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Richard K

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A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

created May 10, 2023

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Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Presumably the paragraph containing any actual facts of the case got edited out for brevity.

3/9/2025, 6:51:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Why the hell does this article end up talking about fences?

3/9/2025, 6:46:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"What do young people like to do?" "You're not going to believe this sir, but our focus groups reveal that sex is popular."

3/9/2025, 6:42:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course, getting everything going upfront takes an awful lot of backstage work.

2/9/2025, 7:12:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I thought this was opening night."

2/9/2025, 7:06:35 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they making it out of something other than mild steel now?

2/9/2025, 7:05:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Have been reading Patrick O'Brien and he makes it sound fine.

2/9/2025, 6:47:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had to click through to confirm it wasn't actually AI because these days

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2/9/2025, 6:43:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

One of my favourite influencer-like stories is from an acquaintance who proposed to his now wife on top of the Eiffel tower but had to wait until two other couples had got engaged first. Which must have taken a bit of unique romance off it.

2/9/2025, 6:41:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Would dearly like to see the prompts used and how they weight the "focus group" because this feels very much like "you get the answers you have set the group up for".

2/9/2025, 6:25:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe this is the traditional method, however it is less effective with today's culture and expectations.

2/9/2025, 6:20:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social)

Always informative to think about the opposite of a political question and "How can you take on Farage when your policy on immigration is the same?" is illustrative of the paucity of this question.

2/9/2025, 6:19:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cat ions are what cause the attraction between cat hair and dark clothing

2/9/2025, 5:56:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

"For marital read martial throughout."

2/9/2025, 5:55:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Feel bad for the person writing a thesis on martial arts.

2/9/2025, 5:55:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎶but the only boy who could ever reach me was the son of a toolmaker🎶

2/9/2025, 5:48:36 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

"subtle but crucial shit" is a pitch for a le Carré film

2/9/2025, 5:13:11 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean if they're good enough for schoolkids

2/9/2025, 5:11:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Portakabins eh

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2/9/2025, 5:10:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

The traditional Scottish merkin

2/9/2025, 5:04:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

They are under cover.

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2/9/2025, 5:02:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Space is like an ocean. It's the final frontier. No-one has ever called it that before. Space Captain, that's a good title, isn't it?"

2/9/2025, 4:57:18 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great minds etc

2/9/2025, 4:54:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Ad Astra Redux

2/9/2025, 4:52:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's Space Force II

2/9/2025, 4:52:13 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

wait this is all I do

2/9/2025, 4:51:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

considering posting bollocks

2/9/2025, 4:51:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have it on good authority that five is beyond the point when you're your own tribe: you need different transport, friends can no longer put you up for the night, you have to become internally self-sufficient.

2/9/2025, 4:48:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Only primates, sir, no monkeys.

2/9/2025, 4:46:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Still enormously amused by those white South Africans who escaped to the US and then complained that they couldn't get the domestic staff they were used to.

2/9/2025, 4:44:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Come and see the violence inherent in the system

2/9/2025, 4:41:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

He grew up reading the generation of sci-fi where Earth colonists steamrollered the native Mars population and he sees nothing wrong with this.

2/9/2025, 4:32:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

As a parent of a 1yo you've just spent a year becoming attuned to their moods and coming to a mutual agreement on a routine. Dog- or baby-sitting an entity you don't have that relationship with is always going to seem harder on an immediate timescale...!

2/9/2025, 4:25:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Any government that wanted to encourage more childbirth would have to find ways of giving willing parents housemaids.

2/9/2025, 3:48:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Kids are great but the work increases exponentially with each additional one and you have to really want more than two to go for it.

2/9/2025, 3:45:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Germany has very child-friendly policies and quite pro-natalist politics and yet

2/9/2025, 3:45:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

... what do you think "everyone can read the exchange" means?

2/9/2025, 11:33:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's nothing like name recognition in the brands business.

2/9/2025, 10:40:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure everyone can read the exchange and form their own opinions.

