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Pheasant Plucker

@pheasant.bsky.social

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Blogging the slow rehabilitation of the abandoned allotment we just took on. Also, random likes and rebleets of politics, science, climate, computing, and history. Trying to be pleasant.

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · Apr 6

It's better to switch out of the US tech ecosystem. Here's how I've switched: mail -> TutaMail, maps -> HereWeGo, cloud storage -> Jottacloud, eBay -> OnBuy, taxi -> Freenow or Bolt. Then there's Instagram -> PixelFed plus the whole fediverse

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 2h

Weird, but also funny, that several winners first heard of their win from an AP photographer knocking on their door.

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 2h

They know what they are putting on other people is bullshit. That's the point. It's a loyalty test and a demonstration of their dominance.

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 4h

They have a weird obsession with sexual anatomy

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 4h

My goto alternative to amazon and Ebay is onbuy.com, based in the UK

OnBuy | Select your country

onbuy.com

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 19h

I love stories of #retrocomputing from behind the iron curtain. At the time these places seemed incredibly remote and mysterious www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

www.theguardian.com

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting choice of skin colours. Modern British period dramas tend to include mixed race actors, but older ones don't.

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

No he said we ignore media hype and clamour for differing definitions of peace, the portraits in the room are of people of courage and integrity, and we base our decisions solely on the work of Alfred Nobel.

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

You want to raise the stakes and bring culture wars to the rest of the world. But don't drag the Nobel Committee into that!

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

It's making the Nobel Committee sound political. I guess it seems ok to people who are used to seeing things through the lens of the US media. But trying to make what he said fit a political agenda is just fueling the fire.

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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 1d

⭕️Georgian Dream held a special briefing devoted to journalist Mzia Amaglobeli receiving the 2025 IPI–IMS World Press Freedom Hero Award.
⭕️"A continuation of the unfair political attitude toward our country," - GD complained.
#FreeMzia
#JournalismIsNotACrime
batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

Except that's not what he said. This post tries to bring the Nobel committee into disrepute, just for clicks and giggles.

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

Read the manufacture of consent, by Noam Chomsky. It was eye opening for me.

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of answer I came here for

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

All of our institutions are incredibly vulnerable. Mostly they rely on a mutual framework of basic ethics, rather than rules and regulations. A majority of 1 in parliament could pull everything down

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

Other e commerce platforms are available www.onbuy.com/gb/p/adult-i...

ADULT INFLATABLE FROG COSTUME INFLATABLE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES on OnBuy

The frog outfit is made of durable polyester, waterproof, breathable. Frog costume for adults with a height of 150-190 cm. Inflatable frog costume...

www.onbuy.com

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

The won't. I don't know where this idea that he might win it came from. It's a kind of fever dream of the American media.

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, turns out I already was

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 2d

Weirdly, Antifa became a thing around the time that fascism was invented. Quite the coincidence.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 2d

To properly reach the Jupiter system in July 2031, #ESAJuice relies on ephemerides - predicted positions of celestial objects at specific times.

Mid October, you have a chance to help improve those ephemerides.

@obs-paris-psl.bsky.social has details lte.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/Une-occultat...

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 2d

This is an eggplant

White eggplant/aubergine cultivar pictured with eggs

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 2d

These people lead empty lives

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

Moving accounts between Mastodon and Bluesky is about to get much easier, thanks to Bounce 2.

Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky | TechCrunch

Moving accounts between Mastodon and Bluesky is about to get much easier, thanks to Bounce 2.

techcrunch.com

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

Hello from Mumbai where Keir Starmer is meeting India’s prime minister Modi tomorrow with a huge business and culture delegation.

This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town

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Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 3d

It's better to be inside the train pissing out, than outside the train trying to piss in.

Pheasant Plucker @pheasant.bsky.social · 3d

The UK opposed EU tariffs when it was in the EU, I believe