cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social
Lego fanatic, friend of felines (but currently without), general SF/Fantasy nerd (but especially Star Wars) and die-hard adventure-gamer. Ageing rivethead. Neuro-divergent. Enby. They/Them.
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Given their track record so far, re. rules and laws, do we honestly believe they're going to limit themselves to where they're legally allowed to operate?
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Everything looks to be spelled perfectly correctly. Not a typo in sight.
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The Beach Boys were never really my thing but I can certainly appreciate the cleverness of arrangements, the musicianship and production. I defy anyone to say Wilson *wasn't* a musical genius.
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Another invertebrate. What a surprise.
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Honestly, that made me smile and brought tears to me eyes. I think I needed to hear someone's positive story what with all the bullshit going on. Your brother is clearly thoughtful and wonderful 😊
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You're lasting well! Better than your copper at any rate...
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I don't think it is possible for me to express my agreement strongly enough.
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Good lord, that colour is LOUD with a capital LOUD!
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Should I be ashamed for how loudly I laughed at that? 🤣
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You are not fucking kidding. I don't think I want to even *try* to imagine the sort of person who not only thinks of this shit but then chooses to put it where other people can see it. WTF is WRONG with people!?
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Gah, you meant what /I/ said did. Doh. Ignore me.
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It did, yes 😀
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You're justifiably furious so I really wouldn't sweat it. We know what you meant and we're right there with you. As someone who's grown up with a love of science I'm horrified by what's happening across the Pond from me. I can't even imagine how hard it's going to be to claw back from this.
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True, but if anyone has the might to stand up to this bullshit, it's the Mouse. We take what we can get, I guess.
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I think mine wants to be Sagittarius A* when it grows up.
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Looks at game backlog, TBR pile(s) and list of lego ideas I've been meaning to build and proffers damp commiserations.
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Between that and my metal-embellished New Rocks I think we could really have some fun 😉
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Word. I only wish that either of us had been in a fit enough state to report her to the General Medical Council or whichever body deals with GPs here in Blighty. I still harbour a deep loathing for that woman.
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Are they trying to call down the wrath of the Almighty...? 'Cos I swear I just heard distant trumpets...
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Well, it turned out, after 2 years maybe, that she had a religious objection to treating trans people. We would really much rather have known that right at the fucking start because we would have changed practice straight away. At that point I figured she'd been trying to medicate me quiet.
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I think too many parents forget that comics contain words as well as pictures. Reading is reading. Stop your kids reading comics and you may well kill that budding love of the written word before it has chance to open.
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So helpfully unhelpful, it's kinda like an over-eager puppy that hasn't got past the chasing-its-own-tail phase.
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They couldn't find it.
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Or Brad Montana or somesuch nonsense. You'd think they'd do the opposite and give them an absurdly stereotypical British name like Tarquin Farquhar-Smythe or something. That said, I know sod all about American wrestling, or any, really, so probably just ignore me.
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I suspect the universe hates us.
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And how! My GP started getting annoyed with me because I kept coming back and saying nope, that one doesn't work for me either. "They work for other people!" she eventually exclaimed. Right... So why is it there are so damn many different ones, huh? She was not my GP for much longer after that.
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Is it Mr Blobbys all the way down, fractal-like? In which case that's *maybe* better...
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There is not enough NO in the universe for that idea.
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Yep, my immediate thought was "Oh yeah, same because AuDHD". It seems to have come as a package-deal along with being pathologically clumsy and totally adrift in time (but not space, sadly).
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The shape and position of those ears are almost serval-like.
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I'm not generally one for getting in peoples' faces. Though the threat of kick to the shins with New Rocks does sometimes do wonders...
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Makes me wonder what my issue was. Sertraline (zombifying), Mirtazapine and Venlafaxine (awful, stopped after 3 wks) all disagreed with me in various ways. Then got on amitriptyline and have been on that at least 15 years relatively fine (depression/anxiety and fibromyalgia so it's a decent fit).
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Oh gods. That one after 3 weeks I went back to GP and said get me off this stuff NOW. Awful, awful stuff. Whereas with sertraline (zoloft) my known associate had to take me to the GP to get me on something else as she wanted me back. That shit zombified me and I recall very little of that period.
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An absolute icon.
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Oh, and we have barn owls, too! One winter I heard hunting calls nearby, late at night, went out to see if I could spot them and two of them flew between our house and the next, barely a metre apart! Sooo cool! Nice to live in a city with lots of green spaces.
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Our starlings are pretty when you see 'em close up, especially now the air is a lot cleaner. 40yrs ago, less so. Not as common as they were, either, hence my joy at seeing 2 together! A bullfinch I have never seen, though. House sparrows, blackbirds, corvids is mostly what we get here + the odd tit.
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I sincerely hope we're both wrong, but I'm finding really hard to find any positives, right now.
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I think I'm right there with you. And I have the awful feeling that, if the U.S. falls to authoritarianism, the U.K. will say "Oh yes, we must follow." I just wish I had the means, and health, to go somewhere else.
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Speaking from across the Pond, no, the international vibes ain't that great.
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I've never seen Braveheart so I wouldn't know.
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They might, sure. Whatever, America needs to reckon with it's past, fully and properly, not just pay lip service. Whether whatever comes after is better, who knows. Being cynical, it involves people, so probably not. Everything will go to hell in a handbasket one way or another.
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The beginnings of self-awareness. And the beginnings of the awareness of "Well, this fucking sucks."
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Same. Why can't this consciousness just stop and I'm suddenly someone else, or even just stop? <sigh>
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Also, awwww, sleepy-cute-face.
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Have seen and can concur, he is indeed fucking brilliant. Well done, Bertie!
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WOW! I know the common starling we get here in the UK isn't unattractive (I saw two up close for the first time at my birdbath the other day and they are pretty in a subdued way) but why can't we have birds as exciting as this?
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Ah, he never got the memo from Sycophants-R-Us. Figures.
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BBC Micro at primary school, Archimedes at secondary. First computer I had access to at home was a 286, with a 20MB hard drive, no less!
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I'm frankly amazed he was even investigated in the first place.