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CrypticMirror

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Lover of 90s and 00s fantasy, living proof you can do new age gardening on a windowsill. Stop the cult of neat and tidy, let nature prosper! she/her they/them.

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kyonshi, to random
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@dianeduane strikes again :D

It's again my post about Terry and the soup ads

CrypticMirror,
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@kyonshi

One gets the feeling, with , that the real sticking point was that "the company would not promise not to do it again", but if they'd apologised and made that promise. Well, Terry would have probably quietly admired their chutzpah. The adverts would have had to stop, been apologised for, but he'd have probably let them keep the licence to print the books. Or maybe not. You never could tell with Terry.

glynmoody, to random
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Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK - https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/11/migrant-care-workers-told-to-leave-uk "workers whose sponsoring company had been sanctioned were also being punished" cruel in the extreme - just how tories like it

CrypticMirror,
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@glynmoody

There is a type of Tory who sees this and thinks: good. Because the cruelty is the point even in itself.

Then there is dumber one who defends this by saying that at least it means UK people will get all the jobs and that anyone signing on down the jobcentre can now go be a carer and fill in the gap. Ignoring that no, not everyone can be a carer. It is a much harder job than the tories think it is or reimburse it as.

Both types of tories are assholes.

CrypticMirror, to random
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Praise me, for I have done just over twenty seven thousand steps today. That is just a hair under ten miles worth of walking. That has to be worth a beer's worth of calories; Right? Right?

bobjmsn, to Scotland
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Donate if you want to support more Green candidates:

https://members.greens.scot/Donate2024GE

CrypticMirror,
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@bobjmsn I remember my grandfather telling me that his father never went more than five miles away from his home in his entire life, because that was a day's walk and back. And my grandfather said that with a bike he could get a whole ten miles and back in a single day.

Then he bought a car in his 40s. And then he could go 40/50 miles. And I own a car, and can go a hundred miles, or even jump a plane and go thousands if I want.

I'm not going back to bike or foot travel. Not voting #Green.

CrypticMirror,
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@spytfyre @Wen @bobjmsn

Doesn't mean I shouldn't, either. Nor should it mean personal freedom of movement becomes the preserve of the rich, again. Because that is what the car and cheap air travel was, the great leveller between rich and poor. And I have had my fill of eco-fascism that serves only to restrict the options open to the poor.

CrypticMirror,
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@Wen @bobjmsn

Last week I went to the beach. That beach is thirty miles away. In fact, I went to a couple. Then I came home for tea. And I didn't even plan that. I went to Tesco first. But it was such a nice day, and my day off, I thought I'd have some fun too.

That is what having a car means. Spontaneous fun. Tell me why I shouldn't. Tell me in such a way that it isn't a restriction, or a sign of austerity. Tell me in such a way that it isn't "know your place".

CrypticMirror,
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@Wen @spytfyre @bobjmsn

Ad hominem. Also, argument by distraction.

Thanks for playing.

CrypticMirror,
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@Wen @bobjmsn

How many buses are we gonna have? Because it takes two just to get to my tesco. That is over an hour away. Plus I cannot carry as much on the bus as I can in my car. So multiple bus trips. There goes my day. Just on tesco. Now, throw in the spontaneous nature of the trip. The out of the way nature.

Starting to see why your options are not options?

CrypticMirror,
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@Wen @spytfyre @bobjmsn

Still going with the insult instead of the argument. Okay, plonk.

renwillis, to transgender
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JK Rowling is so obsessed at being transphobic, that other transphobes like Musk are asking her to get a new fucking hobby.

CrypticMirror,
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@renwillis That is like Stalin saying you are taking authoritarianism too far. That ought to be a wake up call for her. I bet it isn't. Silly fool.

CrypticMirror, to random
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Wait, what, why are we trying to save these little furry bastards again?
https://gizmodo.com/leprosy-in-medieval-england-probably-came-from-red-squi-1851452114

junesim63, to UKpolitics
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An asylum seeker called Ahmed was interviewed on C4 News. He served with the British forces in Afghanistan, but was rejected by the ARAP scheme and has now had a Rwanda letter.
He has started a petition calling on the PM to abandon the Rwanda plan and create safe, organised routes to claim asylum once and for all.

