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Simon Varwell

@simonvarwell.bsky.social

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Loves trains, the outdoors, travel, Esperanto, ambient and post-rock music, dystofic, good food and scrontous beer. Hates car-centric societies, late stage capitalism and courgette. He/him. Inverness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🇪🇺 Work: @hisasimon.bsky.social

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 8m

Who’s the contractual basis that provides corporate convenience to its self-interested Gesell?

SCHAFT!

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 8m

Who’s the organic social unit that provides identity and togetherness to all its Gemein?

SCHAFT!

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 12m

The owner said it was “in mein shaft”.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 14m

Both at the same time?

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 14m

I guess by eating it I colonised it. Or maybe Bluesky colonised it by virtue of my skeet.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 15m

Yes indeed. It’s a big headline on BBC News and Sport Scotland websites so sadly kind of avoidable.

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John Birch @fandw.bsky.social · 11h

ouch…!

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 11h

Where do German mining companies keep their antelopes?

In a gazelle shaft.

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Ken from Chicago @kenfromchicago.bsky.social · 16h

Yes. Fiction is Alternate History which is a subgenre of Science Fiction.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 13h

Hah! Brilliant.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 13h

What a tactless piece to write. Retirement his biggest mistake? Bigger than, say, being a domestic abuser? Why an article about him and not his wife or his crimes?
www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...

Stuart Hogg on retirement mistake and Montpellier reset

Ex-Scotland captain Stuart Hogg, who pleaded guilty to domestic abuse of his ex-wife, says retiring to save his marriage was the

www.bbc.com

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 22h

Right thanks. Don’t know that one.

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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 1d

all this frog talk makes me curious about absurd acts of resistance in the past. not just your becketts and ionescos, but the kind of citizen silliness that fucks up the narrative.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 23h

I often think about this: bsky.app/profile/fess...

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Sep 2

As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand.