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Sub/copy editor for hire (including football and horse racing as well as ‘intellectual’ stuff); CertTESOL coach; ale, cider, wine, gin, whisky, rum, terrier wrangler; biology PhD; republican atheologian; mental health first aider; Hammer. Chat-wary.

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linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 10d

Cf Christ on a bike…

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 15d

Re Trump, #Tylenol (paracetamol) and pregnancy, sadly predictable and potentially deadly nonsense. My note in The Other Place…

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 16d

A happy autumn solstice to my reader…

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 17d

Gabriel Martinelli brilliantly equalises for the Gunners two minutes into the seven of added time #ARSMCI 1-1

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 17d

Erling Haaland in rampant Roy of the Rovers mode puts the Light Blues ahead #ARSMCI 0-1

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 17d

Eyes down for #ARSMCI I’ve predicted a 2-1 home win

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

An intergalactic nitpicker politely inquires/enquires: I wonder if you are trying to be intentionally inclusive in your sweep of Earthlings with astronomical inclinations by appealing not only to basic hyphenated sky-gazers but also the potentially far more advanced skygazers (sic) life form.

CNN @cnn.com · 18d

Sky-gazers should get ready for a full day of celestial events on Sunday, including a partial solar eclipse in parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4ncQAPZ

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

On the one hand, ‘they’re only numbers’. On the other, as a self-deprecating connoisseur of weak synonym matches – in this case, for ‘elite’ – I’m comfortably in carriage-trade/optimacy territory. Woo-hoo!🕺

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18d

If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts.
If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Chart showing share of followers per user percentile. A user in the 50th percentile has 1 follower. A user in the 99.99th percentile has 11,241 followers.

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

In case you missed it… in response to @helenstyle.bsky.social’s query re any Roman lighthouse across the Channel/La Manche, maybe at Calais, there was at Boulogne the Tour d’Ordre – the victim of a 17th-century cliff fall. This French 101 seems to cover the basics… fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_d%...

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

‘… And so the zombie Land Rovers congregated – and, steadily and majestically, began their inexorable takeover of Earth…’

Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 18d

Seems I upped and died and went to heaven

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

I discover there was one near Boulogne. This French page covers the basics, I think… fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_d%...

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

Idrissa Gueye gets the Toffees back in the game #LIVEVE 2-1

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

That doesn’t quite add up.

Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 19d

‘Mathematics is, of course, the universal language.’

God help me.

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linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

🕺Saw it last month… here’s an inside view.

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linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

A Hammer, obvs rather used to enduring serial tsunamis of despair, notes: Despite my continuing admiration for the abilities of David Moyes to manage teams with relatively limited resources, that seems unduly pessimistic.

Stephen Mawhinnney @sjmawhinney.bsky.social · 18d

Now just need to NOT concede the two goals we always do.
#LIVEVE
#YNWA

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

Hugo Ekitike puts the hosts two up just before the half-hour mark #LIVEVE 2-0

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

Ryan Gravenberch breaks the deadlock after 10 minutes #LIVEVE 1-0

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 18d

Eyes down for #LIVEVE I’ve predicted a 3-1 home win

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 22d

Farewell, Robert Redford… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

Robert Redford - Wikipedia

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linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 24d

Erling Haaland adds to the hosts’ account in the Manchester derby #MCIMUN 2-0

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 24d

Slightly belated eyes down for #MCIMUN as I’ve been on barbecue duty in the drizzle. I can report it is delicious, of course, and Phil Foden has opened the hosts’ account… 1-0

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linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 25d

Micky van de Ven gets the visitors’ third #WHUTOT 0-3

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 25d

Lucas Bergvall adds to the Spurs account after Tomas Souček gets a straight red card for a flailing tackle #WHUTOT 0-2 ☹️

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 25d

Pape Matar Sarr puts Spurs ahead #WHUTOT 0-1

linguagroover.bsky.social @linguagroover.bsky.social · 25d

Slightly belated eyes down (I’ve been separating and potting two ‘pups’ – offshoots – from a Musa basjoo banana, as you do) for #WHUTOT I’ve predicted a 2-1 home win, being optimistic about my tropical plant propagation skills and the Irons’ Premier League survival… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_ba...

Musa basjoo - Wikipedia

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