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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, pace yourself.

Although…how many bits to eat a kg of haribo on stream?

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 4h

There is so much going on here, this story is brilliant

Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 4h

'Three-day cola bottles binge put me in hospital'. (Thanks @mrsemilia.bsky.social & @john3ners.bsky.social!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 5h

Spent my afternoon doing pumpkin prep - tomorrow I'm going to make a pumpkin winter ale, so today I've chopped and roasted them with some muscavado sugar.

I'm also going to roast the seeds as a tasty snack 😋

Two halves of a pumpkin on a wooden chopping board. The pumpkin has been peeled so you can see the light orange flesh, and the seeds are still packed inside.

A baking tray filled with chunks of roasted pumpkin. The flesh is slightly darkened, and there is a slight shine from the dark sugar which has turned to syrup in the oven.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 11h

people will be like 'we've digitised these manuscripts, thus preserving them!' sorry mate if you want to preserve the data on your server copy it out onto parchment, the chats on your server won't survive as a paste-down in an old gradual stuffed on a shelf in a damp cellar for 1700 years

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 9h

There was a debate in Parliament a short while back about stopping the use of vellum for recording statutes and it went:

"we could use this archive-grade paper that would last a few hundred years!"

"...we don't know how long vellum lasts yet, but it's at least millenia"

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 21h

Spent the evening playing Jackbox.

Learnt that you can get high off flavoured condoms.

Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks to @jackboxgames.com and @djdamien.bsky.social for informing me via a game of Fibbage that this is a headline that happened in 2022...

Strange addiction: Youth of West Bengal's Durgapur are 'high' on condoms and locals are baffled.
www.news18.com/news/buzz/st...

www.news18.com

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 23h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely living for you fact-checking your own joke here

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not “political” for the head of state to call for peace and calm, nor is it so for him to say “I don’t have any association with this group”.

This sort of behaviour needs to be challenged otherwise they’ll learn they can get away with it. 4/4

James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

I get that he’s supposed to be politically neutral, but it wasn’t a good look during the racist riots last year for him to not say anything, and it will look REALLY bad if people calling for discrimination literally in his name go unchallenged. 3/

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

otherwise the danger is that the wider public will think they speak for us.

Likewise, these guys seem to be claiming some sort of legitimacy by co-opting the monarchy to their cause - again, Charles needs to speak out and reject the association. 2/

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

As a Christian, I want to start by saying that these people do not represent me and I strongly reject their views.

But rather than simply dismissing them as a few US-inspired fruitcakes, it’s crucial that the wider Church (& king) is vocal in condemning this and offering a positive alternative… 1/

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Christian Nationalists from the so-called 'King's Army' took to the streets of London's Soho to intimidate LGBT+ people. A clear sign of growing Christian Nationalist extremism in the United Kingdom.

Open-mouthed men and women in paramilitary style tracksuits stand in military foundation on Old Compton Street. They wear crucifixes and the label KING's ARMY. Overlaid is Humanists UK's headline: 'Christian Nationalist mob "King's Army" targets Soho, London's gay district'

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

There are still some others growing - hopefully they'll swell nicely over the next couple of weeks.

A close-up of a pumpkin plant with three small pumpkins growing along the stem.

James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

Big moment today - I harvested my first two pumpkins of this year!

They are an eating rather than carving variety so they win no prizes for size - but hopefully will make up for it in flavour!

A ripe, orange pumpkin resting on a paving slab. It is still connected to the plant.

Another ripe orange pumpkin on the plant, this one growing in a large rectangular pot.

Two pumpkins side by side on a glass-topped garden table. The one on the left is bigger, with a light orange skin. The one on the left is smaller and a darker shade of orange.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 2d

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A Spirit Halloween costume called "Former Gifted Child." It's empty. Nothing included. When people ask, "What are you supposed to be?" Just Reply, "I was supposed to be a lot of things."

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when you forget to renew your domain name!

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, it’ll be gold painted. It’s never the real deal with him, it’s all about the appearance.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

The beer itself also wasn’t bad!

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Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 1d

This reads like the character list from a children's book

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Week in wildlife: a bumpy snailfish, a slow loris and a whistle pig

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

www.theguardian.com

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this on the same shelf as a load of slop-labelled beer. Pretty much guaranteed my purchase. 🙌

The front of a beer can entitled "AI is killing art!". The image is a skull wearing sunglasses with a pencil and pen through it.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 2d

Karen's excellent book, The Dark Womb
Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss, is available to order here:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

#babylossawarenessweek #babyloss #theology

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, it is a necessary evil. It just always stings when I have to pay £175 for the privilege of a pensioner getting to watch Bargain Hunt 😆

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure I post this every year, but...TV Licenses are the biggest fucking rip off going.

£174 for something that we barely use.

I've opted for a paper one to inconvenience them, out of spite.

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 3d

I keep seeing this reposted, but it’s from 4 months ago - do you know why it’s doing the rounds again?

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