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Greg

@gregsmusings.bsky.social

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Opinions expressed here are mine, they’re better than yours and you can’t have them. Uninformed ranting on F1, Photography & Videography, Politics, History, Aviation, Geopolitics and whatever else my ADHD brain latches onto. #NAFO 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited tick pic.

Two parasitic ticks, one engourged with blood.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

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#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Okay.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

If animals have spirit-animals, Sherman’s is this sheep…

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Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Sherman’s spirit animal is this sheep.

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Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Got to be the first time Group Captain slides have been issued to anyone wearing maternity uniform (?).

Congrats Maz, one for the history books.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. @dreadships.bsky.social, have you seen this absolutely epic video of a decommissioned Norwegian frigate being torpedoed?

youtu.be/Ovdnnc-TDbw?...

View from the bow of a Norwegian frigate in the moment a torpedo explodes against the hull. A wall of water is shooting skyward on the starboard side, the ship seems the have been lifted out of the water at the point of impact and is about 20 degrees above parallel with the ocean.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

🤣

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

“We have no records of any engine overhaul, ever, but have found some gaffer tape and put her back in the skies….”

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 2d

3rd goal. Saka.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Town and city names.

Ever heard an American say Melbourne?

Anyone from outside the UK say Worcester?

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Trust your instincts. Whatever you think is going on, you’re probably right.

Well within your rights to ask for detail over text or whatever form of communication you feel safer with.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Repost ≠ endorsement?

Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 3d

I support free speech, but I also think Bluesky should ban anyone that says eating the lower half of a mermaid is not cannibalism

I don’t care if genetically it’s fish flesh not human, in my book it still counts as cannibalism and I expect this platform to uphold that fact

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 3d

Google searches for #Plenary spiked immediately after Stephen Miller’s totalitarian gaff.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 3d

…and some needles.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 3d

A minor drug arrest. He was in possession of a couple of cones.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 3d

A couple of years ago, I was commissioned to produce a film in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. I expected that the Government agency commissioned the work would quickly forget it.

Somehow, it’s now on YouTube and has 6,000 views 👀

youtu.be/WpsZ-voZzGs?...

Wadeye Worker Attraction

YouTube video by NT Government

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 3d

According to a meme:

1.The samurai were officially abolished in 1867

2.The first ever fax machine, the ''printing telegraph,' was invented in 1843

3.Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at in 1865

Therefore: There was a 22-year period in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 5d

A favourite little trick here is to respond to Brits complaining about midsummer heat by pulling up my weather app and pointing out that my home town is, right now, warmer than your midsummer heat.

Then remind them that it’s both the middle of the night, and the middle of winter, in Darwin.

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 5d

My first winter here was a crash course in terms like “base layer” and “wind chill”. Also learned of the existence, and incredible benefits of, electric hand warmers. 👏

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 5d

I moved from Darwin, Australia (30+, year round) to the UK. My son was almost immediately picked up in a football “development squad”, on top of his usual club so I’m usually doing two matches every weekend and up to training sessions between.

I can relate. 🥶

Greg @gregsmusings.bsky.social · 5d

Kids sports?