It has 52k signatures and he has asked that it be shared.

I have signed it. Will you?

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-rwanda-flights

CrypticMirror,
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@junesim63 It needs to be a petition on the government's own petition site, because that one they are obligated to respond and pay attention to.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/check

glynmoody, to random
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Minister ‘sorry’ as veterans find ID card not valid for English elections - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections "Johnny Mercer says he will ‘do all I can’ to change rules after veteran turned away from polling station" stupidity upon stupidity; just repeal it

CrypticMirror,
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@glynmoody Well that policy backfired, as veterans are more likely to be conservative supporters.

glynmoody, to random
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UK will be worst performer in G7 next year, OECD forecasts - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/uk-economic-outlook-has-worsened-warns-oecd those benefits just keep on coming...

CrypticMirror,
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@glynmoody Our standard of living is worse than now.

NickEast, to discworld
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Oooh, tough choice, but more likely I kidnapped myself so I could meet one of them... but I still can't choose just one 😂

@terrypratchett @speculativefictioncomedy @fantasybookstodon

CrypticMirror,
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@NickEast @terrypratchett @speculativefictioncomedy @fantasybookstodon
I'm picking Nanny Ogg to rescue me, she gets things done. I'm picking Granny Weatherwax to deal with the kidnappers though.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Wow, you learn something new about kites every day.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

CrypticMirror, (edited )
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@lowqualityfacts Anything can be a WMD if it is moving at

CrypticMirror, to Onlyfans
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Welp, just slathered another load of antiseptic cream on my foot. I think it is safe to say that I wouldn't be getting any #OnlyFans subscribers based on the state of it right now.

Why does even mild walking exercise, not even jogging, result in such horrible blisters? I do everything right. Well fitting, non cheap, walking boots, cushioned socks, building up from three miles to six-even, and yet...

I tell you, all this healthy exercise will be the :flan_reaper: of me yet.

CrypticMirror,
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@Hellybootwader

I've got a packet of those hydrocolloid plasters ordered from Evil River Company coming today. I thought I had a packet already, but they seem to have evaporated into the ether since the last time I used them. How come you can sit something down, swear you see it every day, but then on the day you need it; it is gone?

CrypticMirror,
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@Hellybootwader I don't know why it happens here. I always leave a thimble of whisky out for the every full moon, like my grandfather told me too.

Not even joking. A thimble of whisky out for the week folk on the windowsill every full moon, and a little bottle of it down a rabbit hole every new year's day. My grandfather swore it kept happy.

glynmoody, to random
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‘Are we joking?’: residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/are-we-joking-venice-residents-protest-as-city-starts-charging-visitors-to-enter "Day-trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourism" outrageous - should be at least double that...

CrypticMirror,
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@glynmoody Can we set up tollbooths at now too, please?

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CrypticMirror,
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@glynmoody Both.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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And the media are making a big deal out of St George's Day - which usually, as far as I know, passes almost entirely without notice - and all because Flagshagger Keith felt the need to bore us with his EngNat rhetoric at the weekend.
Prick.

CrypticMirror,
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@fkamiah17

If anyone makes a fuss about it, tell them it is the day celebrating the National Saint of the country of Georgia. Which, technically, he also is. The and hate that. Something that is a key difference between Nats and Scottish and Welsh nationalists in the UK. The former just can't share.

He was a man, who fought in , and is also regarded as an . The real legend is so much better than 's version.

CrypticMirror, to space
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Holy Crap. I didn't think it was possible, but got back online.

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-voyager-probe-making-sense-months-gibberish-1851427197

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Wow, that's really old.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

CrypticMirror,
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@lowqualityfacts Estimate is accurate, with +/- error factor of 20billion years.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I wonder how much they get paid.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

CrypticMirror,
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@lowqualityfacts I wonder where I can get me one?

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