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Tafaner66

@tafaner.bsky.social

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Recovering cyberutopian. LIKES: MUSIC (I play flutes, 7-string nylon guitar, and sing dreadfully); also LANGUAGES (En, Fr, Cat, Es) and the Great Outdoors - as long as it's not raining. DISLIKES: Mud

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 36m

Not sure if they are still active, but Paris has had quite a history of covert underground operations - culminating in the astonishing story of the Pantheon clock restoration. A compelling read !

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock

'Cultural guerrillas' cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon

www.theguardian.com

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, those really are tram tracks, and yes the red van really is parked that close. I'm sure it will end well 🤔

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Hesgothis Trombolese @trombolese.bsky.social · 14h

Our tiny little post office in rural France has a sign saying that they no longer ship parcels to the US. Moronic actions have global reach.

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 1d

I fear so. More sensible might be to keep him on the bench until the 2nd half, and then bring him on only if needed?

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 1d

We're expecting rain all week, so we'll no doubt spend hours in the shop. Will look out for the salad servers!

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 1d

Chucking it down with rain here in the Santuari de Lluc, Mallorca. Time to buy a 'blauet' in the tourist shop? No these are not Argentinian footballers, they're baby choirboys from the local escolania. Not to be confused with the other kind of 'blauet', a kingfisher 🤔

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose the Onion wrestles with these problems every day. Truth keeps catching up with fiction 🤔

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

[I just read it and thought "yeah, that sounds about right"] 🙁

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

Off to Mallorca for a week with family. The joys of Schengen: driving from a French village straight on to a ferry in Barcelona port. No customs, and (so far) no passport checks. Lots of boats here, but we think we'll take this cute little jobbie with Balearia written on it.

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely! 1 micron thick.

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

(Just to save you looking it up; It needs to be a big beautiful one obviously)

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 2d

Extraordinary that anyone other than Trump himself would consider him a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. But politics is politics - so now they need to come up with a special prize, just for him. I propose the "Tresleiv award" 🤔

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2d

Norway braced for Trump retaliation if he does not win Nobel peace prize
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

It's obviously going to be a sushi conveyor belt. It's just not quite finished 🤔

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

Lyon also has a great kayaking club, based right on the Confluence of the 2 rivers
www.cklom.fr

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

Nice supporting words about the pressures on Lamine Yamal to play before he's fully fit - from Marc Cucurella, or to give him his full name: "Cu-cu-cu-cu-rella, se come una paella" 🙂

Rac1 (Bot RSS No Oficial) @rac1rss.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Cucurella, sobre la polèmica convocatòria de Lamine Yamal: "El més fàcil és tenir bona comunicació, a ningú l'obliguen a jugar"
https://www.rac1.cat/esports/20251009/295002/marc-cucurella-polemica-convocatoria-lamine-yamal-facil-bona-comunicacio-ningu-obliguen-jugar-partits-tudiras.html

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

With "rare earths" in the news, it's possible some of us have forgotten what they are. So here is the complete catalogue from Tom Lehrer - including as a bonus all the everyday elements as well. You won't go far wrong with this by your side.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cf...

THE ELEMENTS
words: Tom Lehrer
music: "The Major General's Song" from The Pirates of
Penzance, by Arthur Sullivan (public domain)

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones o_f which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discavard

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

(Je vois qu'il est toujours à la recherche de candidats)

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 3d

Escandalós!

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

Sempre m'ha agradat aquesta versió de "I don't want to spoil the party" dels Beatles - una altra col·laboració de pare i filla! Es d'una altra època, per descomptat.

'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' By The Beatles (With My Dad!)

YouTube video by AmySlatteryOfficial

www.youtube.com

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

We spent 3 weeks there, did a music course, played in some bars, and travelled around the island a bit. We definitely romanticise it! There's a huge gulf in wealth between visitors and locals, different currencies, different treatment, lots of informal prostitution. Not good - but I love the place!

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

Maintentant qu'elle est morte, bien sûr 🙂

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Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

Margaret Thatcher, non ? (J'ai malentendu?)

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

Mais pourquoi pas? Nous autres anglais, on avait notre "dame de fer" 🤔

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

If I'm doing the arithmetic correctly, it only leaves ~8 waking hours? Less getting showered, dressed and travelling to/from work, so maybe 6-7 hours? Not sure that's going to work for everyone 🤔

Tafaner66 @tafaner.bsky.social · 4d

Quite! Both really unique players whose methods don't seem to have been copied by others. I'll especially miss Jordi Alba's lung-bursting, speculative sprints into space, repeated 10-20 times a game, often for nothing! I read he had a secret: sleep 12-13 hours a night, then nap for 2-4 hours more 🤔

From the Guardian's guide to the Euros, 2016:
<<A fundamental part of the side, tireless and relentless, providing a wide attacking outlet from the back. He was released from the Barcelona youth system in 2005 and moved from midfield into defence at Valencia. Barça re-signed him in 2012 for €14m, and he now has a €150m buyout clause. Fast, tetchy and confrontational on the pitch, off it he relaxes by playing chess (“it makes you think”), clothes-shopping, listening to flamenco music and sleeping “for 12 to 13 hours at night. Then I nap for two, three or four hours more. It’s one of the keys to my strength.”>>

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