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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 12h

😍😍😍

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 12h

Had a lovely catch up with my brother on the phone and it has really made my day :)

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 14h

My life just changed today when I realised that a sausage roll is basically a pork wellington.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 14h

Accidentally kicked a table last night and think I may have broken a toe 🤔

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 16h

Very rare use at Gatwick - the airport is overwhelmingly for airline use. Runway expansion would benefit normal people who travel. Not private jet users

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 16h

*Useless but with a profile photo that has me on :)

Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 23h

… The French Prime Minister who resigned a few days ago out of desperation has now been reappointed Prime Minister of France out of desperation…

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Peter @b1nbag.bsky.social · 23h

Woke up at 3am needing the bathroom

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 23h

The only thing preventing Labour entering crank territory is you can understand the logic behind all their decisions… However shit they may be

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 23h

Labour - useless
Tories - useless cranks
Reform - fascist cranks
Green - fully paid up cranks (OG members of The Crank Club at Crank HQ)
Lib Dems - well meaning NIMBY cranks

… I may have to unironically vote Monster Raving Looney at the next election.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

This is a political party which has never, not once, called out the new super powers which are reliant on fossil fuels. The very same party which votes against clean UK nuclear power… And they are determined to make travel abroad for normal people more expensive.

It is repugnant.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

Who flying from Gatwick is “super rich”?!There are no facilities for private jets.

The Green Party are not anti-rich. They are anti working people improving their lives. NIMBYs

“You want to go on holiday with a flight at a cheaper rate? We can’t have that. The state must decide aviation capacity”.

Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 19d

Gatwick expansion means more noise, more pollution, and no real jobs boost. This project is a runway to climate chaos which hits the poorest hardest, while the super-rich keep flying. Not the future we need.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

I also tend to show a lot more Air France Concordes, rather than BA, because it was more their baby.

For British Airways, Concorde was always a tool and always had to be profitable.

For Air France it was a symbol and was far beyond simple arguments of cost (until it crashed anyway).

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

I would give literally everything I have for one single flight.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

It shows how messed up our politics is today when “socialists” protest against airports expansion and a more globalised world… They are no such thing.

They do not have a positive vision for the future. They are luddites who claim the left wing name of politics for votes only.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

Concorde was ultimately a socialist project. It was state funded, built by state paid workers, in a pan European state driven enterprise.

Unions threatened to go on strike when the project was threatened with cancellation.

Concorde’s costs at British Airways were subsidised by the taxpayer.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

*Should also say the world tbh. There are rare works of history on Concorde, but no historians of it specifically.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

*Sighs in the only academically accredited Concorde dedicated historian in the United Kingdom*

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck to them with that wanting to charge £1300 per month for a studio haha

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

Awaiting response as it goes through a central agent

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

The landlord hath been informed!

a man with a spoon in his mouth says justice !

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

👀

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

Not yet, my contract for my current place ends on 25 January… So I want to buy out early in late November.

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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 1d

So yes, for the next two weeks I’ll be going through my “Max Q” period and it’ll either end up with me being a homeowner or with a ton of flaming wreckage hitting me in the face

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