mixaelhs.bsky.social
The simple things you see are all complicated.
Campanalogist and Salesforce Consultant Developer
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And then presumably let it lick your face. I'm sorry, but there is no way I can be convinced that your home is clean if you have an arse-licking, shit-eating, unwashed animal clambering on your soft furnishings.
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A staggering 40% cut to international development. Difficult to square that one ethically, but the "desperate times desperate measures" line will probably cut through with the British public given the widespread support for Ukraine and general distrust/dislike of Trump in the UK electorate.
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These are the stories people tell themselves to believe they're relevant. They never had proper conversation about what happened at GE & why. They're stuck on transmit and it's all everybody else's fault. Supercilious, intellectually dishonest and politically void. Just a foghorn of entitlement.
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Somewhere, Nick Griffin is hoping his financial challenges all about to become a thing of the past.
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A happy and _healthy_ new year to you, Vic.
We're longstanding Newsnight watchers, and feel we've got to know you over last few years. It's an odd thing to say about people we'll never meet, but Radio and TV broadcasters really do become our "friends" in a way - ever-present (we pray) and reliable.
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I think most commentators agree he chose the path that bettered his chances of rising to the top. But the second question rests on the hypothesis that he has any sort of personal political conviction at all.
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2/2 Re "wokeness" ruining cars. This is the nonsense I hear from a lot who feel modern cars are too easily written off by crash damage. In their minds, a small crease to a chromed-steel bumper is preferable to a complete nose-cone replacement, even if they're spleen ruptured in the process.
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I agree, both facelifts were pretty successful. There is a lot of derision for the post-74 bumpers in the UK, but I think they integrate well with the lines. Perhaps gel-coating and body-coloured paint would have fared them in better, but technology and cost wasn't there in the 70s. 1/2
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That's a very amusing way to look at it. Hasn't considered that before.
It primarily amused me because the flag on the sticker is not the English flag, it's the Union flag (ie UK).
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That's the mandatory greeting. Teeth sucking or a light whistle optional for effect.
The problem is the next line is always "they don't make cars like this anymore", which is the gateway to the conversation topics you don't want to hear.
Impact resistant integrated polyurethane bumpers are woke etc
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It is the American Cultural expectation for billionaires. Look at what every DC comic has been telling us for years.
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Likewise. I've been in & around the classic car community / clubs world for years. And like all those mainly older white bloke hobbies, it's always had a whiff of BNP under the surface, but it is much more present in recent years. I see shit like this sticket on a TR4A more and more.
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Didn't he kill Carlito Brigante in Grand Central Station?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMA5...
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Just booked for Manchester. Really looking forward to seeing you all!
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Unless of course the therapy functions as a literary device to access the character's inner monologue and highlight the tension between their true feelings and aversion to wanting to feel them. Although a different medium, this conceit was used successfully in the Sopranos.
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Without coming across like a rabid Ricardian apologist, all this really supports in the theory they died in the Tower and did not escape to Europe to live into adulthood. I'd argue the 'escape' theory is fringe. The real debate is not that they died in the Tower, but by whose hand - RIII or HVII.
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Or indeed, no power to pardon anybody. In this country, the pardon is technically issued by the Monarch, but it comes from a committee decision. That's how grown-up democracies to things.
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It a tongue in cheek comment, in poor taste, I'll admit. They said they hope it doesn't get "killed off in the final stages".
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Is that supposed to be a joke? 🙃
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That would be "what's the matter real ale enthusiast, afraid of a six percenter that tastes a bit of mouldy grapefruits?"
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DC comics spent 90 years warning Americans against the ego-driven tech billionaire being handed the reins of power by a disillusioned electorate. If even pop culture failed to cut through with its warnings, no other argument is going to land.
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Standing Heavy by Gauz'.
My second french translation novel of the month after the harrowing 'At Night All Blood is Black' by David Diop.
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100%
The bottom line is they are consuming literature at all. That deserves celebration!
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Any intel?
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Musk will be gone by Spring. First through the revolving door. He's acting like he's co-President, and Trump doesn't share power. They'll have a bust-up when he tells the big man something he doesn't want to hear, then doubles down with righteousness. It'll be the Cummings dynamic all over again.
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It's impossible not to read that in Beth's voice. Really like her style.
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They were probably thinking about War of the Worlds.
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Agree. As @maitlis.bsky.social said on @thenewsagents.bsky.social last week, Trump 45 was "the beginning of the beginning". We can expect Trump 47 to be "end of beginning & the start of the main event". For all his distancing from "Project 2025" in the campaign, his recent appointments speak to it.
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Same here! I moved to Threads about 12 months ago, but had to train myself to use it daily. Bluesky feels like having my old Twitter back from the good old days. The amount of activity here is amazing, SO many accounts I used to follow. It feels like the band has got back together!
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Recently read Wuthering Heights. Haunting, and so many themes to unpack. Fundamentally, I read it as a study in how trauma destroys people. With perhaps a hint of EUPD in both Cathys.
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If you let a falafel and houmous wrap into your child's birthday party, all of the other children will start demanding contextual plaques on the musical statues.
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My concern is how Trump 47 is bigger than Trump 45. The last presidency was beleaguered by all the in-fighting. Trump now has unparalleled power AND a (seemingly) loyal core crew. That means succession potential - if you cut the head of the MAGA beast in 2017, it'd just die. Now, another will sprout
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So glad to find you here! Between you and @number10cat.bsky.social , I feel like I'm back on Twitter in the good old days of 2016-20
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Likewise. I really had to train myself with Threads, but in the end got bored of tall the engagement bait. It was actually your post about the site being biased against news content that convinced me to try over here. I'm 2 days in, and overwhelmed by how many are here. It's like Twitter 5 years ago
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That topography at the pole is unreal!
("unreal" as in incredible, not as in "must be a fake")
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Is he the one that wrote that book? Think I've heard of him 🙃