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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 5h

This just in:

Having left "reading anything longer than 1 side of paper" in the weeds several miles back, Trump has now reached the point where he lacks the attention span to take in basic information from a *picture*.

Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 10h

Trump told Zelenskyy he was losing the war, warning: “If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you”

The US president threw Ukraine’s battlefield maps to one side & said he was “sick” of seeing the frontline again & again

Scoop w @christopherjm.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social & @a-mackinnon.bsky.social

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13h

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia on.ft.com/4ou3MjY

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 6h

I agree, but I think he has one major personal flaw that lies behind all this: he has absolutely zero political nous.

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 10h

The most charitable reading of this I can come up with is that DJT is playing a long game intervention to get Don Jr off the marching powder.

Thank you for your attention etc etc

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 12h

Wait till the president finds out that his administration _already cut_ something like 3/4 of US aid to "Columbia," along with most aid worldwide, earlier this year. Most of the aid that remains goes to Colombia's military and police—to support counter-drug operations.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia. It has become the biggest business in Columbia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLUMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 16h

Our Lidl had them last year, and we got some (dunno, maybe piloting them?)

Anyway, I need to let you, and especially those excited by the titles of the flavours, know that they are fucking cack.

And I say that in the knowledge my favourite ever biscuits come from Lidl and I love their food.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 16h

The UK would be pleased to open discussions about the rest of the US.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 17h

That 3% is almost entirely people you wouldn't want to have to share a late-night bus with

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 19h

There's a joy to be found in the dismissal of Goodwins entire personality, output and influence as "arriviste"

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 21h

My absolute favourite part of GoT mecahnics was using the wind as a satnav. Just the appropriateness and subtlety was delightful.

Damn haven't played it since I upgraded to a Ps5 earlier this year and now I'm hankering again.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

That's not a career, that's a series of upward failures

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

How good is it? GoT is one of my favourite pieces of media ever, just a beautiful thing, so my anticipation is high.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

My conspicuously not mentioning chocolate t-shirt is raising questions already answered by my conspicuously not mentioning chocolate t-shirt

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

People's postcode lottery win

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

One for her, one for the personal stylist, hairdresser, costumier, film crew, lighting crew, script writing team....

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

I think my first week as PR advisor to the Royal Family has gone really well. High point was definitely my excellent plan to make all that nasty Epstein stuff go away. We'll never hear about that again.

Now for a big swig of coffee and pop the radio on to catch the news

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 1d

He's used the American spelling of paedo there.

Rookie mistake.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

Mmmmmm. Banter timeline will have him pulling a tell-all exclusive with some overseas paper that dishes the dirt on Trump

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact, the jingle "Andy Peebles"* is actually how his name was pronounced on his birth certificate

*you can hear it in your head right now can't you? Can't you?

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

Underrated

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

HRH Gizza Hughes

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

I agree it's very cinematic and the engine is strong. Some of the aesthetics and story choices betray the 80s origins of the genre to it's detriment IMHO. My biggest disappointment was the story ending; I hate being railroaded.

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 2d

So reading this thread and comments and the momentary though passed my mind that a way to authenticate videos would be via some sort of token, that was non-fungible, and now I feel double queasy and think I might skip lunch.

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 3d

My boss in my first proper grown-up job said something that has stayed with me forever:

Turnover is vanity
Profit is sanity

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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 3d

I guess someone else holds the ip for "goblin mode"

Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 3d

What would really improve that is to rebuild it in a digital platform where you can seamlessly integrate it into other workfl...

<words muffled by noise of the trampling of a thousand hooves>

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