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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4h

"Democrats are about to win an election. Here's why that's bad for Democrats."

Fuuuuuuck offffff.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 5h

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 5h

Oh. My. I. Need. 10 mins.

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 8h

I already knew that was one of your requirements & I was mainly being supportive but mischievous 😉

(Charlotte knows I'll run to the hills if anyone responds)

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 8h

Also location.. soup by mail is possible but..

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 8h

I fail on one of these.. ok probably two of these requirements these days. 😜

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not really on top of this one.... I just used to snort at his unfortunate name.. (either dick trainee or dick chain me)

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 9h

See I'm taking this as you being very kind and preparing this as gluten free for us weirdos

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 9h

@thekenchilds.com I got into dream theatre in the mid 90s... There are a-holes in music whose political positions you can understand for shallow financial reasons.. but I struggle with dickhead offspring

SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 9h

It is kind of funny/revealing how we’re in the midst of an actual authoritarian takeover at the federal level, but all these people are spiraling and panicking over the prospect of a progressive mayor in NYC.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 10h

now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 9h

Show me you're on social media, confidentially talking about things that happened way before you were born without understanding anything about those things...

Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 10h

Ppphh.. I make enough soup for more than a day, I'll take a photo when I reheat it tomorrow 😉

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 10h

I made leek and potato earlier... although In all honesty whenever I make it, it's more white pepper, leek, and potato

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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 11h

You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by, cold pumpernickel

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 13h

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

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NGAutoArt @ngautoart.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a piece I drew for a project that has, rather sadly, been cancelled (nobody involved at fault).
It depicts #RoyalNavy carrier borne aircraft - Sopwith Camel, Supermarine Seafire, Sea Harrier and F35B.
It’s all graphite and is 70cm across. It’s a lovely piece which I spent 90 hours on.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11h

Kwasi Kwarteng, the former UK chancellor whose infamous “mini” Budget under then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a crisis in the gilts market, is backing the launch of a bitcoin investment company.

www.ft.com/content/c5a6...

Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company

Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury

www.ft.com

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 10h

Not a strategic tactical command decision... But I always figured as a captain I'd want something that ran very quiet, and could also run away v.v.fast. (whilst admittedly probably not be quiet when running away)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12h

"You may be wondering why I 'ave zis ridiculous get up on. It is because I 'ave just 'eard the Nazis are terrified of the smell of onions."

Gordon Kaye - as long-suffering accidental resistance fighter, café owner and unlikely sex object, the one and only René Artois (disguised as his own non-existent twin brother for the purposes of being dead) - wearing a string of onions. Whatever ridiculous set of circumstances necessitated this is best left unexplained - the point in any event was always to get to the next ridiculous situation...

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 11h

Oooh oooh. It's god dang it but darn it without for me...

See also singing when frustrated Marty Robbins - a white sports coat and pink darnations

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12h

Scene from Zulu, somewhat recaptioned:

"Those sandwiches have onions, sir. And mustard on 'em!"

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 13h

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

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-dr. booty @justbrady.bsky.social · 14h

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 14h

Local newspapers were not perfect by any stretch, but allowing companies to destroy them not only impoverished communities, but left us all vulnerable to social media and the disinformation that's tearing our society apart from within.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 14h

First newspaper I worked at in the '00s covered a ~100,000 town w/ 6 reporters, 4 photographers, news ed, & editor, plus 8 subs covering that and the other six papers in the group. Now? Two reporters & 1 ed based in a different town.

Similar at second paper, now reduced to two reporters and one ed.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14h

Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.

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Paul Hopwood @acousticsinuk.bsky.social · 11h

I kinda like the fact that for a brief period of time before it became a cesspool I managed to talk & chat with Scott & Mark, and even Ken once responded to something I asked him.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, it was the egg salad sandwiches which broke the Light Brigade at Balaclava

The horses couldn’t see the yolk in it though

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