just bought a Christmas t-shirt and I’m not even sorry. I have many already. My most recent was Trading Places’ suicidal Santa, but this year I’ve gone for Marley & Marley.

A picture of Statler and Waldorf as Marley and Marley in muppets Christmas carol. They’re in blue and wrapped up in chains and heavy boxes. Wooooooooo!

swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Watching David Olusoga’s latest documentary on the slave trade. I studied history to masters level and never really covered slavery, particularly not Britain’s role in it. This really should be something everyone knows about. If you’re not shocked, then you haven’t learned enough. The ripples of […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

One of the guys I coach won an award this evening at the annual club bash. He came off a C25K in 2023. His first parkrun was 37:03. At some point, he stopped surviving my sessions and really bought in. He’s had 29 parkrun PBs in the last 12 months (including event PBs, but even so!) and his […]

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