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Grobian Syboe

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welcome to my webpage Scholar of Wise Principles and associated virtues I am urging restraint at this time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · Dec 1

If I’m out and about, or even sitting down in my house, if something occurs to me you can be sure to read about it here on my webpage.
Cheers then.

- Grobian

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 15h

could go the brambling

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 21h

yeah I suppose so

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Famous last warts

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

*usually

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Don't talk to me until I've donned my raiment 🤣

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies! usually my quotes are confused American liberals and not something good like a Zhuang quote

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corpse @consume.red · 1d

the zhuang

So it is said:
« Who practices Dao, daily diminishes,
Diminishes and again diminishes,
Thereby arriving at non-doing—
Non-doing and non-not-doing. »
Now, to be done becoming a thing,
Yet to want to return home to the root—
is it not difficult!
It is easy only for a great man.

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry if you have the context to understand this. Vile.

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

SIGNS OF DOPAMINE ADDICTION: wringing it oot like a dirty auld cloot

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Under a Regime of Wise Principles, the populace will be fully mobilised, towards the realisation of Wise Principles

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

He would never

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Under a Regime of Wise Principles, there will be no more - There will be greater preponderance of less.

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Aging populations in the anglophone world means a proliferation of movies with 80 year old main characters saying "you shouldn't have messed with me punk" for mentally besieged suburbanites

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

The Yank is transmitted via undersea wires.

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

I hear a lot of people using words, phrases and intonations they wouldn't have - in this moment, I know they've been online 😔

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Consequence Awareness Week

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ, that's absolutely brutal.
I'm sorry

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry if this is too painful, but what happened?

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Only the Conciliatory Optometrist can hope to end this madness

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

Physically lifting up a guy called Rupert who studied Political science at a university that existed only to create colonial administrators and telling him that this is only the beginning of his undoing

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 11d

Physically lifting up a guy called Rory who studied Political Science at a university for people who say they're from "a working class background" and telling him this is only the beginning of his undoing

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

1st guy gets emotional thinking about C.S. Lewis, 2nd guy describes himself as "burkean"

Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 1d

split pea soup at the canteen, yes mate!!!

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · Mar 14

misery and strife - aka "the terrible twosome"

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · Aug 7

my enemies, they have what is called "cognitive dissonance" - In their mind a great, terrible bells tolls. The experience is so overwhelming the light of reason is completely obscured

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