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Winter

@kernowshark.bsky.social

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She/her. Lesbian demisexual. 🏳️‍⚧️ Cornish-Irish. Often silly. Socialist. PhD. Autistic. ADHD. Disabled. Former ocean conservationist specialising in shark research and marine plastic reduction, now retired due to illness.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · May 11

I'm going to be making a few changes to how I interact with this website. In future, only people I follow will be able to reply to me by default, and I'm going to be a lot pickier about who I follow - basing it on a quick vibes check and seeing who else I know is following someone too isn't working.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, time for dinner.

Tricolore fusilli pasta with homemade basil and garlic pesto, smokey bacon, topped with grated Cornish wild garlic yarg.

I'm out for the night. See you tomorrow if this place is still actually here.

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 6h

I'm guessing the US publishers were too cheap to pay Josh Kirby (the original cover artist) and Paul Kidby (who did them after Kirby died in 2001).

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 6h

You say that like those are mutually exclusive.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 6h

I live in Cornwall. Every time I see a St George's flag flying here, that's a racist.

I guarantee there's twats flying them in Scotland and Wales, too.

But sure it's the brown people who move into communities and refuse to integrate. 🙄

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 7h

Oh he’s doing white working class now, cool, cool

I recognise that some on the left think the flag is irredeemable. It's an argument l've heard many times. But it begs the question of how you hope to build solidarity with the working class when you're telling them that the symbol with which many of them identify is the same as the swastika?

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 6h

That's no way to talk about your poor wife.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

I'd rather not need a partner who keeps telling people "no, they're not actually racist."

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

There's a bassist in the replies to Angel claiming to be better in this regard.

We should have some kind of trials.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

I play piano/keyboards, ladies. I'm just saying.

✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 7h

musicians are better at sex. sorry

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

I still remember the "wearable flags" they sold for some football tournament a few years back, which were just straight up KKK hooded robes with a red cross on.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 7h

I have already made 135 pounds on day one 🫶 please donate if you can

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Help Lina S raise money to support Crisis

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

A guy actually died laughing at this skit.

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

I think Rayn bluescreened.

How do we turn her off and on again?

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

Hiiii

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

Hell, I was actually in the military when I was younger, and it would have got me.

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, to be clear, you didn't want to disturb who? The capybara or an imaginary friend?

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

Ripp you've never just barely noticed a foot in your adult life.

Unless you noticed it was bare. I mean, technically there appears to be some kind of sandal...

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

I noticed that. I also knew you would, and here you are. 😏

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant .

Alt: That "Firefly"* meme of Nathan Fillion trying to argue and failing. *It's actually taken from an episode of Castle, his other show.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

I swear I didn't see the capybara until I read the alt text, because it's behind glass and the same colour as the ground, and thought you were actually having some kind of breakdown.

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

Calling us all perverts and showing a photo of your thighs is an interesting choice, lol

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

It's really good. I tried it on a whim, I'd never had any kind of root beer/sarsparilla before, and I loved it.

Then Tesco stopped selling it. 🙁

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

If you're open to the idea of bulk ordering a soft drink online, I'd bet there will be a company who imports it who'd deliver to you.

I do that myself for Irn Bru 1901, which apparently the Scots keep to themselves as I've never seen it in a supermarket south of Edinburgh...

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 8h

My local Tesco here in Cornwall stocks Bundaberg ginger beer, in 4 packs of glass bottles.

I know his pain though, as I like their root beer, and whilst they also used to stock that, they stopped some time ago - apparently I was the only person in Cornwall buying it.

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 16h

Gah! You can't offer an option and then take it away like this, that's as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest!

Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 16h

She wasn't that eloquent or relevant.