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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 10h

How can you say that when at any time thousands of people are experiencing skies that are red, orange, grey or even, for some, black with sparkles?

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

But naturalisation is not for everybody. In particular if you would lose your original citizenship (e.g., of India, China, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain) it could make severe trouble if you ever need to go back & look after parents or deal with their estates. To say nothing of EU working rights.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they are. Also the state pension and child benefit.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

I do not mind what time they are on as long as they are on it.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

It was happening under John Major.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

Readers' insistent demand for horror/oulipo crossover fiction remains unmet.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

Is the B4044 Eynsham - Oxford cycle track built yet? It's been needed for decades.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

His term, over? He wants this building to hold his 2029 inauguration indoors in front of invited guests, rather than risking humiliation by the crowd.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

1. n.(pl) see TORMENT

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 3d

SNOUT ...And being done, thus Wall away doth go.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 3d

I think, para 7, you mean "attainting" him, not "attaining" him. As it stands the wording prompts the unpleasant reflection that some are born Prince Andrew, some attain Prince Andrew, and some - not always with consent - have Prince Andrew thrust upon them.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 3d

@villagebooks.bsky.social

Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 4d

Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

"Loophole" is already language selling the pass. Where the state has granted people rights they should be able to build their lives on those rights.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 5d

Good, but @simonpegg.bsky.social still holds the lead with "Parking is such sweet sorrow."

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 5d

Those baldies, they're all of a piece.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 5d

You are what you eat, which is why my all-pancake diet is so flattening.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 6d

They were the same people coming fresh from wishing Jeremy Corbyn on the Labour party, and maybe the entryists you get are not the entryists you want.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 6d

"If any frame sold by us is found to be defective (meaning it was defective when we sold it to you) and you make us aware of the defect within ten years of its sale by us, we will repair the frame or, if we are unable to do so, we will replace it or (at our discretion) provide a partial refund."

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 6d

Aww, poor bike! Ofc with a beautiful brazed frame like that Mercian could take the tube out & rescue it, in the sort of extravagant veterinary operation that you'd give a pet to avoid facing the guilt of putting it down.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 6d

A good old-fashioned Bill of Attainder should do it. Now is the hour for Denis Skinner to leave his plough.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 6d

Parliament could still pass a Bill of Attainder, although it might not be ECHR-proof.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 7d

Weeks start, properly, on Sunday and the index of days is, properly, zero-based.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 7d

And with AI, piracy can have a future even if *nobody* thinks.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 8d

Was most of that in fact the cost of her office staff?

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 9d

(*on reading the rest of the thread, I see that this is somewhere in the unwatchable Hobbit films, and not only buried in the depths of Appendix A, so attempting to correct a typo becomes obnoxious rather than an affirming nod from one who has also glimpsed the Hidden Lore.)

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