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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 1d

Getting in the spirit of Halloween by visiting Boo-thorpe.

A sign pointing towards the town of Boothorpe.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 1d

Love a good found shopping list ❤️

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 2d

Having worked with Americans for decades I have NEVER heard it pronounced that way.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 2d

Plus, pastry course, six cups of coffee and a random yoghurt. Do I want fried or scrambled eggs? Why not both. Oh is that a tiny box of Cocopops? Muffin to go, just in case.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 2d

This was the post above you on my feed:

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Just going to assume the next Kraftwerk album is called Dynamische Preisgestaltung, or something.

A screenshot, pinched from @stevejvickers.bsky.social, showing ludicrously high ticket prices for a Kraftwerk gig.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 2d

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 3d

Don Cheadle has always been a class act ❤️

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 3d

I was enjoying listening to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (well, the Fall bit is very comforting because you just know that's how these things ALWAYS end) audio book, and whilst the perfomance is mostly exemplary, the constant Moz-COW in sertain sections made me cringe every time.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 3d

From the same people who brought you Moz-cow.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 3d

John Peel played this evey night for a week in 1981 and from there my brain was activated.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 5d

I had this stamp created after a particularly harsh piece of feedback in a user test once. It came in very handy thereafter to challenge what I was creating. Sometimes I would even imagine taking a run and a little jump and planting it on the occasional forehead.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 5d

I had this stamp created after a particularly harsh piece of feedback in a user test once. It came in very handy thereafter to challenge what I was creating. Sometimes I would even imagine taking a run and a little jump and planting it on the occasional forehead.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 5d

Sad to say, back in the mid-90s I was super impressed by these sorts of futuristic projects by the Stewart Brands/Kevin Kellys ... until I saw them for what they are: vanity projects by rich men who have no intention of solving real, messy problems of humanity and instead fart around and distract.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 6d

It all feels rather different now from seven years ago, with so much hostility around.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 6d

That’s the frustrating trick - they know we’d feel bereft of all these things!

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 6d

Increasingly I question the value of social media in my life, as each network crumbles. I would miss you, all you fascinating strangers with lives I love to look in on - your cats, your art, your struggles, your nights out, your loves, your loneliness. I see it all, and am grateful for your sharing.

A tree, peeking round the corner of a building.

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 7d

I was about ready to walk away from social media today for good, but this wonderful thing was well worth lingering for.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 7d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