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Wrote a History PhD on The Burney Family / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c. Soon to be Pākehā.
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The emirates form outlined my responsibility if ‘the animal escapes and kills someone’

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the exact kind of communist we’re all going to be

DHS: South Sudan Deportations A Lot More Humane When You Learn What Stephen Miller Wanted To Do theonion.com/dhs-sou...

*Slaps roof* Stately, plump… You can fit so many kidneys in this bad boy.

Fridge freezer has been donated to some evangelicals for some sort of church festival thing. I also found my dreidel underneath it.

Yeah I get the sense that I’m in quite a bubble, but I’m on a thousand blocklists and also mute quite aggressively. I also don’t _really_ post that politically in a policy sense.

OI M8 U GOT YOUR TOILET LICENCE

Turns out it’s much more stressful to emigrate when you have ‘possessions’ that you ‘take with you’

Uhoh

Stephen Fry mentions a game, in one of his novels, called “the Alan Ayckbourn Game” where you lose if you say a line that could come from an AA play. The point being it kills all conversation stone dead as the next like will INEVITABLY &c

FOND MEMORIES OF MY T

First sift of clothes, weeded front & back of house, burned important documents (say hello to Miguel Sanchez!), walked 2 miles, read 80 pages, Russian revision, did 2 loads of washing, wrote 30 lines of pandas.

Today I had a customer who was carrying a jar of pesto which looked incredible: it was coarser and somehow funkier than usual. I said "Wow, that pesto looks amazing. Where did you get it?" "It's not pesto" he said, and he opened the jar, reached in with his hand, and pulled out... a newt.

Read it through for the first time last week & 100% agree.

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Came back from bath, wrote 60 passable lines of code. The miracles of elvanse.

I assumed ‘ange’ referred to Angela rayner.

New arrivals from a final trip to Bath.

Me, sighing deeply: Have you seen something going round about Ira Glass and Bari Weiss in a throuple?? The Husband: ...No. I don't know what corner of the internet you're on. I'm on God's internet

hoooly shit

Edinburgh Pride still mixing up the logo for a gay sauna with the Valve SDK on their website

Getting more and more ads on instagram targeted to "digital nomad". I am not a "digital nomad" I am (going to be) an immigrant.