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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1h

AI is astoundingly bad at this

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 5h

Ah yeah actually please as my locked account not much use

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 6h

Going to keep reposting this until someone tells me, ngl

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to find a short ghost(ish) story I once read: someone finds a beautiful model yacht at the bottom of a pond/lake and it has the tiny bodies of miniature people on board. Faustian pact or something. Anyone?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 6h

That's simply untrue. Not the case. Deliberate misread or you have been lied to.

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7h

And like ...trees grow. They're planting more

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7h

If you want a classic of the NIMBY local press genre, this is it.

This is a brownfield (ex-hard stand caravan park) site, in the very centre of Bristop, where 40% of homes will be affordable. Its basically the dream development NIMBYs demand.

And this is how work is written up.

Trees begin to be felled at harbourside site

Around 70 trees are due to be felled to make room for 166 new flats

www.bristol247.com

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7h

Well, of course. Brownfield exists solely as a notion, ever ready to become a beloved green space or local amenity

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7h

Look, if you can't face the fact that Corbyn lost hard fair and square and must blame sinister operatives that's a you problem. Do you, perhaps, believe that the EHRC was put up to damning that Labour leadership? If so, who by?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing like a stab in the back myth to keep the resentment flowing is there

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 9h

No it isn't, and no it really isn't - I don't think anyone read the latter and you certainly didn't

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to find a short ghost(ish) story I once read: someone finds a beautiful model yacht at the bottom of a pond/lake and it has the tiny bodies of miniature people on board. Faustian pact or something. Anyone?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

Just get one on a platinum mesh bracelet like this 1927 example

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway, it's currently an injection but GLP-1 agonists do basically do all of those things

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

Watch that, to be fair, was inspired by the early tank. Astonishingly modern in 1920:

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

Just want to confirm that literally every British party is formally committed to socialised healthcare and higher taxes than anywhere in the USA, placing them to the Left of the Dems on two of the biggest economic measures?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

Just... fantasy. Can't even tell if it's a British or an American fantasy

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

I think there was something else that happened too, in 2017 then harder in 2019?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 20h

Except me, still hot

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 22h

I fondly imagine he hoped God took a Benthamite view of his life, a million souls saved by the conversion of the empire Vs all his murders

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 22h

I just got annoyed that the ads were never, ever for a book I would consider buying, when Amazon literally knows my reading taste perfectly

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 22h

Wasn't he supposed to have held off actual baptism (and its supposed total cleansing of sin) until just before his death?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 22h

Mildly grim moment paying 20 quid more for a Kindle that doesn't show ads on the lock screen

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 23h

Zarah Sultana refreshing her mailbox to see if she's been randomly selected to attend the first Your Party conference.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

For a party with a significant amount of MPs, who must represent all of their constituents, MPs/councillors must retain ultimate power. For Your Party, "No VAT on private schools and no harm to landlords" has a majority among their MPs so they have to do *something*.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Also, you're randomly selecting people to come to conference, but I could write out a list of people who'll be on the platform right now. Cowards. Go truly random - maybe even Jeremy won't get chosen

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