Annie Di Piombo
@wazzock.bsky.social
Here because there's nowhere else to go now. And you know what? I'm rather enjoying it. See pinned post regarding what makes me tick and if you're going to follow me, POST SOMETHING!
Je ne suis pas Charlie.
Je ne suis pas Charlie.
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Annie Di Piombo
@wazzock.bsky.social
· Nov 4
okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.
In arbitrary order; beer, cats, philatelic history, broadcasting history, buses, architecture, the Peak District, the Yorkshire coast, cooking, jazz, classical, prog, football, cricket, Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, not doing small talk, fighting against the grim meathook future on multiple fronts.
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In several days you'll likely be sitting next to an ignorant relative who is 100% convinced he knows the difference between a sweet potato and a yam. Here's my primer on the topic. #thanksgiving #sweetpotato #yam #botany 🍠 colinpurrington.com/yams-versus-...
The difference between sweet potatoes and yams » Colin Purrington's blog
Every year at Thanksgiving, families in the United States sit down to argue about politics and the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. This page details how to tell them apart and explains how...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In several days you'll likely be sitting next to an ignorant relative who is 100% convinced he knows the difference between a sweet potato and a yam. Here's my primer on the topic. #thanksgiving #sweetpotato #yam #botany 🍠 colinpurrington.com/yams-versus-...
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Pastor Randy Ponce
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Pastors testify to the power of God throughout three-day tent revival in Conrad
CONRAD – Under a white tent and in the company of almost 100 people, Alice Church of God Pastor Randy Ponce shared his personal testimony during the Saturday Conrad tent revival. The event was held in...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Pastor Randy Ponce
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
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Two-mile-borris, Co. Tipperary. From the Irish 'Buiríos Léith', probably meaning the borough of the monastery in nearby Leigh.
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Two-mile-borris, Co. Tipperary. From the Irish 'Buiríos Léith', probably meaning the borough of the monastery in nearby Leigh.
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
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Aw, Jimmy Cliff. First thing that popped into my head was his appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, where he reduced the sometimes very abrasive Mark Lamaar to putty belting out 'Many Rivers to Cross'
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Aw, Jimmy Cliff. First thing that popped into my head was his appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, where he reduced the sometimes very abrasive Mark Lamaar to putty belting out 'Many Rivers to Cross'
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Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
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There are really only 2 possibilities for LAB to change its disastrous leader ATM.
Rayner or Miliband
Burnham doesn’t have a constituency, & any attempt at a by-election for him would be a freebie for REF, GRN or YP. Streeting does have a constituency but won’t have after the next election.
1/3
Rayner or Miliband
Burnham doesn’t have a constituency, & any attempt at a by-election for him would be a freebie for REF, GRN or YP. Streeting does have a constituency but won’t have after the next election.
1/3
Leadership (of “Labour), poll.
Noticeable that Starmer v Streeting produces more Don’t Knows than enthusiasm for either candidate. Like Spurs v Man U you want both to lose; the choice between sick & wee.
The only decisive wins are Burnham & Rayner. Even Labour members want to move left.
Noticeable that Starmer v Streeting produces more Don’t Knows than enthusiasm for either candidate. Like Spurs v Man U you want both to lose; the choice between sick & wee.
The only decisive wins are Burnham & Rayner. Even Labour members want to move left.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
There are really only 2 possibilities for LAB to change its disastrous leader ATM.
Rayner or Miliband
Burnham doesn’t have a constituency, & any attempt at a by-election for him would be a freebie for REF, GRN or YP. Streeting does have a constituency but won’t have after the next election.
1/3
Rayner or Miliband
Burnham doesn’t have a constituency, & any attempt at a by-election for him would be a freebie for REF, GRN or YP. Streeting does have a constituency but won’t have after the next election.
1/3
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Exciting news: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication on 8 January of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain.
First details here...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
First details here...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
Magic Rays of Light: the BFI season - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Exciting news just released by the British Film Institute: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication of my mon...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Exciting news: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication on 8 January of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain.
First details here...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
First details here...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
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Replies in this thread tell a real tale about centrist idiocy.
This being an off the cuff answer aside, Zack lives close to St Pancras, and he would never get elected in a seat as far right as Clacton. Standing there would be the stunt whiny centrists are accusing him of.
This being an off the cuff answer aside, Zack lives close to St Pancras, and he would never get elected in a seat as far right as Clacton. Standing there would be the stunt whiny centrists are accusing him of.
Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Replies in this thread tell a real tale about centrist idiocy.
This being an off the cuff answer aside, Zack lives close to St Pancras, and he would never get elected in a seat as far right as Clacton. Standing there would be the stunt whiny centrists are accusing him of.
This being an off the cuff answer aside, Zack lives close to St Pancras, and he would never get elected in a seat as far right as Clacton. Standing there would be the stunt whiny centrists are accusing him of.
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Cat crossing the street, Byker, Newcastle, 1974, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Cat crossing the street, Byker, Newcastle, 1974, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
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Certainly "culturally conservative" though: board member of the far-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (shareholders: Legatum and Paul Marshall.)
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Certainly "culturally conservative" though: board member of the far-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (shareholders: Legatum and Paul Marshall.)
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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Universal basic services too.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Universal basic services too.
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Interestingly, that is the very same attitude that many pensioners fire at in work and sickness benefits when claimed by younger people. It is often ALSO the difference between existing and food banks. Get irritated at the POLITICIANS who are pitting you against other generations, not others in pain
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Interestingly, that is the very same attitude that many pensioners fire at in work and sickness benefits when claimed by younger people. It is often ALSO the difference between existing and food banks. Get irritated at the POLITICIANS who are pitting you against other generations, not others in pain
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
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UK politics is insane to me because every time I tune in even 1% to keep appraised of what's happening there the headlines are all like "GOVERNMENT MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO WATCH KISSING VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TO PROTECT WOMEN AND GIRLS" and then in tiny font underneath "NHS budget cut by 75% next year"
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
UK politics is insane to me because every time I tune in even 1% to keep appraised of what's happening there the headlines are all like "GOVERNMENT MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO WATCH KISSING VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TO PROTECT WOMEN AND GIRLS" and then in tiny font underneath "NHS budget cut by 75% next year"
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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benefit fraud is at less than 1%.
what she means is she's gonna sacrifice a bunch of disabled ppl to keep rich ppl happy.
what she means is she's gonna sacrifice a bunch of disabled ppl to keep rich ppl happy.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
benefit fraud is at less than 1%.
what she means is she's gonna sacrifice a bunch of disabled ppl to keep rich ppl happy.
what she means is she's gonna sacrifice a bunch of disabled ppl to keep rich ppl happy.
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A movie that takes place where you're from. And the only one. And I'm so old, I remember that the supermarket was Maypole Stores. youtu.be/rQfgDybnEuA?...
Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967) - Jamie and his one track mind
YouTube video by Paul Thompson
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November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from. And the only one. And I'm so old, I remember that the supermarket was Maypole Stores. youtu.be/rQfgDybnEuA?...
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anyone in the Labour Party who claim to 'culturally conservative' needs to be shown the door, and hope it doesn't hit them on the way out
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
anyone in the Labour Party who claim to 'culturally conservative' needs to be shown the door, and hope it doesn't hit them on the way out
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Today’s fun linguistic discovery: a baby sling is a marsupio in Italian, a marsúpio in Portuguese and a kenguru in Hungarian.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today’s fun linguistic discovery: a baby sling is a marsupio in Italian, a marsúpio in Portuguese and a kenguru in Hungarian.
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George cleaned it up.
Mildred Shat
England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016
England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
George cleaned it up.
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Jeeeeez. We are so very, very boned.
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Jeeeeez. We are so very, very boned.