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Verity Imelda Player

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Yorkshirewoman pestered by a guardian devil! Read my adventures: #ThePriceOfTime #TheEveningLands #TheTwistedGrain #Fiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Prosopagnosia #Tea

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 12m

Dividing by 60 million and expressing the result as 'pounds (or dollars) per Brit' can also help bring it down to the realms of the comprehensible.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 14m

Bring back the 'milliard' (for 10^9) I say!

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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 14h

Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 30m

At least drones will make it cheaper and easier to keep an eye on them, tho'.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 32m

Anything that needs picked by hand, I should imagine.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

Brilliant - thanks!

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

Good lord that is sad ☹️
We're supposed to be a seafaring nation ffs.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

A propos of nothing in particular, why do some people's profiles have a 📎 in?

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

Probably just by sitting near them.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

🤣

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 3h

I wish they'd cover politicians as well as they do wildlife.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning 🌄!
When cultures meet...

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Sumo legends go to Stonehenge!
bsky.app/profile/sumo...

sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 2d

The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 14h

I was born at 312.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 14h

Who remembers that academic paper, written in about 2000, by a chap with a Georgian-sounding surname who predicted that on then-current trends, insurance claims would exceed global GDP by the year 2065?
Dlugolecki? I might even have a copy somewhere...

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 14h

Came here to say the same.
Being wise is evidently adaptive.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 15h

Fyi Godwin himself announced the official end to his eponymous law in 2017, as a result of actions taken during trump's first presidency.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 15h

Good lord that really is a class detail!!

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 15h

Yes but his supporters believe he'll only drop it on *those* people.
They're truly settling themselves up for having their faces eaten by leopards.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 15h

Gah ya beat me to it!!
We're crypto-anarchic syndicalists...

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 17h

I have #prosopagnosia and fully endorse this post.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 17h

I use what people sound like.
You can put on makeup and change your hair, but short of carrying a vat of Helium around with you, or using fancy electronic gadgetry, you can't change your voice!

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 17h

Something's happening in #Ireland on Tuesday:

#research #consultation #publicengagement

Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social · 13d

Meet the team behind Ireland’s national roadmap on public engagement in open research & hear what’s coming next
Tuesday 21 October 2025, 11am–12pm
Trinity Long Room Hub @tcddublin.bsky.social
@norfireland.bsky.social
#openresearch #publicengagement

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 19h

Baby Face Finleyson's pram would be ideal 😊

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 21h

Went to Mustique island with her iirc.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 21h

Her wedding dress was a fecking crime. Like an exploded meringue.