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Opinionated medicinal chemist. Prize-winning photographer. Extremely moderate.
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Cannot overstate how weird it is to be in Belfast, in May, and just throw on shorts and T-shirt in the morning without checking the weather forecast.

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this is not an exaggeration

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Feck it, I'm putting my shorts on.

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The average person will be less "40% poorer" and more "a starving refugee displaced by the wars over the remaining habitable zones of Northern Europe".

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I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

I love how on Google Discover extremely niche topics are still served up in clickbait format.

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Just saw an unnecessarily large moth. #moths

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I haven't mowed the lawn and I like it the way it is. Today's daisies and dandelions.

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I hadn't realised just how worn and scratched the coating on my glasses had got. I've just put on an old pair and the prescription isn't *quite* right but they are so much more contrasty compared with what I'm used to that the whole world looks like a wildly over processed photo to me right now.

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The main control ring on my camera has started playing up; clicks are often failing to register, so I'll be scrabbling frantically to change settings and might have to click 15 or 20 times to move along 4 or 5. I gather this is an expensive repair, so I am going to attempt a bit of camera DIY.

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TRAVEL ADVICE: If planning summer journeys around France, don't forget that they celebrate the Twelfth of July on the fourteenth.

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Have discovered vermouth and cassis. Very good, though I might go 6:1 next time instead of 4:1. www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

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I love him I must marry him.

submitted 29 days ago • 68 comments

Happy Cheap Chocolate Christmas to all who celebrate.

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Arrest quotas; armed, masked men who do not identify themselves; targets being 'disappeared' without any process. At the risk of understatement, this does not end well

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FILM REVIEW: El Conde (2023, Netflix). Horror / black farce of sorts, with a totally unhinged but weirdly compelling premise, a sort of Chilean Death of Stalin but with vampires. Beautifully shot, scored and acted but tonally all over the shop and the satirical elements are rather ham-fisted.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating. Do read.

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Sign of the times: new phone has just been delivered, five generations advanced from the one I'm currently using, and I can't even be bothered to open the box.

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We're doing "Active April" activity tracking in work and I'm finding it quite demoralising to confront that my running speed is basically only twice as fast as my walking speed.

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Narrator: there was no push back.

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Odd choice for Mothers' Day, but a total classic; do watch.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Spotted this sign at a church. I can confirm the logic is watertight.

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The editor of the Atlantic is going to end up in prison "for espionage".

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Today in the US government: the best defence against getting measles is getting measles.

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