craigforth.bsky.social
borderline sufferable. as sensible as the seas.
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if they are, we are screwed. they are t-shirt hawkers that took over the handle years ago from people that did work in the parks
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i got into it because of the history, but the ones where he walks by a thames tributary or through a forest or over a meadow are the best anxiety reducers i have found this year. it’s the sort of nice, enthused stuff that would be on daytime bbc when i was a little kid
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it’s this fella, i’d recommend one of the ‘lost rivers of london’ videos as a good starting point, as it spans so much history
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having (on some undefined principle) avoided youtube people up until now, i’ve started watching this guy who endlessly walks around london talking about all the history of it. it’s borderline grandad behaviour
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nah, it's a noun, like "gonnae gies a collie buckie?" scots is so slack though, that you could call it a collie-buckie ride without anyone blinking an eye
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it's "collie buckie' in scotland, which i've persisted with in this country
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seems like they are the wrong people for the job then
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we had a similar generational thing with Scots where it was thought of as low and common (derogatory) and that you'd never get ahead speaking that way. there's a real effort now to maintain it as a living language, i'm glad Gaelic is getting the same care & engagement with its people there.
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nah, it's simpler than that, he's a stupid wanker
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yeah, like, eleanor rigby and hey jude are incredible, but mccartney has never let himself be utterly miserable in song. best you can get, negative emotionally, is some early irritated grumpiness. and there's lots of great miserable people that never touch the super light flying happy that brian did
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imagine if, for all his grandstanding, newsom (or any democratic leadership) could articulate this
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how is it that the only ones that have died are the wilsons?
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there isn’t another musician that helps me to feel all my feelings like brian. maybe rem?
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the story of him hearing be my baby on his car radio, pulling over, and laying down by the side of the road is everything you need to know about him
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when i was 22 i shunted my brain out of a crippling bout of depression with pretty much nothing but the beach boys’ 60s output (and then the 70s stuff was there when i inevitably got depressed again)
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nah, fuck him
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this is how i found out
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you know, you're right, it's totally the fault of malicious actors that we are here. the people that stood by and let it happen bear no responsibility let alone blame
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they could have easily have gotten rid of him that day. the case was open and shut, just take the vote. there's a reasonable argument for having had him up against a wall by sundown
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they didn't try to impeach him january 6th. they twiddled their thumbs and allowed panicked republicans to get back on message
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yup, they had their chance on january 6th and they whiffed it
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where’s chaucer when you need him?
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i loved this one too:
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the first one is so fucking good
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i can't say i have much faith left in the rule of law. for example, if a single one of those cops faces actual consequences for the firing of those rounds i will be amazed (and even if they did, i can think of someone who'd be happy to pardon them/put them on the grift circuit)
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i get that, but when people are forced into a moral choice and have to decide what they can live with, we owe it to them (and to ourselves) to support them in their bravery. regardless of the downstream effects, what they did was right in the moment
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who do you think your concern is going to aid when it comes down to it? people should stand by as their neighbors are abducted? pick a side and stand behind it
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the sand in that bag makes even less sense then
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they speak very well of you. nothing but nice things to say
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a quarter of a million investigators is crazy
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any particularly memorable ones?
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go canvass for slotkin already
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"moderate republican" all opinions immediately dismissed
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potentially good workaround on pinetar and the spitball though!
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not my president!
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going to propose a qanon-style trump is dead theory, because it’s just not happening for whoever this guy is
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what endeavor? typey typey stealy?
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sure feels like he’s trying to impose some sort of rules-based culture of cancellation