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Alice Porter
@aliceporter.bsky.social
Currently learning to deal with psoriatic arthritis, was a mature student aiming for vetmed until COVID blew up my life/health so now 🤷‍♀️
Mother of sheep. Childless cat lady.
'lost and liberated in equal measure', 'makes you reckon quite deeply with your strengths and your flaws'. For some reason this extract made me think of shearing sheep. By about the 5th sheep.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I bought dad a CD of Gregorian chant music off Amazon once, and for about 2 years after Amazon kept sending me emails offering me more Gregorian chant music. No emails related to anything else I'd bought in that time, they were just very insistent that I must need more Gregorian chants
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I like how they've made 'Melodic Death Metal' really small, as though that's the most embarrassing genre on there
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yeah, I remember being really shocked by the Ford Rangers/Dodge Rams I saw in DC-they were overhanging *American size* parking spaces, vs the pick-up trucks here. My (farmer) mate's Isuzu DMax would look like Mr Bean's mini next to those
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
And, in this case, massive organised crime networks operate essentially freely-it's a well-established source of revenue for criminal gangs/mafia-type groups eg www.gardanotes.com/the-ndranghe...
The ‘Ndrangheta and the waste business in Lombardy: Legambiente’s alarm - gardanotes.com
The investigation by the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Milan has highlighted the presence of the 'ndrangheta in the waste management business in Lombardy. A recent police raid led to the arrest o...
www.gardanotes.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Copenhagen airport to Luton airport was quite the contrast 😂
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Same. Except for the specific pair of socks I was going to get for my train-loving 103-year-old Grandad, persistently out of stock 😭
There's still time 🤞🤞🤞
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I assume a lot of people are doing Christmas shopping this evening! Isn't tomorrow meant to be 'Cyber Monday' or some other marketing guff too?
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I did try going to the 'subscribe today' option right at the bottom of the homepage, it didn't load initially but when I refreshed it it did. I clicked through from a link on their Bluesky feed initially so not sure which browser loaded (think Chrome)
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I get this
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
CeraVe, The Ordinary, Simple and Bioderma (though faintly bewildering array of options) are all worth exploring.
Stay far away from anything labelled 'for men'
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Rest! Sit on a stool while stirring, take breaks etc. You can still get long COVID even if you've been fine with prior infections. It is hell. It is absolute hell.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM