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Mind dump.

No bigots inc. TERFs, so not a fan of this mutation of 'Labour'

Banner: a frog on a log
Avi: me leaping in air
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valleyguitarist.bsky.social
Right, doing the saying it out loud so it might actually happen thing.

Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.

DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon

Please share x
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November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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wokeoaf.bsky.social
Gotta say I for one am not feeling great about a zombie government tidying up the institutional arrangements for the fash party currently topping the polls
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
Thoroughly fed up with work today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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lukebmtb.bsky.social
Who had 'Moving the M25' on their list of things that the 'committed to tackling climate change' Labour administration would do?
andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 17h
Heidi Alexander chooses larger of two options for Heathrow 3rd runway, requiring part of M25 to be moved - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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lesleyhustler.bsky.social
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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artologica.net
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Good article, it doesn't fully explain the impact though. While patterns are quite cheap, yarn and people's time are not. Especially starting out, folks are often frightened that they can't do it, so a false pattern could stop someone in their tracks
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
I couldn't give one rat's arse what the views of any men (aside from the medical professionals that are called on to facilitate one) are on abortion
09:37 www.theguardian.com against abortion on to the national stage. This might seem like a pointless exercise: according to recent surveys, the vast majority of British people believe abortions should be legal. But, public opinion is never static. Farage has started calling the UK's 24-week abortion limit "utterly ludicrous". This summer a survey found that less than half of men aged 16-34 believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared to 82% of men aged 55-77 - a generational vulnerability that could be exploited. The issue has always been a particularly useful cause for the right: in the US in the 1970s, the New Right movement - combining conservative hardliners and conservative Catholics - realised abortion could be tied to various perceived social ills, such as women's liberation and the civil rights movement. Their target was not only to limit abortions, but to use abortion as a means of unifying disparate camps on the right and legitimising other socially conservative policies.
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
There is more pathos drama and emotion in human drawn stick figures than any amalgamation of art produced by AI.
charles.littlegreenfootballs.com Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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nantanreikan.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
I don't know where I'm 'from'.
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
You tell me it's gross to suck my yeast infection

How do you think I feel when I gag on your erection?
The pope preaching some feminist anarchy at the mic
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
Ah. Canada just adding to my growing belief that men are just arseholes that shouldn't be allowed power.
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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theindigodingo.bsky.social
Drop some HEADWEAR
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
I needed money
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 14d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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norock.bsky.social
Amazing times: they're going to build AI chips in a place famous for growing tulips. All your bubble needs in one place.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Japan's gamble to turn island of flowers into global chip hub
The country once led the world in semiconductors and electronics, but over the years it fell behind Taiwan, South Korea and China.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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peebeejaybee.bsky.social
Fleeing the things he loves just to have even more money, money that'll be snatched from him with his last rasping breath? Fuck me

Still, grandkids get a lucky break. Imagine growing up around a cunt like that. Jesus
reuters.com Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night.
Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality
Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Read this entire thread.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 2d
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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martinnutbeem.bsky.social
This is helpful info.

TLDR - Google isn't in fact training LLMs on your Gmail content and you can turn the Smart stuff back on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
Pirating books by 99% of authors is a piece of shit move. There's no justification for stealing from other people who are also just trying to get by.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 2d
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
Got a right Lego hair thang going on today
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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daemonforneus.bsky.social
One more shot of the (fairly) new church, then the remains of the original church of St Thomas à Becket. They date back to 1256 (and I thought I was getting on).

It's glorious, gothic gloomth.

#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
The porch of St Thomas the Apostle church, Heptonstall, with the bell tower to the left. I took this using a wide angle lens, so it appears to be leaning back, away from the lens. Like many Victorian churches, its architecture is Gothic. The ruins of St Thomas à Becket's church, Heptonstall. All that remains is a stone shell, including the tower. The west face fell away after a storm in 1847, but the church was used until the new one was completed in 1854. It still has plenty of gothic detail in the stonework. Just in front of it are gravestones, including that of 'King' David Hartley, one of the infamous Coiners. A shot taken inside the remains of St Thomas à Becket's church, Heptonstall. A row of Gothic arcades runs to the right with a row of columns to the left. In the foreground is what may have been the Chancel arch, framing the bell tower in the centre of the picture. The arcades that run split the remains of St Thomas à Becket church lead the eye to the church tower, and a wall that once house a stained glass window. Through one of the arcades, the new church and tower can be seen. Overhead, flat grey skies.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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theednawatkins.bsky.social
Ooh what a feeling
When you're dying on the ceiling
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d
However, I also have tragic news today, because it’s the 42nd anniversary of Jimmy ‘The Beard’ Ferrozzo dying while having sex on a nightclub piano when the hydraulic lift normally used to lower a topless dancer went up and squeezed him fatally against the ceiling
Story from bottom of page: Man Dies on the Ceiling at Condor Club
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
The great thing about the flat was that the floor was inadvertently heated by the water pipes of the hairdressers below.

Anyway. My chilblains are back.

Fuck growing up in the 1970s.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Me when someone signs up as a patron and helps support my art and existence.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Here's a lovely photo of a potato with markings on it that look like two eyes and a smile. The text at the bottom of the pic reads: breaking news, local potato happy today."
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM