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There is but one human 'race': Homo Sapiens. 'We are all connected through our shared ancestry, and the study of human evolution reminds us of our common humanity' (D.C. Johansen, discoverer of 'Lucy')

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 20h

Thoughts are with you.

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 20h

I think it was due to absent-mindedly scratching the itchy psoriasis patch on my ankle with insufficiently sanitised fingernails. That's my theory, anyway.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 20h

Some of the best food I have eaten has been rustic fare in the wilds of Spain, Portugal and France. If the basic ingredients are good, no need for frills, eh? I'll never forget my first encounter with Wildschweinragoût in the Black Forest... incredible.

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, I prefer to bake the stuffing separately. I like it crunchy, I roll it into golf-size balls. Leeks make an interesting alternative to celery. And I prefer olive oil to butter, but we're generally on the same songsheet here.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 20h

Really, all cuisine styles done well are good. I think the biggest compliment I ever got was when a group of Malaysian guests told me a rendang I'd made for an Eid-ul-Fitr party was the best they'd ever tasted 😳. Made my year (and I'd worked on the dish for three days). I'd been nervous, obviously

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 21h

I doubt it.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 21h

Along with Trump, Netanyahu and whoever's left in charge of Hamas.

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 21h

After a while, though, I opted for medieval-recipe spiced beef rather than turkey. Latterly, baked carp or zander is my Xmas choice. Both of which (typical me!) are hard to find in London. And goose costs a fortune. But Portuguese salt bacalhau works for me too.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 21h

We'll see. Right, how do you make your stuffing for the not-so-thankful turkey? I cooked turkey a few times for Xmas in years past, I preferred using loads of garlic to help counter the bland taste of the bird itself. And whole peeled red onions in the cavity as the turkey slow-cooked 'upside down'.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 21h

Surely better to address the cause as well as the symptoms? Society is broken by inequity. I thought Labour was founded to fight that. I was sadly mistaken, I fear, since Blairism undermined socialist principles.

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 22h

I presume Newt Gingrich is involved? 🤪

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 22h

Hmmm...

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 22h

I now have strong antibiotics and some other stuff.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s

Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters l...

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

Had to research what thanksgiving actually is (sorry). I thought it was a yank thing involving reprieved turkeys, had no idea it is celebrated in Canada too 🤪. Live and learn, eh? Enjoy the festivities.

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Julian 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 💙 🇺🇦 🐟🌊 @jjbrownbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder according to Brexiteers the EU has been going to fail for 11,667 days.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoyed that scene

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

When?

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

His music is shite

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously this begs the question: why is my lower left leg currently 50% larger in circumference than the right one? I suspect an infection of some sort. But it’s not even really painful.

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not overly spicy, just has a lovely ‘tingle’. Really works well, a nice counter to the dark chocolate.

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear this. Must admit I found the ‘AAA’ dept. surprisingly efficient, I was blood tested, scanned and ‘assessed’ in less than 3 hours. At least I now know I don’t have DVT…

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy!

Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

Erm, I don’t even know what thanksgiving is about? We don’t have it in Europe. It involves dead turkeys? And pardoning them for existing? To us it’s an obscure yank thing, do you have it in Canada too?

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Stuart 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸 @jacobitebyname.bsky.social · 1d

This is my chocolate sin

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