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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 2d

hey so bluesky im in Asia! Please enjoy some pics of Seoul from a few days ago. Hard recommend.

The Line in Hongdae, Seoul. It is a linear urban park with lots of greenery and skyscrapers in background

An old town gate building in the centre of Seoul

View from one of the mountains north of the city

View of stalls inside an indoor market, mostly advertising fish

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 3d

This is me and Nottingham

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 5d

Saw some YouTube and realised Americans are pronouncing it ice like in cola, which imo is way too chill sounding

Off the top of my head: ICE: /icky/

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 5d

"I was standing in the road wondering when the bus would come, and then it hit me...."

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 11d

magnet (@arcadeseals)
me: I'm terrified of random letters
therapist: you are?
me: [screams]
therapist: oh,l see
me: [screaming intensifies]

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

Smol Cat (@OneSmolCat) on twitter: "they don't ID me at the liquor store anymore because they see the light has left my eyes"

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Shahed. Shahed is 23 years old and before this she was a stay at home mom to her children Rakan, 5 and Mohammad, 3. Her husband was a delivery driver for merchants. They lost their home and have been displaced many times.

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 9d

Youtube Music song suggestions be like "we think you should listen to this next track, it's got a real nice, er, profit margin"

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 10d

Reliable source for things that are Not Going To Happen

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · Jan 8

It's not oversimlifying to point out that large parts of the right just want most of everyone else's stuff for free. The word 'tory' just comes from the Irish for 'thief'

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 11d

Niche, dated beasties reference while 90% of my followers are asleep. High hopes for this poast

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 11d

...and i am most ill when I'm...

A dessert restaurant in Seoul, Korea called "rolling and filling"

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 14d

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 17d

paracetamol is woke now? christ on a bike

Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 17d

Ministers are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that could change how public services are run in England.

Ministers could give mayors control of schools and hospitals in devolution shake-up

Exclusive: Steve Reed, backed by Labour Together, wants to devolve control over more local services

www.theguardian.com

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Tired & Angry 🇪🇺💫 🇮🇪 @angrytired.bsky.social · 20d

8 days to go… come on people 😱

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK

Currently, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK. We ask the Government to require candidates for MP be registered to vote and residents of the UK.

petition.parliament.uk

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 19d

Bravo,
@privateeyenews.bsky.social

A shelf of goods in a shop labelled "Missing label mystery cans"

A woman is looking at one row of them where a further sign reads "Suspected Spam"

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 20d

Trump is dead wrong.

Oil and gas won’t lower bills or provide secure energy.

He’s peddling a dangerous lie that only benefits his oil industry backers.

Here’s why 🧵

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 20d

at least the money is [someone whispers in ear] ...oh no...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21d

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 22d

Hmm interesting. They likely can't benefit from my little tip then, as i think it requires gas ch.

Hope you're well olie!

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 22d

posting this makes me realise i have no idea how Americans heat water in their homes, but i assume it involves something like burning raw crude and/or shooting a gun at it

Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 22d

I've been fiddling with the heating today which reminded me that not enough brits seem to know about this concept:

if you have a combi boiler, setting it to a lower flow temperature (and having it on a bit longer to compensate) can mean you save a lot (~5%+) of gas

www.which.co.uk/news/article...

One simple way to adjust your boiler to lower your heating bill - Which?

If you aren't using your boiler efficiently, your home is more expensive to heat – see how flow temperature can make a difference to your gas bill

www.which.co.uk

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 22d

I've been fiddling with the heating today which reminded me that not enough brits seem to know about this concept:

if you have a combi boiler, setting it to a lower flow temperature (and having it on a bit longer to compensate) can mean you save a lot (~5%+) of gas

www.which.co.uk/news/article...

One simple way to adjust your boiler to lower your heating bill - Which?

If you aren't using your boiler efficiently, your home is more expensive to heat – see how flow temperature can make a difference to your gas bill

www.which.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

A growing number of Labour voices now demanding Keir Starmer start taking on Elon Musk and the far-right.

Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate'

Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

bylinetimes.com

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 26d

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Aug 8

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

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