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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 11h

Or just have a Preview button and tell people to knock it off once you've got that--didn't preview, your fault

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 15h

Truly boggled by the number of people for whom "copy the post text, delete the post, repost with error fixed" is not a viable solution., but "make fraud possible by changing a post that's already been replied to" looks just great.

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 12h

This is cool

And today I learn that the old brythonic/Dumnonian/Cornish word for high hill was ewhella

Which is why the highest hill in Cornwall is called Brown Willy and the highst hill in Devon is High Willhays

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 14h

Wonderful project! Look at that stonking great ditch. Congrats to all involved: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circle

www.theguardian.com

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 16h

Monosexuals are weird again:

"You don’t have to feel bad about doing any of this, because all you’re guilty of is helping. Educating. At absolute worst, being cruel to be kind. It’s bordering on philanthropic to relieve somebody of what does not serve them"

By 'relieve' she means steal and bin BTW

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 19h

Just stay single, honestly.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

My foolproof guide to living with a partner – and not falling out about home decor | Polly Hudson

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 16h

We have separate rooms, deliberately, even tho we have similar tastes

I don't get the 'boasting about lying for 20 years' columnist thing, it's just weird

The straits are not OK

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 19h

Capitalists: evil
Markets: anti-capitalist tool of the people

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 20h

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 1d

God I love Dana's posts

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

BBC Model Linear B

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 3d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 1d

That 1924 was over a hundred years ago is one of those doesn't compute I'm old now things...

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 1d

He did in Jingo didn't he? Took the sub off to explore under the island? It's been awhile since I reread that one

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

Tonight there is a game that is going on longer than games can go on and also it's either very exciting if very boring or very nerve-wracking and also maybe someone failed to catch a ball and idk if it was a player or some rich person we hate

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

I love that I have finally hit a sufficient number of mutuals who post frequently about sports that I get to make up elaborate stories where I try to piece all of the vague & mysterious posts into a coherent narrative.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

Especially with the rate of social and tech changes going on, I feel out of touch at 51 let alone 30+ yrs older

Medieval popes were old, but nowhere near THAT old

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 2d

Why not? Same reason women are still chronically under diagnosed: the female-typical presentation of what we now call ADHD (one day it won't have a stupid name) is completely different to the male-typical presentation.

Guess which I had?

Trans women are women
Trans women have always been women 2/2

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

True--but there's definitely a case for more looiing into, say, Russian oligarchs laundering money thru property investments &c

It's almost certainly a tiny %age of stock but it definitely pushes prices up further than needs to be

But there are also too many fucking golf courses ;-)

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

See, my quibble with that is I don't think you need to weaken property rights

From what I know, some (no idea what %age) are either investments, second home/city pads or just airb&b gone wrong stuff

All solveable, at least to some extent, by taxing things more effectively

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

Short fact, it's palpably true

I walk my dog thru the 'green belt' across the valley from home most days. Derelict farm buildings, an abandoned and boarded up convalescent home (TB), some really posh houses/converted barns and some shitty third rate farmland

Just build already

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 6d

KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?

SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

A) Tickets would be a lot more than ten quid for an arena event, for a start you've got security

b) how d'you decide who gets the tickets? How many shows? Lottery? First to hit the app at 8am?

Personally I'd dutch auction tickets

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

I just checked, and my 1990 Oxford Concise agrees it's not, so Websters is wrong

And my was, for some reason, printed in the USA so it's American Oxford so doubly correct (or something? I dunno)

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 3d

Snooot!

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3d

I grow cucumbers

Eva, the Labrador (pictured earlier this year), steals cucumbers

The last cucumber of the season was growing too high for her plump little self to reach.

It was almost too high for me as I harvested.

It dropped to the ground between me and Eva…

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