Mia

Shameless alt account for taking advantage of excellent emojis and character limits to ramble on about nonsense and post longer poems. There will doubtless be endless pictures of my garden too.
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Also available for sweary political ranting at MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🏴 (npub1ld5…63uk)
#Books #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Folklore #Cymru #Travel #History #Craft #Art #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #NoBridge #NoAI

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2025-10-13 21:03:26 UTC

I approve this message*
* apart from Fedi, obvs
#Bookstodon #FuckAI
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2025-09-25 09:46:13 UTC

Hey @npub12pw…zvxn couple of book recommendations for ya :blobcatlove:
@npub18at…sy47 Duet is probably for you too!
#Bookstodon #Art #Music
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2025-09-14 17:38:26 UTC

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Totes Parisian 😂

2025-09-14 17:28:28 UTC

@npub1trg…v6kh @npub1uvc…ke0l @npub1uz5…argr @npub1tpt…kvpg @npub128j…2jc2
Sunday shout out to the accordion crew 🪗
Val-Taro Musette - Vieilles Années
#Music #TeamAccordion
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2025-08-31 12:11:51 UTC

"We must not make a scarecrow of the law
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror."
Measure for Measure, Act 2 Scene I
#ShakespeareSunday #Bookstodon #FreePalestine
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2025-08-30 18:10:24 UTC

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I'm sure you'll have a blast!
Tbf, I'm making the most of my final year of sabbatical. It'll be a different story once I go back to work in the new year :blobcatSad:

2025-08-30 17:54:46 UTC

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Oh, I know - I was thinking of the wedding! You had a little break when you went over for that, no?
That sounds cool :blobcatlove:
Anyway, I can't talk. I'm going away myself on Thursday 🤣

2025-08-30 17:51:34 UTC

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Oooh, are you going on holiday again? Where is it this time?

2025-08-30 17:47:08 UTC

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If they deflate it just means you have to eat them faster :blobcatmeltthumb:

2025-08-30 17:30:12 UTC

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We need something stronger than WTAF.

2025-08-30 17:10:21 UTC

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Hang on, have I got this right? A government minister *reviewed previous regulatory legislation affecting HIS OWN MINISTERIAL SECTOR* by listening to a podcast and using Google AI?!?!???

2025-08-29 17:12:19 UTC

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Are you really shocked by this stuff any more? I can't even remember the latest one here, they happen so often.

2025-08-28 21:18:27 UTC

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I don't mind really - it's test-driving the mini root cellar I've just built and it saves me watering the garden 😂

2025-08-28 21:14:58 UTC

Rain's a bit loud 😬 🌧️
#Weather

2025-08-27 15:20:00 UTC

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And yet another example of "the evidence proves this is better in every way but we're going to stop doing it because the commercial property owners also own the newspapers and we won't get re-elected we piss them off :ablobcateyeroll:

2025-08-27 15:10:15 UTC

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Euch. It's that "purity test" bullshit that gives the proper left/anarchist movement a bad name.

2025-08-27 15:08:08 UTC

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😬
*hides black flag, searches for pictures of flowers*
:blobcatgiggle:

2025-08-27 13:55:01 UTC

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Saw it at the Donmar at the time - I'm not a massive fan of Coriolanus but O.M.G. I saw David Morrisey play Mark Antony in Julius Caesar as well, with Ben Wishaw as Brutus - you should watch that if you can.

2025-08-27 13:38:19 UTC

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That's fair enough 😄
Having Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal didn't exactly hurt matters :blobcat_wink:

2025-08-27 13:36:30 UTC

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I'm so not getting into this with you - we'll be here all day.

2025-08-27 13:34:18 UTC

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Your reputation is ruined 😂

2025-08-27 13:32:55 UTC

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WTF?
Get out of here with your "historical accuracy" nonsense. Derek bloody Jarman 😬

2025-08-27 13:29:13 UTC

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Try not to let the presence of Chalamet put you off. I had it lurking on a hard drive for yonks before I watched it for that reason, but it's top class. As good as Hollow Crown.

2025-08-27 13:20:39 UTC

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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten Paul Bettany as Chaucer! He was great. Might have to watch that instead now.
If you've not watched The King, that's more like the real deal.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984766/

2025-08-27 12:59:02 UTC

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Ha! Vindicated. I must say I didn't notice the thing about the braids 😂
I did spend the entire seven minutes I had it on simultaneously rolling my eyes *and* shouting FFS though.

2025-08-27 12:53:04 UTC

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And you've got the whole Tostig thing, and the Battle of Stamford Bridge with Hardrada ... there's an insane amount of material. But they literally just made shit up, even in the first few minutes!
We went on a school trip to see it in France when I was a kid, but I might make the effort to go to the British Museum as well.

