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Music , boatlife, leftish, green, pro Europe, and probably 'woken' too. I like people and dogs. Made from apples. Well, mainly apples.

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shoq, to random
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If you thought we could survive all of this madness, think again. We’re at war with stupidity on a previously unimaginable scale.

capnthommo,
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@shoq I can't believe these pics are not biting anti trump satire. But apparently they're genuine. We're finished as a species aren't we - these (insert term of choice) are going to take the rest of us down with them aren't they.

GreenFire, to random
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Yet another 🧵 1 of 7

So, I know I keep saying that I'll drop out of the U.S. campus anti-Joe Biden protest movement debate. I jumped in since I worry so much about our climate crisis that anything that might help out the GOP is something to worry about.

I've seen now how small the anti-Biden movement actually is despite how loud they are I'm not so worried except that since I monitor what motivates voters in the USA the true tiny size of this crowd may belie their political danger.

capnthommo,
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@GreenFire number 5. Absolutely spot on. I daren't even begin to imagine.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

capnthommo,
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@RickiTarr no, I don't but I like your Trojan horse thing. Although looking in the mouth of the TH might be a good idea. Would certainly have saved Laocoon some grief.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Absolute honking state of it.

#UKPolitics #Lettuce #AltTextIsAnArtForm

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 @PaulNickson @WendyNowak she failed the test for mensa so badly they had to create a secondary organisation called Densa

RickiTarr, to random
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I'd like to think our genetics don't define us, and then I'll meet a herding dog, and start thinking, "Well, maybe..."

capnthommo,
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@RickiTarr you should see my collie if more than just me walks him. Drives him to distraction trying to keep us together and going in what he imagines to be the right direction. He's only ten months so if I fancied a change of lifestyle I'm sure it wouldn't take that much more effort to train him to herd properly.

maxleibman, to random
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Me: I'm at the end of my rope!

Capitalists: Why didn't you buy more rope?!

capnthommo,
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@maxleibman internet: I see you've bought rope - perhaps you'd like to buy rope from these rope sellers.

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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One more story from the NHS crisis.

To be clear, I don't blame the nurses & doctors in A&E who are encountering budget & capacity pressures that would make it difficult for anyone to do a good job.

As length of waiting times in A&E grow, so do deaths while waiting to be seen; but this is part of the crisis engineered by the Tories, not a managerial or staff training issue (which is not to say these have no impact).

The Tories health 'strategy' is killing us

#health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/woman-found-too-late-under-coat-in-nottingham-ae-after-eight-hour-wait

capnthommo,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it's almost as if they want us to start hating the NHS and clamouring for, I don't know, some kind of private medical system where you or your expensive insurance pays.

capnthommo, to random
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Indeed they can't. The rise in, for example, food banks is not a success story - it's a stark demonstration of the failure of state
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/the-guardian-view-on-food-poverty-charities-cant-take-the-states-place

capnthommo, to random
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"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." Adam Smith

capnthommo, to random
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Two words for them. I can't write them but I'm sure you know what they are
Jeremy Hunt and Mel Stride warn against benefits ‘lifestyle choice’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/15/jeremy-hunt-mel-stride-warn-benefits-lifestyle-choice-unemployment

capnthommo, to random
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And still more strutting sabre rattling from Russia.
Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia warns Nato drills at Finland border ‘risk possible military incidents’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/24/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-biden-senate-zelenskiy-aid

capnthommo, to random
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Definitely, nor off-roaders in their 4×4s churning up the bridleways. Ruin it for everyone/thing, wildlife, walkers, people who just enjoy the countryside.
Country diary: Wildlife needs quiet, not the roar of motorbikes | Mark Cocker https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/07/country-diary-wildlife-needs-quiet-not-the-roar-of-motorbikes

capnthommo, to random
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We had maybe 4 or 5 mini estates of these in my town after WW2. Most were there until 1970s and were well loved and maintained by the tenants. In fact I think there might still be a few remaining in one area.
Factory-made homes: How prefabs sprouted from the ashes of war https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68922873

capnthommo, to random
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"und how long had you been hearink zese voices?"
National service welcomed by young people, claims Tory MP https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedd44w3xkqo

capnthommo, to random
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Bit of a habit of forgetting things hasn't he. His kids, that he is in a relationship with someone else, his responsibilities as a prime minister...
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68947834

capnthommo, to random
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Stolen meme

capnthommo, to random
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No shit Sherlock!
South West Water &;fallen short&; on Devon parasite outbreak https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgyg47wg16o

capnthommo, to random
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That's rich, we've been trying our best to cherry pick since forever.
Rishi Sunak tells Republic there can't be 'cherry picking' of international agreements amid migrant row https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-tells-republic-there-cant-be-cherry-picking-of-international-agreements-amid-migrant-row/a1232694648.html

capnthommo, to random
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Summer will not be the same without these glorious visitors. Come on people.
Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird survey https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/16/swallows-swifts-house-martins-decline-uk-bird-survey-aoe

capnthommo, to random
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Delacroix’s Liberty shows her true colours after Louvre restoration https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/30/delacroixs-liberty-shows-her-true-colours-after-louvre-restoration

LindaCollins11, to random
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https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/the-whore?publication_id=1887091&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=3bwjuq&utm_medium=email The Whore

Donald Trump Hikes Up His Skirt and Looks For Sailors



RICK WILSON

capnthommo,
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@LindaCollins11 oh please don't. Now I have to go and scrub my imagination.

capnthommo, to random
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Oy, cleverly. Fuck off, and when you get there fuck off some more, and then fuck of again and keep doing it until you go all round the world until you get back here. And then fuck off.
National service plan will get young people 'out of their bubble', James Cleverly says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11qev122yo

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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I'm beginning to think we should just build a barracks and make them stay there while Parliament is sitting.

#UKPolitics #TheGriftContinues

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/four-tory-mps-who-made-32793408

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 my suggestion would be a hall of residence. A bedroom/office for each member and every so often a small kitchen dining room. They have the HOC restaurant for other meals. Other than that, they have their actual home which is presumably in or close to their constituency. If they choose to live a long way from that then that's their affair and the cost is down to them. No second home allowance or flipping or tax breaks.

fkamiah17, to random
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No one uses the word "mauve" any more, do they ...

capnthommo,
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@fkamiah17 well you just did😉
I suppose you know the word mauve was a recent invention for the first synthetic chemical dye from the nineteenth century? It was a synthetic purple shade so needed a different name to distinguish it.
Yes, of course you knew that - excuse my presumption.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Well it's Wednesday.

And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

capnthommo,
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@Mrfunkedude my plan is to simply wait it out.

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