js129.bsky.social
Scientific Humanist. Lapsed archaeologist. Socialist. Hopeful pessimist.
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The original motley crew.
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Not criticising at all, just offering advice on mattress stuffing based on experience of growing up on a farm. Not only does hay smell nicer, it is softer and less spikey.
Definitely avoid cabbage stalks.
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I'd say hay rather than straw. It's the time of year, and the weather, for making hay. You could still stuff a mattress with it, and it would probably smell nicer.
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For a second I thought it was office furniture, but there's a turntable in the top so I guess the drawer is for your 78s.
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Anyone have any idea of the dimensions?
I assume it's portable, so relatively small, but it could be the size of a wardrobe!
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The third line is "And your children have flown" so it rhymes with the first line.
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I'm old enough to have used the pre-decimal system for real. But I thought people might like to know how many pounds in a stone and pints in a gallon, or how many ounces in a pound and fluid ounces in a pint.
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OK. Now do pre-decimal weights and measures.
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Looks like they don't even stop for lunch.
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Loose mattock heads; and unexpected projecting rocks in a low doorway.
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In my day the only safety equipment we had were hard hats.
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I like the truck. I assume that's the gaffer still in the cab.
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Sink hole?
Hospital?
I hope the dead aren't rising to pester the living.
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Those negative search terms still work? I thought they stopped years ago. Maybe AI encountered them in the training data (i.e the Web) and has started following them again? That would be ironic.
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Is this some sort of paranormal inversion of the time travel 'grandfather paradox'?
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This is what I like about whales, commitment.
Not like those seals and penguins.
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You can laugh, but I wish I still had as much hair, and as dark.
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That church is St. Peter's on the Wall, Bradwell on Sea, Essex. Mid 7th century, built on the site of a Roman fort and reused some of its stones, but not strictly Roman.
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The current buildings at Bath are an 18th century reconstruction.
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Fascinating, but rather sad. Like a faithful hound that has outlived its master.
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Do I see a Guinea Fowl or two as well?
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BlueSky all the way.
It's raining in Blighty today.
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While this certainly needs protesting, I don't think gumming up your own emergency response system is the best way to do it. Try calling the office of the prosecutor in question instead.
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They are trying to round you up into a group so they can swallow you all in one gulp.
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He's not an idiot, but he is an ignoramus.
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We had the exact same plants in the exact same terracotta pots on a windowsill when we were children.
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To keep the pelicans off.
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I'm not sure the lady demonstrating isn't actually using a more traditional deterrent.
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When Rosie's through with dancing those other guys would like some coffee.
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That policeman is dangerously well camouflaged to be standing on a zebra crossing.
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Oh to be in England now that April's there.
And whoever wakes in England sees one morning unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,
Round the elm tree's bole...
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I hope his neck got better.
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Used to do that as a child in the 60s.
Tried it as an adult and had nightmares about trying to drive an out of control bus from the top deck.
I guess you feel less responsible for things as a child.
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A copy of this was my prize for winning the village school sports day egg and spoon race.
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Old cobbler thinks: "I don't know about Elfland, but I don't think our ploughman is going to like these."
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I work and cycle in central London. There are very few roundabouts of any kind, there just isn't room for them. Most junctions are controlled by traffic lights.
I don't know of any four lane roundabouts anywhere in the UK, unless they are thinking of motorway intersections.
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Just what the world needs. A robot giraffe that plays badminton.
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This isn't just a cyber attack. This is an M&S cyber attack.
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My Android has a load of settings regarding auto complete. I may have too many turned on.
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I was still at school, paying attention in class and learning about electricity.
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I think it's a disapproving look at the greedy husband.
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It was the neanderthal, in the middle palaeolithic, with the mammoth fibia.
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That is a chaise longue being eaten by a sideboard.
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Reminds me of when I was standing on a walkway at a marina looking at the rounded boulders scattered on the seabed, when one decided to turn into an octopus and swim away.
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This has reminded me of 'puzzles' from my childhood, where you had to pick which thing from a list wasn't included in the illustration.
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It just works.
But only just.
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On second thoughts, are you sure it's not a repurposed engine from an airship?
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Springald. The cubist siege engine.
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I'm guessing it's American, and you plugged it in to a European supply.
Please be careful about plugging something in to a much higher voltage. At best you may damage it. At worst it may burst into flames, or even explode.
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Artificial means not real, manufactured, made up.
Yet people expect accurate information from AI.