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Marius Kiely

@mariuskiely.uk

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Just a protocol droid from a galaxy far, far away... fluent in over six million forms of communication... (Huge Star Wars fan but also real person, London, Irish, pro-EU, LibDem, design, retail, LGBTQIA, arts, wanting to relocate to France.)

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 2h

Over the hump of hump day in a somewhat challenging week... Murkiest of dank weather in mid Kent... hoping for a slightly easier, brighter slide towards the weekend... 🤷‍♂️

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 4h

Only just noticed the passing resemblance to Oliver Hardy...

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5h

“When we look at the cyber domain, Poland is now in a state of war [with Russia], it’s not a state of threat any more,” Cenckiewicz said.
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Russia pays Europe’s saboteurs in crypto, says Polish official

Warsaw’s national security chief says Moscow is also using a shadow fleet to launch drones into European airspace

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 4h

I was about to post the very same thing! 😁

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 4h

Genius! 😆

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

In comes Piggott with a counterfeit bond which by agreement between us (though it be very just in itself) he has made, by which I shall lay claim to the interest of the mortgage money, and so waiting with much impatience and doubt the issue of tomorrow’s Court, I to bed.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 1d

1776: Woodcock seen. Many house martins flying over the village. They have not been seen for some time. Redbreast whistles. No more swallows 'til the first of Novemr. No more Martins seen afterwards.

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catsinfrance @catsinfrance.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

With Sheply to Huntingdon to the Crown, and there did sit and talk, and eat a breakfast of cold roast beef, and so he to St. Ives Market, and I to Sir Robert Bernard’s for council, having a letter from my Lord Sandwich to that end.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 2d

1776: Swallows withdrew at Lyndon in Rutland. Some swallows remain at Faringdon: in appearance a young brood not long flown: they were very brisk. Bat out.

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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 2d

1824: Feel rather worse lookd over the Magazine for amusement, for Magazines are the best things in Literature to pass away a melancholy hour their variety & the freshness of their subjects whether good or bad never fail of amusement to reccomend them Blackwood's has had a hard hit on Taylor...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 2d

Aaaaaand... he's back:

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

So to supper, but my mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of her’s which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood, which ever after did please me very well.

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

Parfait. Absolument. Salut!🥂

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

I will be forever grateful to Grandma Eileen for my Irish passport... 😁👏👍

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

Sounds like a bad acid trip! 😁 (So I've heard... 😘)

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

"...But not so but that there will be cause enough of doing more if ever I should come to live there, but it is, however, very well for a country being as any little thing in the country."

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

"...where I found my father and two brothers, and Mr. Cooke, my mother and sister. So we are now all together, God knows when we shall be so again. I walked up and down the house and garden, and find my father’s alteracions very handsome...

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

1st para, yesterday: "Up betimes, and after a little breakfast, and a very poor one, like our supper, and such as I cannot feed on, because of my she-cozen Claxton’s gouty hands; and after Roger had carried me up and down his house and orchards, to show me them, I mounted, and rode to Huntingdon...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Hackers targeted JLR months before cyber attack that halted production on.ft.com/4oAPwpJ

Hackers targeted JLR months before cyber attack that halted production

Investigators consider whether state-backed actor or organised crime group was involved

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

Gravely concerned. Something seems to have happened to the @samuelpepys.bsky.social Bluesky feed... It's not posted for more than four days... I hope it's not defunct, the posts are always a highlight of my visits.

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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 3d

1824: Began to learn a poor lame boy the common rules of arithmetic & find him very apt & willing to learn. Began an enquiry into the life of Bloomfield with the intention of writing one & a criticism on his genius & Writings. A fellow of the name of Weston pretended to know a great deal about...

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 3d

1776: The hanging beech-woods begin to be beautifully tinged, & to afford most lovely scapes, very engaging to the eye, & imagination. They afford sweet lights & shades. Maples are also finely tinged. These scenes are worthy the pencil of a Reubens.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

The entire Trump administration is full of shit.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Nice recap

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