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Chris Jones

@chrisjones1.bsky.social

London UK Politics, finance, LFC, Red Sox, snark Lately ChrisJones_1 on the Bad Place

created July 3, 2023

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Might put this on

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14/9/2025, 1:23:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎵 Do you remember The twenty-somethingth night of September? 🎵

14/9/2025, 12:29:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Volks News

13/9/2025, 8:29:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Customer service experiences I hate... When you make an enquiry, get a response after 3 days, sent a followup question within 3 minutes, and have to wait another 3 days for a second reply.

11/9/2025, 3:54:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice one!

11/9/2025, 9:01:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's one banana. What could it cost, $10?

10/9/2025, 8:37:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No good, it'll take me at least an hour to get to Brighton

10/9/2025, 3:43:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who knows. Maybe UKIP has been on a journey, like the Social Democratic Party, and now campaigns for unrestricted immigration, rejoining the EU and abolishing the monarchy.

8/9/2025, 6:15:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9. Feckin' Nostradamus

6/9/2025, 9:33:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chipocalypse

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6/9/2025, 5:29:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine if you had to watch England every week

6/9/2025, 5:23:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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England look unbeatable in this form

6/9/2025, 5:17:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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England's new theory of football is that shots on target are overrated

6/9/2025, 4:19:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The two teams with the worst anthems in European football are about to kick off at Villa Park

6/9/2025, 3:59:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am the Egg Man (woo) I drive the Egg Van (woo) And you can call us Goo goo g'joob

4/9/2025, 3:25:06 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Possibly

4/9/2025, 1:42:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just been driving North past East Finchley tube, in the midst of what seemed to be a large funeral procession headed by a horse-drawn hearse. All the cars had hazards on, and all routinely ignored red lights, cutting people up, causing traffic chaos. Who are these people? Would love to know.

4/9/2025, 1:06:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What an absolute Muppet

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3/9/2025, 4:42:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention Katze Hund Falke Schwan Bär Wolf Fuchs

2/9/2025, 11:24:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 8:48:16 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was going MZ-80K, my first computer. But I love the sporty red look

1/9/2025, 5:11:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we're going to fetishise flags, can we pick a good one?

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1/9/2025, 5:01:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He hasn't addressed a ball either

1/9/2025, 4:52:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed. A lusty shout of "Jurriën" as he goes down

31/8/2025, 4:20:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, that was certainly 45 minutes during which a game of football took place. #LFCARS

31/8/2025, 4:16:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Can Virgil van Dijk shoot himself? I think he should." Harsh, Gary Neville, harsh.

31/8/2025, 4:04:52 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the best they have

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30/8/2025, 10:00:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe Trump's just media-shy. He's feeling overwhelmed by the public gaze. Wants to hunker down and avoid attention and publicity for a while.

30/8/2025, 9:59:53 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It might as well rain until September

29/8/2025, 7:50:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you considered impersonating Chancellors of the Exchequer from the 1970s-1990s?

28/8/2025, 3:10:02 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perhaps Cicero or Augustus. Possible Charlemagne

28/8/2025, 12:21:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We even invented the concept of inventing things

27/8/2025, 6:30:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's just simple quantum mechanics. The water exists in a superposition of two simultaneous states: tepid and boiling; it's a straightforward application of Pauli's Exclusion Principle to resolve the probabilistic quantum uncertainty by forcing the wave function to collapse into the 'boiling' state

26/8/2025, 8:09:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Her dismissal?

26/8/2025, 3:25:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's "If you build it, *he* will come". That's the whole point of the movie.

26/8/2025, 9:48:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never in doubt #LFC

25/8/2025, 9:05:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very entertaining Mixed Martial Arts event at St James's Park, but I'm unclear why there's a ball in the arena.

25/8/2025, 7:53:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's still out there. Obviously no one's seen him.

24/8/2025, 7:03:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7. Marathon, supper, octonauts

23/8/2025, 7:35:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like this

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22/8/2025, 9:38:44 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a busy evening by anyone's standards

22/8/2025, 9:34:29 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a race against time - will I go grey before all my hair falls out?

22/8/2025, 9:19:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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... actually more expensive unless you're one of the 20% that drinks 80% of the booze

18/8/2025, 6:08:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sage words. Not knowing about this is bayleaf-orgivable

18/8/2025, 9:18:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very sorrel to hear this

18/8/2025, 9:04:27 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And a very poignant, well observed minute of silence for Diogo

15/8/2025, 7:00:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not sure I've heard You'll Never Walk Alone sung better

15/8/2025, 6:59:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of them in particular

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15/8/2025, 11:13:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't this a variant of self-serving bias? "Price rises are the fault of greedy companies. But my pay rise is simply a just reward for my merit and hard work - I'd have got it anyway."

