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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 1d

Procedure as followed in my work is still to self isolate until the completion of two negative tests on consecutive days

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 1d

Saw your post and did a test and you’re right. I’m a social care worker and had all my booster jabs up to the last lot, so hopefully I’ll be ok. I was crammed into a crowded meeting too on Wednesday though

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! I deleted my post as was going to word it differently but then saw you responded.

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 5d

I was writing from bitter experience after I was locked out after my keys fell out of my pocket on the bus after a very long and horrible night shift. My landlady turned up with the spare key eventually

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe change the lock to the type where you need to lock it with your key from the outside. The problem then is that you can get locked out because your keys fall out of your pocket on the bus

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 18d

It gets worse

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 18d

Indeed! The BBC adhering to those Reithian principles of educating and informing might be useful

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 22d

I’m looking forward to the day when Sadiq Khan meets New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 23d

I think that would be because it is a very good and very important book

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 24d

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · 24d

Not bad for the middle of the week! I wanted to be there too but had a training I need to do today, lots of other people would say similar I’d imagine!

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · Sep 11

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence.

From: Yes, Prime Minister.

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was going to say that. Quite an admission I’d have thought

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 9

road.cc/content/news...

“I see at least one patient a week”: Doctor claims surge in ‘Lime bike leg’ injuries linked to tourists and inexperienced riders

A London-based doctor said that first-time users, with “little to no safety instruction before riding,” misjudge the weight and speed of the hire e-bikes, with injuries ranging from fractured shins to...

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 9

My son who cycles to work everyday said it was very entertaining watching lots of inexperienced cyclists falling off and bumping into each other

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fantastic film

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Sep 7

I pretty regularly get to watch companies making international moves and investments and it is *frikken weird* how the UK keeps actively sabotaging them bringing investment and jobs to the UK because of myopia on immigration. Utterly surreal and perverse

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 6

I believe that either during or just after the civil war, the pope described Franco as “our blessed son”

Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 5

I managed “sound on” long enough to hear what I think was “Insomniac, I’m an insomniac” or it could have been “maniac I’m a maniac” and thought more or less immediately afterwards that “pipe of crack, give me a pipe of crack” would also scan

Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 5

TACO wouldn’t dare! Good luck and best wishes from the UK!

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 3

Maternal grandmother was descended from the Huguenots. Her cousin was Leslie Durbin a highly regarded silversmith that worked on the Stalingrad Sword. Paternal Grandmother descended from Palantine Germans who came to Britain via Ireland. We are all immigrants!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 3

Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a ‘failure’

Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standing * ‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right Europe and the west’s double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global standing, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has warned, describing the response to Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory as one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century. In an interview with the Guardian before talks with UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in London on Wednesday, the socialist leader also said the US under Donald Trump was trying to end the post-second world war, rules-based global order it had originally created. Continue reading...

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 2

Or, as I would have said “I’d have no problem with that and maybe she could get some useful work experience helping people with their English”

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Sep 1

To answer your question I’d suggest you read Dalrymple’s wonderful To The Holy Mountain

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Bill Eborn @billious.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is my MP I’m very happy to say!

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