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Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

My doctor asked me if I smoke or drink coffee.

I told him I drink it.

a man sitting in a chair with the words torpedoes written below him

Alt: Captain Archer from Star Trek asking for torpedos

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 5h

I see people are getting angry about Grammarly using AI as if using Grammarly in the first place isn't an admission of monumental cuntishness

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 8h

Yea I saw this earlier!

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 13h

Spray tan = $150
Waxing = $100 half leg, $200 full leg
Complimentary prosecco 🥂
Walk-ins accepted!! 💝

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

New sign outside the Oval Office..

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13h

Massive pile of 50p's for the meter required

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

The West has Fallen. The Mayor of New York City is an Arsenal fan.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16h

Looking for a couple of freelance proofreaders for a project I'm involved in. Anyone got recommendations (you can recommend yourself)?

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 15h

My oldest pair, that I'd had since the 90s, did exactly the same as I left my DPhil graduation ceremony. It seemed quite poetic, I bought them not long before I started a very long journey of adult education and they lasted right to the end of it, almost to the minute!

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 16h

Have a word with @detritus.bsky.social I hear he's a dab hand with stitched soles (postage might be a problem mind 😂)

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 17h

Weelll I'm not saying anything about that but there's a fair chance I might still be stomping about in paras all these years later

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

This has surely got to be an almost untapped vein of pun potential

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

Yes they had a ring of little perforations round the middle of the filter, made them virtually unsmokable unless you wrapped it over with a paper to seal it up!

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

I remember when Silk Cut required a rizla stuck round the filter perforations in order to make them a bearable smoke!

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 1d

Harvard Gazette:
Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?”
Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

Since we're definitely on baccy chat in this corner of BS, I saw a landscape gardener in Banbury last week. Business name Fencin and Hedges, lettering in white and gold and taken straight from the old B&H branding. Absolute genius.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

GV out of them little bricks you used to get as a half ounce.. the smell of a freshly opened brick... heaven! They did a GV Dark for a while too in a blue pack, that was a smashing smoke. I've been a rolly smoker for years now, and my entire world is strewn with bits of roaching material to this day

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19h

There was a certain sort of girl who smoked Gauloise round where I grew up. They were all thin, a bit wan, listened to PJ Harvey and thought big thoughts that absolutely did not include snogging the likes of me, thank you very much. I used to smoke a Rothmans when I was abroad, Camels as well

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 20h

99p for 10 Lamberts when I started, £1.27 for 10 Number 1's. I remember the latter well because when I got my first farm job I used to work out my day in terms of how many packs of 10 I could buy with each day's money!

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 1d

If like @rakshadigs.bsky.social you like a flanged pot, who ya gonna call potted-history.co.uk/products/rom.... #AncientBluesky 🏺Watch Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders and you'll understand what I mean. @channel4tv.bsky.social

Roman Greyware Flanged Bowl

Details We have based this elegant bowl on an example excavated from the magnificent Hadrian's Wall in the heart of Northumberland. The Romans would have used this style of bowl to serve all manner of...

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

I started on L&B, 99p for ten it was! Mind you, they were god awful fags I reckon. Embassy Mild were the best, but available only from lorry drivers off the continent; Number 1's or Regal, til I went over to Samson baccy. Proper sweepings up, that stuff.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

First time I gave up was 2.30am on July 1st 2007, the very moment they came round and took the ashtrays away in the club. That particular non-fag break lasted 11 years. The next time I had one was almost orgasmic! (I did have to look the date up, but I remember the time!)

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

I only dabbled with H, but as a connoisseur of a whole suite of other delicacies I can confirm cigs were in fact a swine to kick. So much so that I'm on attempt number 5 at the moment

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

Well you've got to smoke out there after all; it's the only way to keep the midges off

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things I've had to give up just to stay alive to witness the decline of civilisation, cigarettes rankle the most. Mind you, I learned not long ago that Embassy retired the Number 1 brand in honour of my sacrifice, which was nice

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 1d

Missed opportunity for a job share with an occasional table, there; I feel

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