David Lennard
@davidlennardgijon.bsky.social
Provincial pensioner, news junkie, often grumpy, increasingly resistant to excitement
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October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
“ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
“ How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceiving you, while a reality tv star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty."
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A startling reality about Gen Z, backed up by multiple studies: The most online generation is also the worst at discerning fact from fiction on the internet.
How Gen Z became the most gullible generation👇
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How Gen Z became the most gullible generation👇
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April 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A startling reality about Gen Z, backed up by multiple studies: The most online generation is also the worst at discerning fact from fiction on the internet.
How Gen Z became the most gullible generation👇
ow.ly/kUhk50VGrBF
How Gen Z became the most gullible generation👇
ow.ly/kUhk50VGrBF
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This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Most birds have a fight or flight response.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
April 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Most birds have a fight or flight response.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
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When I was in a high school creative writing class, I had a character say, "Las Vegas means 'The Vegas' in Mexican" to convey how ignorant she was. Still works.
April 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When I was in a high school creative writing class, I had a character say, "Las Vegas means 'The Vegas' in Mexican" to convey how ignorant she was. Still works.
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Donald Trump is Johnny Rocco. Nothing changes except the length of the ties.
February 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Donald Trump is Johnny Rocco. Nothing changes except the length of the ties.
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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves.
January 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves.
I'm now taking bets on how long it will be before the "Agent Orange - weird South African" bromance ends in tears and a really messy divorce.
December 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I'm now taking bets on how long it will be before the "Agent Orange - weird South African" bromance ends in tears and a really messy divorce.
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“Prickled vanity can strut as courage.” A line from Henie’s memoirs that captures so much about today’s ‘strong men’.
December 17, 2024 at 10:27 PM
“Prickled vanity can strut as courage.” A line from Henie’s memoirs that captures so much about today’s ‘strong men’.
Hypochondria gets an undeserved bad press: it's better to worry needlessly than to die carefree but ignorant
December 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Hypochondria gets an undeserved bad press: it's better to worry needlessly than to die carefree but ignorant
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There’s something about Schopenhauer’s pessimism that always cheers me up.
December 10, 2024 at 10:49 AM
There’s something about Schopenhauer’s pessimism that always cheers me up.
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A joke that makes you feel smart is a good joke.
A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says "beer?"
The horse says "I think not" and then vanishes*
* This is a reference to the quote "I think, therefore I am," which maybe I should've mentioned at the start of the joke (but that would've been putting Descartes before the horse)
The horse says "I think not" and then vanishes*
* This is a reference to the quote "I think, therefore I am," which maybe I should've mentioned at the start of the joke (but that would've been putting Descartes before the horse)
December 10, 2024 at 9:56 AM
A joke that makes you feel smart is a good joke.
You need to delve into Reformation theology and social mores, and then look at the music hall song of that title to fully grasp the coy vulgarity of the notion
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 PM
You need to delve into Reformation theology and social mores, and then look at the music hall song of that title to fully grasp the coy vulgarity of the notion
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I know it's a cultural thing and I know it was my own choice to move here and decide not to adapt but god it is depressing to turn up to a restaurant for a post pub dinner at 9pm - A NORMAL DINNER EATING TIME - and be literally the one customer there
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 PM
I know it's a cultural thing and I know it was my own choice to move here and decide not to adapt but god it is depressing to turn up to a restaurant for a post pub dinner at 9pm - A NORMAL DINNER EATING TIME - and be literally the one customer there
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Now that's the sort of information we need👍
November 28, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Now that's the sort of information we need👍
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The election petition has created a fresh journalistic subgenre: headlines asking damn silly questions to which they already know the answer inews.co.uk/opinion/elec...
November 27, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The election petition has created a fresh journalistic subgenre: headlines asking damn silly questions to which they already know the answer inews.co.uk/opinion/elec...
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