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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦

@mirthematician.bsky.social

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Book addict, user of recreational maths. Folio Society addict.Wildlife buff. Plant-based happiness.Not unpartial to the odd dram.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · Jan 10

The best cure for buying too many books is to not worry about buying too many books.
#booksky

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 10h

Good to see that the Supreme Court are still capable of reaching the right decision on the odd occasion.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 18h

Not perfect times, but certainly better in some ways than what we're living through at the moment. At least I think the direction at that time was positive.
Yes, I'm British. I don't have anything interesting or diverse in my ancestry, I'm afraid. Just bog standard British working class stock! 😁

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, well then you are certainly well qualified to use the word, then! When did your family move to America?

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 1d

It's bewildering and exhausting trying to keep up with it.
On a lighter note, I'm intrigued and amused by your use of the word "gobsmacked". Has the word finally made it across the pond and into common usage there? Or are you an "early adopter"? 🙂🙂

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 1d

I ceased all attempts to understand the world several years ago, because it's quite clear to me that there is no rhyme or reason to anything these days. Honestly, I don't see a way back so now I'm just watching it play itself out.
Maybe the dolphins will make a better go of it when it's their turn.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 2d

True. All Trump's motives are ulterior. He hasn't had a pure thought in his life.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 2d

That pair can detect the stench of grift an ocean away.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 4d

Orange meltdown incoming 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins - BBC News

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 5d

Trump overlooked again.

BBC News - Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize
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Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 5d

How much more money are they going to spaff up the wall in legal fees and repeated enquiries before they just f*cking pay up? The utter disgrace continues.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 6d

Trump overlooked again. Typical radical left Nobellers

BBC News - Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for work on metal-organic frameworks
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Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for their work on metal organic frameworks

The winners of the prestigious science prize was announced by the Nobel committee in Sweden.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 6d

Okay, tomorrow it is, then. I'm assuming "she" doesn't want to delay any longer.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 6d

I honestly don't understand how these Trumpites can simply say "I'm not answering your question" like this. Isn't there some way of holding them in contempt?

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 7d

What always strikes about this rancid slab of meat is that 90% of the time he tells people he knows everything there is to know about whatever topic is being discussed, and that nothing happens that he doesn't know about.
The other 10% he denies all knowledge of things he *must* know about.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 8d

If you had, we'd know your account had been hacked. Good to know all is well and as it should be 🙂

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 9d

Nature's bounty! Birch Boletes, Bay Boletes, Yellow Marsh Brittlegills, Charcoal Burners, and of course Penny Buns 😋😋 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 10d

And you said it perfectly.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 11d

Kicked the bouquet.

Sorry, couldn't resist 🙂

BBC News - Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96
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Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96

She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's crime-busting Hetty Wainthropp.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 11d

I'd say you're a fan, then 😁 Any particular teams or drivers?

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 11d

Well that'll shut up all those people who say this country isn't progressive.
It's taken a mere 500 years to get to this point.

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Dame Sarah Mullally will be first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in Church of England's history - BBC News

Dame Sarah Mullally becomes first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in Church of England's history

Mullally, 63, has served as Bishop of London for more than seven years and is a former nurse.

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Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 12d

Pay up and we'll back off. Simples.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 12d

How many of these investigations into the Met do we have to have before we can say things have finally changed?? There seems to have been one every couple of years as far back as I can remember.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 12d

I'm so saddened to hear this. I could never have imagined I would feel this deeply ashamed of my country. I was, perhaps naïvely, unaware of just how many thoroughly nasty racists and bigots we have here. Sadly, I suspect this has always been the case, but they have become more emboldened lately.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 12d

A quite remarkable little book, which I would wholeheartedly recommend hunting out. Thanks to @neglectedbooks.com, who recommended this one quite a while ago. I finally got round to reading it and thoroughly enjoyed it!
#booksky

Front cover of The Roundabout, by Michael Allwright.

Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social · 12d

"sosajis" is my new favourite word 😁