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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@dampscot.bsky.social

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Husband, carer, IT bod, plays & tries to write RPGs & Wargames RPG Titles include Chivalry & Sorcery C&S Essence Rocket Jocks Vis Imperium Victoriana Free Essence Core Straight to Video With Spell & Blaster Tales from an Ancient Empire Conrunner 2042

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 11h

In tonight's The One Ring, the company spied upon a rally of trolls. Drunken, gluttonous, lecherous,their leader addressed them

"We're going to stop the small boats from Numenor, and build a wall around Eriador and make Gondor pay for it!"

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 21h

Old+fashioned,? An up to the minute, youth oriented, artisanal supplier of hand-crafted tools and supplies?

Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 1d

Just FYI last repost, Simon Wessely should not be out in charge of anything, instead, in my opinion he should be up on charges of professional misconduct

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 2d

In 1988 Westminster tried to celebrate the "Glorious Revolution, bloodless as it was"

That met with a "What the fuck" from Scotland and Ireland for two

Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 2d

Dearie me

I'd say he was shitting on his legacy but that sewage barge sailed a long time ago

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 2d

The Emerald Tablet from 1977

them.me.uk/salienthurcheon/the-emerald-tablet-early-fantasy-

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maraviglia.bsky.social @maraviglia.bsky.social · 2d

Just because they're awesome and under represented online I thought everyone should know that Newline designs are having a 30 years in business sale where everything is 30% off.
Tell a friend.

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep very well!

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 3d

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 3d

Night night

Seems very early for a Witchy person though

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Lots of excitement and discussion in Doctor Who fandom over rumours of two or more missing episodes having potentially turned up.

And by "excitement and discussion in Doctor Who fandom" I mean an endless parade of middle-aged blokes speculating wildly on their YouTube channels about whether […]

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

I felt a great disturbance in the History community as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in disbelief and were suddenly silenced

#KingAndConqueror

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I guess it is a battle NEAR Hastings

Sorta

Oh flip no

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 4d

1) this is horrendous
2) it's not the main point obvs but it's really brought home just how siloing BlueSky's way of working is... until Nadine drew attention to them I was blissfully aware of this thick vein of antisemites where on Twitter my TL would have been lousy with them - often the same ppl

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 5d

It is exactly this sort of rhetoric that leads to dead Jews

Given what we know about the motivations of the attacker in Manchester I feel compelled to say for my personal safety:

I do not support the Israeli government’s actions in Palestine, and I have never gloated about atrocities

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

True

It is funny, though,when the same people who post screenshots of multiple roboposts of the same text to show up their opponents

Then post the same wordage found in a statement,without attribution, spammed over many sources, same or similar wording, uncritically

Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

Any piece of news that confirms your view of the situation, particularly if the news you receive is one-sided, is doubly worth trying to find some kind of independent verification of

Check your opponents points, but check your own twice as hard

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 5d

You got the salmon?
Yeah man. You got the honey?
Yeah man.

Two bears on hind legs chatting behind a shed.

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

Glad to fulfil your day!

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 5d

Daily bunny no.3098 brings the snacks

A bunny is in a dark dungeon, on one side of a bolted wooden door. On the other side of the door, seen through a barred window in the door, a giant, amorphous monster is visible, with green tentacles and a giant eyeball. The bunny has brought a bucket of fish for the creature to eat.

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 4d

Much cooler when it rains, that water will strip the heat from your sodden body

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 5d

At the time they were produced, I'd see one parked near my school sometimes. Looked amazing, though I suspect they'd have visibility issues

Not as much as a monowheel would have, and they are even cooler

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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 5d

But bluntly pointy, so you can poke people with ut