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AveTeresa

@aveteresa.bsky.social

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I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found. Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive. Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 2h

I guess the first Global Information System was seafaring, and a lot of that was government-tolerated (encouraged?) piracy, bullying, slavery - the more things change….

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 11h

The wonders of 21stC technology: advertising, data theft, and porn.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 17h

My teen too - I think we used to just “do a round of the charity and vintage shops”, I don’t think we had a verb for it!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21h

www.worldofmoose.com/products/cop...

Cartoon of man at a table with a book, a plate, a knife and a jar in front of him. He is touching a blob on a page of the book. Caption: I've got jam on my autobiography! Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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National College of Ireland @ncirl.bsky.social · 1d

Have you got your Monday thinking cap on yet?

If you haven't, check out our newest Weekly Research Round-Up on ELI's Dr Josephine Bleach's work on Delivering on UN Sustainable Development Goals through Community Action.

Check it out: www.ncirl.ie/Research/Res...

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 21h

I should learn not to do puzzles that require a level of manual dexterity while I’m on the bus - it has cost me Waffles in the past, a sudden jerk meaning a letter is dropped in the wrong place…

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot remember the names of all the different sweets - Nawal sweet shop on Camden St the supplier - company name: House of Sweets! It made raising a PO a little more fun to write in that company name :D

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

OMG - say that to DG - that could be a serious fundraiser :D :D :D

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations - the Khalil Gibran thing may have become a bit of a wedding wish cliché, but the longer I live the truer it feels (at least how I remember it): may there be gaps in your togetherness and may the breath of angels flow through.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Are you going to be in on Friday? I can promise you a good time ;)

:D Diwali Delight, I mean! 2-3pm.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

5-a-side at 75 - - the copy writes itself!

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Contrariness as a survival trait!

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

And Deirdres! I still think we should do a Deirdres vs Karens 5-a-side :D

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

At work: Eoin, Eoghan, Owen 😆

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

If I saw your first name and you told me your second name was “Shane”, I’d automatically spell it Séan.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Just sending you a hug.

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Probably my Oxford Complete Edition of “The Poetical Works of Milton” from 1899, bought in college cos I couldn’t afford new, and travelled with me now these many years.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

When Covid restrictions lifted fully, I booked a two-hour slot wherein the first hour was reiki and acupuncture, so that my body would lower its defences enough to let me enjoy an hour-long full body massage. That two-hour investment had me nearly fully sane after nearly two years of constraint.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no - I actually found it useful!!!

I thought it an interesting observation of Long Covid!!

I’ve found reiki very good in the management of my epilepsy :)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

He saw power dynamics and recognised when he was the one with power, even if it was only that both his hands were free and the other person was carrying a heavy box - he taught us to consider other people. And he was downright silly and good fun and hilarious and he could sing.

AveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 1d

HR held a wellness day my 1st week back to work after a bad dose of Covid. Hadn’t clocked it, cos thought I was just normally a bit post-sick, but I had Long Covid. Went for a short reiki session for free. The practitioner followed me out of the room after to tell me I was empty - no energy to move!

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalism reduced to its purest essence - a huge wad of rich people’s money, circling the globe looking for opportunities to manipulate financial systems into generating more money out of thin air, hanging the liability to repay it round someone else’s neck, and running away with the loot.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
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Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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