Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I live in Sir Gaerfyrddin with my wife, our son (some of the time), two spaniels, and the World's loudest Tonkinese cat. I have lost count of our computers.
#raspberrypi #garden #cooking #cactus #photography #Lego

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My Website: https://www.doctor-dark.co.uk/
Small Portfolio: https://pixey.org/i/portfolio/Walrus

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2026-05-02 07:59:36 UTC

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Idgaf what Kissinger's chum says about Zack Polanski.
Keir Stalin sees the world through glasses paid for by someone else.

2026-04-29 07:57:25 UTC

Palantir is far, far worse than First Dog on the Moon realises.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-released-its-terrifyingly-honest-and-pompous-plans-for-world-domination

2026-04-23 22:28:29 UTC

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Bung it in one of those composters that gets really hot...

2026-04-23 22:19:13 UTC

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Is it? It grows lots of little mushrooms, as well. No idea what sort.

2026-04-23 19:19:35 UTC

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Farmer a mile away gives horse poo away. We must have put a shit-ton of it on the garden over the years...

2026-04-15 08:15:59 UTC

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I didn't try to explain the reality of how things are funded, as @npub1j79…rc5v does it way better than I could.
But when the government says it can't afford to do something, it is lying.
"Anything we CAN do, we can afford to do", J M Keynes.

2026-04-14 16:44:06 UTC

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I stopped reading when I got to the bit about the government not saying how it would "fund these plans".
We are still stuck with a government that pretends to not know how government funding works.

2026-04-12 07:32:36 UTC

I think it is time Starmer was removed. He appears to be working for a genocidal regime, and not for the British people. Having over 500 people arrested for saying they oppose the murder of Palestinians is disgraceful.
I support #PalestineAction. Send your thugs to arrest me, Starmer.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/met-police-make-arrests-at-london-palestine-action-protest

2026-03-23 12:16:28 UTC

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They're right.
It's the same old cherry picking.
We should #RejoinEU as normal members, with the same deal as the others. We'd still be miles better off than the current mess.

2026-03-10 17:04:51 UTC

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It would also be handy to be able to grow coffee, and chocolate.

2026-03-09 11:26:32 UTC

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Almost all of the problems we have are caused by the government failing to fund things properly, even though they could easily do so, and it is their job to do it.
Enriching themselves by toadying to the ultra wealthy is apparently the actual reason they get themselves elected.

2026-02-22 10:45:13 UTC

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Maybe Labour should have tried not being the same as the Tories?

2026-02-21 17:31:18 UTC

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I have the film on DVD, and will get round to watching it eventually. That's a great song, too. Below your text is a box that says "Post unavailable". Would that have been a video of the song?

2026-02-10 12:05:42 UTC

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I think you are mistaken. The government creates the money it spends.
But I'm too knackered to explain it all again. If you think I'm wrong, have a look at the @npub1j79…rc5v blog.

2026-01-24 11:11:35 UTC

A Labour MP, Clive Lewis, doing the right thing...
#politics
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-water-stitch-up

2026-01-17 15:29:39 UTC

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Hanging them upside down from a garage forecourt is a valid response.

2026-01-04 11:20:22 UTC

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Of course there will be requirements. All entrants to the EU have to fulfil requirements.
Of course these requirements will "play badly" amongst the dolts who still think Brexit is going swimmingly.
No matter what the barriers are, if we #RejoinEU, both us and the other members will benefit from it. The real myopia is ignoring that.

2026-01-04 11:08:42 UTC

As a young person in Hong Kong from 1963-66, I used to laugh at the Mao fanatics next door going on, and on, and on about American Imperialism.
OK. I was wrong. 😎

2026-01-03 12:27:30 UTC

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I've wondered for yonks how they achieve that, with no eyes, and not much of a nervous system.

2026-01-02 23:25:17 UTC

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Why not?
Because the world hasn't enough sick buckets, that's why not.

