Gravitas Shmavitas
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Gravitas Shmavitas
@bleyden.bsky.social
I make things, fix things, take photos, love life and enjoy getting off my pickle. Perfectionist and epic procrastinator - a truly frustrating combo. Tea lover and masala chai fiend. Tech wrangler for NHS Scotland.

Edinburgh & Dundee
He/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊
Ah right, this is a double standards thing. Ok, as you were.
June 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Including the hostages in the north of the island? Mind you, we only have ourselves to blame.
June 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's about to pioneer a whole new category of divorced.
June 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Just. Scary.
May 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Goddamn, I was in the pub and couldn't tune in. I suspect the answer is no but is there a way to listen back?
May 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They have a selection of words that they mix up to meet whichever bs sounds truthy in an evil liar kinda way
May 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's a constant source of fascination for me how Western society made it out of that time with actual progeny. Some bloody amazing music tho.
May 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🤣
May 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
That is (was 😓) a beauty!
May 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I do love big random pompom poppies like that!
May 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The thing that *really* confuses me is that they seem to expect it to work. One minute it's "we need to have an honest conversation" the next it's "round em up and kick em out". It's beyond insane.
May 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Every time I've asked Google a yes or no question recently, the AI has given me wrong info. Most recently related to a 240V electrical safety question. I think you may be on to something.
May 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Having really strong ad and tracker blocking active on my devices, I've noticed just how much of every Google results page is a paid link now (because my blocking breaks the links). It's almost getting to the point where you need to "show more results" to, y'know, GET actual results.
May 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
It's a pity Father Ted can't escape him.
May 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Oops didn't realise you were Scottish as well! I'm Dundonian and it's something I heard a lot growing up. Dropping the contraction, "men like you, who are..." sounds more natural to me than "men like you, that are..."

But then again I'm no linguist. In fact, worse in this context, I'm a coder.
May 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
*its. Autocarrot determined to satirise me in real time 🙄
May 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I dunno about who're ... it's a common contraction in Scottish dialects. It's definitely an odd one to put in writing though... literally no characters apart from a single space are "saved" in it's use 😂
May 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM