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glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 21h

Covid vaxxed. Tssk.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 22h

On the basis of this experience I'll do both at Teaco next time.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 22h

I had tonpay for this one. A week earlier, I had booked the offered flu vax on the NHS at Tesco, like yourself. I was unaware that there was a +covid option. Tesco did the flu thing fast, efficiently and warmly.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 22h

I also got covid values today, but at Boots. I registered, was sent to a waiting are five minutes before my designated time and had to yell out to ask why I was being seen 20 minutes later. I'd been sent to the wrong waiting place. 1/n

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 22h

I can't DM because I haven't been able to jump through BlueSky's DM gateway protocols (old computer). The items that I couldn't buy are various iterations of large bottles of water, Philip Berio extra vrigin olive oil (1L), some Ecover washing up liquids, off the top of my head.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

NP.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a journalist that can pick up on this? @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @theguardian.com ?

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

With deliveries, you had the perfect solution to help slightly disabled people access your bulkier products, albeit it at a slight cost to those people (which I was perfectly happy to pay) and now you have ... removed it?

Perhaps I should try Ocado or Sainsbury's instead.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost as if they are trying to discourage people for asking for delivery for these bulky items whereas, so far as I am concerned, the *main* reason for using a Tesco delivery is that someone brings those items to my front door for me.

What gives, Tesco?

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

I do an online shop every so often so that I can get items that I am physically incapable of carrying from where I can park my car to my house. These are all registered as 'out of stock'. I have tried adjusting my delivery date and time. Still out of stock.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have any idea why so many of the products usually available in Tesco for online shopping are no longer available? They don't appear to have a BlueSky account to ask and nor do they seem to have a (makes sign of cross) a twitter account.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 12d

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

The Boring Fund - Open Collective

We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

opencollective.com

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Nirmalya Kajuri @kajunut.bsky.social · 4d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis —

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

Here's what I understand of their work ⚛️🧪🧵

Image of the three Nobel laurates

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

(I am safe in the knowledge that none of this supposedly reprehensible youth will be reading me on Bluesky - which is another problem, for another day, eh?)

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

Leave the youth alone. You were one, once.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

Although, I would like to add:
Just because they are 'youth', it doesn't mean they can't congregate or that they shouldn't be allowed to congregate. Better that than donning the hoodies and masks to create havoc on a community or use local roads as racetracks. Also, you KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

In addition, benches can become informal meeting spaces and they can contribute to the seen community. We see this when we hear people complaining about the youth hanging out by bus stops / shopping squares but it needn't just be 'the youth'; it can be the aged, it can be mums with kids, etc. End/n

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

Benches in the public domain are massively important; even better if they are comfortable and public art. When we encourage people to participate in active travel, those who are worried about walking because of the potential to become exhausted will do it if they know there are stopping places. 1/n

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 4d

A friend once arranged a pub crawl using the Bank to Monument branch. Which involved drinking around Bank then drinking around Monument and then back to Bank again. This was in the early naughties. I tried Doom Baaaaarrrgh for the first time and spent the rest of the day talking like a pirate.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no! Jilly Cooper :(

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 6d

It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 8d

Is this for real?

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 9d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

glenysmw @glenysmw.bsky.social · 9d

The only people trying to incite violence against Farage are Farage and his deputy. Farage wants his moment as a victim.