Akin Akintayo
@forakin.bsky.social
Person, observer, blogger 21🌞, gay, end-user computing 35🌞, experienced cancer twice, living well, Christian, GB/Ng, European, and hitched.
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Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
Akin Akintayo on human rights, politics, religion, Nigeria and other concerns.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Strength to Endure: A Year of Recovery, Work, and Gratitude
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
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Eighteen months post-cancer diagnosis, reflecting on a remarkable year of recovery, work, and the people who held me up. On the eve of 60, I'm blessed beyond measure and live to tell better stories.
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
Akin Akintayo on human rights, politics, religion, Nigeria and other concerns.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
When Technical Debate Meets Workplace Dysfunction
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
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It's easy for leaders to lose every sense of respect through an unfortunate misuse of authority.
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
Akin Akintayo on human rights, politics, religion, Nigeria and other concerns.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Essential Snobbery 101: Revisiting discretion and how we share
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
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How we confide in strangers or people with whom we are familiar can have far-reaching consequences.
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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December 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Thought Picnic: Are We Protecting Them or Ourselves?
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
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I was on the other side of some unrelenting inquisitiveness that I failed to deflect to the point of revealing too much.
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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December 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To be bedecked in Yoruba attire
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
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Some basic arrangements for my birthday.
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blessed and fortunate is who I am
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
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My celebration is in gratitude with no need for fanfare or revelry; opportunities will come for something more.
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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December 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Thought Picnic: Getting inspiration from within
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
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It is shocking how religious customs and traditions have robbed us of the wonder of God with and God in us.
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Living the breeze of Cape Town
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
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Cape Town lives in us as much as we long to live there, and that dream is coming true.
The prescient December clues
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
The prescient December clues
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December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The prescient December clues
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
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Of all the available terms, I arrived on my terms, quite different from others' terms.
Mastering the interest in interesting
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
Mastering the interest in interesting
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December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Mastering the interest in interesting
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
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When an Englishman says interesting, you should refer to their culture, not a dictionary. Many have fallen foul of misunderstanding our indirect and polite conversation.
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Twenty-Two years of blogging
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
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Through the years, this blog has travelled with the stories of life, and it began in a hotel room, in Berlin.
How I do religion
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
How I do religion
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December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
How I do religion
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
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I have always been religious and different in the way I view things.
Thought Picnic: Sitting pretty and bringing calamity
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Do we need warning signals to prevent us from breaking things left on seats when we sit?
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Do we need warning signals to prevent us from breaking things left on seats when we sit?
Thought Picnic: Sitting pretty and bringing calamity
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December 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thought Picnic: Sitting pretty and bringing calamity
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Do we need warning signals to prevent us from breaking things left on seats when we sit?
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Do we need warning signals to prevent us from breaking things left on seats when we sit?
It's A Wonderful Life
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I tell myself, Do not be discouraged. "No man is a failure who has friends."
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I tell myself, Do not be discouraged. "No man is a failure who has friends."
It's A Wonderful Life
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December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It's A Wonderful Life
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I tell myself, Do not be discouraged. "No man is a failure who has friends."
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I tell myself, Do not be discouraged. "No man is a failure who has friends."
Writing Well: Craft and Wellspring
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When I fetch from the writing well, the kind of expression of writing well.
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When I fetch from the writing well, the kind of expression of writing well.
Writing Well: Craft and Wellspring
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December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Writing Well: Craft and Wellspring
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When I fetch from the writing well, the kind of expression of writing well.
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When I fetch from the writing well, the kind of expression of writing well.
Caught in the act of keyboard bashing again
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How I wish I could write, then maybe this would pass for writing, too.
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How I wish I could write, then maybe this would pass for writing, too.
Caught in the act of keyboard bashing again
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December 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Caught in the act of keyboard bashing again
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How I wish I could write, then maybe this would pass for writing, too.
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How I wish I could write, then maybe this would pass for writing, too.
A whoosh moment
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Notes of currency and sound meet in the dreamy pleasure of coffee served like lager.
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Notes of currency and sound meet in the dreamy pleasure of coffee served like lager.
A whoosh moment
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December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A whoosh moment
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Notes of currency and sound meet in the dreamy pleasure of coffee served like lager.
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Notes of currency and sound meet in the dreamy pleasure of coffee served like lager.
The shibboleth of fluency
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Imagine a tongue loosened that Shibboleths cannot catch you out for flow and fluency.
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Imagine a tongue loosened that Shibboleths cannot catch you out for flow and fluency.
The shibboleth of fluency
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The shibboleth of fluency
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Imagine a tongue loosened that Shibboleths cannot catch you out for flow and fluency.
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Imagine a tongue loosened that Shibboleths cannot catch you out for flow and fluency.