2025-12-31 08:33:18 UTC

Don't let Trump force chlorine washed chicken on us!
https://38d.gs/cc-df

2025-12-24 17:48:30 UTC

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I'm sure you're well aware of all those other notes there are, that appear in, for example, Ottoman scales, Indian music, and so on...
https://www.doctor-dark.co.uk/rebetiko/hydra2004fri.html

2025-12-15 14:02:58 UTC

It would be good if more people supported the campaign to keep Thiel's Palantir spying system out of the NHS.
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

2025-12-14 13:50:40 UTC

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Naturally, as the article gets into its stride, we have "When Polanski argued the UK doesn’t need to service all of its debt – citing the Bank of England’s holdings where interest payments return to the Treasury – Campbell responded: “One of the reasons why [Labour] do have to be conscious of the market reaction to something like a Budget is because if they get it wrong, the markets... ” blah, blah, blah
At this point, the New Statesman won't let me read more, but

2025-12-11 12:21:13 UTC

Starmer rolled over for Trump, and agreed to give US pharmaceutical companies an extra £3b for the same amount of drugs.
This was not discussed in Parliament. It was not voted on by MPs. It was what the wealthy people who put Starmer in place wanted.
It is not democracy. It is corruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/11/keir-starmer-medicines-deal-donald-trump-cost-british-lives
#politics

2025-12-10 13:51:20 UTC

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Let's ignore that there aren't five images, just four.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Windscale.
List of equivalent wind farm disasters?

2025-12-04 13:57:20 UTC

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...especially one where we were told we were had already paid for the things they now say they need extra money for.
And guess what? They'll just pay out huge dividends to rich people, and then say they need more.

2025-11-16 13:11:28 UTC

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Mahmood seems unusually vicious and spiteful. People like her have no place in what used to be decent party. She's imitating the Farage Company, and is clearly unfit for her job.

2025-11-07 14:00:51 UTC

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"The organization is a spiritual predecessor to the contemporary European Union (EU) as its subsequent enlargement of both members and duties ultimately led to the creation of the EU." : Wikipedia
In other words, "The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community".

2025-11-06 14:37:27 UTC

I keep seeing people saying "Brexit was a 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲".
I think you mean the direct result of a conspiracy by billionaires who wanted to weaken the EU, and open up the UK to exploitation, including forcing private health care on us, with some assistance from Russia.
Have people really forgotten Tice visiting the billionaires, and then bragging "We're going to take the UK out of the EU"?
It was a scam, a fraud, a crime, not just a 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲.
#RejoinEU

2025-11-05 15:06:53 UTC

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OK, but why did the bear poke itself?

2025-10-30 13:51:21 UTC

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Good to know, if I get fed up with VMware!

2025-10-29 12:37:41 UTC

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I seem to remember VirtualBox had some sort of problem running on Linux Mint, but I don't know if they have fixed it.
What I do know is that VMware works really well for me. I've just set up a Windows 7 Professional virtual machine, just to run the 2007 version of OneNote.
[That was the last OneNote that kept your files on your PC, and didn't let Microsoft have them.]

2025-10-23 08:17:57 UTC

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Just pulling your leg.
I know the difference between this place and the fibs Mafia Dons with stupid hats tell!

2025-10-22 18:11:49 UTC

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I'm not terribly keen on that MAKE <thing> GREAT trope....

2025-10-20 16:34:10 UTC

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"Turbo Pascal 3 on a CP/M box."
Been there, did that, it was very good.

2025-10-20 13:53:23 UTC

I was talking to a famous botanist the other night, as you do, and he told me about this.
#gardening
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o

2025-10-19 20:36:04 UTC

From a BBC news item...
"Reeves has been encouraged by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to increase taxes on the gambling sector and use the revenue from that to reduce child poverty."
These people STILL think the government has to collect pennies in a jar before they can spend anything.
Is there no way we can ensure politicians have Modern Monetary Theory explained to them enough times, so they stop thinking they are running a household budget?

