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Michael Kilpatrick
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Baritone saxophonist, Duke Ellington devotee. Harmony In Harlem jazz orchestra. Liberal Democrat, federalist, poet. Former VLSI engineer at ARM. South Cambs, UK. #NAFO - spend money to free Ukraine.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 4d
Jolly good stuff. Subscribed.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 4d
Rather fittingly, the next post in my feed below this was a link to a Guardian article on asbestos.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 4d
Perhaps I should say "Bloody Italians Coming Over Here and taking all our I Told You Sos" .
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 4d
Appeasy McPeaseface.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 10d
If he refers to himself as a king, it's that very same American reluctance to update the term in the way that most of the rest of the planet has done (and, indeed was already the case in 1776, because the UK was already a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government).
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 10d
How silly. Half of those countries don't have an executive head of state, and that includes some which aren't monarchies.

Most surviving monarchies on the planet aren't as powerful as the US president.

It's dictators that are the problem with not kings.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 10d
Cripes, will Americans ever learn to distinguish kings from dictators? Do they not know what a constitutional monarchy is, or a parliamentary democracy (as opposed to an executive head of state)?
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 19d
Ruined by that thing in his mouth,though.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 20d
It could always do that.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 22d
Afghanistan, that other country famous for being equally accessible directly from a Schengen area country without needing anything other than a boat.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
Take a ticket and wait in line...
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
Fair point, to be honest.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
I somehow doubt that anything would threaten the historically different nature of your freedom of movement here in the UK, that goes back to the 1920s. There are plenty of different types of brown people for LabConReform to pick on before they ever get to you.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
Bob Hunt's Harlem Jazz Orchestra playing my transcription of Swanee Shuffle, as recorded by Duke Ellington in 1929. Absolutely love playing this, and I'm proud of brief Carneyesque solo near the end.

youtu.be/3DpHMTSQ9JM
Harlem Jazz Orchestra play "Swanee Shuffle" from 1929.
YouTube video by Harlem Jazz Orchestra
youtu.be
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
Did you misspell "remanded"?
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 24d
Twat. Unless you're thinking of something with more syllables.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 27d
Pram, not park, old chap.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 27d
The BBC News are getting a bit sloppy with their proofreading. The word "policies" is missing from the end of the headline for this article by Chris Mason.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 28d
Oh my. This is a terrible loss.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 29d
As George Orwell said: all nations are equal, but five are more equal than others.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 29d
I know a British man who was detained by the French police for not having a means of ID on him when we was walking to the beach (when one wears and carries very little). That's the piont. When an ID card becomes a "licence to walk down the street", you know something is wrong.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · 29d
Shinpads for pedestrians to become mandatory in new law, says government.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 24
What a surprise.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 24
Some people would like simply to understand you, not fix you. Maybe they even try very hard to do that. If you can't facilitate that, it doesn't help, and you're left with only the others you refer to.
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Michael Kilpatrick @mtkilpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 24
Bloody hell, I ordered two boring domestic products in bulk from Superdrug and ASOS. Both to be delivered by Evri. The ASOS was damaged by Evri and can't be delivered, and the Superdrug one was allegedly shipped 6 days ago but doesn't appear to have been received by Evri yet.
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