Roger
@rogger.bsky.social
Product manager. Food blogger. Dreadful champagne socialist woofter.
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
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sorry to Wizard of Oz post, but I was raised on the Midwestern cut of the film where Oz is in black and white and Kansas is in color so that we would be discouraged from flights of fancy and excited to return to farm work
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
sorry to Wizard of Oz post, but I was raised on the Midwestern cut of the film where Oz is in black and white and Kansas is in color so that we would be discouraged from flights of fancy and excited to return to farm work
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Today! I'll be there this morning, and tomorrow morning, and probably some other times too. Also, mulled wine with the late opening this evening! Come along, buy pots!
#cambridge #pottery #ceramics
#cambridge #pottery #ceramics
If you’re in Cambridge (UK) then come along to Kiln Cambridge (Ditton Walk, off Newmarket Rd) this weekend for our Christmas exhibition and sale. 40+ stalls (including mine!) and lots of ideas for Christmas presents. 10am-9pm Sat/10am-6pm Sun.
#pottery #ceramics #cambridge
#pottery #ceramics #cambridge
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today! I'll be there this morning, and tomorrow morning, and probably some other times too. Also, mulled wine with the late opening this evening! Come along, buy pots!
#cambridge #pottery #ceramics
#cambridge #pottery #ceramics
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Play my horse game u sods
Yesterday I updated my first (and very silly) choose your own adventure game "i will strangle a horse"!
The update brought the wordcount from 7660 to 13500+, and introduced:
>ladder amnesia!
>consequences for knocking on The Farmhouse door!
>stardew valley*
>MORE
brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...
The update brought the wordcount from 7660 to 13500+, and introduced:
>ladder amnesia!
>consequences for knocking on The Farmhouse door!
>stardew valley*
>MORE
brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...
i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE
A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job
brainmage.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Play my horse game u sods
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
Delightful/dismaying thread.
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Delightful/dismaying thread.
When I become god emperor it will be forbidden to signify anything based solely on the difference between something being red or green, and toilet occupancy indicators are first on the fucking list.
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
When I become god emperor it will be forbidden to signify anything based solely on the difference between something being red or green, and toilet occupancy indicators are first on the fucking list.
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The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
Good news: Accor have ~finally~ refurbished The Most Depressing Novotel™️ (Brugge Centrum) and done a pretty good job.
Bad news: the bean-to-cup coffee machine is somehow worse.
Honestly impressively bad. So bad it must be deliberate. Perhaps they’re trying to make the Parisians feel at home.
Bad news: the bean-to-cup coffee machine is somehow worse.
Honestly impressively bad. So bad it must be deliberate. Perhaps they’re trying to make the Parisians feel at home.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Good news: Accor have ~finally~ refurbished The Most Depressing Novotel™️ (Brugge Centrum) and done a pretty good job.
Bad news: the bean-to-cup coffee machine is somehow worse.
Honestly impressively bad. So bad it must be deliberate. Perhaps they’re trying to make the Parisians feel at home.
Bad news: the bean-to-cup coffee machine is somehow worse.
Honestly impressively bad. So bad it must be deliberate. Perhaps they’re trying to make the Parisians feel at home.
The clock in the carriage of the Eurostar was four minutes fast. A fact that would not have registered were I not reading a trashy murder mystery and which suddenly feels suspiciously salient.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The clock in the carriage of the Eurostar was four minutes fast. A fact that would not have registered were I not reading a trashy murder mystery and which suddenly feels suspiciously salient.
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UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
UK housing policy is permenantly stuck with the assumption that every high rise housing development must be like del and rodney's flat instead of frasier crane's.
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I'm actually convinced that replying to a Fesshole post as if you were talking to the OP should have you suspended for 28 days.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm actually convinced that replying to a Fesshole post as if you were talking to the OP should have you suspended for 28 days.
I reckon you could do a lot to tidy up Bluesky with a blocklist of people who make “didn’t happen” type replies to @fesshole.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I reckon you could do a lot to tidy up Bluesky with a blocklist of people who make “didn’t happen” type replies to @fesshole.bsky.social
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You can not think about An American Tail: Feivel Goes West for too long otherwise you come to the conclusion that these mice either:
1) bought into the idea of manifest destiny
or
2) had their own specifically mouse-branded genocidal westward colonial expansion beliefs.
1) bought into the idea of manifest destiny
or
2) had their own specifically mouse-branded genocidal westward colonial expansion beliefs.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You can not think about An American Tail: Feivel Goes West for too long otherwise you come to the conclusion that these mice either:
1) bought into the idea of manifest destiny
or
2) had their own specifically mouse-branded genocidal westward colonial expansion beliefs.
1) bought into the idea of manifest destiny
or
2) had their own specifically mouse-branded genocidal westward colonial expansion beliefs.
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thinking about all the trans kids and teens who didn't make it through the year bcos of wes streeting.
#TDOR #TransDayOfRememberance
#TDOR #TransDayOfRememberance
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
thinking about all the trans kids and teens who didn't make it through the year bcos of wes streeting.
#TDOR #TransDayOfRememberance
#TDOR #TransDayOfRememberance
I’m not, from a security or privacy point of view, entirely wild about the Cambridgeshire sexual health services using the bitly URL shortener in its communications. Stonking great big yikes.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I’m not, from a security or privacy point of view, entirely wild about the Cambridgeshire sexual health services using the bitly URL shortener in its communications. Stonking great big yikes.
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This is the egret of regret.
If you see this, you are officially absolved of one cringe moment in your deep past.
If you see this, you are officially absolved of one cringe moment in your deep past.
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is the egret of regret.
If you see this, you are officially absolved of one cringe moment in your deep past.
If you see this, you are officially absolved of one cringe moment in your deep past.
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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Roger was so hungover that when we stopped for petrol he sidled up to me and just muttered "Monster Munch". He was such a beleaguered and tragic figure that I just went and bought him a big bag of medicinal Monster Munch before I could register that he had his own money and was in fact an adult.
(I still recall the second year we did Thought Bubble when it was the weekend after the Beaujolais Nouveau and the hotel had clearly tried to make it a thing, over ordered, and were selling it criminally cheap. Half of UK comics properly louche 1980s drunk and an all time top five hangover.)
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Roger was so hungover that when we stopped for petrol he sidled up to me and just muttered "Monster Munch". He was such a beleaguered and tragic figure that I just went and bought him a big bag of medicinal Monster Munch before I could register that he had his own money and was in fact an adult.
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[Me, kicking off in a fancy cookware shop] "You're a le creuseting for a le breuseting, pal"
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
[Me, kicking off in a fancy cookware shop] "You're a le creuseting for a le breuseting, pal"
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May I be the first to say: Brrruges
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
May I be the first to say: Brrruges
This whole thread is a goldmine but I’m adopting this as the flag of my empire.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This whole thread is a goldmine but I’m adopting this as the flag of my empire.
Nipping to Bruges later, which is lovely, but which I’d also entirely forgotten until my phone popped up a notification.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Nipping to Bruges later, which is lovely, but which I’d also entirely forgotten until my phone popped up a notification.