Gautam Paul
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Gautam Paul
@gautpaul.bsky.social
Husband, father, brother and cousin. Give me a stage.
Loves family and friends plus meeting/talking with new people.
Likes vodka - needs it quite often these days.
Tomorrow we start three days of walking in the Abel Tasman. No wifi, no phones, no TV. Just walking in nature.
I. Can. Not. Wait.
January 27, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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this gave me the tiniest sigh of relief.
January 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Pregnant sows spend 16 weeks in gestation crates, another 3-4 weeks in slightly larger farrowing crates, they’re impregnated again, repeat.

Imagine the misery😢

They have no choice, you do:

Choose #vegan over cruelty:

HowDoIGoVegan.com 🌱

www.howdoigovegan.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Another proud day for America.
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Sticky fingers album by the Stones. I couldn't put it down.
January 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
In French and English. Classy.
Bravo
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.

youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
January 20, 2026 at 11:32 PM
good practising christian?
If I was of that faith (I'm agnostic) I'd convert immediately.
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Will ice call a draw?
Does anyone remember the classic "ICE vs The Viking in a Bathtub" sketch on Monty Python? Good times!
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM
No matter how much money you have, you cant take it with you.
This is why I want a funeral pyre when it's my time to go.
January 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
How many barrels of oil did she promise him?
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
January 16, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Giant video screen behind them, so obviously pre recorded with the same movements etc. The whole event was beautiful performance art.
there’s some weird perspectives going on in that photo
January 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Thank you David Byrne and all the musicians/performers. What a great night. #Auckland #SparkArena
January 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Off to see David Byrne in Auckland.
Hopefully it isn't a road to nowhere.
January 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
cazique
Whoever invented Scrabble was into some really word shit.
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I remember us talking about "Chariots of the Gods?"
Bloody aliens/astronauts coming over here and giving us all the legends and religions that we now believe as ours.
I just saw Erich Von Daniken has died, pretty sure I read ‘chariots of the gods’ when I was a kid

did not know he was a hotel manager though lol

I’ll give SC a go, though I draw the line at illuminati
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Excellent book. There's three: The universe next door, The trick top hat and The homing pigeons.
You'd like these. He also wrote about the Illuminati.
I don’t remember reading that, though it sounds right up my street. Is it holding up?
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
First read Schrodinger's Cat back in 1985. Reading it again now
The incomparable Robert Anton Wilson died on this day (11 January) nineteen years ago. More than ever, read his books!
January 12, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Entire Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank are being erased. Bulldozed, dismantled, disappeared. Here’s what’s happening and why it matters. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra...
Israel is quietly erasing Palestinian refugee camps from existence in the West Bank
Israel has begun implementing its plan to end the Palestinian refugee issue by demolishing its most important symbol: the refugee camp.
mondoweiss.net
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Kings of Neon
Poo Fighters.
I could go on and on and on
Slightly diminish a band:

Tin Zeppelin
Slightly diminish a band:

Butthole Floaters
January 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The more I see and read, the less happy I feel.
Time to take the dogs for a walk, breathe in the fresh air, hear the birds and hold Suzanne's hand.
January 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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A poet’s words heard for the first time
Are like something you already knew
A poet should say what needs to be said
A poet should speak it true
A poet should say what you need to hear
And you know she was a poet too
Minneapolis was yet another outrage
But this time she looked like you
January 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM