sallyoo.bsky.social
London born, long term resident in Italy. Was an architect, once, but not in the way you'd think!
Serious interests are many, but often political. Silly interests are cats and Formula 1!
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Terrible timewaster! I get addicted to watching it ...
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Decent baristas, charming waiting staff and competent chamber maids - what's not to like!
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This is exactly what the Trump administration is, mafia style gangsters.
'Russification' is a very precise description of what is developing, by design.
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📌
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More departures would solve my red eye issue!
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The thing which aggravates me is the timetabling of long distance European routes - they're like red eye flights, designed for business travellers and not for sightseers.
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He will thank you for that!
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Has Musk ever had an original idea?
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Cats are hilarious when they try to walk before they have fully come out of the anaesthetic!
I don't know if you follow the cartoons by @simonscatofficial.bsky.social but he captures the 'splayed legs' perfectly in just a simple line drawing. (I think he's on Youtube.)
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Even the Google translate of your initial post comes with footnotes!
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Thanks so much - I had self-translated dicchi as dykes, but I couldn't confirm it with any reference sources, and thought of you!
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I have to admit that I went to Google maps to learn exactly where Kazakhstan was located, and thought they'd be better off aligning with China (geographically).
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How does nobody see this?
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It's the exact same playbook used by Netenyahu.
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I'll listen.
The New Yorker is one of the publications in the Condé Nast stable - their most fancied one currently is Wired, but even their 'obscure' mags such as teenvogue and Vanity Fair are fearlessly progressive. "There is hope"
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I'm suddenly a fan of the Kazakh President! Thanks.
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That's true, and probably JB doesn't even have an X account. I do find him attractively broadminded - not the usual BBC 'and on the other hand' sycophancy, he seems to know his stuff and has the gravitas to get a message across.
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So, remind me, is Kazakhstan under Russian influence, or more independent?
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I'm coming around to the idea that Trump's ambition of a 'Royal Welcome' in London has bitten the dust.
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And not in any way resembling what you thought you had ordered
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Indeed
"solutions that come as quickly as the fast food delivery service" is where we are in politics right now.
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Dunno if it's horribly expensive where you are, but I'm lucky enough to have a vet who will do home visits especially for elderly or hyper-nervous cats. It reduces my stress, and that of the kitties.
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I can do the 'sanitary trim' at home - but claw clipping is definitely a vet's job!
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Snap! Those roofers definitely favour Amish hats - if they only knew!
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It somehow lacks the punch of Hogarth's "Gin Lane" for me. It doesn't have the detail to engage the viewer in the same way. Sorry - but thanks for posting it.
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Isn't it Mauritius, rather than the Maldives?
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Didn't I read that Starmer is taking Macron with him, 'for cover'?
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Any therapy is good.
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Possibly not, but he did write quite a punchy apposite post.
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"It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crêpe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with heads of bison."
Louis MacNeice (seems very Now)
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Conte seems to me to be quite delusional on this subject. As reported, this is offensively self-serving and nothing more. Shame on him.
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Nice reminder of an oncoming spring.
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It's the Womens' Institute you're thinking of there, unless the Rotarians have woken up to jam!
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That's a hell of a price! I get as much of the FT online as I can understand for €29 a month.
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I dunno - I've won money betting on horses at 40-1 - and this asteroid is on better odds than that!
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The Kinks were (still are) one of my favourite bands, and Plastic Man one of my favourite songs.
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That post certainly jumped the shark.
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Not everybody on X (or on Bluesky) has a desire to convince anyone of anything, many are there just for the cat pics.