Lexx Clarke
@lexxclarke.bsky.social
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Lexx Clarke
@lexxclarke.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Good afternoon #cookingsky, a request for help, please. I'm looking for a particular French fish soup I recall my late father bringing back from France in the 80s/very early 90s. It came in a packet, in dry form, with a smaller packet of croutons inside. These were so fierce with garlic my mother
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If AI can replace your staff, it can probably replace your product (and company) too.
One thing I'd caution against those who say "what my company does can be done entirely with AI... I don't need to pay actual people"...
If that's true, then what are you building that your customers can't just use ChatGPT to get?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
If that's true, then what are you building that your customers can't just use ChatGPT to get?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If AI can replace your staff, it can probably replace your product (and company) too.
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bullish on bullar over here today
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
bullish on bullar over here today
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Oh look, it's that time of year again! Time to place your orders for the 2026 Small Robots Calendar! It's £30, and this year's theme is Wistfulbot Goes for a Walk. It's got contemplative pictures and some sort-of poetry I guess? Anyway, the order form is here: forms.gle/AmdadzcTvzt8...
2026 Small Robots Calendar Order Form
This is the form for ordering a 2026 Small Robots Calendar. It's a wall calendar featuring twelve brand new full-colour illustrations of Wistfulbot going for a walk in various landscapes, thinking abo...
forms.gle
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Oh look, it's that time of year again! Time to place your orders for the 2026 Small Robots Calendar! It's £30, and this year's theme is Wistfulbot Goes for a Walk. It's got contemplative pictures and some sort-of poetry I guess? Anyway, the order form is here: forms.gle/AmdadzcTvzt8...
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
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I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
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19 November is remarkable for several odd things...
Firstly: the really quite dark story of Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, last seen alive on this day in 1961...
Firstly: the really quite dark story of Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, last seen alive on this day in 1961...
What Really Happened to Michael Rockefeller
A journey to the heart of New Guinea’s Asmat tribal homeland sheds new light on the mystery of the heir’s disappearance there in 1961
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
19 November is remarkable for several odd things...
Firstly: the really quite dark story of Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, last seen alive on this day in 1961...
Firstly: the really quite dark story of Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, last seen alive on this day in 1961...
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The introduction to my series about Brexit and Why I'm Learning the Irish Language can be found here:
timwrite.net/factual-work/
timwrite.net/factual-work/
Factual work
What follows happened. In real life. Mostly to me. https://timwrite.net/on-being-questioned-about-the-death-of-my-child/ https://timwrite.net/t-morgue-with-my-daughter/ https://timwrite.net/factual-wo...
timwrite.net
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The introduction to my series about Brexit and Why I'm Learning the Irish Language can be found here:
timwrite.net/factual-work/
timwrite.net/factual-work/
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Just seen the word “spittoon” in print. Not a daily occurrence, but a reminder of the excellence of -oon words. Harpoon. Poltroon. Festoon. Contrabassoon.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just seen the word “spittoon” in print. Not a daily occurrence, but a reminder of the excellence of -oon words. Harpoon. Poltroon. Festoon. Contrabassoon.
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Hi. It's me. I'm here to gently ask if you've been giving yourself grace? Patience? Self-care?
You've got this. You are enough, and you deserve all the good things.
You've got this. You are enough, and you deserve all the good things.
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hi. It's me. I'm here to gently ask if you've been giving yourself grace? Patience? Self-care?
You've got this. You are enough, and you deserve all the good things.
You've got this. You are enough, and you deserve all the good things.
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An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
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I've brought this up before but I think it bears repeating because it's a total non-factor in all the rhetoric: "Britain" hasn't been an island (or archipelago) at any time in its history. The last decade of drawing back behind our borders is a bizarre aberration.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I've brought this up before but I think it bears repeating because it's a total non-factor in all the rhetoric: "Britain" hasn't been an island (or archipelago) at any time in its history. The last decade of drawing back behind our borders is a bizarre aberration.
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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
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This is fake duck. It’s lucky it wasn’t named by the people who called fake bacon ‘Facon’.
February 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is fake duck. It’s lucky it wasn’t named by the people who called fake bacon ‘Facon’.
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Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
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'We DON'T NEED to ask for directions Margaret...’
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
'We DON'T NEED to ask for directions Margaret...’
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
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HEY!
Get yourself a Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Books will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
Get yourself a Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Books will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
HEY!
Get yourself a Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Books will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
Get yourself a Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Books will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
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I think people would take the vow of silence in the quiet carriage more seriously if they were also required to wear a monk’s cape and a tonsure wig.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I think people would take the vow of silence in the quiet carriage more seriously if they were also required to wear a monk’s cape and a tonsure wig.
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I really wish every time someone complained of left wing bias in something they were asked the question:
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I really wish every time someone complained of left wing bias in something they were asked the question:
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
'OK, what would this be like without left-wing bias? What would you leave out and what would you put in instead?'
Because that'd be a very good measure of what they actually mean.
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Sweet sustenance and symbol: Rosemary Remembrance Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/rose...
Rosemary Remembrance Cake
The food we eat connects us so deeply to those we love and, perhaps, especially so when they are no longer with us. And this recipe is really in honour of my maternal grandmother, and not just because...
www.nigella.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Sweet sustenance and symbol: Rosemary Remembrance Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/rose...
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WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES