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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 4h

Actively considering earning less so that I sit under the thresholds still (and hoping it’ll get ditched in future years????)

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 10h

I saw this at PeckhamPlex and it was a delightful setting for such a film.

Peckham plex is a law unto itself really, but cheap tickets + plentiful pick n mix = happy times.

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 11h

three cartoon characters are standing next to each other with a pink background that says 000000 on it

Alt: three cartoon characters are standing next to each other with a pink background that says ooooo on it

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 13h

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman personally intervened and fixed my depression - thank you Sam 🙏

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

<<insert inspirational montage (omit any melt/shutdowns or burn out please)>>

bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

No, no, no - it’s something to OVERCOME silly

(Said by a fellow person in this boat.)

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

But could you? Could you have bench pressed him?

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Max Parker @cominagetcha.bsky.social · 1d

I think people might misunderstand what "an A-level ... standard" are in this context.

It's the level of English you would need to be able to study any subject at A level - so no expectation that you've got a good grasp of the works of Shakespeare.

English language requirement for the Skilled Worker, High Potential Individual and Scale-up routes is increased from B1 Level to B2 Level (as defined under the Common European Framework for Reference for Languages (CEFR)).

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

audhd too, so I do appreciate the 😩☹️🫠😵‍💫 of a poor mh day

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you some calming/soothing activities.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

Cn: suicide

A bold attempt of change of narrative from the BBC here.

Link to “top 10 of britains most beautiful walks to improve your mood” from CBBC

bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh this is phenomenal! So much time. V.gorgeous. I am also sorry for your loss - I hope stitching helps.

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 2d

Anyway. I've partnered with @decolonialatlas.bsky.social to distribute their incredible map of North America from an Indigenous perspective with all placenames in the native language. Paper ones sold at cost. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/turt...

Turtle Island Decolonized — The Map Center

Every map instantly creates two types of people: those who make the maps and those that are mapped. Every map represents a world view and a perspective and I’m so delighted to offer this piece that sh...

www.mapcenter.com

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 2d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

for example, if women were to working in a group could all be criminalsied under this. So instead of having a flat where one can listen out for harm/keep watch/whatever, a woman is more likely to have to go the punter’s home / work on the street. Both increases danger enormously.

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

this is so critical - the problem with these laws that theoretically criminalise buyers of sex is that either sex workers get criminalised too, or sex workers are forced to work in more dangerous situations, increasingly their likelihood of harm and the potential severity of that harm.

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 2d

A brothel is a premises where 2 or more sex workers are present, so these statistics are not comforting to us. We know sex workers are being prosecuted for working together for safety.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/surg...

Surge in number of prosecutions for brothel-keeping | BreakingNews

Gardaí brought 34 prosecutions for the offence under Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 last year, while another 16 prosecutions were commenced since the start of 2025.

www.breakingnews.ie

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

Signed, someone with debilitating ADHD (in this regard)

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

Oh gosh - I wish you well.

(In these times I like to gamify the Grand Task List by writing out all the the little tasks on slops of paper, scrunching them up, and placing in a giant bowl. I also add tasks like “get a snack” and “have a drink” and ”feed cat” to ensure basic needs are met).

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 2d

In ASDA you can get two 14-inch pizzas, a side, and a litre of coke for a tenner. This isn't clever or witty or anything, but I think everyone should be told.

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 2d

When my partner and I want pizza for takeaway, we always then have to check what version of pizza we mean. All of them have a place in my heart - sometimes a greasy dominoes is the ticket, other times an artisanal fancy pants job!

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