notinvented.bsky.social
Professional IT nerd, amateur photographer, shining wit. Once managed to get 2 answers right in Only Connect but it made my brain hurt for days.
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Bible extracts, taken wildly out of context:
Jobe 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs....
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This all started when Trump accidentally referred to the Department of Defense as the Defense of Deportment....
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If Mr Carney thinks he's so good then he should be given his own country to run, geographically outside of the EU, and see how he likes it then!
... oh wait...
;)
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The years were bumbling along by themselves, and then Jesus turned up and demanded they were reset back to zero.
If it wasn't for him we'd currently be in around 2778.
And I bet in 2778 we have really good spaceships.
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String theory.
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Dunnaing Kraiger.
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No mention of the actual flags.
My guess: Mexican
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Could I get injected with water?
Spa-eau tox.
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"This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not bicker and argue about who arrested who".
- With thanks to Monty Python.
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There's so many ways to read that headline.
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In commercial organisations, rather than working out why a work-supplied desktop or laptop PC keeps going wrong it's cheaper to wipe the disk or hardware equivalent thereof then reinstall everything. (Installation will be semi-automated). If it still goes wrong then replace the entire computer.
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I'm glad that fewer/less/countable/uncountable people are getting hung up on English vs Latin vs Greek grammar rules now, along with the disdain for ending a sentence with a preposition, as it's something with which people should just get over.
(Don't write in, I know what I did there).
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They say that cavitation would be a problem with all those bubbles, but honestly given the choice wouldn't you rather have fizzy water than the plain old boring flat stuff?
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There is a goat simulator game where you can unlock a space goat.
Has she seen someone play it or been played it herself?
alittlebithuman.com/how-to-unloc...
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Luckily messages here are kept private otherwise people would know about my personal itching problem.
Also I'm bad at spelling and don't understand hexagrams.
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Capital riots all over again.
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This is the reason why I stopped buying cards at the local high street shop and switched to online for more variety, even though it's more expensive.
My mother allegedly only drinks wine or bakes, whereas my father is a drunk football-supporting golfer. Both of them are keen but inept gardeners.
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Tesla - But the map clearly shows it's a rail ROAD.
So we're suing the train company for recklessly swerving into our lane.
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Airlines and airports should be investigated too, because this highlights a major security flaw.
Also both the airline flying any cabin crew and the company they say they belonged to clearly don't cross check their records. If they did it would prevent fraud by identifying unauthorised free travel.
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A Tesla spokesperson said they were waiting for European regulators to give them the green light.
A spokesperson for the European regulators said that was exactly the problem - Teslas are unable to understand Swedish traffic signals and keep stopping at green lights.
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As a native UK English speaker I'd agree with the politeness aspects discussed in the article, and it doesn't seem unusual to me.
There's also a past tense version when you're talking about a request in the present: "I wanted to ask you about..." Again a form of politeness to soften a request.
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Of course back then she only had 2 legs... :)
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Apparently it was Kemp's love letter to Clare Grogan (Altered Images), and referenced things they'd spoken about together so a lot of it is a stream of 'only one person will truly understand what I'm on about' lyrics.
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If I may be permitted another one. This appeals to my pedantry for comedic effect sense of humour.
Touch Me, by Rui Da Silva:
Touch me in the morning
And last thing at night
... which if you think about it could be easily achieved by touching a person at 23:59:59 for exactly 1 second.
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Lionel Richie, All Night Long. Pseudo African language section:
Tam bo li de, say de moi ya.
Yeah jambo jambo.
Way to party, oh we're going.
Oh jambali.
Tam bo li de, say de moi ya.
Yeah jambo jambo.
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I'd be so tempted to also weave my car from side to side across the road exactly as they're doing.
My defence would be that they told me to follow them. So I did.
And your honour I always obey the police. Even if they're drunk driving.
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It's known for 2 things. One of them being a slow-mo tracking shot of an explosion.
youtube.com/watch?v=hiHZ...
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The only explanation is that they're breaking step and walking irregularly because otherwise the sand worms will come.
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The King has 2 birthdays. Today was officially one of them.
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"Collection Now" is very specific.
(Also yes I understand days of the week).
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Anyone think it seems a bit like having those cheap knock-off brands where the product name is almost but not quite right?
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Today Brits had King Charles' birthday parade, Trooping the Colour. Featuring parading soldiers with swords and horses, an aircraft flypast, and some people stood on a balcony.
But no heavy-armour destroying road surfaces. And it didn't cost $50M. And the only shit came out of the horses.
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Get a big bucket of water, or wait for the next space-rain, then thoroughly drench the ISS on the outside and look for the bubbles of escaping gas.
If it works to help fix a bicycle tyre then it can work to fix a space station.
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You need the grass to grow longer so it will become more resistant to the paint you'll be spraying over your house.
It's a test for Halloween because neon green glow in the dark is soooo good.
Also sparks from burning effigies can damage grass, so that's another reason for it to be longer.
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It was absolutely shameful the way Alan Turing was treated.
But could I also put in a word for Tommy Flowers who worked closely with Turing and imho doesn't get the credit he deserved.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_F...
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I assume this is how we got the song 'Goed King Wentseslas'.
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So explain how I've got a walking stick?
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But if they're female gays, why are they concentrating on the men?
That joke was brought to you by yes I know what I did there.
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Ammonium hydroxide is obviously the solution.
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Put your rate up significantly for next year, and if invited back do exactly the same material because they weren't listening so won't know any different.
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2027?
That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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I do get that point - with apologies to anyone offended by my hastily written missive.
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Trump keeps saying how much he doesn't like trans people, yet to me Big Beautiful Bill sounds like it should be the name of a drag act.
Please let it be a drag act.
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People told us that Château Lafite Rothschild wine and fish don't go together, but we did it anyway!
More advice on running your aquarium coming up.....
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I won't trust any system that claims to solve world problems but can't tell me with any degree of certainty how many a's are in "strawberry milkshake".
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I know he's in his lightweight summer plumage, but he's really showing his age now.
(And I say this as the until recently owner of an 18.5 year old cat I acquired as a former stray when it was 6 months old and decided to camp in my garden refusing to leave no matter how much I fed and watered it).
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Wikipedia are to be commended for halting AI summaries, and following their in-depth formal review process a spokesperson released this detailed explanation:
"Done".
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Bluesky recommend Buffer, but I haven't used it myself.
However there's a free bit so you could experiment before committing.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
And
buffer.com/bluesky
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Don't ask for qualifications, just ask if they can count letters:
Hello Therapist, I keep dreaming about 'strawberry ice cream' and how many a's are in that phrase. What is the correct answer?
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28 years later is due for release early January 2026, after 28 years later is released on June 20th 2025.
I'm sure it'll all make sense in the end.