jalata.bsky.social
INTJ. Joined from the other place. Heart broken by Brexit. Love languages, literature. Welsh learner now trying out Portuguese Duolingo. Obrigada e boa noite!
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“Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door”
Although when I was young, we only had two classifications, “young” and “over 30.”
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What does he mean, “we?” Speak for yourself, Gordon Sumner.
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Today you have tied the knot.
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Mine is a cheap and ageing Penguin Popular Classic but my bookmark is from Sissinghurst, quite appropriately :)
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The yellow wall of Texas, eh?
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It’s a good analogy for language learning too, especially with agglutinative languages, like all Bantu languages, which use multiple suffixes and prefixes.
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“In Wales, the Welsh language is more widely accepted”
Thank you for your acceptance 🙄
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It’s nice of her to widen your audience like this 😃. And it’s hard to think of a Shakespeare play that doesn’t touch on misogyny in some shape or form.
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Formerly known as Anthrax Island, with good reason.
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A book about a bookshop! It’s a history of the Silver Moon feminist bookshop, which closed in 2001. And as a complement I am re-reading Mrs Dalloway.
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There’s a new Home
Bargains in Cardigan but maybe I’ll give it a miss in case I get accused of stealing a fake topiary dog or something.
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No sign of the lost cat yet but posters are up in St Julian’s 😿
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Old but classic from Peter Sarstedt
“With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan on your back, and on your legs”
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As seen in Tesco magazine. Which makes it definitive. #CreamFirst
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Loved the shambling “march” and lack of dress uniforms 😂
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It was all very creative compared with my polite Home Counties upbringing. Sister in law called her mother “ye old bandit.”
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Beautiful 😻
Aka Mrs Long
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Did someone leave the cake out in the rain?
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See also Welsh, “indecipherable” with “no vowels” etc. It’s phonetic if they only bothered to find out.
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“Visible panties. Not an easy look to pull off in everyday life.”
Too damn right. I don’t plan to channel Taylor Swift around west Wales anytime soon.
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Majestic🤘 Tossers can be redeemed by stuff like this. And Slash has to be the coolest person in existence.
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When I wasn’t sure how to address my future Scots in-laws, someone asked what husband-to-be called them. After thought, realised this was usually “you silly old bugger.”
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Happened to us on a Monday afternoon in Scarborough. For the rest of the week we saw precisely nowt.
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Absolutely!
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With six offspring they obviously did do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
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Thank you. She has seen my daughter through some hard times so is very important to her.
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I had a joke about the Augean stables but it wasn’t clean enough to repeat.
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Only recently mentioned this but it’s too good not to repeat. Two years ago we gave spare cutlery to Adrian Chiles in a pub.
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Yes, we were disappointed he didn’t.
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Or perhaps we can reprise the words of MacArthur Park:
“Someone left the face out in the rain.”
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We once passed some spare cutlery to Adrian Chiles in a pub in Pembrokeshire. I’m sure there’s a chilling tale in that.
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Are they “nothing but mammals?”
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Which they eat with a “gravy” I can’t even begin to describe as I am highly emetophobic.
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You can in Estonia
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Indeed, given that Victor Hugo saw his novel as a battle against ignorance and misery.
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C’est un chat écaille de tortue, pas un chat tigré, femelle (naturellement). Vive les torties!
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We were here on Sunday - Castell Nadolig on private farmland near Aberporth in Ceredigion.
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And btw I have submitted a complaint to the BBC about this.
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I’m glad you do. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned often enough in the context of AI and crypto.
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They seem to be platforming Reform as though they are the official opposition. Katya Adler referred in an article to Reform’s “generous shadow budget proposals.”
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Bon anniversaire Harriet 😻
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The other issue is that at a time when we should be reducing emissions, AI, like crypto-currencies requires vast energy-guzzling data centres.
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I did, for this seeming framing of Reform as the official opposition
“In the UK, the leader of the anti-migration, opposition Reform Party Nigel Farage has been under attack for generous shadow budget proposals that critics say don't add up.”
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We have just been to Castell Nadolig, courtesy of Temple Bar farm owners on an open garden day. Fantastic. Can only begin to imagine what might lie beneath.
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The boat