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Paul Hollingdrake
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BSL/English Interpreter, geek, vegan, equality enthusiast, bi guy, solarpunk, and dad. Displays of incompetence are a 50/50 split between ADHD chaos times and baseline ineptitude 😇
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Paul Hollingdrake @phollingdrake.bsky.social · Nov 29
Moving over from the evil place bit by bit…
Weaning myself off it by unfollowing anyone I’ve managed to track down over here.
I’m a completionist, so it may take some time 😅
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eddiemair.bsky.social
Huge news. 007 job share.
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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bakadori.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
I just put in eye drops and should have been doing this all day 😭 (but in a good way)
June 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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touretteshero.bsky.social
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
May 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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snibbits.bsky.social
From the creators of "I don't like Rage against the Machine anymore, they've gone woke", we bring you a new, thrilling journey of self discovery:
May 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
@schreiberland.bsky.social Just in case nobody else is so compelled to evangelise modern pizza history…
The little tables in pizza boxes were invented by Carmela Vitale. Such a boon to society that @johnfinnemore.bsky.social has immortalised her in song
youtu.be/MR3-7vsjh7E
(Visuals not original)
The Ballad of Carmela Vitale: Pizza Saver, American Hero
YouTube video by Most American
youtu.be
May 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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richamm.bsky.social
Accessible housing in the UK: A survey found 1/4 disabled people said they lacked access to a toilet in their home, 1/6 said they lacked access to a shower. The waiting list for accessible homes has 124,000 people on it and takes 40 years in some boroughs. 80% of councils build 0% accessible housing
April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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drpepsi.bsky.social
I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
lolennui.bsky.social Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · Aug 7
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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adamhsays.com
On Feb. 25, 1960, Alabama St. students staged a sit-in at a lunch counter in Montgomery. A few days later, the governor threatened to cut the colleges funding unless it expelled the students. He also commended white people who patrolled the street w/ baseball bats for their "tolerance and restraint"
March 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
A review into the water ‘sector’ 🤢 has just been announced. But the commission have been banned from assessing whether public ownership would be a better option to the status quo. If you have spoons to sign a petition to let them look at the option that would be fab!

weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
weownit.org.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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lauraknetzger.bsky.social
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
February 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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jonrosenberg.bsky.social
Have you considered finding out and *then* fucking around? You'll enjoy the fucking around more without the weight of the impending finding out looming over you. Get it out of the way early
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
If there’s one old man thing I wish I could share with the young people it’s that when I was growing up everyone was handing you videogame demo discs and it was the best thing ever. Magazines would have them, pizza would have them, you’d buy eggs and Tony Hawk levels would spill out of the carton
standardissuecomputing.blog Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · Jan 15
Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1 (PS1 / 1999)
January 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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matthewhahn.com
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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sliderulesyou.bsky.social
Mary Poppins, a beautiful story where a nanny and some parkouring chimney sweeps teach children, through the medium of witchcraft, about CLASS WAR.
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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cydharrell.bsky.social
great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
screenshot from the article: Other disciplines that have experienced male flight include: Biology. While most STEM professions remain male dominated, 10 years ago biology became a 50/50 male/female split. By 2022, 62% of biology majors were women. Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors. Interior Design. William Morris is considered the father of interior design. After finishing his education at Oxford, he began an architectural design school called “the Firm”— just for men. Many universities had interior design programs. Until women began to enter the design space, at which point it was relegated to a mere “hobby.” Since the influx of women, interior design programs have been pulled from almost all universities. Teaching. In the 18th century, schooling in colonial America was reserved for the white and the wealthy. Most tutors were men who taught boys. By the middle of the 19th century, girls started becoming students and women became teachers. Consequently, men swiftly left the profession, the pay dropped and teaching was no longer considered a prestigious occupation. Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.
January 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
I find it very strange that people can't understand that a person who has a £22bn estate and at least £600m in cash, but still forces his tenants to live in ILLEGAL housing, because he can because he is immune to the law.

Is a scumbag, and they shouldn't listen to a word he says.
December 25, 2024 at 10:42 PM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
Post a scene from a movie you’ve seen more than 10 times.
December 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?

By @josiah.writes.news

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:21 PM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
Screenshot of a Reddit post: “In The Incredibles(2004), Bob Paar nearly kills his boss at Insuricare, outraged over his disregard for human life. This is framed as the beginning of his return to herodom.” Below is a frame from the film of Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible stood with his arm extended holding a short man in mid-air by the neck.
December 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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byelacey.bsky.social
the greatest christmas story ever told uses the threat of dying alone and unmourned to scare a wealthy man straight and i think that’s just really nice
December 6, 2024 at 3:40 PM
phollingdrake.bsky.social
Jeeez… for the UK app, this is under Data & Privacy > Interest Based Marketing > and then there are two options that look like statements, but you need to press both ‘on Paypal’ and ‘on other accounts’ and turn these both off.
camw.ing camwing @camw.ing · Dec 5
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.

I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.

If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
December 7, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM