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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]
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Still from the film Deliverance, the dueling banjos scene, towards the end when the local banjo kid smiles.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only:
Frank Morgan, playing the wizard, in one of the five guises he adopts in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
Sourdough batard in many shades of golden brown with distinct ear at the score line.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Undocumented? Well, if you weren't you now will be.

dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/when-ice-t...
« The updated Policy 11311 instructs officers to confiscate any government-issued document a person has on them — foreign passports, state IDs, consular cards, birth certificates, Real IDs, driver’s licenses, work permits. » 5.8 Noncitzens under orders of supervision. Generally, ICE will retain all foreign issued identity documents, including but not limited to, passports, identity cards, and birth certificates of noncitizens under a final order of removal, as these may be needed to obtain a valid travel document for the noncitizen in order to effectuate removal.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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And sliced for lunch sandwiches.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
Thickly sliced sourdough loaf, slices fanned out and cut end of the loaf visible all showing the even crumb.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #breadsky
Sourdough batard in shades of golden brown showing wide gape at the core line as a result of oven spring.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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So it's actually a Russian "peace" plane. Who'd have guessed?
US 'peace proposal' includes Russianisms prompting questions about authorship of text - analysis Luke Harding in Kyiv Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English.
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The season of goodwill and warrantless detention.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

#politics #USA #ICE #Trumpistan
Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, November 27, and Christmas, December 25.
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Eh!? What the…!?

Trump Casinos, Trump University, Trump Crypto and now Trump Insurance.

#TrumpInsurance #USA #politics #healthcare #Trumpistan
The White House President Donald J. Trump For decades greedy Insurance Companies have bled Americans dry. That's why President Trump, in association with AETNA and under the watchful eye of HHS Secretary Kennedy, is introducing TRUMP INSURANCE. For $599 a month Trump Voters will get comprehensive coverage without the GREED of traditional plans. Democrats can get the same coverage for $1499. Details are coming soon. Delivering for America!
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A bit of crunch.

The whole sourdough process from starter to slice documented on Tumblr

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#bread #sourdough #baking #food 🍞 🍜 🍽️ 🧑‍🍳
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#AI #math
Screenshot of Google search response AI Overview The density of green oak is approximately 1200 kg/m³ (0.75 g/cm³),
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Ouch!

#USA #Politics #Trumpistan
Screenshot of a tweet from The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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And cut…
Cut end of the loaf propped up on two of the slices cut from it. Showing a fairly open crumb with a few moderately sized bubbles.
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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After 30 minutes, covered with steam. Then after 30 more uncovered. Both at 240°C

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Part baked loaf in a roasting tin. Pale, from having been covered in the oven. The same loaf, now on a cooling rack, coloured many shades of golden brown from being finished uncovered.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Daily exercise deferred due to storm Claudia.

Walking with umbrella is just not fun.

#weather #storm #exercise
Screenshot of Met Office weather forecast for London showing 90% chance of precipitation falling to 40% by 2pm.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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"link above" does not appear to be free to me.
A you can't read this without paying splash page from the FT: Why populism became popular Subscribe to unlock this article Try the FT Digital Edition Only £15 per month Our digitised version of the FT newspaper, for easy reading on any device.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This one though it would try and be a chicken.
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#food #cooking #bread #sourdough
Loaf of sourdough bread that has sprung so vigorously in the oven that it's almost come apart.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Beans again. 12×400g for the freezer.

Much less than Heinz but, once you account for spices and other cupboard items more expensive than Lidl's Newgate brand baked beans which somehow seems unfair. 😝

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#food #cooking
12 plastic food containers filled with orangy stuff with bits in, stacked in three piles of four.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Last time I bought a Fairy washing up liquid "Mega Pack" At Tesco it was 1450ml and £3.00.

Flatmate's recent purchase 730ml for £3.50.

Poured into the old bottle because the "No you can't have just a drop" no leak cap is a con to make your use more.

#shrinkflation
Front of the Fairly liquid bottles, new to the left, old to the right. Back of the bottles clearly showing the sizes, new 730ml, old 1450ml.
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Wait! What?

Moderation can identify an impersonation accurately enough to do this but leave it active?

That's crazy!
Moderation services setting for "Impersonation" offering options of off, show badge and hide.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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At the most basic why build something that will require large amounts of cooling somewhere with a tropical climate?
Temperature chart for Christmas Island showing daily means in the mid 20s Celsius and a record low of 16.2°C.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Unflat bread.

Sourdough with overnight cold ferment in the fridge.
Side view of a rustic sourdough batard with excellent oven spring, wide gape from the score line and a definite ear. Many shades of dark golden brown with some black on the ear. At the moment this is my consistent recipe. 550g flour 340g water 100g active sourdough starter 12g salt Previous day Get the starter out of the fridge, feed it and leave it to stand until activity has peaked. Mix all the ingredients, stand 30 mins. Stretch and fold until feeling some resistence. Stand 1 hour. Do that twice more then cover and put in the fridge, mine last night was 7°C / 45°F. Today, get it out of the fridhe when I get up, leave it on the counter for an hour. Tip out, flatten and shape into a batard. Prove in a banneton or cloth lined dish for ~3 hours. Tip into a roasting tin, score, put 4 ice cubes in the tin then seal with kitchen foil. Bake in a preheated oven at 245°C / 475°F / GM 9 for 30 minutes. Uncover and return to the oven for another ~25 minutes. 3/4 view of the same loaf. Top down view showing the full extent of the gape from the score line.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Flatbread for lunch.

Because the unflat bread was still in the oven.

#food #cooking #bread #flatbread
Four flatbreads, each folded in four, stacked on a plate.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I might be getting the hang of this. 😀

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
Top down view of a loaf of sourdough bread showing large ear and wide gape of the slash parted by oven spring. End view of same showing ear and valley
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Fried slice.

#food #cooking #bread #lunch
Four slices of bread, fried until golden, stacked on a plate.
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM