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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 28m

Used to have that!

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 31m

What does “no real use to anyone” even mean? It’s a movie not a cure for cancer

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 38m

The original prompt is a bit vague so you can interpret it however you like. I took ‘defining’ to mean something that affected you personally

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

I thought your own feed was the default. What is he talking about?

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

That’s the joke. It’s from Spinal Tap (their manager says it about Boston)

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

It’s not a big college town

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

May depend on how you define what age childhood is. I lived through a lot of grim political stuff in the 70s and was aware of it but it mostly didn’t affect my life (I was a kid!) let alone define it

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

I read that Thiel ‘Antichrist’ stuff in The Guardian and it was complete gobbledygook

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

5 childhood defining events

My dad leaving home

The moon landing

Mum buying me The Mighty World of Marvel #1

Power cuts during the 1972 miners strike

Being bullied at school

j-e-l 🎃🎄🦇 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 3h

childhood defining moments

meeting best friend at first day of nursery, we had the same jumper

papa p dying when I was 5

being sick and mum buying me a Star Wars comic

aunty Sue giving me my first Transformer (Grapple)

refusing to play a woodland creature in school play, got to be scene shifter

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 4h

5 childhood defining events

- Thatcherism/privatisation (direct effect on my family)*
- British home computer boom
- HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Ethiopian famine/Band Aid
- Fall Of The Berlin Wall**

*Falklands War/Miners Strike are downstream from "Thatcher in general" I guess

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

Don’t understand people choosing political events as childhood defining. How exactly?

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 3h

No idea. It was on very late though and I remember thinking “Why are they hiding this fantastic show from everyone?”

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 5h

Netflix needs to have a “I Have No Interest In Ever Watching This” option so I can stop it pushing Monster: The Ed Gein Story at me

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I saw it mid-80s when I was at college on whatever ITV region Kent was

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

And I didn’t go for a pee once!

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

It flies by. Didn’t feel long at all

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a dull subplot and the show doesn’t need her. It’s just them showing off who they can get

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 8h

Not the point at all. Why isn’t the Dem establishment getting behind the younger candidates who will probably fire up the base more instead of a 77yo?

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9h

I have a loyalty card at my local off license which I have no problem filling up

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9h

Being yourself is a good place to start

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9h

“It’s been two weeks now”

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 10h

Oct 12th 802701 - George Wells' time machine finally stops travelling forward. After saving Weena, and meeting the Eloi, he discovers the underground race known as Morlocks.

📽️📅 The Time Machine (1960)

3 Screenshots from the movie "The Time Machine" (1960): First, a close-up of the time machine's control panel with colorful dials and ornate detailing, indicating a time of October 12. Second, a scene with a man and a woman sitting on steps, engaged in a serious conversation with the subtitle "Twenty of your friends were watching you drown." Third, a group of Morlocks, creatures with pale skin and white hair, standing in a cave-like environment, exuding a menacing presence.

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9h

That last line is the plot of Hannah & Her Sisters