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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 4h

I eat the double chocolate ones....

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 5h

I try to be a bit imaginative 😁

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 5h

😘

a white teddy bear is kissing a gray teddy bear .

ALT: a white teddy bear is kissing a gray teddy bear .

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 5h

Did you save any for me?

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 5h

I had a similar plan, but it was a curry, then an individual raspberry trifle, accompanied by the 1994 film Jeffery, then an episode of Lower Decks, followed by (inspired by Patrick Stewart being in Jeffrey) s3e01 of Picard...

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 6h

Aw

two cats are hugging each other with a heart above them

ALT: two cats are hugging each other with a heart above them

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 8h

Unsolicited Rick pic

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 8h

I've not watched that yet... I'm watching Jeffery

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 8h

a white teddy bear is kissing a gray teddy bear .

ALT: a white teddy bear is kissing a gray teddy bear .

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 9h

This view in any film *still* makes me gasp slightly, even 24 years on...

(bonus points for anyone who can name the film)

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 14h

...laws, then there clearly is a groundswell to achieve that, against things that have grown tall, from actions of politicians who have been out of power for years, and the ones in power now are slow to unpick, resolve and address.

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 14h

... So if they feel like the time has come to say "up with this we will put no more" then this isn't something that started 15 months ago, it started 15 years ago (and more). If their union (not affiliated to Labour) has worked with them to get this ballot result under previous Tory anti union...

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 14h

...be administered by colleagues.

Yes, the years of pay freezes the Coalition Government imposed on the public sector had a terrible effect, and the parity with the private sector has been lost. Behind that has been an increase in pension contributes, loss of pension benefits...

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 14h

Civil servants at the lowest grades have claimed in work benefits since before WFTC and DPTC, before Working and Child Tax Credits, what is new is that the successors to those in work work benefits are now administered by DWP (rather than HMRC) as Universal Credit and they have claims that might

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 15h

Hope you make the train and the journey is incident free

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 16h

😘

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 16h

That's looking better than I manage on my best days 😘

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 16h

This explains so much...

Now, where did I leave the mind bleach?

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 16h

...and I hope the door swings back and hits them on the arse as they leave 😁

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 16h

I don't remember exactly when it was in the whole Blue Peter coverage over the years that it dawned on me that they excavating a mass grave... But still profound

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allthisandless @allthisandless.bsky.social · 17h

What five events defined your childhood

The drought and forest fires of the summer of 1976
A Royal Wedding between a man who loved another woman and a woman who wanted to be loved
The motel burning down in 1981
Raising the Mary Rose
Section 28 (and the end of childhood)