15/8/2025, 11:09:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the few places they can pronounce

12/8/2025, 5:56:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's for when you need to trim the number of snakes coming out of your head

12/8/2025, 11:15:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should I watch Season 1 of Andor and/or Andor Season 2 ?

11/8/2025, 4:30:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel Adam Ant did this one better

10/8/2025, 7:44:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And in the UK we have a LOT of speed cameras. Four tickets and you can lose your licence. Once you or people you know get a speeding fine, you tend to pay more attention.

10/8/2025, 7:42:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reckon if Schrödinger's putting cats in boxes with poison vials triggered by random radioactive decay, we can infer how he feels about them

8/8/2025, 11:37:45 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personal best...

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7/8/2025, 7:49:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No need to get salty about it

6/8/2025, 7:32:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's excellent. Could do with a little less Hiddlestone though.

6/8/2025, 9:52:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Scream if you wanna go faster"

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5/8/2025, 7:09:50 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ramen to that

4/8/2025, 8:40:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not surprised they came armed with sticks. There's other blokes chucking rocks at them.

4/8/2025, 11:30:39 AM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait 15 years or so and that'll be him coming home from a night out

2/8/2025, 11:39:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He just wandered in through an open patio door

1/8/2025, 7:08:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not as far as I know, although the magpie didn't say

1/8/2025, 7:06:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/8/2025, 7:05:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If 'es jumping into owt, it ought t'be bloody pints.

1/8/2025, 7:03:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a scared and injured magpie hopping around my living room three days ago. Are the birds trying to tell us something?

1/8/2025, 6:59:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Allegedly she had more fun with John Brown after Albert though

31/7/2025, 9:16:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or did she?

31/7/2025, 9:13:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Charles though? Dozens of mistresses.

31/7/2025, 8:59:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Currently involved in a discussion to decide England's horniest monarch. Henry VIII? Charles II? Edward VII? George IV? Victoria?

31/7/2025, 8:55:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly had to Google her up, although I'd vaguely heard the name. But then I can be watching some movie and say to my wife "That bloke looks familiar - have I seen him in something else?" And she'll tell me it's Brad Pitt.

31/7/2025, 6:14:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now do my car keys www.caltech.edu/about/news/m...

31/7/2025, 2:46:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suppose it might stop a bit of it. The biggest impact is probably that it prompts a few parents to ask their 10 year old why they have a VPN on their laptop.

30/7/2025, 7:11:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Plenty of ten year olds are able to google up the necessary steps, and there are plenty of VPN services that don't require credit cards or age verification. My kids were doing fairly complex coding in Python at that age - would have been a breeze.

30/7/2025, 6:59:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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VAR check in progress

30/7/2025, 5:50:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Drinks are on me lads, I won £1 on the Octopus Energy spin-the-wheel thing

30/7/2025, 5:39:51 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀

30/7/2025, 3:24:21 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀

30/7/2025, 3:23:43 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta rush actually Adrian mate

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30/7/2025, 3:19:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks for the chortle, @dempster2000.bsky.social

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29/7/2025, 7:57:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I just finished painting that wall love"

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28/7/2025, 7:02:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just get AI to wear my trousers. Much simpler

25/7/2025, 7:02:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How about if I charge people money to watch me set fire to pollen-bearing grass fields?

24/7/2025, 5:43:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A busy week pitching my new movie - a heartbreaking legal drama about a couple with a young son who divorce after fighting over who makes the best espresso. Calling it "Crema vs Crema"

24/7/2025, 7:00:39 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's just not true

22/7/2025, 1:58:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't know, but I have all her albums

22/7/2025, 1:55:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can we talk about the positioning of the logo? I feel like I'm being directed to a footnote

22/7/2025, 1:55:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I make excellent toast

21/7/2025, 5:15:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This. For such a ubiquitous platform it's astonishingly baffling. You get an alert and then can't find the picture. Things disappear seemingly at random. Search is weird. Do you swipe, click, what? I've never got my head around it.

20/7/2025, 1:12:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Baseball thanks you for your service!

20/7/2025, 9:30:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's nacho business

19/7/2025, 11:05:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She doesn't look that old?

19/7/2025, 7:12:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now recalculating target FX rates based on deserved interest parity

18/7/2025, 11:39:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two choc ices please

17/7/2025, 6:37:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly surprised to discover she's still alive

16/7/2025, 10:41:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They thought they'd gateau way with it

16/7/2025, 10:41:59 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The correct answer, of course, is "None of these"

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16/7/2025, 9:47:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not really

15/7/2025, 10:05:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your critique would be valid if it were called the "highest rate"

15/7/2025, 9:16:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view