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James @jawida.net · 12h

Might just ride the Metro today.

Photograph of the Prague metro. Shows a tiled walled on Track 2 at Florenc Station.

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James @jawida.net · 13h

Nah I flew in on Easyjet not Ryanair.

James @jawida.net · 14h

I mean: phwoar.

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James @jawida.net · 14h

So the only other time I came to Prague, I was with people who take Ubers everyone and book airport transfers. So yesterday I was excited to use the trolleybus, Metro and tram to get around.

How nice is this station?

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James @jawida.net · 1d

Not as much with an induction hob, but still 50/50 depending on how much water I need.

James @jawida.net · 1d

I don't remember much but they gave me a mini flag of the USSR so it's a wonder I'm not on a watch list.

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James @jawida.net · 1d

I remember going being taken to see some USSR Cultural Exchange at the Villa Marina on the Isle of Man when I was 6 maybe - can't have been long before it collapsed.

Anyway, I'll just be over here waiting to claim my pension.

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James @jawida.net · 1d

There are a lot of Gen X people in the mentions here trying to explain that not all over 50s are boomers and... yes?

James @jawida.net · 2d

I don't think the first image should really count as a guess...

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James @jawida.net · 2d

One thing that's come out of the "protected belief" precedents is that it's incredibly difficult to PNG an individual with intolerant views.

James @jawida.net · 2d

If anyone has any thoughts on what to do with my c£35.65 in Prague, suggestions welcome.

James @jawida.net · 2d

Off to Prague in the morning and just found 980CZK from 8 years ago so let's hope they've not changed their bank notes.

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James @jawida.net · 3d

Send everyone a letter showing which income and wealth percentile or decile they sit in.

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James @jawida.net · 3d

There were some Terf/GC people around but they tended to be a minority of the "political lesbians".

James @jawida.net · 3d

Hm, no I think it largely pre dated that, although this was around the time Stonewall were under pressure. Older people really hated queer or LGBTQ.

There was actually some trans community driven desire for us to use 'LGB&T' to reflect a difference between gender and sexuality.

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James @jawida.net · 3d

More topically we had to write to one person to explain that, no, while we didn't have a dress code, he couldn't wear a cap with an SS Totenkopf even if it was clearly as part of his interpretation of leather/BDSM kink culture.

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James @jawida.net · 3d

This was summer 2010, but yeah we had to push back and say that pride wasn't just for gay men and women but included people who were bi, trans, lesbians and other varieties of what you might call queer or who just didn't define themselves in those terms at all.

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James @jawida.net · 3d

We got complaints for calling Liverpool Pride that and not Liverpool Gay Pride!

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James @jawida.net · 3d

Something I find a bit sad is that NML was set up to prevent an asset fire sale, whereas LAs now seem to be encouraged to consider selling all this stuff off - I'm thinking Birmingham.

I do love a UK municipal museum.

James @jawida.net · 6d

We have to have one of these in Liverpool, but they're a bit obscure and it doesn't help that you don't even need a licence in every part of the city.

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James @jawida.net · 7d

Honestly and completely unintentionally I watched Oppenheimer on Sunday, finished the Diplomat yesterday and now this.

Might as well bung Threads on.

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James @jawida.net · 7d

Watched A House of Dynamite and now I feel very relaxed.

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James @jawida.net · 7d

Probably not a direct cousin but if it was one of those first cousin third removed things...

James @jawida.net · 7d

Aunties and uncles are basically are grown up friends of my parents who I knew as a child.

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James @jawida.net · 8d

Bloody hell, trying to find a reasonable hotel within my employer's travel policy in central London. Maybe I'll just get up at 4am for the train instead.