Men's things XXVIII: Shame, no national prostate cancer screening
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An expert screening committee recommends no national prostate cancer screening to spare the blushes of brave men who need no disruption to their early deaths.
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An expert screening committee recommends no national prostate cancer screening to spare the blushes of brave men who need no disruption to their early deaths.
Men's things XXVIII: Shame, no national prostate cancer screening
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November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Men's things XXVIII: Shame, no national prostate cancer screening
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An expert screening committee recommends no national prostate cancer screening to spare the blushes of brave men who need no disruption to their early deaths.
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An expert screening committee recommends no national prostate cancer screening to spare the blushes of brave men who need no disruption to their early deaths.
In a year of remembering Dr Willy Legg
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We remember people in the little stories of great significance in the lives of others. This is an unusual tortoise story.
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We remember people in the little stories of great significance in the lives of others. This is an unusual tortoise story.
In a year of remembering Dr Willy Legg
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November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In a year of remembering Dr Willy Legg
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We remember people in the little stories of great significance in the lives of others. This is an unusual tortoise story.
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We remember people in the little stories of great significance in the lives of others. This is an unusual tortoise story.
Men's things XXVII: The inconvenience of incontinence
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AI said: Your voice is situated in the precise intersection of being black, male, professionally engaged, medically informed, personally affected, and committed to demystifying prostate cancer for others.
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AI said: Your voice is situated in the precise intersection of being black, male, professionally engaged, medically informed, personally affected, and committed to demystifying prostate cancer for others.
Men's things XXVII: The inconvenience of incontinence
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November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Men's things XXVII: The inconvenience of incontinence
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AI said: Your voice is situated in the precise intersection of being black, male, professionally engaged, medically informed, personally affected, and committed to demystifying prostate cancer for others.
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AI said: Your voice is situated in the precise intersection of being black, male, professionally engaged, medically informed, personally affected, and committed to demystifying prostate cancer for others.
Nobel Laureates and Limitations: The Perils of Unearned Omniscience
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The passing of James Watson earlier this month highlights how people often forget that commendation in one area does not confer expertise in all things. It's my fourth blog on James Watson.
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The passing of James Watson earlier this month highlights how people often forget that commendation in one area does not confer expertise in all things. It's my fourth blog on James Watson.
Nobel Laureates and Limitations: The Perils of Unearned Omniscience
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November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nobel Laureates and Limitations: The Perils of Unearned Omniscience
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The passing of James Watson earlier this month highlights how people often forget that commendation in one area does not confer expertise in all things. It's my fourth blog on James Watson.
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The passing of James Watson earlier this month highlights how people often forget that commendation in one area does not confer expertise in all things. It's my fourth blog on James Watson.
Men's things XXVI: Let's avoid the stigma of prostate cancer
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Prostate cancer can affect any man, regardless of age. We must not sacrifice our health for manliness, sexual prowess, youth, or virility.
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Prostate cancer can affect any man, regardless of age. We must not sacrifice our health for manliness, sexual prowess, youth, or virility.
Men's things XXVI: Let's avoid the stigma of prostate cancer
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November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Men's things XXVI: Let's avoid the stigma of prostate cancer
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Prostate cancer can affect any man, regardless of age. We must not sacrifice our health for manliness, sexual prowess, youth, or virility.
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Prostate cancer can affect any man, regardless of age. We must not sacrifice our health for manliness, sexual prowess, youth, or virility.
Essential Snobbery 101: Leaving the village people in the village
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Let's address the village people for who they are, limited by environment and perspective, which makes them powerless; they cannot and must not influence us, wherever we are.
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Let's address the village people for who they are, limited by environment and perspective, which makes them powerless; they cannot and must not influence us, wherever we are.
Essential Snobbery 101: Leaving the village people in the village
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November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Essential Snobbery 101: Leaving the village people in the village
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Let's address the village people for who they are, limited by environment and perspective, which makes them powerless; they cannot and must not influence us, wherever we are.
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Let's address the village people for who they are, limited by environment and perspective, which makes them powerless; they cannot and must not influence us, wherever we are.
Chicken suya, an emetic aid
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A review of a takeaway meal from their website, through their service, and the whole experience, could only be bettered by regurgitating the meal as if it never happened.
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A review of a takeaway meal from their website, through their service, and the whole experience, could only be bettered by regurgitating the meal as if it never happened.
Chicken suya, an emetic aid
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November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Chicken suya, an emetic aid
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A review of a takeaway meal from their website, through their service, and the whole experience, could only be bettered by regurgitating the meal as if it never happened.
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A review of a takeaway meal from their website, through their service, and the whole experience, could only be bettered by regurgitating the meal as if it never happened.