2025-08-27 12:47:27 UTC

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Yeah, it's got some great actors in it. And that story has *so* much drama. I think it would drive you in particular insane because the costume errors ... :blobcatscared:

2025-08-27 12:28:36 UTC

BTW, if you're planning on watching this ... just DON'T. Seriously. DO. NOT.
#TV
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2025-08-27 10:51:12 UTC

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Yeah, Keith's up for it as well.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25417270.keir-starmer-open-taliban-returns-deal-reform-set-plans/

2025-08-26 20:58:08 UTC

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I just don't get the whole "we're going to ignore the fact that everything's on fire/drowning/becoming imminently inedible or undrinkable or uninhabitable" thing that politicians are doing, as if they live in a completely different ecosystem.

2025-08-26 20:48:59 UTC

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Is he going to magic LNG into water to make up for all the AI squandered H2O?

2025-08-26 18:24:32 UTC

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Ever get the impression that countries that voted for "not fascist" have actually all got the same government? Your politics posts could so easily be written about Keith or Macron.

2025-08-26 18:16:52 UTC

@npub1trg…v6kh Chaos gardening 😂
#Gardens
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2025-08-26 08:07:51 UTC

@npub1trg…v6kh The mint 😬 😂
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2025-08-25 08:40:37 UTC

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This has been a problem across a lot of "corporate" Pride events around the world this year. Some here have been disrupted by indie (pro-Palestine) versions.

2025-08-24 19:34:16 UTC

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He's an incredible writer. I'd encourage you to read his other stuff, particularly American War.

2025-08-24 19:30:40 UTC

"It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name."
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
#SundaySentence #Bookstodon
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2025-08-20 17:29:05 UTC

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And it's in the *tiniest* pot 🤣
I've put it in a really stupid place as well, as you can see! It's rooted itself to the lawn, so I'm going to have to upset it temporarily so it can have a nice new - much bigger - pot to live in.

2025-08-20 17:23:53 UTC

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You're going to be standing over them waiting for them to grow, aren't you. 😄
You should set up a time-lapse camera in your garden!
Mine didn't grow much for the first two or three years, but this year it's gone *crazy*! The picture on the left was taken in April, and I took the one on the right just now.
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2025-08-20 17:04:02 UTC

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🤣 wtf? where exactly are you planning to keep them for the next nine months? 😄
Saying that, you should see how much my magnolia tree has grown since March!

2025-08-19 15:02:45 UTC

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Calling it an "ecosystem" is a bit rich 😠

2025-08-17 20:54:22 UTC

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You do realise you just outed yourself as someone who I can now safely recommend books to, right? 🤣

2025-08-17 20:52:32 UTC

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🤣 Good, innit? I don't usually recommend books I haven't finished but that title ...

2025-08-17 09:39:14 UTC

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I've only read a few chapters, it's one of the ones I picked up at the bookswap yesterday, based on the title 🤣

2025-08-17 09:27:15 UTC

@npub1r74…s2sc [@handmade_ghost](https://sunny.garden/@handmade_ghost ) @npub12e0…sjuu a couple of book recommendations for you :blobcatsmirk: 📚 :moomin_yay:
#Bookstodon
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2025-08-17 09:19:33 UTC

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I found *so much* nice stuff I wanted on that site you shared the other day! Did you know it's Christmas on Monday? 🤣

2025-08-13 20:53:07 UTC

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On my eighth pint today :blobcatthumbsup:

2025-08-13 20:34:40 UTC

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Please ask him to reenact it immediately and video it for our amusement.
:blobcatgiggle:

2025-07-31 18:25:06 UTC

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They are strategising :blobcatgiggle:

2025-07-31 07:40:38 UTC

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That looks like a painting 😍

2025-07-30 21:29:09 UTC

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Yeah, I remember walking down the beach with some friends who speak Italian/Spanish/English years ago while I was having my "artichoke" problem and asking them "what's carciofi?". They started literally explaining what an artichoke was and then pissed themselves for about 10 minutes when I told them I just couldn't remember it in my own mother tongue 🤣

2025-07-30 21:23:57 UTC

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Do you get that thing where you can only remember certain words in one language? I could only remember artichoke in Italian for years (in fact it took me a minute to remember it in English while I was typing this 😂 )

2025-07-30 13:32:44 UTC

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Oh Kat, you've got *such* a treat in store for you. Wendell Berry is fantastic.
Here's probably his most famous poem, The Peace of Wild Things:
"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

2025-07-30 10:52:36 UTC

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Why do all the birds in your garden look like they're screaming their heads off? 🤣

