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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 17h

I did the Year Abroad of my German degree in Austria in '99-2000 and have loved this ever since. And pre-fame Christoph Waltz.

Hudson and Rex, the recent Canadian remake, just isn't quite the sam somehow.

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 19h

It's certainly an interesting point of comparison with RFK Jr's latest "you shouldn't trust experts, that's totalitarian" shit

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

It's a novel, so it is real content, just not directly in the game.

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

Oh balls, you're right. I'd just encountered an "I really want to play this game but my PC isn't good enough"(*) moment and had idly been thinking about looking at upgrades.

(*) MUST be installed on an SSD.

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

Just like the real thing....

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

... they're dying on their arse because "only STEM is worthwhile to study and everyone speaks English anyway"?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

I was in an amateur performance of The Ghost Train some years ago. It's an absolute hoot.

"Great scott! Bolshies!!"

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

Considering their Macaroni Cheese is already pushing a tenner, this doesn't feel like *that* big a stretch.

(And to be fair to them, I had some reduced once and it is *really* good mac & cheese)

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

That's a crowded field too, even if you narrow it down to "Bawdy 70s Comedies".

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

I forget if it was some fantasy fanfic thing, or an Etruscan script on a page about the development of writing. But it definitely wasn't what Roman soldiers were writing home from Hadrian's Wall using

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1d

It was bad enough when our kid's primary teacher used to put [topic] into google image search and uncritically present thr top result as fact.

They did a whole session and presentation at parents evening where kids wrote their name using the weird runic "Roman Alphabet" they'd found.

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't they officially declare "Prosperity Theology" a heresy a while back?

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 3d

Because if they had an email address (that they gave out), people would email them. The entire goal of any GP surgery admin team is to erect as many barriers as possible between patients and doctors...

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 4d

@throughlupus on x

Just because I am not voicing the pain and discomfort I am in- does not mean I am not experiencing it. We get tired of always talking about our pain. But please know that we spend most of our day in some type of pain.. pain...and usually only voice this when it gets to be unbearable.

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 4d

Incidentally, one of the descendents of the architects was a racing driver in the 1990s...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

Andrew Gilbert-Scott - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 4d

It's a bit of a turnaround from his days playing in goal for Ipswich, but nice to see people branching out

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

Top of the Pops - old weekly BBC chart show that gets repeated in the UK every friday night.

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like these two things may be related #totp

@unclebeard1978.bsky.social @whenisayj.bsky.social

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

Bad news ..

#totp

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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

I always assumed they were kind of a pun on "Beatles"

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

I always liked it on the album; don't think I ever knew it was a single

Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 6d

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 7d

Oh do pay attention Bond. Now, this might look like a perfectly normal ball point pen, but by manipulating these controls it can write in FOUR different colours.

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