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Veles

@menkvi.bsky.social

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History enjoyer (MA), friend to frogs and toads (all), Marx's 5th cousin (6x removed), weird 🇬🇧

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · Nov 23

Alright I used Sky Follower Bridge so I guess I'll be following a lot more people.

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 13h

I asked a friend in Madagascar several years ago what hope she had for the future and she said "I don't believe there is any"

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 15h

It's been like a year...

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 15h

I've had the "Call to function 'Context. renderAsync' has been rejected" bug that blocks you from posting an image more times than I've actually been able to post an image on this app.

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 1d

The change itself isn't down to oligarchs although I suppose we are much more at their mercy now

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 1d

Would've been in trouble if I'd had an emergency today.

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 1d

Guess what happened today, less than a week after I switched over to a VOIP based phoneline, to prevent me making a very important call.

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · Aug 17

The government pushing a switchover to digital landline phones seems like such an ill-conceived idea I'm honestly surprised they're still doing it, considering the state of digital infrastructure in the UK.
It's theoretically a good idea (obviously updating infrastructure is good)

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 1d

The Your Party cannot organise anything

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 5d

Why is the British left just so absurdly unserious?

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a... Treatlerite now?

A dessert plate with "Happy Birthday Thomas" on it.

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 11d

Interestingly, if you Google "double exposure," only a couple of the results are actually real double exposures.

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 12d

Thoughtful and measured comments on this one

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 12d

That boy needs therapy

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 12d

my apologies I am a rain enjoyer

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie with the words it 's bleak below him

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie with the words it 's bleak below him

media.tenor.com

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 12d

a picture of a girl with the words it 's peaam on it

ALT: a picture of a girl with the words it 's peaam on it

media.tenor.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12d

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 12d

Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...

Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack

Vast majority of factories of nation’s most popular beer have stopped work this week

www.ft.com

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 13d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 13d

I spoke to a few people, including journalists, at Labour conference who had seen and believed claims on X that Multiverse – Tony Blair's son's company – had been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme

@fullfact.org have checked this claim and it is untrue

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 13d

Another one for the genre of overpaid "journalist" connecting random things that annoy them to a current issue. Spectator is great at this.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14d

"Emma Watson’s so typical of the entitled generation who think they’re right about everything – like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day" Sarah Vine, Mail

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 13d

Right, this is a persistent problem in this discourse.

Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about the urge to “punch up” and assume the only loneliness that matters is your own, and everyone else’s is self-imposed.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/when-im-lo...

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 13d

I've acquired film for my grandfather's Penguin camera - let's see if it works!

Two vintage black folding bellows cameras side-by-side. The camera on the left is a Kodak Junior, and the one on the right is a Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin

Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 14d

Obviously this is the worst of it, but every time I read the NYT (which is not very much) I'm struck by how this prevalent passive voice is part of a writing style that reads like it's written by someone who hates journalism and is loathe to tell the peasants the news. It's horrible to read.

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 16d

Tyneham

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Veles @menkvi.bsky.social · 17d

Tf is the anger with BlueSky rules about