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RFJ1611
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Genealogist & family historian, studying with the IHGS | 17th century & British/English Civil Wars researcher | Biographer of ECW painter William Dobson | currently cataloguing 1640s British portraits | Loves Jack Russells, tea and peanut butter
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 9m
It definitely looks like somewhere I could easily waste a happy few hours. 🥰
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 7h
Pllease don't follow me if you have 0 posts, nothing in your profile and are following 10K+ people. It's annoying and I'll only block you.

Post your own words, say something interesting! BE interesting!
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 11h
Today showed how vulnerable we are, only a small slip away from chaos should those running our online lives accidently (or deliberately) lose control of it.

Not letting a handful of tech giants own so much would be a start, as would being more discerning over the orgs we CAN choose.

#AWS #Amazon
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 11h
A LOT of people realising today just how (over)dependent they are on tech just to get through 24 hrs. Rideshare apps, doorbell cameras, banks, voice apps (Alexa etc), games, shopping.

Not all are essential to life, ofc. Curious how many folks will reevaluate & make changes from this? (cont)
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 13h
It is a gamechanger! But also veeery expensive when you find you're arguing with yourself that they're only a few quid, and you can afford a couple (dozen) more! 😄
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 14h
Yeesh. 😵‍💫 good luck! 😆
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 17h
Nope. But given how humans are trying to make them extinct in the wild, Blackpool is better than having Mum shot dead by a gun-happy Texan poacher on a paid killing holiday, & baby stolen and trafficked.

Here at least they're safe & together, helping keep the species going. Crap choices, I know. 😟
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 19h
Bit of a backhanded compliment there... 😐
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 20h
Spanish...
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 20h
It should be restoring soon. Affected systems have started coming back on in the last hour or so. 🤞
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 22h
Amazon/AWS crash is another salutary warning against one behemoth company being allowed to either buy up or platform so many others.

One fail and they all go down. I don't give a crap about Snapchat but I needed Smartsheet for work today. 🙄
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 1d
Yup. I'm crying over a stranded plastacine alien, fgs.

#Farmageddon #BBC1
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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 2d
I would join in the celebration!
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
That's some side-eye! 😄🦅
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
That's great to hear. 😊
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
I hope its good news!🤞
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
It's not just this room, either. Queen's House has this all over. The picture at bottom left is my favourite, but on a past visit he was high up on a wall in another room, impossible to see thanks to the lights.

I find it odd such an internationally renowned venue hasn't addressed this before?
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
I always enjoy visiting National Maritime Museum Greenwich, but there's one thing that always bugs the crap out of me. The lighting.

Specifically, the ceiling spotlights that make it almost impossible to see paintings on upper walls.

I could only see 2 of the 4 "Flagmen" properly this time. 😒
A gallery view at the National Maritime Museum Queen's House in Greenwich. There is a polished wooden floor and a doorway to the right. On the far wall is dark wallpaper, with a tall white window panel in the middle, surrounded by four portraits. The bottom two paintings are easy to view but the top two are partly obscured by badly placed ceiling spotlights that cover most of the canvas with bright focussed light. The faces of the sitters are hard to see.
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
They should bring back trams to Broad Street. There's little else worth visiting soulless Reading for now. 🙄
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 3d
That's heartbreaking. 💔 Thanks for sharing.

Has any work been done (if possible) to copy down the inscriptions and keep a record of who at least some of these belonged to?

Even if the stones are unrecoverable, the ancestors deserve better than to be discarded and forgotten like this. 😪
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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 4d
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 4d
Honestly, my eyesight. I saw one of those Waitrose free recipe cards today. It was for curried squash.

I read it as curried sasquatch. 🤐
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 4d
It might have felt bigger because I was little and sliding all over the back seat! It did only just make it between narrow 1980s gateposts, though. Got into their drive with milimetres to spare. 😄

Just checked with family who say it was the Isabella. Light blue, iirc.
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 4d
My world-travelling grandparents had a Borgward! Can't remember what type, but it was huge and very spacious. They drove it all over Europe for years. Looked a bit odd parked in a South Oxfordshire driveway when they retired but it never failed them.
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RFJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 5d
Wow. I've never seen them do that before. I've had several 'we're sorry, please reload page' errors, but not this. I wonder if there's something else going on? 🤔

It doesn't say good things about the reliability of the site if they suddenly can't handle traffic.
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