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@steveshark.bsky.social

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Guitarist, retired and resident in France (53). #FBPE Zappa, Dylan, Little Feat, Miles Davis, Steely Dan. Books, history, archaeology, cooking, birds. Wishing for the swift demise of all right wing motherfuckers.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, the loudness wars.

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 8h

Given the widening availability of recording software, I've been seeing more and more classic albums being remastered (and I use that term extremely loosely) by well-meaning amateurs.

Sorry, chaps, but boosting the bass and the treble do not a remaster make.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 8h

Both my wife and I both started teacher training in the early 1970s. Sure, we had some Marxist input in philosophy and psychology of education and sociology, but only for balance. Judging from what I now observe in my grandchildren's education, I haven't been aware of anything Marxist being taught.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 9h

Farage seems to need a lot of words to say that he knows fuck all about education in UK schools today.

You're the poisoner, you rancid spunk trumpet.

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

www.theguardian.com

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 12h

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ says, "Fuck off you bag of dicks."

Richard Desmond asks for ‘generosity’ in £1.3bn National Lottery claim

Payout likely to be funded by taxpayers if media mogul wins case against gambling regulator

www.theguardian.com

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 12h

Afterwards my eye felt a bit "used" and scratchy, but there wasn't any pain - only a bit of discomfort.

I can see so well out of it that I'm not bothering with glasses for my other eye.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 12h

It was fine. Good drugs meant I felt nothing and wouldn't have cared if I did. My eye was so paralysed that I couldn't blink with it, which was the natural reaction.

30 minutes for the op (if that) - 30 minutes in the salle de reveille - 45 minutes later my wife came to collect me.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you.

It's strange seeing what you thought was white with your "old" eye, and realising how yellow it was in comparison with what you see when you use your "new"eye.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 15h

It's now 24 hours since I had the cataract in my right eye removed and an implant fitted.

I can already see better through it than I could with glasses.

I'm having the left eye done next Wednesday.

Thank you, science!

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 1d

2023 UK Government figures.

Alcohol treatment services - Committees - UK Parliament

Harmful drinking appears to be increasing. The upward trend in alcohol-related death and hospital admissions accelerated in the pandemic. The costs of this to drinkers, their families and society are ...

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 1d

FFS.

Here we go again...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move

www.theguardian.com

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how this stagnation can be accounted for?

Britain ‘stagnating, while world around us moves on’, Badenoch tells Tory conference – UK politics live

Party leader also addresses immigration and sets out what she says are the achievements of 14 years of Tory rule in closing speech at Manchester

www.theguardian.com

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 2d

I like the way the caption behind his head almost says "germy arse".

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and his squalid band of MAGA drones have another 1200 days to fuck things up even more than they have already.

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: Countdown Timer

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 2d

But not to people who can't read.

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 2d

The "POLICIA" on one of the riot shields is a huge give away.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck off, bot.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

I thought Boris Johnson had been a bit quiet lately.

Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

Toxic mass chiselled out of Feltham pipes amid campaign to stop people tipping harmful substances down drains

www.theguardian.com

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

I was just going on what I could Google. I'm not there, so only those who are can really know. 2.9% is only an average of a basket of goods/services anyway.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

He sounds like just one more racist shit head from the Daily Mail's comment sections.

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

One of our favourite roasts, although it's not often we have it as it's pricey here.

Boneless shoulder's a great joint - enough fat to keep it moist for about 6 hours, which is about the length of time I usually allow. I always roll it in black pepper, salt, thyme, sage, rosemary and tarragon.

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

2.9% US inflation rate.

Here, in France, 1.3%.

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ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

CHOON!

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

Not just me then. I can watch too much of him.

ＺÖＭＢＹＷＯＯＦ @steveshark.bsky.social · 3d

John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane (Official Music Video)

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