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Doire
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I'm old. My childhood joy was the "see also" notes at the bottom of the encyclopedia entries.
And I've just realised that fuels the additional bookmarks I add to my books.
The bottom of the spine of a reference book with multi-coloured narrow ribbon bookmarks sticking out. There are at least seven of them.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Dr Naomi Wolf's notorious tweet crying "No! No!!" above Stanley Bear's , a teddy wearing hi-viz and a mask, tweet about helping out at Leamington Spa vaccination centre.
September 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I've been to your new home, but I'm a little concerned that the letter still refers to the old organiser.
The text says that email addresses are only visible to change .org.
Are they visible to you now?
Are you confident in the security of this personal identifying information?
Please Note: By signing this letter, Not In Our Name (NION) Women do NOT have sight or access to your email address, as this is only visible to Change.org. Selected NION volunteers do have sight of first and last names and country of origin, but no identifying details are available either to us, or to the public.
September 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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This pot of asafoetida which has lost all its labels except the price label. I think a price 28 p gives away its age.
I still, very occasionally, use it.
A blue pot with an orange price sticker of 28 p.
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I think it's a bot; it's not reading the comments it replies to. 🤣
A comment from me warning of an imposter in replies. The imposter has liked and responded to that comment with a very generic "Good comment. Text me : 7863814895"
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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And, like magic, Amazon's recommendations after buying it include "A Wizard of Earth sea" illustrated by Charles Vess for only £6.
A screen shot of Amazon recommending that I buy book 1 for £5.99 because I bought the complete set for 99p
July 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The board says
LEGAL 24/7 A/C
CLERGY REC YARD
LAUNDRY

We don't know if these facilities are for the detainees or the staff
Enlarged portion of photo of the sign board
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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How do I tell Google that its email précis is useless.
Screenshot from the top of my Gmail. It says. Happening soon Awesome Socks Club - Recurring from good Expected tomorrow Two buttons track parcel or view details Screen shot of delivery notification. They were delivered on June 23 first thing in the morning. That's two weeks ago.
June 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Phrazle 1020: 4/6
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#phrazle
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But also
A phrasle grid of 1 3 4 boxes Word 1 and 2 are obscured Word 3 is JUNE The phrasle response is "WORD 3 IS NOT IN WORD LIST"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Have you seen the newest Pokémon in Pokémon go?
It's a Yamper!
Yamper, an electric type Pokémon, with a strong corgi air.
June 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Wtf is this?
Was there no one who looked and said " give it another go"?
Enlarged portion of DFT's recent official portrait showing what is, presumably, an ear. Perhaps it was meant to show "assassination" attempt damage.
June 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It turns out that I have a QWERTZ keyboard setting in both English and Cornish. I have no idea where it came from, but I may see if I can delete it.
Or maybe not, it's probably something vital in an app I use everyday.
Keyboard settings with QWERTZ temporally enabled
May 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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And now it's in French layout!
It's haunted.
A screen shot of a duolingo "Can you spell in japanese?" exercise. A box contains accountant in kanji. Next down is my attempt "ka i ke i shi" in hiragena then a big green "check" button. The predictive text at the top of the keyboard shows that it is right despite something having scrambled my keyboard to a French layout so that I can't use muscle memory and have to look for each key. It's only the y and z but it really throws me.
May 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Obligatory referral to Flanders and Swan, "A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice".

