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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow

@salutethepig.berlin

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Porcine things. Bring about an anarcho-syndicalist world. Move slow & make tasty things; with hob & knife & bubbling ferments. Missing Kent seas. CO₂ 314.8ppm. Sober since 1st Sep '24 “We are all Palestine Action". Help Gaza https://www.map.org.uk

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 19m

We were there a long time ago. It was busy but (like e.g. Barcelona) not that "I have to get out of here now before I panic" thing. The Sistine Chapel was so quiet that I was able to -- without getting screamed at or trampled -- lie down to allow me to actually take a few photos.

Now? No chance.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 51m

It may have something to do with the fact that I'm old :)

The system we met on was called CIX here in the UK; an early conferencing system. For our sins we've followed each other though the decades between many & varied networks, many of which have since disappeared.

CIX is still going I believe.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 57m

Truth. There are (a small number of) people here on Bluesky that I've been online friends with since the 1980s.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1h

For sure! :)

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1h

I read that as "kidney brain". Which is a thing. I hope.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1h

Rice. Plus pretty much anything.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 3h

Actually, I must thank you for suggesting the plotline for my next story.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 3h

Contemplative. Calming.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 3h

Christmas Pudding?

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 4h

Its PUBLICATION DAY for MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR!
Please rush out and buy my Christmas cosy crime... I hope you'll love it. Here's me and Ellroy (till he gets bored) unboxing. 🎄🎄🎄
www.instagram.com/reel/DPlZAL4...

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 4h

A slogan for us all.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 4h

<taps sign>

"It's always the ones you most expect."

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 5h

I depend on others telling me, to be sure :)

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 7h

At my age, I always claim that as a good result.

(in fact, waking up & remembering who I am, is the main one)

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 7h

All of the Labour PLP today.

"Yes, always voted for a ceasefire, me. Always. "

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 7h

Nice one; enjoy the day!

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 8h

This 👇

Like Fahad, I'm not sure what will happen and hope the genocide is stopped.

I just don't believe anyting that Trump or the Israeli monsters say.

Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 8h

The only people whose opinion matters on this peace deal are the people of Gaza, many of whom are cautiously optimistic. It is hard to be genuinely hopeful as a Palestinian, but I pray that the ceasefire holds and that Israel does not renege on the agreement.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 17h

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 9h

I’ve been watching a Norwegian film about Vidkun Quisling recently. Can’t imagine why…

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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awpiitr.bsky.social @awpiitr.bsky.social · 20h

Be a human mountain any chance you get.

marymary🍁🍁🍁🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 20h

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 23h

"Sunny uplands" rapidly heading this way, kids.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1d

I hear you; I was lucky that our local plumber had been given this earlier today by a grateful customer and he had no use for it. Knowing we like rice (& Japan), we were the natural choice :)

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1d

So simple, so lovely. It really is.

Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1d

There's a hollowed-out looking skin around a core of darkness.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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