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Peter McGladdery

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Blowing dandelion clocks, chasing falling autumn leaves, catching raindrops/snowflakes on my tongue. Cismallow. And posting a bit. Statistically insignificant https://mstdn.social/@peter_mcgladdery

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 3h

Making living in England a bit more Norse mythic by replacing Ham in place names with Heim.

Tøttenheim
West Heim
Øst Heim
Fülheim
Waltheimstein

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

This Prime Day, did you know my wonderful, supportive indie publishers sell ebooks of their titles direct? And that you always get a great deal on them because no space bothering billionaire gets a cut? farragobooks.com

Welcome to Farrago Books

Farrago’s purpose is simply to help readers find fiction that makes them smile. We want to introduce you to books that will tickle your funny bone. We want you to know that if you find one funny, ther...

farragobooks.com

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 17h

"Let's get the ethnic mix in modern British territories back to how it was in the old days...No, not like that!!!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_British_Empire

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 17h

Good spot. It is indeed.

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 17h

Headless swan lake.

Spooky

(It's OK - they were all still in bed)

20 or so swans on a body of water, all with heads tucked against body

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 18h

Direct copy/paste from the US right wing yet again. If these people had a single original thought, it'd be a miracle

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Pedestrians blurped the tiny apples

Pavement covered in 2cm diameter apples. Whole and round by edge of pavement, flat brown and squished in the middle

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s favourite proof note:

Replace ‘this’ with ‘that.’

Which feels like a short summary of the entire process.

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Originally, it was a 50/50 toss up between calling them Swifties or Taylor-heads

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Currently pondering if getting one's knickers in a twist and getting one's panties in a bunch are describing the same underwear disarray or if both could be possible at once

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Next door from that getting roof redone.

Just went out. Disappointing lack of labourer lunchtime street party going on

Very much ignoring each other

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Next door in one direction is getting a gate installed in the passage between houses. Lots of drilling into my wall.

Next door on other side is getting kitchen redone. Some wall drilling. Also somehow charging their phones somewhere where the vibration alert sounds like its in my house

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 3d

It's come to that point. Anyone know any charities for teens+ in London who'd like a job lot of quite random DC/Marvel collected editions. Loft is creaking. Low, low likelihood of most being read again

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, the ideal way to present the award can never be

Chuckle Brothers carrying an overside Nobel medal

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoris...

Motorists for Themselves - Wikipedia

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

'"Motorists" is a strange name for a political party (6 seats in Czech parliament)' I thought. 'Must be a wonky translation'

Nope. And each section in the wiki gets worse.

Snippet from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorists_for_Themselves

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

The fact it's the same people in the same layout just makes it look like there has been some sort of mass Drag Race-style tear away

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

(Note the location in the username)

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 2d

Shame they stopped wearing the hat

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

EVERY OTHER RING 😱
RIVETED
2/

Close up of reproduction Roman/Iron Age mail armour showing details of riveting.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

It is pretty annoying that an organizing principle of this administration is "nobody reads past the headline" and to the extent they are succeeding at anything it is because they're correct about that

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 2d

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 2d

Bush

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