1940s and very much of its time, but poking fun at the English attitudes to foreigners.
Lyrics The English, the English, the English are best I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest! The rottenest bits of these islands of ours We've left in the hands of three unfriendly powers Examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot You'll find he's a stinker, as likely as not Och aye, awa' wi' yon Edinburgh Festival! The Scotsman is mean, as we're all well aware And bony and blotchy and covered with hair He eats salted porridge, he works all the day And he hasn't got bishops to show him the way! The English, the English, the English are best I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest! Ah hit me old mother over the head with a shillelagh The Irishman now our contempt is beneath He sleeps in his boots and he lies in his teeth He blows up policemen, or so I have heard And blames it on Cromwell and William the Third! The English are noble, the English are nice And worth any other at double the price! Ah, iechyd da! The Welshman's dishonest, he cheats when he can And little and dark, more like monkey than man He works underground with a lamp in his hat And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flat! And crossing the Channel, one cannot say much For the French or the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch The Germans are German, the Russians are red And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed! The English are moral, the English are good And clever and modest and misunderstood! And all the world over, each nation's the same They've simply no notion of playing the game They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won And they practise beforehand, which ruins the fun! The English, the English, the English are best So up with the English and down with the rest! It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad! For the English are all that a nation should be, And the flower of the English are Donald, Michael, Donald, Michael, And Me!
May 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Engineering science for the win.
bsky.app/profile/doir...
from the paper
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
The Nautilus, a design for an urinal on mathematical principles to reduce splash back
April 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I found this
at charlotteslivelykitchen.com/egg-size-wei...
Chart showing the competitive weights of different egg sizes in various countries. The full text is at the website given
April 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Some of the nearly 300 images I took this morning. Next time I will know what settings I need in advance.
Overexposed shot of today's eclipse. A dark background with a bright white misshapen blob and a swirl of cloud to the bottom right. A third image with much better exposure. Dark background with a light grey sun with a clear bite out of the top. This image is close to that I see looking through solar film. Slightly overexposed partial solar eclipse. The background is dark and the sun, with a clear bite out of the top, is very bright. The edges are bleeding out into the background.
March 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I'm going to block them, but should I let them pursue their trade in peace?
Notification of a new follower name of Sex porn xxx video and gay lesbian. I bet they follow a lot of people.
March 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The dreaded box moth. It's the first one I've found this spring.

We had a warm spell and I kept an eye out, but didn't spot any. This one looks too big to have emerged after over wintering though, so I must have missed them. I wonder if they start with the inside of their protective leaf cocoon?
Finger and thumb holding a sprig of box with a blurred background. There is a green and black caterpillar that was hiding between two webbed together leaves.
March 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Today's candidate for shunning.
This is in an author's thread. They are also snide and pretentious about vocabulary from another continent.
Screen shot of bluesky reply joquarky.bsky.social @joquar.... 10h Pharmaceutical companies don't fund research, taxpayers do. All the money that they claim goes to research instead goes to marketing. We don't NEED movies, TV, or video games. People will still make them because true artists are passionate. People who need copyright only care about money.
March 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I dropped my flash cards.
About 350 of then as there are some from volume 2 in there as well.
A box of Japanese kanji flash cards roughly sitting in a box labeled Vol. 1. This box is on top of another, bigger box labeled Vol. 2. Kana books are visible in the back ground.
February 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A copy with alt text. We like alt text here. So much so that you can set a toggle on your account so that you can't post an image without alt text.
ORIGIN STORY logo White text over red,white, and blue star burst. The main text of the final tweet is in white centred text on a black background. Text follows: Over the past three years, we have covered countless political topics on Origin Story, including fascism, free speech, conspiracy theories, and Elon Musk himself. Our opinion is that Musk is on the far right. He uses far-right rhetoric, communicates with far-right accounts, spreads far-right conspiracy theories and advocates for far-right parties. He performs the fascist salute, even if his supporters will try to gaslight you into thinking that you did not see what you in fact saw. (We've also done an episode on gaslighting.) Using his ownership of this site, he is now attempting to rig the information ecosystem for the far right. Far-right messaging is prioritised while centrist and progressive messaging is buried. Fascists have been given the greatest organising and propaganda tool of the modern era. We will no longer be posting on X.com. We believe you should also leave this place. Your presence here keeps it going. No matter what your personal views are, your participation financially and politically supports the far right. You can find us on Bluesky at @originstorypodcast.bsky.social. This is a young, boisterous new social media platform which has far higher levels of engagement and makes it easier to control your experience online. You don't need to feel that dread in the pit of your stomach whenever you pick up your phone. You can also find news about the show on our Patreon page at patreon.com/c/originstorypod. We hope to see you there. Thanks. lan and Dorian.
February 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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With alt text
Sonnet: Against Entropy BY JOHN M. FORD PUBLISHED ON APRIL 3, 2011 The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke. The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
February 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Dot plot from the Economist
Dot plot showing Elon Musk's tweets over time. There is a scattering until 2018 when the number of tweets each day picks up and the chart is redder. There is a few hours ,say 3 am to 9 am when it's quiet. In 2022, when he bought Twitter the posting frequency increases and the quiet hours reduce. The chart begins to look mostly red. By 2024 the quiet times are reduced to 6 am to 8 am and some times less. The chart is headed Poster Boy Posts by Elon Musk on Twitter/X, by time Local time zone California to Dec 2020 then Texas
February 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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It's just a pity that this method of damage limitation, for the original ref, seems to have been ignored, if not actively discouraged.
Captain America image I understood that reference
January 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM