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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 20m

I’ve also watched a friend overwhelmed by sensory overload go from totally frozen to functional when a load noise started. I would say try a cheaper pair and then then the fancy pair if you think multiple options would help - I find it helps when I’m talking to people.

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 21m

Our cats came from a breeder, we’re nine months old when we got them, at about the cost as you would from a rescue here. They’ve lovely temperaments and I suspect someone couldn’t cope with their noise, and the breeder took them back and rehomed them.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 24m

No, *you* just forget you’d precariously balanced a cup of now cold tea in your lap whilst in bed, and just forgot, went to get up and soaked everything it 🙄

Oh, okay, just me then…

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 38m

It isn’t to do with age. Anyone can, and do, learn if they want to.

This is like the customers in their 50’s who’d claim they ‘couldn’t use to technology because they were the older generation’. Meanwhile I’d be replying to emails from folks in their 80’s and 90’s sent from iPhones and iPads.

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 46m

#Gratitude

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

Car I test drove wasn’t suitable due to gear stick position, but the owner was an absolute delight. I hope he manages to sell it soon.

Hearing from a family member after a long time and making arrangements to meet up

Chinese braised belly pork for tea (or rather my variation on it)

#3GoodThings

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 49m

This sounded vaguely familiar and when I checked, it’s been a classic trouser leg shape name for a long time. A quick search and you’ll see it used by magazines like Vogue. Surely there’s a better alternative by now, though?

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 55m

That is dangerously close to the truth. I am now a bit sad when I couldn’t work out what to pick as an object
to discuss (which threw them slightly 😆), that I didn’t take a pineapple. Would’ve completed the Task Master experience.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 57m

FAIR.

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

Car I test drove wasn’t suitable due to gear stick position, but the owner was an absolute delight. I hope he manages to sell it soon.

Hearing from a family member after a long time and making arrangements to meet up

Chinese braised belly pork for tea (or rather my variation on it)

#3GoodThings

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

Well, I guess that was dessert sorted 😬

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Ben Wood /|\🥭🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating isn't it? The richest rarely have to defend their obscene levels of personal wealth on the Public Broadcaster. The political debate in this country is framed in a very particular direction.

Green Party leader defends wealth tax proposals (BBC News).

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

That is both a very good drawin, and a very canny looking flamingo.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 2h

Inspiration: you’re having a better day than the head of security at the Louvre.

(Apologies to the head of security at the Louvre if he/she follows me).

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

I realise you did not ask me but…I adore mine. I’ve tried those that reduce everything, and I now have the fancy pair that has three settings. Absolute game changer, but the cheaper pair still made life much more doable. They remove the register of sounds that puts my brain into fight/flight.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

They just so NICE.

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve experienced a mixed bag with both. Less so with the later because they prefer to tell me mine are in my head instead, rather than reading any up to date research. Which to be clear is not worse than what you describe, just different but equally naff.

Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 1h

The US pronunciation sounds strange to me in part because I’m only used to hearing it said one way.

I just figure if someone is from a place, once they pronounce a word in a particular way, you should do the same unless you fluently speak the language. It’s a no brainer to me.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 6h

A bit niche I realise, but it’s astonishing the difference between a Blackwing pencil and the Staedtlers I used for years. I’ve had one sat in a pot for years but took it out to use recently, and my hands don’t cramp at all when I write with it. Will look at getting a spare.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

H thought I was mad the other day when I said cats’ positions could be described as bread shapes, so I have just waggled this in her face 😁 “Look, other people do this too!”

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

I initially misread this as ‘foraging soup’ which, I suppose, is theoretically possible depending on what they do with what they find 😁

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

Please forgive my ignorance, but is the difference where the emphasis is placed? Initially I thought the way we pronounced it in the UK was the same, but there is a subtle difference. We say each part with the same emphasis, whereas in the US emphasis is on the first syllable?

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 7h

They are indeed. I’ve now also blocked them. Sometimes the only explanation is people like to think they are more intelligent than other people.

Thousands of people think a their ‘obvious’ answer isn’t obvious, but that forces the person to consider they might be wrong, and they won’t.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 9h

I’d love to say this was subtweet but I think most of us get asked intrusive questions so often, it isn’t.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 9h

Louder for the folks at the back:

Disabled people, especially strangers, don’t exist to educate you on every area of their lives you don’t understand because you aren’t prepared to a do some reading.

#DisabledSky

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 10h

No, I know the answers but I have boundaries that don’t involve doing emotional and practical labour for those who could look it up themselves. Disabled people don’t exist to educate you.

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