2025-07-29 15:16:31 UTC

@npub1trg…v6kh Re: our conversation on my other account ... especially this bit
" The once-enslaved, the once-oppressed,
were now free to sell themselves to the highest bidder
and to enter the best paying prisons"
He reads it on the trailer for this documentary
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2335444/
'The Objective', by Wendell Berry
"Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling,
for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake
of the objective--the soil bulldozed, the rock blasted.
Those who had wanted to go home would never get there now.
I visited the offices where for the sake of the objective,
the planners planned at blank desks set in rows.
I visited the loud factories where the machines were made
that would drive ever forward toward the objective.
I saw the forest reduced to stumps and gullies;
I saw the poisoned river--the mountain cast into the valley;
I came to the city that nobody recognized because it looked like every other city.
I saw the passages worn by the unnumbered footfalls of those
whose eyes were fixed upon the objective.
Their passing had obliterated the graves and the monuments
of those who had died in pursuit of the objective
and who had long ago forever been forgotten,
according to the inevitable rule that those who have forgotten
forget that they have forgotten.
Men and women, and children now pursued the objective as if nobody ever had pursued it before.
The races and the sexes now intermingled perfectly in pursuit of the objective.
The once-enslaved, the once-oppressed,
were now free to sell themselves to the highest bidder
and to enter the best paying prisons in pursuit of the objective,
which was the destruction of all enemies,
which was the destruction of all obstacles,
which was to clear the way to victory,
which was to clear the way to promotion,
to salvation,
to progress,
to the completed sale,
to the signature on the contract,
which was to clear the way to self-realization, to self-creation,
from which nobody who ever wanted to go home would ever get there now,
for every remembered place had been displaced;
every love unloved,
every vow unsworn,
every word unmeant
to make way for the passage of the crowd of the individuated,
the autonomous, the self-actuated, the homeless with their many eyes
opened toward the objective which they did not yet perceive in the far distance,
having never known where they were going,
having never known where they came from."
#Poetry #Nature #CapitalismIsADeathCult

2025-07-27 17:20:10 UTC

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I'm sure you do! All I'm saying is I doubt your willpower when it comes to leaving the "somewhere" empty handed 😄

2025-07-27 17:14:05 UTC

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🤨

2025-07-26 15:16:15 UTC

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Hehehe, I'm *always* doing stuff like that 😂
(sometimes I even tut - very quietly)

2025-07-25 17:50:51 UTC

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Meanwhile, politicians and "commentators" think Keith has become a Trump whisperer, basically because he bends over every time he's asked to, and makes no other decisions without checking with the White House first :ablobcateyeroll:

2025-07-25 15:34:10 UTC

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Maybe "sparrow vision" tells him otherwise 😂

2025-07-25 15:28:15 UTC

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He looks *really* annoyed 🤣

2025-07-25 14:55:25 UTC

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You don't realise how big magpies are until they're 10 ft away and trying to get in the window 🤣 😬

2025-07-25 14:50:37 UTC

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Yeah, it never fails to freak me out when this guy decides to "visit" 😂
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/914/426/604/022/260/original/403e7cb898290c9c.jpeg

2025-07-25 14:00:48 UTC

@npub1jay…80k8 You might want to check your settings ... 😬
https://syzito.xyz/@npub1c28…drdw/114913631635287220

2025-07-24 21:23:34 UTC

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Simple really: take any recipe, double the cheese, add extra cheese on top before you put them in the oven 😄

2025-07-24 18:19:07 UTC

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IKR? Barely cheese scones at all, really 😄

2025-07-24 14:28:51 UTC

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https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/908/675/348/806/602/original/dcfb2d272cd2726d.mp4

2025-07-24 14:14:35 UTC

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*laughs maniacally*
You are going to *regret* saying that when you are constantly trying to stop it "making friends" with everything else 😂
You definitely will get nests in there. I found a family of field mice living under one of my honeysuckles last year 💚

2025-07-24 14:09:43 UTC

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That's hilarious!
You'd never know my lot were there until I walk round the corner, when they all fly out of the box en masse to sit on various roofs and wires for a few seconds, then they're like "oh, it's only her, we can go back now. Just make sure you're right inside where she can't take your photo" :ablobcateyeroll: :blobcatgiggle:

2025-07-24 14:01:19 UTC

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🤣 🤣
Maybe it's his first time? These guys in the box have been there since before I moved in. There's generations that live there, same as the ones who live in the eaves and the wrens who live in the chocolate vine :blobcatlove:

2025-07-24 13:46:28 UTC

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At least yours isn't nested in a bloody massive box hedge between garden fences in the darkest part of the garden path - there's literally dozens of them around there at any one time but do you think they're visible through the viewfinder?
Are they fuck 😂

2025-07-24 13:36:48 UTC

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Tbh I make them too often but the shop ones *never* have enough cheese in.

