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Matthew
@calmeilles.bsky.social
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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]
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Grilled cheese and caramelised onion.

#fpooc #cooking #sandwich #lunch
close up of cut edge and toasted cheese and onion sandwich showing oozing cheese and brown onion
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Yesterday's bake.

#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
batard loaf with distinct ear in many shades of deep golden brown Cut end of the loaf showing the crumb to be fairly open with a few larger bubbles
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Doonesbury cartoon, 29 May 2002 Mike: Mom, face it — you're a welfare farmer! Mike: You're part of an insane, inefficient agricultural system that rivals anything the Soviets ever planned! Widow Doonesbury: Well, it's not just the family farmer, Mike! We only get a fraction of the $190 billion in subsidies. Mike: Who gets the rest? Asterisk under a stetson hat [Bush]: The proud family agribusinesman. Voice off [White House press corps]: Sir, is that like the proud family steel producer?
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Doonesbury cartoon, 7 April 1974. Mikes Uncle and young Rufus walking in a field Uncle: Got any questions, young man? Rufus: Yes, I do, Mike's Uncle! Whaddya grow on this here farm of yours? Uncle: Absolutely nothing, Rufus! Believe it or not, the government pays me $175,000 a year just to grown nothing. Rufus: Huh? Uncle: I'm not sure I understand it either, Rufus. But is sure is great! Where else but in America could a man be paid $175,000 for growing 22,000 acres of weeds? Uncle (singing): My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of subsidy!!
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
The fridge was at the usual temperature, 7°C, but for some reason Horace was particularly vigorous overnight.

#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #breadsky
Bowl filled to the brim with risen sourdough dough Same bowl turned upside down to show the large gas bubbles visible through the glass
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Toasted cheese.

#food #bread #sandwich
Golden brown toasted cheese Cut section of grilled cheese sandwiches showing cheese oozing out.
December 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Hey #Linux peeps and especially #Ubuntu users.

This looks entirely normal except that it's the THIRD TIME TODAY.

What gives?

A symptom of my install being locally broken or something wider going on?

#MySQL #tech #updates
Standard automatic software updater for Ubuntu proposing to update five MySQL server components.
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My flatmate and I have received a letter from Fürer Farridge. I guess they electronically combined duplicate addresses from the electoral register to save money.

Even so the cheapest bulk price I can find mailing London households would cost £1.2 million. So they need the donations.

#politics #UK
Letterhead of a Reform mailing that shows my name and (redacted) address along side a picture of repulsive Farage under the head "London needs Reform."
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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What sort of Z is that?
"Z" in ribbon of Saint George colors with hashtag #СвоихНеБросаем (#SvoikhNeBrosaem; "We don't abandon our own") A Russian government pro-war propaganda motif,
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
It may not really be in America's self interest to disengage with NATO/Europe.

h/t Truescandic on Twitter who is @sanne7.bsky.social here.

#politics #NATO #defence #Europe
Screenshot of a Tweet from Truescandic UN @truescandic If the U.S. moves away from NATO, the economic impact would be significant. Europe is the largest export market for American defense industries, and NATO interoperability has ensured decades of stable, high-volume purchases. If European states shift to domestic production instead of buying U.S. systems, Washington stands to lose tens of billions in annual defense exports, long-term maintenance contracts, technology cooperation deals, and political influence tied to those supply chains. A weaker transatlantic market doesn’t just change security — it directly reduces U.S. revenue, jobs, and leverage.
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Trump’s new National Security Strategy openly says the quiet part:

🇺🇸 Break the EU
🇺🇸 Weaken NATO
🇺🇸 Boost far-right parties like AfD
🇺🇸 Force Europe to bend to US economic interests

This isn’t an “ally”. It’s a hostile power trying to pull Europe apart from within.

#politics #EU #Europe #Trump
Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter. Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize: ⏺ Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia; ⏺ Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power; ⏺ Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations; ⏺ Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses; ⏺ Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges; ⏺ Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and ⏺ Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices. American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations” individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe. America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent — and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness.
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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#Politics #USA #GOP #trump #ICE #DHS
A Mastodon post by @Lana@beige.party says: If you are using undocumented immigrants' tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes. If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working. If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about getting them to "do it the right way". If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Wordle 1,630 4/6

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#Games #Wordle #WordGames
Wordle Statistics Played 1400 Win % 100 Current Streak 41 Max Streak 575 Guess distribution 1: 0 2: 58 3: 465 4: 571 5: 252 6: 51
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Random Barking.

#Winter #photography #Urban #Cityscape
Under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds, blocks of new build flats, one still under construction with a crane adjacent, in front victorian industrial building in London white brick converted to apartments, all brightly illuminated by low sun and all reflected in the water of Town Quay Pool of the River Roding. A deep blue sky into which rises a new build block of flats illuminated golden by the wetering sun of a Winter afternoon. To the right the lattice work of a tall, slender crane in silhouette. A lamp standard, a semicircle of pierced work metal depicting fish, fishing nets, stylised waves and a personification of the River Roding. Two globular luminaires depending each side of the decorative part. Full moon in a blue sky. In the lower third a dark cloud bank. Below that the upper edge of a concrete building light bright and golden by the late afternoon sun of winter.
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Whereas this clearly has not original thought at all.
profile of seanocinneade.bsky.social showing no original posts.
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Ferfuckssake Channel4, 22 minutes streaming, 12 minutes buffering.
Screen of Streaming program with buffering icon in centre.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Still from the film Deliverance, the dueling banjos scene, towards the end when the local banjo kid smiles.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only:
Frank Morgan, playing the wizard, in one of the five guises he adopts in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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🍞 🧑‍🍳 🍽️ 🍜
#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
Sourdough batard in many shades of golden brown with distinct ear at the score line.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Undocumented? Well, if you weren't you now will be.

dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/when-ice-t...
« The updated Policy 11311 instructs officers to confiscate any government-issued document a person has on them — foreign passports, state IDs, consular cards, birth certificates, Real IDs, driver’s licenses, work permits. » 5.8 Noncitzens under orders of supervision. Generally, ICE will retain all foreign issued identity documents, including but not limited to, passports, identity cards, and birth certificates of noncitizens under a final order of removal, as these may be needed to obtain a valid travel document for the noncitizen in order to effectuate removal.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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And sliced for lunch sandwiches.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
Thickly sliced sourdough loaf, slices fanned out and cut end of the loaf visible all showing the even crumb.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🍞 🧑‍🍳 🍽️ 🍜
#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #breadsky
Sourdough batard in shades of golden brown showing wide gape at the core line as a result of oven spring.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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So it's actually a Russian "peace" plane. Who'd have guessed?
US 'peace proposal' includes Russianisms prompting questions about authorship of text - analysis Luke Harding in Kyiv Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English.
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The season of goodwill and warrantless detention.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

#politics #USA #ICE #Trumpistan
Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, November 27, and Christmas, December 25.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Eh!? What the…!?

Trump Casinos, Trump University, Trump Crypto and now Trump Insurance.

#TrumpInsurance #USA #politics #healthcare #Trumpistan
The White House President Donald J. Trump For decades greedy Insurance Companies have bled Americans dry. That's why President Trump, in association with AETNA and under the watchful eye of HHS Secretary Kennedy, is introducing TRUMP INSURANCE. For $599 a month Trump Voters will get comprehensive coverage without the GREED of traditional plans. Democrats can get the same coverage for $1499. Details are coming soon. Delivering for America!
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM