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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 27d

So my very specific dopamine rush is buying the same clothes Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place wears (new master thread of photos as and when I find the clothes in my wardrobe again)

Rammi with pink hair wearing pink shirt with lines running across it and a star design with a checked purple skirt

Eleanor Shellstrop, played by Kristen Bell, wearing the same pink top with jeans

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 1d

I just realised Typepad quietly died at the end of September when I went to try and find a knitting pattern linked on Ravelry 😭

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 1d

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 3d

I slag off Vinted sellers a lot but this is the perfect way to sell your item.

A white Samoyed smiling at the camera in front of a blue flowery dress.

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

Did they outlast the Liz Truss lettuce at least?

Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

I went to a zine session the year before last there and I was SO EXCITED when they brought out the microfiche 🥹

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

This person! www.instagram.com/reel/DPRjJJf... Her name is Maggie McGaugh and she buys stuff that is clearly AI to see what actually arrives

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 3d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

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@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

I can try? It took me like two years to get my FB account back/talk to a human though 😭

Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

Where’s that woman who buys AI products when you need her?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d

The media continue to present this woman as a child because at 22-years old she presents a degree of moral clarity, rhetorical potency and profound understanding of the connection between one's politics and one's actions that her detractors, many more than twice her age, not ony lack, but defile.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

I bet someone would make a lot of money running a toddler heartbreak Instagram account

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

During lockdown I even played a fricking WIND instrument 😂 No wonder I could never hold the notes for super long

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, let’s not talk about how they kept telling me to lose weight for years and then I’d feel better when it was ~asthma~ all along 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

So as a newly-diagnosed asthmatic, I just realised breathing heavily at night /doesn’t/ have to be normal and I can just take medicine to make it go away? What is this novelty

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Son of the most powerful man on the planet who's name is on dozens of golf courses and buildings and shakes down every institution for payoffs and bribes is rich. HOW DID HE DO IT

Forbes @forbes.com · 3d

Trump’s youngest son taught his dad a thing or two about crypto. Now the NYU sophomore is making a fortune before he even turns 20.

How 19-Year-Old Barron Trump Is Worth $150 Million

Trump’s youngest son taught his dad a thing or two about crypto. Now the NYU sophomore is making a fortune before he even turns 20.

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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 3d

Me at 9am: a fresh week, a positive mindset

Me at 4.51pm: why can’t literally everything go piss itself

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

ugh, with this wave of xenophobia against ILR holders, I should probably finally do citizenship, shouldn’t I? 😭 The thought of pledging allegiance to another king kinda makes me want to hurl though

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 3d

many benefits are household claims. imagine you're british and your spouse has ILR, and you're told that you're being denied benefits because your spouse is from "other parts of the world and they can leave". imagine if you lose your job and your spouse can't claim jobseekers, so you end up homeless

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

The Tory Party has gone mad..

He insisted the Conservatives had a plan to cut spending, including £8bn of annual savings from reducing the civil service, £6.9bn from cutting the aid budget and £23bn from slashing the welfare bill.

Stride told the BBC that to save money, only UK citizens would have access to the welfare system and that people with "low-level" mental health problems would also lose access to benefits.

Asked what would happen to people living legally in Britain who are not UK citizens if they fall into hardship, he said: "They've come from other parts of the world and they would have the option to return."

The Conservatives failed to back the Labour government's proposed £5bn of welfare savings this year. Stride claimed that the Labour plans were rushed and "not considered and principled".

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

two men are hugging each other on a couch in a living room with a bbc one logo in the corner .

ALT: two men are hugging each other on a couch in a living room with a bbc one logo in the corner .

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

Also the acronym includes “feminist” which they certainly are not

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d

“The rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc”

An explicitly racist policy then

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 3d

Pros: looks great on me as well as Eleanor
Cons: It’s probably not quite the right size and I may be stuck in it 🫣

Rammi wearing a skin-hugging white dress with yellow and black floral pattern

Eleanor Shellstrop wearing the same white dress with floral design but it’s probably the actual right size for her so it’s not as tight

Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 4d

a little girl in a white dress is looking at the camera

ALT: a little girl in a white dress is looking at the camera

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 5d

would you like me to search or keep an eye out for similar items? I appear to have very special skills acquired from years of trying to find eleanor shellstrop's clothes lol

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Rammi @rammi.bsky.social · 5d

I tracked down a bunch of different things recently so every day the postie arrives is a new game of “what Eleanor item is it going to be this time?”

Rammi with pink hair and glasses wearing white top with red and pink stars pattern

Eleanor Shellstrop wearing the same white shirt with red and white stars, holding a wine glass

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