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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4h

These accounts usually cheer me up:
@allontheboard.bsky.social (lovely messages on Tube boards)
@oregonzoo.bsky.social (animals and the people who care for them)
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social (kind comics)
@mariapopova.bsky.social (mindful living)
@kardomah.bsky.social (art)

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 11h

My grandfather's first name was changed when he moved to a different province within the same country, bc they wouldn't let him register with his Friesian name.
Immigration clerks changing people's names to make them 'easier'? Absolutely happened, and probably still does.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 21h

Parents, 2 aunts, vet, hairdresser. Those are the landline numbers I still have memorised.

The only cellphone number I know is my own.

Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 21h

Die had ik ook gezien ja! Heeft mijn perspectief wel opengebroken, ik kijk inderdaad nu anders naar bewegende beelden van de sterrenhemel.

Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 1d

Als ik me inbeeld dat het de berg is die beweegt en niet de maan, word ik er duizelig van 😅

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 1d

En dat reageer je dan af op iemand die in 2014 voor het laatst in de regering heeft gezeten, en dan alleen op Buitenlandse Zaken. Bijzonder.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 1d

*turns around and walks home, feeling humbled*

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 1d

Or, alternatively, it is a footpath, and they are the public.

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Reposted by Lady Deirdre

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 2d

Because it's delightful, so every time someone new finds out about it, they want to find out everything about it and then share the joy 😊
It's the perfect TIL.
xkcd.com/1053/

Ten Thousand

xkcd.com

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 3d

Vroeg opgestaan om ramen te lappen, maar alleen de gallerijkant en alleen buiten. I.v.m. energie/spoons.

Nu zijn de gallerijramen binnen en buiten schoon, is de eetkamer omgegooid, een aantal planten verpot en heb ik de bloempottenkast half opgeruimd 🤦‍♀️

De keuken is nu een slagveld.
#adhdoléolé

Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 3d

Ja, rummikub, jokeren en Triviant. Doen we zelden meer eigenlijk.
Ik sluit me aan bij degenen die al zeiden dat het gebrek aan medespelers daarin een grote rol speelt. Al ligt het ook aan mezelf, ik ben meer van de gezelligheid dan van de gezelschapsspellen.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 3d

"Zonder veerscheuren" 😊

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 3d

He regularly quotes from the Tiffany books, so yes.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4d

The badges I ordered from @henrieke.bsky.social have arrived! They're going to look so good on my bags 🤗
Now I just need to decide where I'll put the stickers 😄

Oh, and thank you for the adorable drawing on the envelope, Henrieke! So cute 😊

Four colourful badges (a black cat, a pigeon, an otter and a mouse) and three stickers (a glow-in-the-dark bat, a chonky cat and a glittery pigeon) lying on a wooden table.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4d

Ik heb ooit nog in zo'n flat gelogeerd toen we Praag bezochten. Gehuurd van Tsjechen die zelf naar een vakantiehuisje gingen. We waren erg onder de indruk hoe een gezin met twee kinderen in zo'n kleine flat kon wonen. Ze hadden heel inventieve oplossingen bedacht om de ruimte optimaal te benutten.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4d

Nee joh!
Mafkees.

De olifant is meer rood dan roze.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Gratis Tompoes Dag! 🥳

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 4d

I pity that person. They lack a significant amount of glitter in their life.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 5d

Same here. And apparently all the sweary ones are restricted. But I'm still gonna have some fun with them 😜

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 5d

So many bangers.

Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 5d

He looks so shy 😭

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, WHAT?

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 6d

As a backpacker, that was the norm rather than the exception for me for years. I flew out to Cambodia without having a hostel booked. Never a problem.
And having Interrailed (which 600.000 people a year do) a lot, not knowing where you're going next is part of the fun.

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Lady Deirdre @ladydeirdre.bsky.social · 6d

Dat het allemaal zo klein is maakt het werk alleen maar groter!

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