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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 23h

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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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 20h

It took me too many years to learn this, not just with books, but TV, videogames, and movies.

James @elchopo99.bsky.social · 20h

my fav companion advice to this: if you read 25 pages and you dont like the book, you can move to the next one. you dont get extra credit for reading a book you arent into, and more books exist than you'll ever have time to read. so just read books you enjoy.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 20h

Note incorrect usage of "WiFi".
www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/2554003...

Residents left without broadband after huge car fire

Residents have been left without Wi-Fi in Beaminster after a car crashed into a telegraph pole and caught fire

www.bridportnews.co.uk

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 21h

They did a runner before the emergency services arrived. So I'm not entirely sure they were the lawful owner of the vehicle.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 21h

Our nearby village was totally banjoed by telecoms today. Not only was there the Vodafone outage, a car crashed into a telegraph pole and burst into flames, knocking out a main telephone line.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 21h

I think she's done funerals for some unpleasant people. But I think this is on another scale. His evil would be mentioned, and perhaps the focus given to victims and prayers for them.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 21h

She asked me what I would think. And I said I'd be against it, because we'd become hate figures for the press and public.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 21h

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 1d

Local Newspaper website has a story about the internet being down locally (thankfully not here) and is clearly confusing internet, mobile, broadband, and wifi.

Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 1d

It's so cold in our house today while I'm working from home that I'm going to have to wear something other than the fat middle-aged bloke uniform of long shorts and t-shirt.

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thepokeuk.bsky.social @thepokeuk.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr descibed a pregnant woman as having ‘a baby in her placenta’, so it’s a good job he’s not in charge of America’s healthcare or anything www.thepoke.com/2025/10/10/r...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 2d

Agree. We are human beings, not human doings.

Chris Sotomayor 🇵🇷 @sotocolor.bsky.social · 2d

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

Being a writer really helped me. My wife says she fell for me due to my emails, the first date was a formality.

Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

One of the main benefits of vinyl - on the whole - is the album ends, and there's no sudden lurch into a bunch of bonus tracks. The album running order and track list is set in stone, or at least plastic.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

Am I the only one that hates bonus tracks being lumped in with the rest of an album on streaming services? A good well-sequenced album has a natural end, and then "hey here's four tracks that weren't good enough, and some rough live stuff to spoil the vibe."

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

It seemed terribly modern at the time that I met both my wives online. Now it seems ancient history. That was back in the days of dating websites, and long emails back and forth. I'm so glad I haven't dated in the app era. Not sure I could cope.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look it's my gaming setup from the very early 1990s. An Atari 520STFM. I loved that thing. I mostly played Microprose military games, Falcon, Elite, and Midwinter.

A desk featuring a small colour TV and an Atari 520STFM computer.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when garden birds start practising their morse code skills in the roof gutter closest to my bedroom window.

Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

Well I guess they are both made from pig.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look it's my gaming setup from the very early 1990s. An Atari 520STFM. I loved that thing. I mostly played Microprose military games, Falcon, Elite, and Midwinter.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d

One of my most hated TV tropes is reality TV shows where you watch stuff happen, but then there are insert interviews with the people just telling you again what you just watched them do. Yeah my wife is watching Celebrity Traitors.

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Harry @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 3d

Oh well. Never mind.