Gareth Turner
garethturner.bsky.social
Gareth Turner
@garethturner.bsky.social
If you’re informative, unbiased, even a bit funny, I’ll give you a follow 💪🏻
Hate it when you can’t do #themini because it’s purely American answers. Meh.🫤 #nytgames
February 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.

The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.

The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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It shouldn't be difficult to commit to preserving the evidence from the Special Counsel’s January 6th investigation.

And yet...
January 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The US is about to experience what the UK did after the EU Referendum: a mandate won on empty rhetoric creates a vaccum that demands filling, but is impossible to fill, since there is no consensus as to the contents - and zero chance of consensus among narcissists to whom only domination matters.
December 28, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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During World War 1, fighting temporarily ceased in the trenches for Christmas and some German troops put up a sign meaning God with us – GOTT MIT UNS. The British troops then crawled across no-man’s land and wrote their own message on the German sign – WE GOT MITTENS TOO
December 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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America: our life expectancy is terrible, we must restrict the availability of-

rest of the world: guns?

America: vaccines.
December 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Of all the reasons I expected my train to be late in France, this wasn’t it! 😬 #hopeitsatypo
December 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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It's only right that my first post here is sharing Scotland's map of named ice gritters. You can follow where they all are in real-time.

Some favourites this year:

Sir David Attenbrrrrrr
Stone Cold Steve Frostin
Lord Coldemort
You're a blizzard, Harry

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 20, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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If you've never heard foxes laughing before, here's some foxes laughing.🔊🆙

📹: www.saveafox.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM
This is just the tonic we all needed after the US election ❤️
THIS…is how you fight: The Onion buys Alex Jones’s Infowars with backing from Sandy Hook families - Bloomberg
November 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM