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Nick M

@plodinnotts.bsky.social

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Book hoarder, woke, old but working (mentally) when you've always wanted to be TC, occasionally had moments of being Choo-Choo but were actually Benny The Ball all along. If antifa existed, I'd join

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 4h

yes - the "no cash losers" trick first devised by Sir George Young (I think) 30 years ago mean that people's overall UC won't go up with uprating until they have used up their transitional protection (if they have it of course) so their overall benefit is frozen

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 9h

and seeing as many are coming off the sickness benefit ESA, there are more sick people on UC and more not working - it's a policy change not a demographic one and not a symptom of a broken society or personal failings

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 9h

it's mostly people who don't understand the system(or choose not for political purposes) calling the movement of people from other benefits on to Uniersal Credit (nearly complete - well in to 7 figures) as a huge increase in claims rather than a net zero change in the number of people on benefits

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 14h

#booksky #books 6184 Penguin 6849 The Plutonium Factor / Michael Bagley (1983) old-style thriller re-working of the "holding the country to ransom" trope here with a planeload of plutonium and some pretty familiar characters - not to mention the only man who could track them down if he only had time

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 14h

#booksky #books 5925 Crimson Snow / Martin Edwards (British Library 2016, internet £3.07) annual festive selection of murder mystery shorts including one of the forgotten stples of the trade - the magazine serial prize competition, printed here with the solution as an appendix as is only proper

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 14h

#booksky #books 2997 Death Of A Bookseller / Bernard J Farmer (British Library 2022, internet £2.70) 100th crime classic reissue written by a book-loving ex-cop about a beat Sergeant befriending a book dealer who inducts him into the mysteries of the trade before taking a terminal knife to the chest

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 15h

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 15h

nurses care for people, ergo definitely JD Vance not a nurse

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

this weirdly emerge on The Bad Place so I have salvaged it - many many thousands more are lost over there due to vandalism of the archive and search functionality

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

apparently my theory that dust acts as a book preservative is equally doomed

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

#books 4848 Penguin Classics 154 The Vinland sagas : The Norse Discovery Of America (1978) two short Icelandic sagas as translated by Magnus Magnusson (a man I was once very rude to) telling how Eirik The Red colonized Greenland and his son Leif Eiricsson pushed on further

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

chimney breastt (bedroom)

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 1d

given the sheer scale of the outer solar system, what do you reckon to Uranus being captured fro interstellar space rather than the cosmic billiards theory?

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

into the kitchen - still disrupted by failed attempt to insert a new fridge

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

"Glitz" and "52 Pick Up" but I then encountered "Bandits" in the "waiting to be put in order then put away once the rest are posted" pile

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 2d

I assume "down the pub" is not an acceptable answer?

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky #books 6183 Penguin 8340 The Accidental Tourist / Anne Tyler (1986) admirable honesty in a book that includes great sadness amongst some wacky comedy and delivers both effectively with respect to a very OCD writer of travel guides having to find room in his routines for unplannable love

Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky #books 6182 The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing / Melissa Banks (2000) hitting the jackpot with her 1st novel, one of those cheery chick-lit dating hell rompas that you can end up reading & even enjoying without respecting it or yourself (and the last paragraph sucks on a cosmic scale)