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Adam Butterworth
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Tweets about rocks, film and politics Editor of the Alpine Journal. Digital and Comms for the Alpine Club, Mount Everest Foundation & others. Opinions are my girlfriend's, but you wouldn't know her. She posts on a different app.
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Hello 👋

You can mostly expect to read posts from me about:

- Rocks and climbing on rocks
- Pictures of my dog
- Occasional thoughts on films
- Fun tidbits of mountaineering history

I predict you will mostly engage with:

- Pictures of my dog
Back at my folks' place this week and I'd forgotten that the local church rings the bells to mark Nov 5th, which you have to say, several hundred years on, feels a little OTT.
This sounds like an I Think You Should Leave sketch where Robinson is recounting the incident as if he's having a Vietnam flashback.
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."
Would once again like to point out that the best way to stigmatise SUVs is to characterise them as unBritish because they are, ultimately, a vulgar American import.
There should be a tax on ridiculously bloated road boats registered in urban areas, because (a) they cause obvious problems in such areas (b) they are bad for the environment (c) they are dangerous for children (d) they are awful, and driving them should be expensive and socially stigmatised.
Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'.

Okay.
Why yes phone, I would like to download this gif again. And I'll have a little less of the attitude, thank you!
I'm sure Farage or Kemi can sort us one who's into gamergate, if not actual gaming.
In case you missed it, Café Royal put out a booklet of some of the photos a year or so ago.
I'm not sure what kicked of the Ozymandias posting, but this is the best one.
This Pratchett quote has just suddenly come to mind for some reason...
I've always found it interesting that music seems different to other forms of expression in this respect.

Something about the closeness between the performer and the material? Something inherently more emotional about singing something?
Read this as 'Olivia Rodrigo' and briefly had an existential crisis.
This is Olivia Reingold trying to get back at John Oliver for the blistering takedown they did of the Free Press.

It’s actually worse than you’re thinking.
You come after a Resolution Foundation nerd on Bluesky, you best not miss.
We'll see. I had a tough time stepping away, but I have just found this government to be so fundamentally unserious. It's one thing to disagree with your party. It's another to view them as not being up to it. Maybe they can prove me wrong.
Resigned my membership this week, so am choosing to believe it was losing me that has finally convinced them to turn it around
If you have no tools, you will apparently try to beat the nail into the wall with your skull.
Really feel like someone should have spotted this before it got this far.
Nice to know that you could frustratedly call an enemy player a nonce over voice chat and be ruining his day.
As a midlander, this raises my hackles in an extremely "How dare you insult Birmingham. That's our job!" way.
Mind how you go...
Learning Jenrick is a Wolves fan.

Being reminded that we were out of the top flight for most of the '80s.

Insult after insult to my club, and all because Bob wants to do a little light historic revisionism and blow his dog whistle.

Unacceptable.
The chances that Robert Jenrick *literally* went to "more than a few football matches in the away end" at Villa Park *in the 1980s* (ie, before his 8th birthday on 8.1.1990) are vanishingly small to non-existent. (He may have been in the away end at Villa Park as a child or teenager in the 1990s)
I believe the term is 'florid'.
My old scout leader is one of the operators and 'I never really wanted to be a train driver' sounds very him.
He's also got his facts wrong. The groups he claims aren't doing anything contributed to a campaign around the additional changes to the bill just last week as their logos on the below demonstrate.
Ovo are the only company I've ever encountered who refused to take my money when I rang up trying to pay them. Genuinely amazed they're still operating.
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Is Miliband leading with a story about place and people? I honestly don't pay enough attention to know.
It's probably only partially related, but too many people took writing advice about using as few words as possible too literally. I've had contributors chafe when I've suggested they use a more complex sentence structure or longer series of words because it improves rhythm or sounds better.