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Gillian Ottaway
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Here for nature, science, arts, language and fun posts. Not fond of bigots. (she/her)
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Add a hedgehog hole in the fence and get a lot more than you planned
June 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This guy gets it 😂
I vote we bring him in as an intermediary with the ‘why don’t women date me’ guys
April 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Throw back to March 2022 when I was isolating with Covid and my husband was making my meals
Menu 22nd March COVID Menu Starters None Main course Beans on toast Fajita pasta leftovers Pizza chips and salad Chilli con carne Dessert Blue Ribband Kit Kat Breakaway Yorkie
April 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Every sibling in the world recognised “I’m not touching you” fight 😂
April 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Tweet from Ed Burmila @gin_and_tacos dated 2018 It’s almost like people with tons of capital benefit from running the economy into a huge recession every decade or two so they can buy up assets on the cheap and consolidate even more wealth into a small number of hands
April 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I’ll give it a go but we all know I’m tripping on the third step and chipping a tooth
Two pictures side by side. On the left a woman in a long pink flowing dress trailing behind her as she walks up huge gothic staircase. On the right a woman in a wide and long black dress running up a huge gothic staircase. Text across the top says “wearing a long dress and running through a gothic castle is on my to do list”
March 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I was happily doom scrolling through the slow decline of the world and then this
I mean, I’m upvoting, but I’m very fucking furious
March 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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A grey budgie standing on its tip toes on a wooden table, reaching its beak up to a bent straw hanging from a cocktail glass containing ice and green liquid. With the text overwritten Budgie = me Glass = unsee juice At the bottom = BIG SIP
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Thank goodness news outlets are positioning Paul Marchant’s resignation as:
“After allegation by woman”
“After investigation by lawyers”
“After error of judgement”

And not
“After HE acted inappropriately”

We will not stand for men in positions of power being held accountable - rude!
Sky News App headline “Primark boss resigns after allegation over his behaviour towards a woman” BBC News app headline “Primark boss quits after complaint about behaviour”
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The internet is exactly the right place for this phrasing
March 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Pro tip for millennials, as Gen X start to pass away, resist the urge to watch unlabelled VHS tapes.
February 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Alina Habba is married to Gregg Reuben, CEO of Centerpark, a New York City based PARKING MANAGEMENT company.
Screenshot from Centerpark’s website reads “We continue to innovate into new strategies and drive growth. Our persistence and desire to deliver insight, opportunity and enhanced returns to our customers and investors is core to our firm’s mission statement. With an investment to date of $100m and an initial focus on the NYC metropolitan area, our approach includes a gateway city strategy with plan to expand to similar markets (I.e. Washington, DC and Boston, MA).
February 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#GoogleAI has moved into predicting the future. Everyone wait until next week to search the lottery numbers, my turn first.
Screenshot of Google AI summary on Thursday 16th January about a march taking place on Saturday 18th January. The summary reads “The… march was part of a nationwide protest…” and the summary in the past tense continues under the heading “What was the march about?”
January 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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BrewDog’s James Watt and Georgia Toffolo need to shadow a nurse’s schedule for a week, separate hospitals, while living on their wage (transport, food, childcare) no support from family or ex partners before I take any of what they say as anything but privileged guff said for clicks and faux outrage
News article where two rich, privileged people claim that anyone not enjoying life in the way they do, with the support network and security they have, are just not trying hard enough to be exploited by more rich, privileged people like them. “Britain’s are among ‘least work oriented in the world, BrewDog founder. He also suggested Britton’s needs to end their obsession with work-life balance. “The whole concept of work-life balance was invented by people who hate what they do” he said “so if you love what you do you don’t need work-life balance you need work life integration””
January 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Released a recovered #hedgehog back to our garden and he returned like a 2am drunk 😂 rummaged around the garden for 2 hours, climbed on top of the hibernating HHs, napped in a spare house, ate for an hour straight and then buggered off to do whatever HHs do.
Good luck little guy
Black and white night vision picture shows a hedgehog emerging from a square entrance of a hedgehog house late at night. There are leaves on the ground in front and a conifer bush to the side. The little chunk is about to start a 2 hour rampage of our small back garden where 3 other well behaved hedgehogs are hibernating. Black and white night vision picture shows 3 hedgehog houses tucked away in the corner of the garden behind a covered wooden swing bench. There are high enclosed wooden fence panels to the back and right of the picture with ivy growing up, and the back of a wooden swing bench on the left. In front of houses is an area covered in lots of fallen leaves. On top of one of the houses is an adventurous hedgehog making the most of his release, where he spent 10 mins exploring, and no visible sign of how the hell he got up there with such little legs and fat body. Inside the houses, but not visible, are 3 hedgehogs who have been hibernating since November. Black and white night vision picture shows a side angle of a hedgehog emerging from hedgehog house entrance. Dry fallen leaves in front and the bottom of a fir tree in the background and over the top of the house. This house is a spare, recently used by a 5th hedgehog guest and is not the same house the current hedgehog was released into. But was used for a 2 hour, midnight nap by the little guy. Black and white night vision picture of the inside of a clear plastic box made into a hedgehog feeding station. Either side of the image has wooden blocks used as baffles to stop weather and cats getting in. In the centre of the picture is a very full hedgehog drinking from a shallow metal water bowl on the left side and a half empty metal food bowl on the right side that contains small kibble, which is a mix of puppy and kitten food. Small enough for the hedgehog’s jaws. Kibble used must have meat as the first ingredient on its list and is preferred due to lower freezing temperature than wet food in the winter and doesn’t go off in hot temperature in the summer. It is cleaned daily to remove slug residue as this can be very dangerous to hedgehogs as they carry parasitic worms.
January 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Are we sure he’s not complimenting him?
Screenshot of news article from March 2018 with the headline “Steve Bannon: let them call you racist… wear it as a badge of honour” Bannon told a crowd of French politicians.
January 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Photo of a leopard standing on a rock with the text “Looks like face is back on the menu”
January 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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January 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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As soon as I see this in the shops I’ll be raging. I mean I’ll buy one, but angrily
Cadbury’s Creme Egg
December 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Old photo with the duller almost yellow colouring, taken in the 1980s with a kid on a BMX type bike riding down the road. White House in the background surrounded by grass. Text across the photo says “I crashed my bike in 1983 and scraped my knee. We didn’t have the internet then so I’m telling you now.”
December 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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The one time I wish context had not been given
December 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Where did he find the microphone
December 21, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Thoughts and prayers for Gregg Wallace’s assistant, sat in the Harvester, taking the note “handful of middle-class women of a certain age” while Greg with two gs, a middle-class man of a certain age, polishes off a sausage.
December 1, 2024 at 10:13 AM