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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 1h

Ah, yes. In Turkey, it’s just ‘salad’, or if you need to distinguish it from other things ‘shepherd’s salad’. And the cucumbers you put in it are ‘salatalık’ - salad stuff. (Though in other Turkic languages ‘hiyar’, which is older and has …other connotations in modern Turkish, I think.)

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 2h

Sounds like a paradigm-busting USP.

Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 11h

Nichts fällt mir ein.

Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 12h

“Let me explain, Officer.”

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The drives were clicking.

Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 12h

Most things that one might come up with turn out to be reality versions of Protestantism?

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 14h

Wales is under-rated, imho.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 20h

This and also - perhaps the most important lesson I ever learnt in a maths class - it's a learnable skill that develops with practice.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 3d

Difficult to see how he gets re-elected with numbers like this.

Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 4d

I have apparently developed the superpower of being able to pull or tear a muscle while walking between one room and another.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 4d

Ouch.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 5d

“How can you lie back and think of England, when you don’t even know who’s in the team?”

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 5d

It’s decorative gourd season…pardon my French.

The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 5d

Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate pumpkins.#JacobinDay

More information on pumpkins

An old time-y illustration of a Pumpkins.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 6d

I know someone who does, though I doubt she’s on BlueSky. (If you’re out there Dr Dr M…)

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 6d

Is the reason this is getting reposted that if you do the math it is not in fact $106 million?

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 6d

Can we sue the Conservative Party under the Trades Description Act?

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 7d

And then they'd just have to walk all the way home again, a situation without anabasis in law

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d

You cannot simply walk into Oregon and Illinois with 400 Texans.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 6d

Updating Russell’s example to ‘The current Prime Minister of France is bald’.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 7d

2 Last 2 Marienbad.

Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 8d

D'oh. Everyone know's its Hero'es.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 9d

Afiyet olsun.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 9d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 9d

Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Buonapartes. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 10d

The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Charlenerd @cfhirsch.bsky.social · 10d

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 9d

"That's brilliant", he winced.

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Mixmaster Morris @mixmastermorris.bsky.social · 9d

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 12d

‘We lost the war, but won the Eisteddfod.’

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13d

I dreamt I had to make an exhaustive inventory of all the apples in Vilnius

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Praisegod Barebones’ Hallowe’en Name. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 14d

He can just about perform in front of a home crowd in front of the cameras but can he do it on a wet Wednesday in Stoke?