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Dad, artist, he/him (see, it's not difficult), reformed I.T. engineer, science nerd, EUphile, Earth history/palaeontology (Ediacaran), pianist learning Rach 3, guitarist learning Mach 4, lover, fighter, berk.
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Plenitude Action Lipozomes with Contour Regard™
if you saw how many mullets there are in America freely going about their business in public atop their owner's heads you could only conclude it is a failed state
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Overton Window is doing weird things. Trumpists have the most toxic perspectives but some of them are saying 'unalive' instead of 'dead', showing they are at least in part being carried along with the culture of respect and sensitivity.

Weird times...
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Why do people do this?

WHY?!
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Just boarded one at Heathrow and captain just informed it’s grounded at the moment and they’re discussing with dispatch how to proceed….
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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“Analysis... has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

A significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.”

Currently ~3,000 airborne A320 family aircraft.

www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Why do you need Seal Team 6 to blow up a fucking boat?
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
5yo daughter asked if her elder sister enjoyed her free day off school for 'insect day'. 🪳
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The vaccine is pretty astonishing. Just look at that green line.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'd fucking kick the shit out of one of these if I saw it in the street.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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If the whole world did an Albania, Youtube would be usable again.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
there should be earworm charts
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Landscape artist Graham Gercken
'Blue Mountains' (west of Sydney), oilpainting
#art #landscape #oilpainting
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
1. Portishead
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. The Damned
4. A-ha (fuck off it was an amazing concert)
5. Barry Manilow (see also above parentheses)

I was going to include The Dwarves but they came out an hour late (naked), played one song, bottled a girl in the crowd then fucked off back to the tour bus
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

1. Ozzfest
2. Charley Crockett
3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
4. The Mavericks/Dwight Yoakum
5. The PDX Broadsides
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

1. Tom Waits
2. Insect Warfare
3. Warhead
4. King Crimson
5. Nothing Clean (final gig, house show)
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

...(heat death of Universe)...

...AAAAH... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

...(last black holes evaporated)...

AHA-AHAAHA-AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...

...(new physics)...

AHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAICAN'TBREATHEHAHAHAHHAHAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Charlie Kirk spent $30K per month on a trans woman’s ‘Spicy Site’?
Wow, Happy Thanksgiving! Take that little bit of information with you to your family dinner with your MAGAt in-laws ! 🍁
Is it true? I guess we’ll find out before Christmas and you can rub that in too. 🎄

#Pinks #CharlieKirk #Trans
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
tired:
"...says something"

wired:
"...breaks silence"
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Imagine talking to someone normally like this.
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Been playing with QGIS. Loving these colours and how they show intricate geology, like the long band of magnesian limestone running from the midlands to the north. #Archaeology #Geology #Data
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Morning! X
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
KPop Demon Hunters has given young women an unrealistic expectation of comically massively disproportionate leg length
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
WOODWORKING YOUTUBER SURPRISES WIFE BY TELLING HER HE BOUGHT A $2000 TABLE FOR HER BUT HE ACTUALLY MADE IT HIMSELF!

Mate, your wife's an idiot.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I’m not going to say this necessarily makes him a pedofile but it certainly makes it more likely.

Don’t buy Nike.

www.newsweek.com/nike-founder...
Nike founder Phil Knight makes record-breaking donation to Republicans
Phil Knight reportedly surpassed his own previous $2 million donation to the same Bring Balance to Salem PAC.
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
go outside and touch some arse
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM