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Looking forward to listening to a new podcast (new to me) on Trump news called Cleanup on Aisle 45. There's been a lot of legal stuff going on this week alone and I need some commentary.

I'm listening to Vanity Fair on Audible. I'm sure I read it once but don't remember it, and bloody hell, this book is LONG. Thought I was near the end but still have six hours to go. It's like War and Peace. (Worth it, though). #Books 📚

my dearest, the burden of age rests heavily upon me, and i grow weary of this world and its trappings. much as time came even for the fearsome spinosaurus and carcharodontosaurus to make way for new masters of this world, i fear it has come for me. please tell radiohead and nirvana that i love them

Exempt state pensions and benefits from income tax. Petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

I'm not the main character, but that doesn't mean I don't have a life and a backstory, even if it is only to doppelganger the protagonist.

“your jokes are so bad an AI could write them,” the new insult of our times

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70 years old, but as relevant as ever. 😞

Jeopardy’s Ken Jennings: NASA’s rockets are powered by hydrogen & oxygen in what state? Me, at home: FLORIDA! Ken Jennings, thru the tv: no, kd. liquid. it’s liquid, you stupid b

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." ~L.R. Knost LOVE VERSUS FEAR: Please vote for candidates who aim to make our world a little less cruel and heartless :-)}

Duolingo again seriously ticking me off. I I have no idea what the answer to this is. The answer given is no help whatsoever because the letters look different when joined up. I'll have to give up and lose my progress with still no clue as to how to do this!

Absolutely, there are some constituencies where if all of those who didn't vote had turned up and spoiled their ballot papers 'spoiled ballots' would outnumber the papers in favour of the winning candidate. Politicians would HAVE to take notice of our dissatisfaction with the voting system.

Actual footage of me today...

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This is a great article. I wanted to quote post from it, but would have ended up with most of it, so easier if you just read the whole thing.

What's clearly needed is a "sex ban". Women of the USA should all refuse it until the men come to their senses. There is precedent... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistr...

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Iceland xkcd.com/2874

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this year, I have had to explain trans people and the idiom "learning the ropes" to a seven year old trans people took like 30 seconds, "learning the ropes" took days of the most annoying follow-up questions you could possibly imagine, including watching videos about 19th century sailing

nuts that this isn't a real bond theme

I've just finished listening to the audio book of Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier, which is a book I'd never heard of before I borrowed it, and now it's finished, I'm stunned by the sense of loss 😥

Again, racism is not necessarily a feature we look for in fascism. There are three hallmarks my poli-sci professor gave me, but the most important one is Mussolini's dictum: 'Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State'

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Watched the first episode of Dark last night. I am intrigued.

Happy Christmas, everyone. Very best wishes and love xxx

I've gone and overdone it, today. I'm shattered. Hope this bout of exhaustion doesn't last too long.

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Interesting seeing what people are watching on TV since I seem to have totally given up on TV. One issue is that programs have become so damn long & I don't have the bandwidth to concentrate. I've recorded old episodes of MASH to watch. Half an hour a time with adverts that I can skip. Perfect.

Occasionally I’ll look at the cat and pity him for not being able to enjoy a coffee as well as for his relatively brief lifespan, but then I catch him licking his own genitals before settling down for an 18 hour nap and wonder who’s the real loser here?

Looks like it's my turn for a Twitter outage now. Just keep getting "content not available". I keep wondering how long it can keep going and carry on like this.

Hershey says, hey, the holidays are hard. Everybody be nice to each other. And if nothing else, you be nice to you.

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I was on a zoom call last night, the only Brit in a roomful of Americans. In the small breakout room, I mentioned our church is holding our Christingle service this Sunday and the others didn't know what that was. Is Christingle not known in the US?

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Not everyone wants to tell you why they don’t want your offer of alcohol. Just accept it and offer something non-alcoholic instead

Tech scope-creep/enshittification's genesis is that the types of info you share in your IRL relationships is highly contextual. I don't want my bank to know about my dating life or my Dr to see my memes. Consolidating/commingling that info anywhere but your own head feels deeply weird...

Hey, if you think 2023 was bad, 2024 is the year when Silicon Valley discovers Swift’s* “A Modest Proposal”. *Jonathan not Taylor. But they only work that out in May.

“Deaths from cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke are 33% higher among this age group, with diabetes deaths also up by 35%” This trend is being seen elsewhere in the developed world, in part due to post-Covid vulnerabilities but in the U.K. also due to problems accessing care

Listening to music in my car today, realised that I'm of the age where a lot of the musicians I like are dead... Shame McGowan, Kirsty McColl, Leonard Cohen, Freddie Mercury, George Michael...

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Well what do you know, it's raining again. I suppose we have had quite a drought recently as it hasn't rained for at least 16 hours. Does anyone know if this is from Fergus, whatever G is, or just bog standard rain?