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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚

@zincstoat.uk

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Steve, Nottingham, UK. Protean Annotator in Tangential Studies He/Him Avatar by Ben @daisyowl.com Typos, mistakes, misunderstandings all my own. #NoAI - "Creativity gatekeeper who projects my existential crisis onto an emerging technology." 🤣

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · Aug 25

Tremendously useful, particularly the advice for mobile search. The trick here is to follow the instructions properly, including visiting tenbluelinks.org *first*, then opening a new tab and performing a search.

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 1h

I've realised belatedly I've committed to friends' birthday and Hallowe'en parties on the next two Saturdays, and that's bad enough. At least I'll have Sundays to decompress. Days at a time, oof!

Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 1h

No danger of that Robin I'm sure. 🤨

Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 1h

Pay no attention to that black van parked inconspicuously outside. It is absolutely not part of a conspiracy to make sure you're not left in peace. 🙄

Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 1h

I feel this in my very bones. 💜

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3h

The current Labour Party's contempt *for people who actually voted Labour* does not bode well here.

Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 5h

This was such a problem in 2010 - an arrogant assumption that *obviously* the Lib Dems would bail them out, despite the disdain the party was shown. There does need to be some wooing.

Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 5h

Like, if Labour want LD and Green voters to like them and be willing to vote tactically for them, that has to be an active process, and a worryingly large number of Labour people's entitlement around such voters hardly helps that.

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 3h

Interpretive dance in the background, that always goes down well.

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Decahedron 🏳️‍🌈 @decahedronx.bsky.social · 6h

Holy fucking shit, you weren't even exaggerating.

What the fuck is wrong with these people.

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/peers-derail...

Peers derail government plans to hand some DWP staff powers to use force against benefit claimants

Government plans under controversial new legislation to give some Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff “morally dubious” powers to use force against benefit claimants have been derailed by …

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 4h

Pitching cosy British crime drama in 2025

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pitching cosy British crime dramas in 2025

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5h

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17h

From Li'l Folks by Charles M. Schulz.

A small child shouts "How do you expect me to sleep with the rest of the world tossed in turmoil?"

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 14h

Sorted! eXoScummVM to the rescue. I have a mad idea I never made it out of Rincewind's bedroom before, but apparently I'm wiser as well as older now. Anyway, time for bed now, that's my weekend entertainment sorted, thanks for the reminder.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 15h

*whispering darkly* as if I don't have enough to deal with

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 1d

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

atlantic article screenshot
headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 16h

This one doesn't, not exactly. CTD when I try to Save. Otherwise it's bringing back a host of memories I thought lost. The faux Richard Attenborough narration, the mugger doing a convincing Michael Cain.
Quick Google suggests it might be an issue with ScummVM 2.5.1 this installer comes bundled with.

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

PUBLISHED TODAY.

Silent Bones : The brand-new, iconic Karen Pirie thriller from the no.1 bestselling author Val McDermid
@valmcdermid.bsky.social

I got my SIGNED copies today!!

Woohoo!

You can get one HERE.

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

PUBLISHED TODAY!

"The Hawk is Dead" the brand new DS Grace thriller by Peter James
@peterjamesauthor.bsky.social

Look out Camilla! (or maybe not...)

These SIGNED indie editions have really cool sprayed edges too.

Look!

You can get one HERE!

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

The edges of the pages that have been sprayed red and have bullet targets on them.

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

PUBLISHED TODAY!

"Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective" by Richard Ayoade

Here's some rather excellent news.

I have a few copies, SIGNED by Richard!

You can order one HERE.

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

PUBLISHED TODAY.

"A Mind of My Own", the new memoir by the awesome Kathy Burke
@kathyburke.bsky.social

We've got a few SIGNED copies.

If you'd like one, you can get it HERE!

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16h

PUBLISHED TODAY!

The Widow : the unforgettable new courtroom drama from the master of the legal thriller John Grisham.

The Grishmeister!

Grishmas has come early!

SIGNED copies are available to order from us!

How about that?

You can order one HERE!

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Front cover of John Grisham's new thriller.

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Today I'm launching a Crowdfunder with the incredible Grace Quantock.

The aim of this is to get Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness" into health centres across the UK.

We be so grateful for your support.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29...

The front cover of Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness"

Here's Grace with her very cute medical alert and response assistance dog Wilfie.

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 16h

However, I might give it another go. If I can persuade it to run that is.
archive.org/details/disc...

Discworld : Perfect 10 Productions & Teeny Weeny Games : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This archive contains an installation package for the MS-DOS game Discworld.The installer allows the game to be installed on modern Windows operating systems...

archive.org

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 16h

I have a question. Did you get the number of that donkey cart? That game drove me spare back when it came out. I'm not generally great at Point and Click adventures but I really wanted to get on with this one on account of the subject matter. Didn't really work out alas.

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Pratchat @pratchatpodcast.com · 17h

Our next episode, #Pratchat89, is recording this weekend - and we’re discussing the #Discworld point and click adventure game from 1995! Ben may have lost the box and the disc but he still has his original manual… If you have questions, get them in ASAP!

A photograph of the instruction manual for the Discworld computer game, sitting on a keyboard surrounded by various bits of computer gear. The cover of the manual shows the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms illustrated by Stephen Player, featuring two hippos and a morpork owl.

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Steve Jeffery 🍸😷📚 @zincstoat.uk · 16h

In other exciting Mercedes F1 news, I see the team are announcing a partnership with Meta AI. That's unfortunate, they were tipped to be one to watch with the new regulations next year. Now I'll be impressed if they even find their way to the right racetracks, never mind finish in the points.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 17h

Yeah, that’s a big NOPE for me.

This account is that content scraper from Twitter that built a massive following by ripping off other people’s work and just posting without attribution.

He says it right there in his first post. These people never learn.

This is not the BlueSky way.

BLOCK HIM.

New account on BlueSky called Massimo who is known to rip off other people’s content and make money from it. The first pinned posts says that if someone owns the original content to get in touch with him as he has clearly ripped it off. The handle to block is @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 18h

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