2025-07-24 13:29:23 UTC

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Back off, lady :0_goose: 🧀 :blobcatgiggle:

2025-07-24 13:21:43 UTC

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I'm afraid I've only made cheese scones :blobcatthinkingsmirk:

2025-07-24 12:24:34 UTC

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It's yum. Clotted cream too 😋

2025-07-24 12:16:23 UTC

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Now I've totally lost interest in the cherry and blackberry pie I made yesterday and want a rhubarb crumble 😄

2025-07-24 06:02:42 UTC

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Quite a lot of stuff in mine hasn't bloomed like it did last year, I suspect for the same reason :blobcatSad:

2025-07-22 18:42:08 UTC

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I saw a blackbird pick up some of the debris I'd brushed off the pergola from the dead clematis and take it to their nest and I practically cried 😄

2025-07-22 18:37:52 UTC

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I still get excited every time I see a bee on a flower or a bird eating at the feeder 😂

2025-07-22 18:26:20 UTC

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Yes, same! It's only that I moved to a place that had a big(ish) garden only a short time before the pandemic that got me into it in the first place - having a project, great weather, more money and no commitments.
I always thought I'd kill everything too, so every time something actually sprouted I would collar my neighbour and bang on about it for ages 😂
I don't know what I'd do without it now.

2025-07-22 18:21:17 UTC

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Birds, bees, butterflies, plants, the whole shebang! Having a garden is the absolute best 💚

2025-07-22 18:18:36 UTC

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And your plants 😄

2025-07-22 17:20:45 UTC

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Our stupid government just signed a deal with ChatGPT today 😡

2025-07-22 08:20:54 UTC

Underlying mood of every day of my life.
#Bookstodon
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2025-07-21 13:50:24 UTC

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Awww shit :blobcatSad:
Here's a knitted frog painting a picture.
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2025-07-19 23:11:16 UTC

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😄
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2025-07-18 20:33:55 UTC

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It's the way they go REALLYREALLYREALLYREALLY fast and then STOP that makes me laugh every time 😂

2025-07-18 13:57:33 UTC

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That's the same as when you block any instance. It will only block the bridge instance, not *your* instance. They're not the same.

2025-07-18 13:53:36 UTC

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Pretty sure that's not how it works, but have a read of this.
https://beige.party/@npub1gmn…zh7q/114870842777690399

2025-07-18 13:51:55 UTC

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No. It'll just block the accounts that use the bridge server through your instance.
(I think. I'm not a techie. But I'm pretty sure)

2025-07-18 13:49:09 UTC

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I don't really understand what you mean?

2025-07-18 13:45:45 UTC

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Does it mean that? I'm not sure it does.
I guess that's kinda tough. They're just gonna have to bite the bullet and join BS. That's just my opinion, of course. I realise it's relative because of the size of the instance, but it should be majority rule, so if more of you want to block, that should be the way it goes.

2025-07-18 13:38:11 UTC

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Depends how serious you are about keeping your privacy and your data from being scraped I suppose. Once the quote post function comes in, it won't just be people who tag you that will make your entire profile and post history visible on BS, it'll be any rando who sees your post and decides to quote it.
If people know about this and are still using the BS bridge, you have to ask yourself why they don't care about other people's privacy, not why people are taking extreme measures to protect their own when their instances and communities aren't doing it for them.

2025-07-17 09:33:48 UTC

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Awww, honey - never change. You crack me up 😂

2025-07-16 13:13:21 UTC

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I bet it's Ben.

2025-07-16 13:12:58 UTC

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You seem rather alarmingly delighted with your idea. I mean, I'm very happy with you, but I didn't realise that idly posting a stupid meme would mean I spent most of the day talking about the most disgusting food available to humanity 🤣

2025-07-16 12:55:03 UTC

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Yeah, let's not get into soströming either ...

2025-07-16 12:52:51 UTC

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It's an *insanse* munchie-fantasy to have, you've got to admit ...

2025-07-16 12:36:59 UTC

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:blobcat_wink:
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/862/938/390/810/766/original/8238a4ece723af67.mp4

2025-07-16 11:04:37 UTC

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I've never really understood the appeal of coke floats tbh. Milk is acceptable in a White Russian. Otherwise tea and coffee only. I've never really seen the appeal of floats (or American grape flavour, sorry).
Let's not open the Pandora's horror box of aspic jelly, I'm far too tired :blobcatscared: It gave me the absolute fear when I was a child.