bensummers.bsky.social
Somewhere in the arse end of rural France/Marseille. Doting husband to wonderful wife and doorman to three rubbish cats. Moderately extreme. Cooking (eating cheese), ride a bike sometimes (slowly), grow stuff, sailing boats and crypto (jk).
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When do you think you'll be able to put them outside? I'm in the Cévennes and I couldn't put mine out until late April last year
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I find it so reassuring that the Vice President of the most powerful nation in the world has clearly got his priorities straight.
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The name as well. JFC. "Fudge fingers her flute for the Lord".
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It's one of the most worthwhile things I've done. I spend about ten hours a week (I'm semi-retired) with four 'students' (who are really my friends). Sign up!
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Depressingly, actuarial tables state that he has another two terms in him. Just. Let's hope the Big Macs prove them wrong.
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Nothing to stop him running as VP in 2028. Put Donald Jr on the ticket as president and he can resign. Or he can just let dad run the show.
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That doesn't look like the 'Spoons at Stansted...
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As Bannon says 'flood the zone with shit'. Just one more outrage amongst many, Richard. Like birthright citizenship. Imagine if Biden had signed an EO removing the Second Amendment.
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www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I imagine a man who is paid about 150% of the US median annual salary per day doesn't fret too much about the cost of eggs.
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I do wish someone would explain to this moron that psychiatric hospitals and seeking asylum have nothing to do with each other.
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Whereas the platform is a little more aligned with the values of le Figaro...
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I'd pay. Just don't give me a blue tick.
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He has also pledged to cut oil and electricity prices by 50% within 18 months.
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That's nothing. My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents were serfs. Checkmate.
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Isn't this just Netanyahu doing a favour for Trump? As soon as the latter is inaugurated, this will be announced as a done deal (for now).
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I still remember this one from my childhood (I'm old). "Delia Smith says there's nothing worse than an unrisen soufflé. As an AIDS sufferer with terminal cancer, I don't agree."
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To think even then music was wireless.
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A bifurcation, I believe.
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The one obvious target that has been spared his opprobrium is France. I'm sure that this has nothing to do with the fact that Elmo is considering investing there.
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And amplified by Musk's algorithm. Concerning, as they say.
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That would be my geographical guess in this case. Plenty of activity in Brazil too but I come across little content in English.
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This is reassuring because Russian hybrid information warfare would look and feel nothing like this, right? Cf. Visegrád 24 on the same platform.
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This is a nasty little account which popped up late last year. It appears to be heavily promoted by the platform's algo. The BBC's Marianna Spring mentions them in a recent article "They refused to share their identity with me when we corresponded, but claim to be "Gen Z" and "not Russian"."
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Custard is about my only memory of food at primary school (London late 70s). The skin was bad, yes. But what about the 'flavours'? Peppermint (snot green), pink (no idea what 'flavour') and light brown. Repulsive. That, and milk at ambient temperature (yuk in summer) until you-know-who.
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Ouch! We had the same problem until the arrival of fibre last year. Fortunately, we have reasonable 4G reception (we're in the Cévennes) so I got a SIM card with a big data allowance and bought a modem/router that would accept a SIM card. Good enough for streaming.
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Very drôle.
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Besieging Paris is DEFCON 5. I'm in the Gard - a few protests here and there at the moment and plenty of inverted panneaux de location. Which probably doesn't even make DEFCON 2.
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True. Only angry farmers right now. Perhaps people were too busy with summer holidays to be really irritated by Barnier and it soon became apparent he wouldn't last long. Let's see the reaction to the next lucky candidate.
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The largest milk processor in the UK has announced a trial of an additive to cattle feed which reduces methane emissions. The Bill Gates Foundation has also invested in this field. You can imagine what kind of trajectory this kind of thing might take in certain parts of the internet...
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If you can squeeze 500 words out of that (and be married to the editor of the Guardian) you can get paid. I have noticed a decline in towel quality since I stopped travelling aux frais de la princesse (well, US multinationals). Also, the circumference to gird is increasing.
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Indeed. My three would be most distressed if their little crottes became contaminated with spaghetti.
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For the life of this Parliament, I suspect Labour will be afraid of even talking about entering the customs union, I'm afraid. I hope I'm wrong.
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Same here in Marseille. I wonder what the implications of classifying second homes rented on AB&B as 'locaux commerciaux' are. Presumably fiscally unpleasant.
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The last term ended with a mass die-off from Covid and an attempted insurrection. But that was just a dress rehearsal for the main event of the final term. I'm fearful. Really fearful for the world.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. The avalanche of corruption and contempt for rule of law we are about to see would make a third world despot blush (but not Putin).
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It's OK. He just picked a really solid attorney general to keep him on the straight and narrow.
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His predecessor said the same. The OBR says the same. Pretty much every economist on the planet agrees. Trade data subsequent to Brexit tells us it has undermined the economy (and tax revenues). But Labour doesn't want to talk about it and upset Reform voters in Sunderland. Depressing.
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No role for Kid Rock yet. Hmm.
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Also because most of the last lot refused to break the law and cared about the Constitution. The procession of freaks that we are seeing appointed to his cabinet have been selected for one quality only; total fealty to the new emperor.
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Perhaps a double bill of Starship Troopers and Idiocracy.
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I guess it's not viewed as a positive adjective for food. I don't think there is a word for 'good' chewy in French.
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Sounds like a sort of fake participle if we take mâchoire as a verb. Caoutchouteux and coriace sound like good options for 'bad' chewy (tough steak, rubbery squid). Struggling to think of anything for 'good' chewy (like Haribo Orangina) as is bilingual French wife.
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Infowars has finally found a suitable home. Well done.
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Looking forward to finding out what cabinet position Kid Rock gets.
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Totally going into my extensive dad joke library.
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I agree with your sentiment but I'm just waiting for the inevitable Trumpian rhetoric that we'll see here in France. Weaponised justice, deep state, election interference ad nauseam. I'd love her supporters to care about corruption (I'm not hopeful)
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Imagine how confident you would be as head of MI6 in sharing any intelligence at all with the US.
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Been here nearly four years. We've kept a place in Marseille, which is a couple of hours away by car, so I can get my urban fix once in a while. But I love coming back to peace and space. No bears, just boar (not the same scale too!).