Mrs Cosmopilite
@whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Just learning stuff - don't know where I'm heading
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I'm worried that if the logical conclusion of capitalism is the monetisation of fear and hatred, it might not be the wonderful economic system we've been led to believe.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm worried that if the logical conclusion of capitalism is the monetisation of fear and hatred, it might not be the wonderful economic system we've been led to believe.
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Not all gyros wear capes.
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Not all gyros wear capes.
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Gen X. This is our moment in history.
Ah. Our minds have been turned to jelly by Facebook.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ah. Our minds have been turned to jelly by Facebook.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Gen X. This is our moment in history.
Ah. Our minds have been turned to jelly by Facebook.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ah. Our minds have been turned to jelly by Facebook.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Well, that’s a wrap.
Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
Sean Dunn's attorney acknowledged he threw the sandwich, but argued it was a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Well, that’s a wrap.
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
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Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, by Don McPhee.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, by Don McPhee.
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You're right. We need to consider the shape of the sandwich, and its tensile integrity. If the law is too relaxed about this you could get people throwing thin and hard sandwiches that have been toasted.
November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You're right. We need to consider the shape of the sandwich, and its tensile integrity. If the law is too relaxed about this you could get people throwing thin and hard sandwiches that have been toasted.
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🐾 New Steve print available: inotternews.etsy.com/listing/4395...
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🐾 New Steve print available: inotternews.etsy.com/listing/4395...
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My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
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For the last quarter of a century, there has always been at least one person living off-planet.
I just think that's incredibly cool.
apnews.com/article/inte...
I just think that's incredibly cool.
apnews.com/article/inte...
The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit
The International Space Station is marking 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit. Nearly 300 people have lived aboard the scientific outpost.
apnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
For the last quarter of a century, there has always been at least one person living off-planet.
I just think that's incredibly cool.
apnews.com/article/inte...
I just think that's incredibly cool.
apnews.com/article/inte...
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You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story
Watching Goldfinger with 15yo who twisted his knee dismounting from a bar in parkour
We had access to a gymnasium when the boys were younger, but they wouldn't entertain doing gymnastics.
Parkour is definitely not gymnastics, and any similarity is pure coincidence 👀
We had access to a gymnasium when the boys were younger, but they wouldn't entertain doing gymnastics.
Parkour is definitely not gymnastics, and any similarity is pure coincidence 👀
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Watching Goldfinger with 15yo who twisted his knee dismounting from a bar in parkour
We had access to a gymnasium when the boys were younger, but they wouldn't entertain doing gymnastics.
Parkour is definitely not gymnastics, and any similarity is pure coincidence 👀
We had access to a gymnasium when the boys were younger, but they wouldn't entertain doing gymnastics.
Parkour is definitely not gymnastics, and any similarity is pure coincidence 👀
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Be kind.
Be helpful.
Be generous.
Be wrathful when you need to.
Be the benevolent swamp creature or shambling forest horror with a heart of gold that you wish to see in the world.
Be helpful.
Be generous.
Be wrathful when you need to.
Be the benevolent swamp creature or shambling forest horror with a heart of gold that you wish to see in the world.
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Be kind.
Be helpful.
Be generous.
Be wrathful when you need to.
Be the benevolent swamp creature or shambling forest horror with a heart of gold that you wish to see in the world.
Be helpful.
Be generous.
Be wrathful when you need to.
Be the benevolent swamp creature or shambling forest horror with a heart of gold that you wish to see in the world.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Happy #Halloween! A few years ago, midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire created "dilation pumpkins" - and I don't think I've ever seen anything scarier in my life.* 😂😩
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy #Halloween! A few years ago, midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire created "dilation pumpkins" - and I don't think I've ever seen anything scarier in my life.* 😂😩
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
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A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
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Still terrifying
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Still terrifying
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Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.
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I spoke w/local food bank to ask what they needed to most as far as donations, and they requested cash instead of food donations as they can purchase what they need at a deep discount/wholesale rate. Just an FYI in case you were going to purchase food to donate vs. donating from your own shelves.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I spoke w/local food bank to ask what they needed to most as far as donations, and they requested cash instead of food donations as they can purchase what they need at a deep discount/wholesale rate. Just an FYI in case you were going to purchase food to donate vs. donating from your own shelves.
If you're looking up bubbly beaches, you're spumescrolling
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you're looking up bubbly beaches, you're spumescrolling
Didn't quite manage to dodge this shower
Certain amount of jeopardy watching the wall of rain approach, coatless..
Certain amount of jeopardy watching the wall of rain approach, coatless..
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Didn't quite manage to dodge this shower
Certain amount of jeopardy watching the wall of rain approach, coatless..
Certain amount of jeopardy watching the wall of rain approach, coatless..
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Nothin else for it
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nothin else for it
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Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fixing the puncture in the inflatable ball-pit, in the below manner, is (and I suspect will remain) the most MacGyver-ass shit I’ve ever done.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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