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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2h

Wanted a coffee in Leeds city center and still morning the loss of Miss Atha's but did try the coffee shop (Bruschetta) in the corn exchange and does an absolutely stunning Spanish latte.

Makes me think we should add condensed milk to more things.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2h

Lovely to have this display up in John Lewis for Divali!

Colourful display of blue red and purple in the appearance of a rangoli saying happy Divali

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty much always Best wishes
Your sincerely if a bit more formal.

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Kasia @scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 21h

BSKY please settle a discussion.

when do you use

kind regards
best regards
best wishes
yours sincerely
thanks

(anything else)
to sign off an email

bonus points if you tell me/us if youre a Brit or American.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly feel it shows impressive restraint not to bring up his shameless parachuting into a safe seat in 2024.
If I'd done that I don't think I'd try and appear so often in public.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3h

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 7h

Finally, ages after other people started getting theirs our main shipment of mags made it through customs, cheers Brexit! The gift that keeps on giving

Anyway, here’s some low effort marketing for an incredibly high effort magazine, buy a copy today, you get a cool magazine & we get to make more

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

What's a great ttrpg for 8-9 year olds? I'd love to run some sessions for my daughter & her friends, all of whom have little to no ttrpg experience. I normally run Pathfinder 1e which I expect they could handle (as long as I handled the rules burden) but other options with other themes would be cool

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Why does the new Witcher trailer look like they've photoshopped Liam Hemsworth face onto Henry Cavill?

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Man, didn't realize the GMC used to employ a firing squad.

Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more coverage

For the first time the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards can investigate ministers accused of wrongdoing without the Prime Minister’s permission. The Adviser will also oversee how ministers earn money after leaving office.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

We are giving the independent ethics adviser unprecedented powers

This Labour government is going further than any administration before us to restore public trust in politics.

www.politicshome.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for talking about this. Your speech was very powerful and it means a lot to have parliament talking openly about baby loss and the steps that need to be taken.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Majority of maps at the start of fantasy books are bad and detatch me from the world.

Good chance I'll enjoy a book if it's got a map at the front. Very low chance the map enhances the book itself.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely blown my mind that pterodactyl just means 'wing fingers'

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite etymologies

The pter in helicopter is the same as the pter in pterodactyl

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

ALSO

nobody has said these things but it’s a pet peeve

It is a HELICO-PTER (spinning wing), not HELI-COPTER. People say “heli” and I always want to correct them and say “helico” but that’s why my therapist said I don’t have friends

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite etymologies

The pter in helicopter is the same as the pter in pterodactyl

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

ALSO

nobody has said these things but it’s a pet peeve

It is a HELICO-PTER (spinning wing), not HELI-COPTER. People say “heli” and I always want to correct them and say “helico” but that’s why my therapist said I don’t have friends

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2d

Bit late to it and maybe an odd choice to watch pre night shifts.
But watched last week's BBC question time was actually a bit inspiring?
The fact that every single person who spoke from the audience condemned Robert Jenrick's remarks shows what shakey ground Jenrick and Farage are walking on.

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CLondoner92 @clondoner92.bsky.social · 2d

Transport for London’s new campaign on ITVX urges people to support those facing hate or harassment. Based on real stories, it promotes safe bystander action and warns offenders they'll be caught. Free training and events run this week.
tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-lau...

TfL launches powerful campaigns to encourage people to be active bystanders and to deter perpetrators of crime

PN-108 TfL launches powerful campaign for cinema and ITVX, drawing on real-life experiences of Londoners and encouraging people to “act like a friend” to those who experience hate crime, sexual offen...

tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2d

Will be intesting to see what their manifesto shows.
But also feels like a healthy moment in British politics that the Greens are doing well rather then the debacle that is Your Party.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 2d

I remember many years back reading through the SCP foundation cases and the ones which unsettled me the most was a memetic infection.

Which feels unsettling like what's happening to many people.

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 3d

"Lots done. Lots more to do."

As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.

And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 3d

In summary Peter Thiel's logic

A meme with man labelled Peter thiel looking at a butterfly daring id this Chris/antichrist

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 5d

Reshare: This new set of RPG histories from Shannon Appelcline and Evil Hat seems like it'll be a treasure trove of facts and fun stories for fans of the first few decades of D&D.

www.rascal.news/shannon-appe...

Shannon Appelcline returns with a product-by-product history of the first decades of D&D

Designers & Dragons: Origins promises to be another essential reference.

www.rascal.news

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 5d

One hundred games is a heck of a lot of games to play, or even to own, but it's a staggering number to write, even if they're only a single page long. Chase chats to Grant Howitt, designer of Honey Heist and many other one page games, about the game jam he's running to celebrate the milestone.

One hundred one-page RPGs later, Grant Howitt isn’t ready to quit

Don’t you dare call it a legacy.

www.rascal.news

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 3d

Published in 2024 so aware a lots changed since then.
But represents my son and I quite well.
Has a tiger- hence why he picked it up.
And honestly the patter of the rhymes is cracking.

Definitely recommend there's a Tiger on the train by Mariesa Dulek and Rebecca Cobb.

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