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Spoquey
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"When a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.” Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 4h
Transport for London are proud of the Taxi fleets being "Zero Emission Capable". But is this a sleight of hand, in that they may not actually be emitting zero polluants?
tfl.gov.uk/info-for/tax...:
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5h
My dad and his four brothers were the same - all WW2 veterans, including Uncle Vinnie who got the Military Medal for gallantry. No poppies in our households.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 19h
I moved to the south of France from London nine months ago. It was an immediate cure after 50 years of truly constant destructive misery and anticipation of yet another migraine. No idea why, it just happened.
Come on everybody, it is lovely here 😘
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 1d
I got beaten up by a gang of NF thugs years ago and still had those fantasies whenever I passed by one of their houses.

I hope you feel better soon. Lots of good advice from others here. X
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 2d
Don't forget Mr Ed the talking horse!

A bit weirder but there is also "My Mother the Car".
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 3d
It's all right for you and Polly, rich and with fall-back plans. The state pension is less than £12,000 a year max. Are you both seriously saying pensioners deserve to be beggared more than they are?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 3d
Vous pourriez faire très facilement un gateau aux pommes ou prunes avec une recette que ma soeur m'a envoyé. La tarte est une éponge avec zest d'orange. C'est le deuxième gateau que j'ai préparé depuis presque 50 ans.

La recette est dans ALT
Gateau aux prunes ou pommes: 110g beurre doux, 110g sucre, 150g self-raising flour, 2 oeufs larges, le zeste d'une orange grande. Mélangez tous avec un mixeur électrique. Mettez dans une plaque de cuisson. Ajoutez au-dessus 3 ou 4 pommes coupées en tranches. Ou prunes. Saupoudrez cinq cuillères de sucre au-dessus. Mettre dans le four à 200C pour vers 40 minutes plus ou moins. Quand le gateau est tiède, versez au-dessus le jus d'orange qui reste. Servez avec crème anglaise
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 3d
If they adopt a French-style ID system, you will have to go and register all your fingerprints at the local office. Plus tell them the DOB and place of birth of your parents.

Just imagine all that info with Reform in charge.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 3d
Ah but none of them have your full fingerprints...

I recently enquired about getting a French "carte d'identité" and they insisted I would have to give them my fingerprints as well as my photo, parents' ages, their DOBs and country of origin.

Now that is control.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 4d
It is getting that way all sides of the water 😘😐
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 4d
In the UK an interviewing panel is specifically NOT allowed to ask such questions. That could allow the victim to automatically take out a case for discrimination.

I hope your relative gets a transcript of the interview and sues them for inappropriate questioning. Though I realise our laws differ.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
Mmmm...yes. Custard tarts, Crême Anglais, Custard Slices, any French tart that includes home-made custard and fruits de la saison. Yes, Clafoutis is perhaps the Queen. Those tiny Portuguese tarts? Yum yum... Maids of Honour tarts from France peut-être. Is there any end to all this?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
If only mosquitos could talk. They might be high-fiving the fact that it only took one mosquito to kill Oliver Cromwell. In his case, it was probably a kindly and merciful end to his savage slash-burn murdering spree.

For everyone else, why don't we yet have any solutions to this?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
Depressing.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
I see that. I am really excited to see what you are doing there and ZP is an incredibly hopeful leader. I live in France now and hope we have a similar movement brewing X
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
If the Greens allow in Labour defectors, who stuck loyally to the LP during the "antisemitism crisis", the election of Starmer, saw the Labour Files, Martin Forde's report and the unfolding genocide and said...nothing... aren't the Greens cruising for a bruising sometime?

Once bitten.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 5d
If the Greens allow in Labour defectors, who stuck loyally to the LP during the "antisemitism crisis", the election of Starmer, saw the Labour Files, Martin Forde's report and the genocide unfolding and said nothing... aren't the Greens cruising for a bruising sometime?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 6d
Given that the full state pension is £11,973 a year, pensioners would often be kicked out anyway, under the annual income requirements.

Ghouls, preying on the insecure and chomping at the bit to destroy families and neighbourhoods.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 6d
The state pension is less than £12000.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 6d
What do you expect? The registration plate clearly says "FCU".
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 7d
Beautiful! Do you think he is old enough to teach him the Socialist ABC?

workersliberty.org/story/2010/1...
THE SOCIALIST A B C
When I was but a little tiny boy My daddy said to me: "The time has come me bonny, bonny bairn To learn your A B C". Now daddy was a Lodge Chairman In the coalfield of the Tyne And that A B C was diff...
workersliberty.org
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 7d
The Irish had to do this under occupation - put bars on their windows, to stop the British soldiers smashing in the windows with their rifles.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 8d
You gave your own tax dollars, that you could probably ill afford, to Biden and Harris to help kick-start and continue the genocide of Palestinians. For many months.

Your payback was watching little kiddies die horribly.

How did that go for you?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 8d
This glorious Leucate day, I spotted 15 cormorants, c 100 great egrets, c 200 flamingos, a starling murmuration, one grey and one trotty wagtail, c 200 jackdaws and c 100 crows.

The joy you get, watching things through binoculars. But fuksake what's with my neighbours complaining about my homework?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 8d
That is so lovely and unusual angle. x
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