Tim Ripley
@timripley.bsky.social
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Q. Name an Irish hip hop trio from Belfast
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Q. Name an Irish hip hop trio from Belfast
The Oasis tour is such a success. I reckon they're going to continue to play live forever
September 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The Oasis tour is such a success. I reckon they're going to continue to play live forever
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I remember as a kid, watching the first Star Wars films, and thinking the stormtroopers seemed weirdly incompetent, considering they had been trained by this militaristic, all-powerful, tyrannical state and could be supplied with all the best weapons and gear.
But I get it now.
But I get it now.
September 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I remember as a kid, watching the first Star Wars films, and thinking the stormtroopers seemed weirdly incompetent, considering they had been trained by this militaristic, all-powerful, tyrannical state and could be supplied with all the best weapons and gear.
But I get it now.
But I get it now.
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Following on from my post below...
My grandson mentions that, in the past, German woodsmen would train male bullfinches to whistle tunes.
If you haven't heard this before, prepare to be utterly AMAZED by the bullfinch's ability to sing a tune so perfectly! #birds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My grandson mentions that, in the past, German woodsmen would train male bullfinches to whistle tunes.
If you haven't heard this before, prepare to be utterly AMAZED by the bullfinch's ability to sing a tune so perfectly! #birds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
March 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Following on from my post below...
My grandson mentions that, in the past, German woodsmen would train male bullfinches to whistle tunes.
If you haven't heard this before, prepare to be utterly AMAZED by the bullfinch's ability to sing a tune so perfectly! #birds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My grandson mentions that, in the past, German woodsmen would train male bullfinches to whistle tunes.
If you haven't heard this before, prepare to be utterly AMAZED by the bullfinch's ability to sing a tune so perfectly! #birds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Making English the official US language has to be the most unrealistic ambition that Trump could have gotten
March 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Making English the official US language has to be the most unrealistic ambition that Trump could have gotten
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
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We need to start de-escalating the car headlights arms race before people start burning each other up like vampires.
January 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We need to start de-escalating the car headlights arms race before people start burning each other up like vampires.
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For all the doubters, how are these not the same?
January 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
For all the doubters, how are these not the same?
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I studied the Nazis at university, taught the history of Nazi Germany on two continents and wrote for major newspapers about Nazi Germany. I am internet famous for fact- checking chuds on the history, ideology and policy of Nazi Germany. That was a Nazi salute.
January 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I studied the Nazis at university, taught the history of Nazi Germany on two continents and wrote for major newspapers about Nazi Germany. I am internet famous for fact- checking chuds on the history, ideology and policy of Nazi Germany. That was a Nazi salute.
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Good night America you lunatics.
January 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Good night America you lunatics.
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Why are the TV cameras at the Inauguration using such poor lenses?
January 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Why are the TV cameras at the Inauguration using such poor lenses?
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If you don’t fancy watching the Inauguration tonight we are showing 24 hours in police custody at the same time which we aren’t saying is connected in any way shape or form…
January 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you don’t fancy watching the Inauguration tonight we are showing 24 hours in police custody at the same time which we aren’t saying is connected in any way shape or form…
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Given Baroness Gustafsson OBE CBE's role at the heart of one of the UK's largest corporate frauds, one may wonder if she is less an entrepreneur who knows about growing business and more a practitioner of the dark arts of creative accounting.
Full story online: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
Full story online: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
January 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Given Baroness Gustafsson OBE CBE's role at the heart of one of the UK's largest corporate frauds, one may wonder if she is less an entrepreneur who knows about growing business and more a practitioner of the dark arts of creative accounting.
Full story online: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
Full story online: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
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#LetsDoIt25 30
Ashby de la Zouch, 1946
First heard on a compilation of 1940s UK Dance Band tunes. Can only think the rhythm of the place name inspired the song as anyone familiar with AdlZ would know it is NOT ‘by the sea’ as claimed but stuck in the middle of the country.
Ashby de la Zouch, 1946
First heard on a compilation of 1940s UK Dance Band tunes. Can only think the rhythm of the place name inspired the song as anyone familiar with AdlZ would know it is NOT ‘by the sea’ as claimed but stuck in the middle of the country.
Lou Preager & his orchestra - Ashby de la Zouch (1946)
YouTube video by Mathieu Peiffer
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#LetsDoIt25 30
Ashby de la Zouch, 1946
First heard on a compilation of 1940s UK Dance Band tunes. Can only think the rhythm of the place name inspired the song as anyone familiar with AdlZ would know it is NOT ‘by the sea’ as claimed but stuck in the middle of the country.
Ashby de la Zouch, 1946
First heard on a compilation of 1940s UK Dance Band tunes. Can only think the rhythm of the place name inspired the song as anyone familiar with AdlZ would know it is NOT ‘by the sea’ as claimed but stuck in the middle of the country.
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The six biggest banks in the U.S. have quit the Net Zero Banking Alliance just before Trump's inauguration.
The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.
The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.
Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration
Exodus from target-setting group is attempt to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing politicians, say analysts
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The six biggest banks in the U.S. have quit the Net Zero Banking Alliance just before Trump's inauguration.
The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.
The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.
This justification for a peerage reads like a reference written for someone who failed badly on a consultancy's graduate programme
January 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This justification for a peerage reads like a reference written for someone who failed badly on a consultancy's graduate programme
This brown sauce is over 4000 years past its date!
January 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This brown sauce is over 4000 years past its date!
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Put me in the ground.
January 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Put me in the ground.
All these tributes to Jimmy Carter would be simpler if they just said, "He was exactly what Trump isn't and will never be"
December 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
All these tributes to Jimmy Carter would be simpler if they just said, "He was exactly what Trump isn't and will never be"
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RIP Venus. 10 years ago today 🖤
December 29, 2024 at 9:30 AM
RIP Venus. 10 years ago today 🖤
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I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM
I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.