2025-10-16 10:53:15 UTC

Any recommendations for edible veggies to plant now (Northern Hemisphere) that will grow in these dark months?
#gardening

2025-10-16 10:51:35 UTC

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Our dogs think you mean allusion...

2025-10-16 10:50:35 UTC

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Funny you should ask....
Our dogs agree with Rachel from Accounts that we should invest in stick markets, but they're dogs.

2025-10-14 11:54:16 UTC

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Nobody has voted for raving lunatic Thiel.

2025-10-10 13:56:38 UTC

Proof, as if we needed it, that billionaires are all suffering from an illness:-
“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”
Ah, Diddums!
https://archive.ph/HVWWu

2025-10-05 13:29:13 UTC

Keir Stalin says these fine citizens of Totnes are #terrorists
If I was still in the Labour Party, I'd leave.
I support #PalestineAction.
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/115/321/773/031/526/093/original/bfb934c0139ef274.jpg

2025-09-22 13:34:12 UTC

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I'm an immigrant, but I'm learning Welsh, very, very gradually. It took me 25 years to learn enough Greek to order food and drinks, and find out where the toilet was.
There are two d's when it sounds like th, I believe.

2025-09-22 10:40:22 UTC

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This bit of so-called Dyfed [Duv-id] is Carmarthenshire, properly called Sir Gaerfyrddin [siːr gɑːɨrˈvərðɪn].

2025-09-21 12:07:36 UTC

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My point was that if they were both pronounced differently, then what was the thing they were both pronounced differently from? Explaining bad jokes seems to destroy them.

2025-09-21 11:24:44 UTC

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Surely, ONE of them is pronounced the way it is pronounced, and the other one is pronounced differently? Only we don't know which way round...

2025-09-20 12:46:17 UTC

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About 57 years ago, I had a mate whose Mum flew Lancaster bombers from the factory to the RAF bases, and hitched back.
She was a hero, too!

2025-09-20 10:15:00 UTC

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Any politician using that "reduce regulation" line is in the pockets of the industrialists; regulations are there to protect people from that lot.

2025-09-14 17:29:46 UTC

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You can tell them things, but you can't understand things for them.
Some stupid people are really, really stupid.

2025-09-06 13:37:21 UTC

I really must check the courgettes more often...
#gardening
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/115/157/615/820/496/940/original/c27e11f40977094e.jpg

2025-09-03 23:18:14 UTC

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He certainly never responds to any replies.

2025-09-01 14:05:56 UTC

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But, but, but... we told them NOT to do that.
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/115/129/407/812/441/127/original/b32926130eac8cb6.png

2025-08-31 11:12:14 UTC

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There was a rather important bit in the middle of Balfour's letter.
Somehow, forcing the existing communities into smaller and smaller areas, and then murdering them, seems not to be in the spirit of the letter.
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/115/123/057/792/241/070/original/66900e78c09f4dc7.png

2025-08-31 10:57:57 UTC

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Let's be clear about this.
Richard Tice is a liar.
It is not illegal to seek asylum.

2025-08-29 23:05:51 UTC

I feel so dirty.
I wanted to clone my Linux Mint boot SSD to a bigger SSD.
I tried so many ways, including a two bay disc cloning thing from China that just sat there for hours, doing nothing.
So, I booted up my old Windows 10 SSD, downloaded AOMEI(?) cloning software, and it worked. The free version won't change the size of the partition, though. But I booted from the new drive, and of course gparted fixed it easily.
Is there a Linux way to do this, so I can avoid the shame in future?

2025-08-27 12:12:53 UTC

We absolutely definitely need a proper, written constitution, that changes all the dreadful things governments can legally do.
Think I'm exagerrating?
This, from David Allen Green, makes sobering reading...
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-an-incoming-illiberal-and-radical-uk-government-would-have-absolute-constitutional-power/
#UKpolitics

2025-08-26 08:57:01 UTC

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I do not believe it is a "top concern".
I believe a repulsive Nazi with a Limited Company pretending to be a political party is being aided and abetted by the far right press in whipping up a few loathsome thugs.

