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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 18h

Have you ever had any experience of helping someone who has significant health challenges & who wants to work?

Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 19h

Derek.

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 19h

So anyway... my son-in-law - a lovely lad, but a trifle naive - was taken aback when he was declined health insurance when answering "yes" to the question: have you ever taken drugs?

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 19h

There is nothing creepier in the world, nothing in the world, than when Alexa starts whispering for no reason

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 19h

They probably keep in touch by phone though

Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 21h

couldn't we have both perhaps?

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 1d

MTG is as repulsive as Trump, but one of the very few senior Republicans with the guts to stand up to him. Interesting what she's doing about Epstein

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 1d

He's trying to make money out of them, so hardly 'open arms'

Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 1d

FAO: @vimtotime.bsky.social

Steve Brady @stevebrady.bsky.social · 1d

Boo!

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 2d

It's very on brand for those customers who order a "simple black coffee/espresso" so they can quickly crack on

Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 2d

Disturbingly, one of the guys having a piss appears to have pulled his trousers right down to his ankles, like that one weird kid in primary school

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Update on Craig Holmes, candidate in the Skelton East by-election.

Seems Reform UK candidates don’t see what’s wrong with urinating on random peoples’ property.

“The bus driver told me to do it” isn’t really the level of decision making you want in a councillor.