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CAPTOverkill @captoverkill.bsky.social · 1d

*Me laughing in my pile of homebrewing equipment*

#homebrewing #beer

J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 1d

no one is safe

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 16h

We have a couple of cute paperback hedgehogs from a National Trust giftshop which sit on our bookcase. One of the volunteers makes them out of millions of Dan Browns they can’t shift. Great bit of recycling & fundraising!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 16h

Also - I love finding an old second hand book with an inscription and/or marginalia from a past owner. It’s part of the object’s history.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 16h

He was horrified when another friend gifted me a victorian hardback found in a 2nd hand bookshop with a “To James...” inscription in the front.

I treasure it!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 16h

This divides opinion amongst my friends - one refuses to so much as write his name in the front, whilst I’m known for sharpening the “pencil of justice” to scribble in the margins.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 17h

Oh of course! 🤦‍♂️ All these years and I had never made the connection between pippin and apple pips!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 18h

What is it about the name that indicates they weren't grafted?

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

I love a Monday night challenge 😅

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

AH - the Witchcraft Act 1562 gained Royal Assent in April 1563, coming into force in June 1563.

So it’s dated 1562 in the title and that’s when it was presumably written, but it didn’t become law until the following year.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely agree re: missing character; not sure about em-dashes though - the symbol follows ‘Yggdrasil’, ‘underworld’, and ‘divine’, which strike me as the sorts of words which might be hyperlinked or otherwise emphasised as a key word with a definition available somewhere.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

The Parliament website says 1562 and I’d be inclined to go with them; however, there was also a separate act passed in Scotland in 1563 - and this is before the Julian/Gregorian calendar shift…so plenty of opportunity for date-based confusion!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

The [x] symbol that follows some of the key terms implies this might’ve been copied and pasted from a webpage which had footnotes or hyperlinks 🧐

But some of those sentences are *very* suspect and I do not trust that webpage

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Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 1d

Man turns pothole into giant bowl of beans on toast.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Man turns pothole into giant bowl of beans on toast

Ben wants to highlight the problem of huge potholes as the council has not taken action

www.walesonline.co.uk

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not an apple, that’s a rejected character from the Bash Street Kids

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

They are also forms of protest that are very hard to counter.

Footage of armed police wrestling frogs or naked cyclists is never going to sustain a hard-man image, and if you claim your legitimacy from your faith, you can't be seen desecrating a sacrament...

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

I wondered if it could be some sort of exterminator? So someone paid to catch and drown vermin?

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

I think this shows the methodological issue with this kind of data. It looks like someone has gone through the "occupation" column, collated it all and gone "look at all these real victorian jobs!". IIRC one census entry includes the family cat, occupation: Mouser!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 2d

How big a daily Kendal Mint Cake are we talking?

A bite-sized after dinner mint each day could be quite nice.

A full mint cake per day would hospitalise me.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I think ancient scientists got right is the theory of spontaneous generation of flies.

You can't tell me they have a lifecycle, they just spawn into a room to be irritating, and then disappear again afterwards.

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The Jenny Out Of Space @jennymckinnon.bsky.social · 2d

_DO NOT_ STORE
PHOTOS ON ONEDRIVE

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 3d

I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

actionnetwork.org

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote the full essay in about 2hrs and sprinted onto campus to hand it in.

It was not only the highest-marked essay I ever wrote, but got special praise for such an original interpretation.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

I had a huge crisis of confidence the night before a major essay was due, thinking I’d totally misunderstood the question and done the wrong research.

After a minor breakdown and a very supportive email from my supervisor the following morning… 1/

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, pace yourself.

Although…how many bits to eat a kg of haribo on stream?

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

There is so much going on here, this story is brilliant

Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 3d

'Three-day cola bottles binge put me in hospital'. (Thanks @mrsemilia.bsky.social & @john3ners.bsky.social!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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