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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 25m

Not sure about the shops but Mill Kitchen is dog (and child!) friendly. And worth a visit.

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 4h

What's with the barrier in the cycle lane?

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 8h

Is this 'Antichrist' in the room with us now?

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Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 9h

Profile of Nick Evans, who just won the British Academy's Neil and Saras Smith medal for lifetime achievement in linguistics
@theobserveruk.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/science...

Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...

Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...

observer.co.uk

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 9h

They don't know how anything works

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty amazing finding.

mRNA covid vaccines may “turbo charge” cancer immunotherapy, research suggests

Patients with cancer who received a covid mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy treatment gained significant benefit in terms of survival and disease progression, new research sugges...

www.bmj.com

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure about things to listen to but it's known for its high fidelity sound. And from my own experience they pay better than the usual suspects.

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers!

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 2d

If the game is called Fever Dream then they have really nailed it

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 2d

He thinks the people of Caerphilly are wrong

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

After with great pleasure lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife (for we have been for some years now, and at present more and more, a very happy couple, blessed be God), I got up and to my office.

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

In US and UK, long drawn-out judicial processes that often turn on painstaking examinations of evidence and elaborate rules of procedure are often called…

…’witch-hunts’.

Which really were the opposite, if you think about it.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 3d

Ridiculous in every way but can't you just unplug it?

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 4d

Guaranteed

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. These knuckle draggers always want more. Next up will be citizens not born here. Then citizens born here to foreign parents. Etc etc

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 4d

But I thought they were patriots

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Leila Fouda @leilafouda.bsky.social · 4d

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

www.theguardian.com

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 5d

It's for Nigel Farage

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 5d

I assume Labour has a big ledger somewhere tallying up the giving and the taking so they can decide the worthy and unworthy.
What a bunch of cowardly pricks.

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 5d

You should get a few answers wrong so they don't suspect anything

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 5d

All my apes, gone!

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Andrea @parramaterial.bsky.social · 7d

Forming are brilliant! I'm playing this gig with them (in @linesofsilence.com ) here in Leeds towards the end of November, do come if you can!

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mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 7d

Put smuggling on the blockchain

mike @vacantlot1.bsky.social · 7d

It was a royal flush

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