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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

My scribe worked at TV Centre at the time.
The late-night transmission of Miami Vice, on genuine giant spools of film, was one of her favourite parts of that job.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 6h

Picard ethics tip: Before undertaking a mission, it is our moral imperative to consider any obvious negative ramifications.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

I scattered acorns all over the place.

a tree on a small island in the middle of a body of water with a crescent moon in the background

Alt: an oak tree at night, with sparkling acorns, and a crescent moon in the background

media.tenor.com

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

How did it get through the Straits of Gibraltar??

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

Stone Circle tour.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

I was wrong about reform ltd getting 80% of its money from the fossil fuel industry.
Apparently it's over 90%.
#ReformUK #reformLTD #fracking

James Collis @jamescollis.bsky.social · 6h

Over 90% of Reform funding comes from the fossil fuel industry.

Draw your own conclusions people ...

Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 1d

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

Boaty McBoatface!!

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

John Major tried this in the UK back in the day. So the idea has now flopped on both sides of the planet!

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 6h

#AccidentalHaiku

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 7h

My scribe, who works in Transport (and is olde enough to remember the Bath experiments 😊 ), has signed up.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 10h

Yes.

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 9h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

USA civil rights movement
Moon landing
British Standard Time (walking to school in the dark)
1971 drugs law changes (no more diamorphine on script for poor Mum with her migraines)
Winter of Discontent (learning to live with power cuts)

NAFO'S Grammy @grammynafopart2.bsky.social · 1d

#NAFO #Fellas
What five events defined your childhood?

The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Vietnam War
The Civil Rights Movement
Woodstock
Watergate

Frode #Fella @frodehommedal.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The Statfjord A build
The Alexander Kielland disaster
The Chornobyl nuclear accident
The Tiananmen Square massacre
The Cold War ending

Damn. Mexico ‘86 was nice though.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14h

UK businesses using American English in their advertising should be liquidated and the proceeds given to charity.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 10h

Oh gawd...
#EU #border #Brexit
#EES #ETIAS

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h

🇪🇺 The EU's new border system begins to be faded in today...

👩‍🏫 Here is a helpful explainer of all you need to know!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39rkpe8mj2o

What is the EU's new border system EES - and how does it work?

The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 10h

This is incredible! It's like the Night Witches, only not soviet any more.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 10h

An excellent message for anyone toying with the idea that farage's Reform will solve their problems.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 13h

Tbf the EU did invest a lot of money in Poland.
Oh - er...

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 1d

Fresh air.
Quiet.
Your city no longer cut up into sad little triangles.
(Oh, and the Climate bit)

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 1d

#UnexpectedIambicPentameters

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 1d

We used to do that here🇬🇧 back in the day. And we were a better country for it.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 5d

The amount of e-waste created by Microsoft's policy to drop support for certain CPUs in Windows 11 is basically a crime against humanity.

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Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 1d

The Book Deal, tho'.

Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 1d

Some old dear will take your place feeding them.
Cats know this.
Cats are evil.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 3d

Surely the escalating pace of major cyber attacks shutting production lines down all around the world should tell us we either need to take cyber security much, much more seriously than we currently do, or that we should stop connecting literally everything to the internet.

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