2025-08-25 10:36:21 UTC

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I think anyone familiar with #RaspberryPi computers already knows how Pi users develop Python programs, and I have said why I can't any more.

2025-08-25 10:02:59 UTC

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I fixed the unclear bit at the end.
What I would like is to be able to continue to develop Python programs the same way I have for as long as I have used Pi computers, which is since they came out.

2025-08-25 09:50:43 UTC

This whole virtual environment thing for #Python on #RaspberryPi is an atrocity.
If the OS uses Python, and it would be disastrous for me to load a library that was not liked by the OS, then Linux provides ways to protect itself, which the people putting the distribution together could have used.
Making me set up these fragile, clumsy "venv" things, in an obscure, overcomplicated way was lazy of the OS developers.
/rant

2025-08-24 19:50:54 UTC

Your data on the "cloud" can be used by USA, any way USA wants to use it. Keep your data on your own devices.
https://techstory.in/microsoft-acknowledges-it-cannot-shield-foreign-data-from-u-s-government-requests/

2025-08-24 09:10:39 UTC

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This "guidance" of judges seems almost as bad as Trump appointing judges that will do as he says.
Starmer and Kissinger were in the same club, by coincidence.

2025-08-23 11:06:28 UTC

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Isn't the fragrant Yvette just following orders?

2025-08-19 10:24:18 UTC

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So, they're both bad.

2025-08-16 14:54:17 UTC

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Our tomatoes are great, too. But our courgettes became marrows during the recent rain... I can try to email you some...
#food #gardening
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/115/039/004/504/604/243/original/607de23e476705db.jpg

2025-08-11 08:11:46 UTC

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If there are any trials, you can bet the government will find a way to avoid having juries.
They know the majority of the population wouldn't convict these demonstrators of terrorism.
#StarmerOut

2025-08-10 09:32:02 UTC

Mr Starmer is very clear. If you hold up a sign saying you object to his "government" helping Israel to kill Palestinians, you are a terrorist, and will be arrested.
Starmer is disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban

2025-08-05 11:50:04 UTC

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Gosh, yes! I'm glad somebody else gets it.
Did you know, we count as insurrectionists?

2025-08-05 11:43:03 UTC

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Many people don't realise that 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 big tree has one of those in it, if you know how to find it...

2025-08-02 13:10:45 UTC

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Possibly some sort of strain relief system?

2025-07-30 19:02:14 UTC

Ramen for dinner.
#FoodPorn
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/114/943/722/472/267/005/original/3589c6ab6c8df8d6.jpg

2025-07-25 10:52:08 UTC

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The MPs who are MPs in order to make money for themselves and their chums do not like these other MPs who are MPs in order to make the country a better place for us all.
We desperately need a way to prevent the former type from becoming MPs, and to make sure we have more of the latter type.

2025-07-21 14:24:45 UTC

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I remember it took me about three weeks to make a similar animation of a person on a flying carpet, using Imagine on a 68040 Amiga, a while back...
Is there a way to smooth out the rate of change of view direction, as it's rather abrupt?

2025-07-14 08:11:48 UTC

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Does anyone really believe that once all the Palestinians are in the concentration camp, the Israelis won't just murder them all?

2025-07-07 07:53:18 UTC

Happy Monday morning, Humanity!
There are over eight billion of us.
Let's free ourselves from the three thousand richest people, whose oppression is ruining everything for everyone but themselves.
Then we can get on with what we should be doing; looking after each other, and our planet.

2025-07-03 08:55:03 UTC

Here's another of those Fedi #LongShot queries...
Does anyone know a Chris Blackmore in Kansas City Missouri?

2025-06-22 14:52:14 UTC

@npub1lq6…nf7e
I'm ignoring it.

2025-06-21 10:31:45 UTC

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Calling it a disaster is inaccurate. That would imply that it happened by accident.
Privatisation was a crime, carried out by people who felt they should make a profit from everything.

2025-06-13 10:35:47 UTC

According to the Balfour Declaration, Israel was allowed to exist provided they did nothing to harm the people who were already there, in the British Protectorate of Palestine.
Since they have ignored that for decades, there must be a strong case for discontinuing the experiment, and removing them from Palestine. America has always supported them, and has plenty of room.

2025-06-02 09:37:20 UTC

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Those optimists will probably never understand that the establishment has infiltrated, and now completely controls, what used to be at least a partly democratic party.

2025-05-19 10:26:04 UTC

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It's a mistake to believe Labour's excuse that the Tories left the "tax coffers" empty.
There is NO tax coffer. The government creates the money it spends. That's why they can ALWAYS afford another war.
They really are a huge disappointment.

2025-05-06 09:40:03 UTC

Can anyone help, please?
I am looking for sheet music of "To Minore Tou Teke", as played by Halikias in 1932.
#rebetiko #music #greek
Updated... Many thanks to @npub15p9…d2u4 for the rapid reply, and the super music score! You win the internet for today!

2025-04-22 12:29:21 UTC

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Of course, if we lived in a democracy, our MPs would have a debate on whether to remove the cap, and vote on it in Parliament.
Instead, we get Starmer's sponsors deciding to order him to keep the cap.
#ProveMeWrong

2025-04-09 11:59:21 UTC

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No worries! It's just me being paranoid about them taking more money later with no reason...

2025-04-09 10:56:45 UTC

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I was trying to do a single payment.

2025-04-09 08:42:44 UTC

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But what does this mean?
"By providing your card information, you allow The Social Change Agency Ltd to charge your card for future payments in accordance with their terms."

2025-03-26 10:21:48 UTC

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Oh, great. We have a defence secretary that sucks up to Trump.

2025-03-12 16:08:22 UTC

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They pretend they are killing and eating whales as "research"; I hope that will stop too.
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/114/150/287/298/658/069/original/ad81e0ed2c705044.jpg

2025-03-11 20:33:43 UTC

In South West Wales, and like unique pieces of furniture?
I'm selling a rather nice storage seat... you'll need a van!
[Too many typos. Wine. Goodnight!]
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187024929826

2025-02-28 20:31:59 UTC

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He's on drugs.
The nose repair didn't go well.
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/114/083/409/103/279/266/original/e487b5b832fac737.jpg

2025-02-15 12:17:32 UTC

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About ten years ago, I spent days looking for the keys to our filing cabinet after a move.
I had taped them to the back of the filing cabinet, which was against the wall.

2025-02-02 21:16:47 UTC

"So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world."
That's what it is.
https://archive.ph/L2C7d

2025-02-02 11:30:02 UTC

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It might not make a difference.
The people quietly controlling Farage's grift company are the same ones who control Labour and the Tories.
Sorry to bring out my conspiracy theory again...
https://doctor-dark.co.uk/blog/its-not-democracy/

2025-01-30 15:47:52 UTC

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I use it, it's great!
Now, can you make a program like the 2007 version of OneNote, please?

2025-01-26 15:48:26 UTC

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Much depends on how you define success.
"Having most of the money" is a miserably narrow-minded concept of success, compared with making everything as good as we can for as many people as possible.
Oh dear, I'm a commie.

2025-01-19 12:38:28 UTC

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Why is the supposedly Labour government telling these utter lies?
John Maynard Keynes was right, when he said, "Anything we can actually do, we can afford."
https://notesonthefront.typepad.com/politicaleconomy/2022/01/anything-we-can-actually-do-we-can-afford.html

2025-01-17 15:07:03 UTC

Liz Truss crashed the economy
#UKpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy

2025-01-09 14:30:46 UTC

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I gave up waiting for completely adequate computers back in 1978...