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Lawrence of Arabica ☕

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Judge Dredd, Star Trek, Halo, spicy food, maths, chess. Anxiety and Existential Angst specialist. I don't entirely trust gravity, maybe you shouldn't either. 📍UK

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · Mar 18

I've been rewatching Star Trek the Next Generation lately. I still love it. I've noticed a few recurring themes that pop up. So this will be my thread of common Next Generation plots ... In no particular order ...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.

Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.

Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 4h

We've reluctantly removed access to YouTube kids. It's now no longer just the odd thing

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2h

Amen Marcus. I think a lot of these right wing types probably are genuinely racist, but they would make something else the driving force of their movement if they judged it would get them more votes and ultimately power+ influence (and £££)

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2h

No it makes perfect sense.. they're quite happy to make use of any system at all that they think might benefit them, even if on paper they're ideologically against it. They're immune to hypocrisy and care only about winning

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2h

I cannot. It also grits my shit that everyone still calls him "Prince".. if you keep these titles regardless of how you behave, they really are just signs of an outdated system of overlordship and mean nothing of any worth

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 4h

If #Honestyisthebestpolicy, I wonder why he didn't open with that speech? 🤔 Makes me think maybe women who use those apps should deploy an intentional day of silence, just to weed out the unhinged ones who are constantly on the edge of some rant like this

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 5h

Quite

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 5h

Nice day for it

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

..right winger, when I'm definitely not. So yea that's my question, do you think of laurel leaves / laurel wreaths as being inherently right wing symbols? Cheers

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Question time.. do you guys think of laurel leaves / laurel wreaths as being a right wing thing? I was considering getting one in my next batch of tattoos, but I saw something that suggested some right wingers might use them. I wouldn't want to inadvertently make myself look like some sort of ..

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Now I have a wrong version of that song in my head

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit now I'm so riled up I can't get back to sleep. The scars from being done so dirty last night are still too raw

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

True but then the ending - not showing us Divani's decision was the muggiest but of TV production I've ever seen #MAFSUK

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Love their language. Our youngest calls gravestones "death signs" 💀

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

A stirring image depicting the time st. George got hammered then defeated the.... Tyrannosaurus rex (?!) .. in his WW2 era bi-plane. Brings a tear to the eye.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

@grok is this true? /s

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

I know what you mean.. it starts about food and "taterised" made me think some disgusting revelation involving potatoes was coming...

a close up of a person with the words " what 's taters precious " on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a person with the words " what 's taters precious " on the bottom

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

Dam that poppyflation has gone out of control lately.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

She joked: "We've got poppy fatigue!"

'Poppy fatigue'... That's sailing too close to disrespecting the war dead for my liking.
As Samuel Johnson said, when a man is tired of performative poppy displays, he is tired of life.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Likewise for "nice guys"... The thing is it isn't really for you to say whether or not you are a nice guy, it depends on the judgement of those you interact with, not your own rubber stamp of it.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

See I have a theory that the more someone says they are a thing, the less likely they are to actually be that thing. It's like people with "free thinker" in their profile who usually turn out to be the exact opposite, and just believe everything their right wing influencer videos tell them...

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

"in my defence, I was also friends with every other wrongun from the last 30 years.."

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Great stuff! A noble tradition

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

The most toothless threat I've ever read.. vampires threaten to drain fewer victims unless their demands are met...

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Tough little ship

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Yea that could've been written yesterday