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Chris Hind

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created August 18, 2023

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A graph of the number of Democrats in the House since 1983. It is not uniformly decreasing.
7/9/2025, 1:52:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it's because putting barriers in one of the world's most congested waterways is, and this is a technical term, "very stupid".

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about 83% of Americans live in cities. I'd say that is a sufficient base for a political party.

7/9/2025, 8:16:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's alright, 100 million people is 29% of the US population, so the per-capita number of doctors would increase

7/9/2025, 5:27:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the "mandela effect" people on reddit are convinced that there was one so all these ais have sucked in gigabytes of training data of idiots saying there is one

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BATTLING DEPUTY PM CRUST AHEAD

6/9/2025, 6:27:14 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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looking at Republican memes that use Apocalypse Now

Colonel Kurtz: The horror, the horror
6/9/2025, 4:20:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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checking which side won the Vietnam war

6/9/2025, 4:13:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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although he has breakaway elements

6/9/2025, 1:03:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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viciously and unfairly opposed at every juncture by the concept of external reality

6/9/2025, 1:01:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'm a perfectionist, like."

Spud in Trainspotting is interviewed
6/9/2025, 11:21:36 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"A society that worries about a scuffle in the Balkans has got most things right."

6/9/2025, 11:16:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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there's still time to delete this

6/9/2025, 11:07:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nate tells us about Bluesky's Nate polices dissent by censoriousness towards a 'main character' opponent, and self-righteously conflates his values with broader public sentiment of
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5/9/2025, 9:00:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bari weiss is objectively bad and so are people who like her

5/9/2025, 6:43:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Scarfe cartoon from the opening credits of Yes Minister
5/9/2025, 6:37:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes (derogatory).

5/9/2025, 6:33:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After Brackets, Orders, and Division; higher than Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction.

5/9/2025, 4:40:25 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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she can show the FORRINS her England bunting

5/9/2025, 3:10:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A double Lammy.

5/9/2025, 3:03:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/9/2025, 10:41:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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hear me out: www.vegrecipesofindia.com/potato-pulao...

5/9/2025, 8:56:57 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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unless some sort of incomprehensibly vast plot starts inexplicably portraying him as a frog-faced racist

4/9/2025, 6:36:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you would have thought that that would have been Andrea Jenkyns

4/9/2025, 6:34:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Silksong downloading
4/9/2025, 4:25:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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crying because all I've done is governed Spain

4/9/2025, 3:33:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Asimov also had stories with intelligent computers! users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...

4/9/2025, 1:50:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And there's more! Come and WATCH US PODCAST LIVE at the Imperial War Museum's Podcast Festival on Nov 1! www.iwm.org.uk/events/podca...

4/9/2025, 7:20:30 AM | 12 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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tag yourself, I'm a firm cop bottom

From the Wikipedia page on the operation of the spinning mule: Doffing is performed by the piercers thrutching, that is raising, the cops partially up the spindles, whilst the carriage is out. The minder then depressing the faller, so far as to guide the threads upon the bare spindle below. A few turns are wound onto the spindle, to fix the threads to the bare spindles for a new set. The cops are removed and collected into cans or baskets, and subsequently delivered to the warehouse. The remainder of the
4/9/2025, 9:07:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes - eg email replaces the typing pool; smartphones mean you can close a lot of bank branches; AWS means you can shut your company's data center

4/9/2025, 6:27:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the theme of the inquiry is "Europe’s threat to American speech and innovation" so he's telling you all about the people we've prosecuted for incitement of imminent lawless action

3/9/2025, 5:44:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's OK, Trump is only primus inter pares, the Senate still totally has all those powers

3/9/2025, 5:12:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"How Adolf Hitler's religious activism led to career armageddon"

3/9/2025, 5:06:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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just when i thought i was out, America, you pull me back in

3/9/2025, 5:00:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is more like a machine pullup: This was quickly lowered to Ahab, who ... slid his solitary thigh into the curve of the hook ... , held himself fast, and at the same time also helped to hoist his own weight, by pulling hand-over-hand upon one of the running parts of the tackle.

3/9/2025, 1:17:57 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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traditional agrarian society beats all this new-fangled industrial science nonsense

3/9/2025, 11:34:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Welcome to In Our Time, with Lee Anderson"

3/9/2025, 11:33:00 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thou art Peter, and on this Rockism will I build my Church

3/9/2025, 9:47:38 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I see the President has listened bsky.app/profile/fint...

3/9/2025, 7:53:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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next you'll be telling me they missed out the Igors

2/9/2025, 6:19:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't have exorcisms in Frankenstein. Dracula, maybe.

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2/9/2025, 5:52:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Done, thank you!

2/9/2025, 5:23:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He should have him on the podcast then.

2/9/2025, 3:38:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"someone ordered some hypnotic boobs on this account"

2/9/2025, 3:35:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the second one's better because you know what to do from the first one. for the third one, you can buy those little scooters for the first two and hope they stay out of traffic.

2/9/2025, 3:19:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why do political parties run adverts then?

2/9/2025, 3:01:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Co-op started labelling the country of origin of the main ingredient(s) in its own-brand produce in 1997, in response to consumer concerns over lengthy supply chains.

