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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 1d

I've been comparing UK-AU stories for future plans. Here in the UK I was referred, as a result of abs scans, for "urgent surgery". At 31 weeks I was called to discuss the need to speak to a consultant. (Very grateful that my husband's insurance meant I was several months post-surgery by then.)

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 2d

In a previous life I got to do a lot of long haul travel in BC. I would always much prefer to sit near a well-travelled expat child than some prat on expenses for the first time, determined to drink the plane dry. (Especially the one that got on, took off his shoes and socks, and picked his feet.)

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 4d

This. I hate the use of the word "famine" - it's deliberate starvation, not a natural event. (See also "honour killing". No honour in murder.)

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d

John is more than a comedian. He's a voice of reason with a sense of humour. More backbone than anyone in power.

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 9d

My cleaner in Singapore had a drop of this every day. It explained a lot. (She also tried to convince me some dark tarry substance would help me have babies despite a total hysterectomy ten years earlier. it came from a place of love 😀)

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 20d

Assimilation, huh?

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · 28d

You are ridiculously talented.

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's improved a lot lately. LAX on the other hand, shocking.

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'm a dual citizen and I've done that journey more times than I can remember. I would seriously love this. (The emergency trip I took in 2010 took me 7 days, several countries, planes, trains and automobiles due to a pesky volcano.)

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Aug 22

Highly intolerant to eggs, intolerant to dairy and gluten - one of my favourite things in the world is Tiramisu. Sometimes I just live life on the edge.

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Aug 8

I couldn't get much more Northern, but I've been around 😉

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Aug 8

I have to flip a switch half way up the A1M, having last year been accused of starving my very pregnant niece after arranging to take her to dinner and not arriving by 1pm.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jul 16

And then there was the flight in 2010, during the Great Volcano Incident (when my Mum in the UK took ill and I had to get there from Syd) when they told us the plane from Istanbul was aiming for Frankfurt but might get diverted to Vienna. I had to ask on descent, where we were landing 😀 (Frankfurt)

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jul 16

I've travelled the world, lived in 5 countries, survived 8 months alone in Mexico...but the first time I got a train from Ipswich (UK not QLD) to London for an appointment, I got really panicked when the "next stop" announcements the whole way there were for the opposite journey.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · Jul 7

Both NSW Police and the Minns Labor government deserve to be driven like a tent peg over this. It's just gross incompetence of the application of state violence on innocent civilians, from the legislation empowering it to the NSW Police never being put on a leash www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop emergency riot powers charge against pro-Palestine protester

State Greens member Sue Higginson had complained to police watchdog alleging extraordinary powers applied ‘unlawfully or retrospectively’ against Thomas

www.theguardian.com

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hirsty Photography is onto it, as usual.

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 19

Came back to the UK in 2022 for a stint, had to get a cheque book to pay for a new driving licence.

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 16

I realised I probably tell you this every time you mention Saltaire. The shop is amazing. And the bookstore. I love the 1853 Gallery too. (My print of my beloved Mr Hockney's Mill has travelled the world with me.)

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 16

Worked in Salt's Mill for most of the 90s, still love a visit when I can.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · Jun 13

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party www.theverge.com/policy/68569...

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party

Amazon, Oracle and Coinbase are top sponsors, while Meta’s involvement is unclear.

www.theverge.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jun 12

For those of you watching what is going down and say, "This is not America," please sit down, as I have some unsettling news for you.

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 12

Awesome. I come from a family of knitting legends but my own fame relates only to how often I tried to learn and ended up throwing the needles across the room.

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Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 11

When life gave me lemons I moved where the tequila was cheap.

Quiet Kooky @quietkooky.bsky.social · Jun 9

This. In 2020 they targeted journos and medics.

Bluesky Wagtail @angrywagtails.bsky.social · Jun 9

They've always done this to protestors and journos alike - always. Several journos were blinded during BLM protests.

www.businessinsider.com/portland-jou...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

A journalist who's worked with PBS and National Geographic tells us what it was like being shot in the eye by law enforcement in Portland

Trip Jennings talked to Business Insider about being shot in the face with a less-lethal round while covering a protest in Portland, Oregon.

www.businessinsider.com