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Chris, woooo spooky

@cawhitworth.bsky.social

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In another life, I am an erudite, fascinating, witty, sexy libertine. As it stands, I am mainly a disappointment. Occasional pots. He/Him. Also @[email protected], formerly @cawhitworth on Twitter

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · Nov 12

Anyway people who used to follow me on Twitter are showing up here and to catch you up I do pottery now, that’s it, that’s what you missed

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Nu Pogodi! Enjoyer @lameposting.bsky.social · 2h

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 52m

Yeah pretty sure someone must have figured this out by now, seems too important that we’d just be making this shit up as we went along right

Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1h

it will be approximately seven years before I stop laughing at this

The Onion @theonion.com · 5h

Charli XCX Escalates Feud By Luring Travis Kelce Away With Beef Stick

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 3h

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2h

women don’t like the vehicle

It’s the red and yellow little tikes toy car

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3h

They have gone further on treating those with mental health issues, and those who are neurodivergent, as an "issue to be solved" rather than people to be supported, which, arguably due to increased salience, has contributed to increased discrimination. 3/5
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows

One in 10 people unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally ill even if they have recovered, Mind reports

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 5h

BIG BOAT STUCK
BIG BOAT STUCK

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 6h

Also, this block list removes accounts that steal photos and post without credit or context. Following the actual photographers is way more fun, you get the stories behind the photos plus a real person who will answer questions or just chat about cool nature stuff.

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 6h

Carried off to heaven by anatomically improbable angels with jiggle physics

Gematsu @gematsu.com · 7h

Tomonobu Itagaki dies at age 58

Tomonobu Itagaki, the former Tecmo director who created the Dead or Alive series, as well as the modern NINJA GAIDEN series in 2004, has passed away. He was 58 years old.

Tomonobu Itagaki dies at age 58

Tomonobu Itagaki, the former Tecmo director who created the Dead or Alive series, as well as the modern NINJA GAIDEN series in 2004, has passed away. He was 58 years old.

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

oh yeah that's just the app developers being shit; there *is* a solution there, they just haven't bothered with it

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

The TV volume should be a multiple of 2.5 centred around 50 for broadcast TV, 45 for streaming TV and 35 for games consoles. LADIES.

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Robert Noot, 29, was first attracted to Kelsey Dacey, 26, due to her artistic vibe, her emotional intensity and her insistence that the TV volume always be on an even number, unless the number is a multiple of five.

Man upset to discover manic pixie dream girl just regular autistic woman

A man who thought his quirky girlfriend would magically fix all his debilitating personal issues has been left “hurt and disappointed” after she transpired to be an ordinary autistic woman, it has…

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

(also, there's the problem that if you play two songs and one is perceived as louder than the other, people will tend to prefer the louder one, so producers will push the loudness levels so their songs stand out. Similar reason adverts are loud.)

Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

(it's a really hard problem because perception of volume is a tricksy thing and depends on a number of things, including frequency, and like, how "loud" is a song that is mostly quiet but has one big loud bit? LUFS attempts to bundle all that up into one number but it's still super subjective)

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

There is one! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBU_R_128

But virtually no-one hits the -23 LUFS target. It varies between -14 and -18 across the streaming services.

EBU R 128 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 11h

Translating "hwaet" as "now THIS is a story all about HOW"

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 11h

"Which unspecified speech acts?"

"Oh, you know the ones"

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Feb 5

If snakes were wide

Simple black and white line drawing of a long thin sausage lying horizontally across the page. It has a forked tongue pointing up halfway along, and two little dot eyes. Caption: If snakes were wide

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 12h

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

(Supporting The Bug Club tonight in Cambridge who are, as I might have mentioned, the best live band around right now)

Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

Adwaith, fucking great. Welsh-language post-punk garage-psyche-alt-pop.

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not interested in discovering underlying cause if we can alleviate symptoms, huh. Cool, cool. Definitely ok with this. It’s fine.

Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

So on the one hand it’s nice that the drugs to make the numbers go down have made the numbers go down. But on the other hand, today’s appointment was supposed to be about figuring out why the numbers had gone up in the first place, but apparently we’re not interested in that now they’ve gone down?

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yeah the racist from The Apprentice who was on Strictly presumably to fulfil some kind of facism quota also says “bosh” all the time. Probably just best to mentally block anyone who says it, can’t see that anything of value will be lost.