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2/9/2025, 7:03:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's from April www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

1/9/2025, 10:38:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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smoker

1/9/2025, 10:21:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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congratulations you have understood the film

1/9/2025, 9:26:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's no time to be feeling sleepy, they need to go for bust

1/9/2025, 8:56:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One for the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social heads

The programme for tonight's Prom performance of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth' The stage at the Royal Albert Hall
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www.libdems.org.uk/join

1/9/2025, 3:00:38 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And we go over to Prime Minister Keir Starmer for comment

A man completely covered in poppies
1/9/2025, 2:44:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/h...

1/9/2025, 12:44:27 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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but in subclause 47 of a contract Angela Rayner entered 14 years ago there is a clash with a proposal on local government that she made while a junior shadow minister!!!1!

1/9/2025, 10:40:50 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ok so there isn't any American food, because it was all made up by immigrants?

1/9/2025, 9:09:27 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Storm Wubbo it is.

1/9/2025, 8:36:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well done!

31/8/2025, 9:33:57 PM | 55 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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supporting the Peterloo Massacre, but from the Left

31/8/2025, 9:31:50 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh my God, everyone wears two straps now. My youngest saw me carrying my bag with one strap and rolled his eyes and told me it doesn't mean I'm cool.

31/8/2025, 8:51:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They have just released some surveillance footage of the incident m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCY...

31/8/2025, 8:37:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"HELLO HR THERE IS AN ITALIAN"

31/8/2025, 7:52:10 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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whoever runs, the loony left will find a reason not to support them. they will invent one if necessary. candidates need to look to build a coalition that does not include them.

31/8/2025, 7:36:07 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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As I understand it, Doogie Howser later joined the Conservative party

Neil Patrick Harris in his Gestapo uniform in Starship Troopers
31/8/2025, 5:41:13 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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they love radical Islam, do Reform voters. famous for it.

31/8/2025, 5:30:46 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Steakhouse surf'n'turf: fillet steak, garlic prawns, hasselback potato, mac and cheese, grilled asparagus, grilled mushrooms, corn, peas, green salad. And a tequila Old Fashioned.

Fillet steak, garlic prawns, hasselback potato, mac and cheese, grilled asparagus, grilled mushrooms, corn, peas, green salad Tequila Old Fashioned
31/8/2025, 5:27:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Peace, Land, and the Chorleywood Process!

31/8/2025, 9:57:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is inheritance tax damaging income?

31/8/2025, 9:21:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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there are laws about how money is spent in election campaigns, therefore the Chorus contracts contained clauses saying "you need to run any content about election campaigns past us before broadcast", so they can be sure they are compliant, which Taylor then pretended were evil mind control

31/8/2025, 8:01:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ooh, sumptuary laws. have they remembered to put tyrian purple on the list?

31/8/2025, 7:46:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if leftists will pay people to say they're idiots then I will happily take the money

31/8/2025, 7:23:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

30/8/2025, 6:12:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think they exist.

Wikipedia subcategory
30/8/2025, 6:02:01 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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how did this go?

a dumbass tankie tweet that this dumbass tankie liked, predicting Great Russian Battlefield Victory, that collapsed immediately after it was posted. tankies: not even once.
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Congratulations on how things have improved by your efforts!

30/8/2025, 5:36:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you know how everybody before the election was saying "you all need to vote for Democrats, and convince other people to vote for Democrats, even if you aren't happy with the Democrats, otherwise the Republicans, who are worse, will have all the power and the Democrats won't be able to stop them"?

30/8/2025, 5:15:01 PM | 47 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You couldn't make The Life Of Brian today, James Cameron's booked up all the VFX artists so you couldn't do the spaceship sequence

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Paddington meets Donald Trump
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jake tapper wouldn't see a problem

30/8/2025, 5:03:36 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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just to be clear, is this one of your posts where you're supporting Ukraine or one of the ones you'll block people for bringing up? so everyone knows where you stand on this post of yours, that you made.

29/8/2025, 9:07:09 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is why living in tiny close-knit agrarian communities sucks

29/8/2025, 6:38:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Calls herself a patriot?

29/8/2025, 2:05:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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my MA

28/8/2025, 6:22:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a kindly, loving, and attentive cat (17:00 - 17:15, daily)

A black cat reclines on a specially constructed throne of blankets and pillows after dining
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trump voters don't see the things they cut people off for as political views

28/8/2025, 2:58:05 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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New live show?

28/8/2025, 2:09:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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eg towards the end of "Africa"

Petrarch looks forward to a time when
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they're ex-subscribers who cancelled because of a cartoon on p.94

28/8/2025, 11:23:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great - that's the long term fix for the problem. Until enough is built everywhere there will continue to be wasted generation from remote wind plants.

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yes, OK?

28/8/2025, 9:18:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that "the Labour Party shouldn't oppose the Taliban in case that's unpopular" thread keeps looming through my Discover feed

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* (safe routes sinew excepted)

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when my youngest went to secondary school there was a new parents induction evening where we got a Powerpoint presentation on acceptable shoes and printouts to take home

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no - the particular part of the grid near the wind farms can't take all the power from the wind farm.

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I never drink water - it's too concentrated. I drink homeopathic water only.

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the problem is the grid - in high wind conditions plants can generate more power than the grid can carry. note that the increase is £15 on a bill of £1740.

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