Aniel_Zemely
@dibsmft.bsky.social
theophilist, designataur, skribalah, fabricator, wordherder, e-magicalist, paintiser, scallywag and professional know-it-all
Happy Christmas.
Umm, was the puppy alive when you wrapped it?
Umm, was the puppy alive when you wrapped it?
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Happy Christmas.
Umm, was the puppy alive when you wrapped it?
Umm, was the puppy alive when you wrapped it?
What carol is heard in the desert?
'O Camel ye faithful.'
'O Camel ye faithful.'
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What carol is heard in the desert?
'O Camel ye faithful.'
'O Camel ye faithful.'
I'm headed down to Desolation Row
youtu.be/hUvcWXTIjcU?...
youtu.be/hUvcWXTIjcU?...
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm headed down to Desolation Row
youtu.be/hUvcWXTIjcU?...
youtu.be/hUvcWXTIjcU?...
Christmas in the Heart, Bob Dylan
What on earth?
I can't believe it
What on earth?
I can't believe it
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Christmas in the Heart, Bob Dylan
What on earth?
I can't believe it
What on earth?
I can't believe it
XXX even went so far as to have the heads of gods removed from certain statues and replaced with his own
Who might fit 'XXX' in the present day ?
Who might fit 'XXX' in the present day ?
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
XXX even went so far as to have the heads of gods removed from certain statues and replaced with his own
Who might fit 'XXX' in the present day ?
Who might fit 'XXX' in the present day ?
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For those who know the UK:
Chatgpt is equally at home with screwing around with borders and names.
I asked it to "Generate a map of the United Kingdom with all the counties named" 🤣
Chatgpt is equally at home with screwing around with borders and names.
I asked it to "Generate a map of the United Kingdom with all the counties named" 🤣
December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
For those who know the UK:
Chatgpt is equally at home with screwing around with borders and names.
I asked it to "Generate a map of the United Kingdom with all the counties named" 🤣
Chatgpt is equally at home with screwing around with borders and names.
I asked it to "Generate a map of the United Kingdom with all the counties named" 🤣
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Pro migration policies, such as shortening routes to settlement, increasing routes for undocumented migrants to regularise their status, safer and simpler means for people to seek asylum etc, benefit everyone. 7/10
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pro migration policies, such as shortening routes to settlement, increasing routes for undocumented migrants to regularise their status, safer and simpler means for people to seek asylum etc, benefit everyone. 7/10
Did Jane Austin live in Longbridge?
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Did Jane Austin live in Longbridge?
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Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Feel better by playing the Gloria from the Missa Taita
youtu.be/_Sc1-WQvZhQ?... 🛐
youtu.be/_Sc1-WQvZhQ?... 🛐
UTUKUFU - Misa Taita (Cover) by Felistas Mburugu ft. Our Lady of Assumption Amung'enti Parish Choir.
YouTube video by Felistas Mburugu
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Feel better by playing the Gloria from the Missa Taita
youtu.be/_Sc1-WQvZhQ?... 🛐
youtu.be/_Sc1-WQvZhQ?... 🛐
Thank you to the people who bought this sticker today!
www.redbubble.com/i/holographi...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thank you to the people who bought this sticker today!
www.redbubble.com/i/holographi...
www.redbubble.com/i/holographi...
Home Orifice showing how much it cares
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Home Orifice showing how much it cares
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
The five they haven't done:
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Thank you to the person with very good taste who has just bought one of my t-shirts :-)
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pl...
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pl...
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thank you to the person with very good taste who has just bought one of my t-shirts :-)
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pl...
www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Pl...
Well I never!
'the convention is that the spelling disk is used for magnetic storage (e.g., hard disks) while disc is used for optical storage (e.g., compact discs, better known as CDs)'
'the convention is that the spelling disk is used for magnetic storage (e.g., hard disks) while disc is used for optical storage (e.g., compact discs, better known as CDs)'
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Well I never!
'the convention is that the spelling disk is used for magnetic storage (e.g., hard disks) while disc is used for optical storage (e.g., compact discs, better known as CDs)'
'the convention is that the spelling disk is used for magnetic storage (e.g., hard disks) while disc is used for optical storage (e.g., compact discs, better known as CDs)'
You will suffer from reading this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
You will suffer from reading this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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And this from @lgilbert.co explains why these reductions will damage the public finances (3/3)
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
And this from @lgilbert.co explains why these reductions will damage the public finances (3/3)
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Benjamin Bowden (1906-1998). This design was for a streamlined bicycle constructed of pressed aluminium that he called ‘The Classic’.
onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1980s-bowden...
onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1980s-bowden...
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Benjamin Bowden (1906-1998). This design was for a streamlined bicycle constructed of pressed aluminium that he called ‘The Classic’.
onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1980s-bowden...
onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1980s-bowden...
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🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
Google's Aperçu IA is a waste of space and time
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Google's Aperçu IA is a waste of space and time
Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
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open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo... Here’s a great example of how the social media industry is wired to prefer colourful false information over the mundane truth
A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong.
A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo... Here’s a great example of how the social media industry is wired to prefer colourful false information over the mundane truth
Excellent Pauline Collins gallery
www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
Pauline Collins – a life in pictures
Collins, the stage and screen star best known for Shirley Valentine, has died aged 85. The actor died at a care home in London surrounded by family
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Excellent Pauline Collins gallery
www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...
On BBC R4, we have just been advised that if stung by a jellyfish, NOT to pee on the stung area, it will make it worse.
(could almost hear @dankaszeta.bsky.social :-)
(could almost hear @dankaszeta.bsky.social :-)
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On BBC R4, we have just been advised that if stung by a jellyfish, NOT to pee on the stung area, it will make it worse.
(could almost hear @dankaszeta.bsky.social :-)
(could almost hear @dankaszeta.bsky.social :-)