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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 3h

Oh that's even worse. At least they gave me the flu jab. (Asthmatic)

Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 6h

My pharmacist had to explain to all the people that had been offered a COVID jab with their flu jab when booking (like I was last week) that they aren't entitled to a free one and the booking form was lying.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8h

RSV is going around. My mum had a bad case of it confirmed because she was hospitalised. Round the same time my son and I both got a nasty virus that knocked us out for a few days and made us v wheezy. Wasn't Covid.
But there are lots of respiratory viruses.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8h

Stupid hidden picture. Idiots. Bastards.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8h

Well having failed at unzoomed today I'm happy to have found something I can achieve. Thank you for lack of gif.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8h

Bad weekend ahead for you. Sorry Dean.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 8h

I was about to give up and found the 12th one. Send £10 and I'll send you the answers.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 18h

The middle one would get stuck

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 22h

Well you have slightly different rules because I wouldn't unfollow and mute you but also you wouldn't send me a gif so you're in a different category.

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Gibby @thegibbon.bsky.social · 23h

I guess if it isn't 9.8m/s² then the implications for the stability of the entire planet really are pretty alarming

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a sign on them saying "twinned with"

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Most people who send me gifs get unfollowed after repeat offences but he evades these rules even though he really should know better.

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Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 1d

fuxake, just open it.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Don't waste your "only person allowed to send me GIFs" free pass.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Eerily still today

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Shit we are trapped

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

I say "the most recent" but I'm updating work that I did based on it more than 5 years ago and I can't see that's actually changed since then.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Wtf is a bassoon Bocal and how big is it?

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

I am excited to announce that while the most recent Google product categorisation structure includes specific categories for "train whistle", "Bassoon Bocal", "Bassoon parts" AND "bassoon small parts", the words "ukulele", "banjo" and "mandolin" are entirely absent from the document.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of London loads of pubs are dead quiet even at 9pm. I think cost is the big driving factor. I'm a grown adult and can rarely afford an evening in the pub, how are young people going to scratch up the cash for more than one pint a week?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

That was the most solid night of sleep I've had for maybe weeks but I woke up really wired from fear and I still don't feel right, as though I'm flooded with cortisol. But apparently I still still have to get up and "make sandwiches" and "get the kids to school" and "do my job"

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't qualified for once since we all got them but I get the flu jab through asthma. Wouldn't have minded having a covid jab but not a big deal for me.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

No Covid jab though. The booking form said I could have one and the poor pharmacist was having to explain to me and hundreds of other people one by one that that was bullshit.

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