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Active travel, planning, politics, waffle etc. #mentalhealth Typos. Attempts at humour. Pronouns: none. Just use my name, please. UK. (Avatar: Shaun Meintjes on Unsplash.) Always read the label. DM's are OFF

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly. How are students supposed to learn how to write and analyse things (texts, ideas etc) if they get AI to do it for them? (For one, there must be more.)

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 7h

Would watch, I think.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 22h

Tea.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 1d

Co-signed.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 1d

Read what you like, including graphic novels/comics. Don't let anyone say YA fiction is some kind of poor substitute for The Real Thing. Whatever you do, do not ever bother with Thackerey's Vanity Fair. It is not worth the time. (I have read it.) Oh, I don't like Kes. Sorry. I think that covers it.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think have any unhinged literary opinions. 😉

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 1d

So that's what they're calling it now is it? 🙃

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out that, according to a regular email from local councillors, due to our council not using weed killer any more, plant growth sprouting from pavements will only be cleared once a year. This surely gives eco-friendly street management a bad name?

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Not sure what for, but yes.

(But would support any attempt to turn it into a 'policy themed visitor trail' if anyone felt it wasn't one already. If that's any help at all.)

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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 4d

My oldest graduated from an IB state school, w/my youngest still there. More housing built here means secondary schools are oversubscribed & this is an Ofsted rated 'outstanding' 6th form, one of over 50 in the UK for state school kids.

Please help. Please sign 🙏

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Sign the Petition

Reverse International Baccalaureate Diploma Funding Cut

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 2d

Is it just me or does anyone else feel uneasy about the new border control system for UK travellers? I don't just mean the possible four hour waiting time, but how accessible it is. What if you have no limbs or no fingerprints for some reason? What if the machines are hard for you to use? Then what?

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 2d

I shall consider that tactic in future.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 2d

Wordle 1,576 6/6. This just felt rude, tbh.

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I see what you did there now.

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

But isn't that Max's (not your cat) jumper?

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 3d

Water companies have higher profit margins than Shell and Sainsbury’s – here’s what that means

trib.al/GwWvoMG

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure if taking ICE to The International Court of Justice in the Hague would be appropriate, but something like that should be the outcome for all their egregious actions. Reprehensible barely covers it.

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

Too young.

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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 3d

New NSF, in which @RealStephens and I report from Il Lombardia and imagine how good cycling commentary would sound if it was golf.

(Pic by Russ Ellis)

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 3d

Good lord this video … read the background.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

Woah. (In an impressed and moved way.)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

Like the tote bag detail!

sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

June 1976, 31, please.

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sound+fury 🐉 @soundandfury.bsky.social · 3d

Wordle 1,575 5/6. Could've been worse, though.

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