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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

British.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 3h

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 1d

A top quality delivery courtesy of the one and only @happytoast.co.uk If I ever have grandkids, the caterpillar ain’t getting a look in!

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1d

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 1d

If he can manage one of those two I’d be happy!! 😂

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! He certainly seems to have a knack. Yeah, spotted an offer that was too good to not take, will be his birthdays and christmases for the next few years!! 😂

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 2d

No 2 sons birthday this week. He’s off taking photos in the Lake District with his mum. Has a wee surprise ready for him on his return…

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 2d

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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 3d

18 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh—built around 1820. Eight flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Notable former residents include:

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5d

My local greengrocer has started putting the aubergines on the top shelf.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t blame you! 😂 What time did you arrive? I’m dreading the jet lag.

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

I fear I may be on the end of a lot of unfollowing on here during the three weeks 😂

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

Not until the middle of December, so a wee while yet. Can’t wait, to be honest, 3 weeks of no real plans!

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

😂

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

Even better!! Have you recover from post trip depression?

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

Looks lovely that!

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Gordon Russell @fcgordeaux.bsky.social · 6d

@elhozzo.bsky.social @rob-o-cop.bsky.social @dermotg.bsky.social @1imaginaryboy.bsky.social @kazashton.bsky.social @peripixie.bsky.social

Afternoon folks, if you check your emails for a wee invite from me! 😉 If not received, give me a shout.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 6d

My 18yo just released her first single five minutes ago! Give it a listen. She’s good.

Oh and please like and share (even if you don’t like it!) Thanks a million.

(Why, yes, the cover art is indeed by me!)

open.spotify.com/track/46Bi9S...

Different Lane

open.spotify.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d

If Donald Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize the whole system needs to burn to the ground.

Every single bit of the corrupt, evil, nonsense.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 8d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...