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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 8h

Ah right, so Trump has just demolished a chunk of the White House without going through the normal processes that manage this sort of thing.

No, I'm surprised, shocked, astonished.

Dictators don't normally do this sort of thing, do they?

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted on the #isleofwight and it's good news for @smithandsniff.bsky.social - the Quest is over! The Eagle has been found and it's algal!

@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 3d

Calm, warm and drying weather this week makes for pretty spore halos around fungal fruiting bodies.

Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 6d

Only one in the car park.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 7d

Not drawing people sets you apart from most/every other artist out there!

Rejoice for such difference!

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 7d

Oh. That's that, then.

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 7d

Be a shame if things happened to it...

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 7d

Lovely old stone barn ruin, right

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 7d

Off to knock a barn over. I'll keep you posted as the situation unwrinkles

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 11d

Mork & Mindy

"well that's just weird"

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 11d

I played Getdown Services to my daughter @mattflipflop.bsky.social

Her response was "it's like listening to a chav talking back to a teacher" 😂

For those not on the Getdown Services bus. It's this sort of thing

youtu.be/0IDJOh2jHd0?...

Getdown Services - Cream Of The Crop (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Breakfast Records

youtu.be

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bryce.lol @bryce.lol · 11d

toughest game of Guess Who? ever

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Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social · 11d

No bells.
🔔 🇺🇸 🏆

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 11d

I posted this image in 2014.

Things haven't got better, have they?

Welcome to Clacton on Sea sign, but modified to say minorities aren't welcome

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 14d

Which it won't be.

*sigh*

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Diamond Hell @diamondhell.bsky.social · 15d

In news that will surprise no one familiar with local government in the UK.

15 years of cuts meant all the savings have already been made.

But most of us knew that already.

Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 15d

On taking office, Reform UK council leaders now reckon wasteful spending just isn’t there after all.

"Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't," said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 16d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.