louiselocock.bsky.social
Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
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Done, I think! For some reason it always takes me several goes before it sticks
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I love that we're now all massively corrupting it by making up ridiculous 'sayings'.
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Gild, geld - who cares about one letter, they must mean the same, right?
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They don't even make sense. Here's the self-contradictory definition of 'Auntie has no pants'.
But AI is so confident it knows.
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Ah we must have just missed it then. Shame.
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Oh is it open? We tried to see it the other day but it was all fenced off. We went to the exhibition about radio instead, which was very good.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/listenin
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The Supreme Court would have upheld the fact that gay people couldnât enter civil partnerships or marry. As that was the law at the time. It took the political bravery of Blair and Cameron to lead the change on that. Not just shrug and say âthatâs the lawâ because itâs in the âtoo difficultâ pile.
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A Renaissance I may not live to see!
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People who support Reform aren't going to vote for Reform lite, but by chasing those votes Labour will lose many of those who would vote for a progressive party, something Labour is very much not these days. They are relying on apathy, rarely a winning argument in politics. 2/
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Absolutely. If we didn't amend our laws every now and then women would still have no property rights and be defined as their husband's possession
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Much Catan will be played on our family summer holiday. As usual.
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Actually although I've read An Instance of the Fingerpost, I'm not sure I've read Stone's Fall, so I'll take that recommendation, thanks!
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And the disadvantage of age is rubbish typing skills đ
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Ah yes, read it. Though ybe advantage of age us you forget the plot and can start all over again đ