2/9/2025, 10:34:49 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 9:53:39 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 9:30:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Surely anyone can spin a "there's a new theory of quantum gravity and it overturns everything that scientists thought they knew" piece?

2/9/2025, 9:28:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Niki Seth-Smith (@nikisethsmith.bsky.social) reposted

Any science feature writers? We pay £350-450, send your pitches today or tomorrow!

1/9/2025, 2:25:38 PM | 36 45 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Can see how you might be miffed about this

2/9/2025, 9:26:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait what's the point of being king if you have to do everything yourself?

2/9/2025, 9:26:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

"This is all straightforward" the kind of thing people who have never personally engaged with an immigration process say.

2/9/2025, 9:16:42 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I were Prime Minister I would simply appoint the grown-ups first time round.

2/9/2025, 7:53:46 AM | 21 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does it mean he's been lished in a pub?

2/9/2025, 7:52:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stickman lives in the family tree. All his furniture is made of the bones of relatives.

2/9/2025, 7:48:09 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Just... act in the manner of the society you want to live in. How hard is that?

2/9/2025, 6:16:37 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

It may convince the speaker that they feel wise, but it feels absolutely the opposite of wise to take a position opposite to "society is just the behaviour of people, and therefore my behaviour matters in shaping society".

2/9/2025, 6:16:37 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Great for the whole family, you can even bring your Naan.

1/9/2025, 5:16:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ticket masala is what you need to get into the British Curry Festival surely? Rogan josh for the comedy tent, located near the vindaloos.

1/9/2025, 5:12:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Possibly just with the ironing.

31/8/2025, 7:19:48 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Went up 1300m in about 10km today just going to a National park.

31/8/2025, 7:13:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird that Croatia doesn't produce more TdF cyclists given that from any place along the coast you can find an Alpine-style climb just by heading inland.

31/8/2025, 7:13:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's nice to be by the sea.

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31/8/2025, 7:11:10 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't explain what makes it a good insult if it isn't a good insult.

31/8/2025, 2:45:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Portals are everywhere.

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31/8/2025, 10:24:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy towel-holder is pleased to see you naked.

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31/8/2025, 6:47:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just off the Croatian coast. Not quite a peninsula, translation makes sense.

31/8/2025, 5:14:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 5:29:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe you update the AI Wiki by just updating the real Wikipedia and waiting for the AI to steal it.

30/8/2025, 2:15:44 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:34:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sir Plus of Testosterone Sir Osis of The Liver Sir Cumference of Belly Sir Loin of Steak

30/8/2025, 12:58:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait is Putin the Dread Pirate Roberts?

30/8/2025, 6:15:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance hasn't got the popularist base and the Republican power manoeuvring will cripple him.

30/8/2025, 6:14:11 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance right now

30/8/2025, 6:08:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The best Mandate of Heaven, most popular president in Heaven ever

30/8/2025, 6:01:57 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hasn't been on TV for two days, clearly a slam-dunk case.

30/8/2025, 5:54:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it's probably true that if you're a politician you should never try to be clever on your taxes.

30/8/2025, 5:45:55 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably more "cuntbubbles" or something like it.

29/8/2025, 8:36:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What does it even convey other than a jamming together of alliteration?

29/8/2025, 8:00:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

Sturgeon's Law applies to lyrics too.

29/8/2025, 7:49:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean we need insincere words too, we have a subtle language

29/8/2025, 7:48:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But Afternoon Delight doesn't scan otherwise.

29/8/2025, 7:47:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's the Izzard sketch about rising up and kicking in the doors of Parliament, then apologising for the mess?

29/8/2025, 7:45:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

But regifted is quite a useful word.

29/8/2025, 7:39:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a relatively long history of particularly American English tending to add syllables to words over time.

29/8/2025, 7:38:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Procured some research services recently from the best and most established company in the field and realised in the early stages that it had been set up by someone I'd lectured, who fortunately turned out to be very happy to be working with me.

29/8/2025, 7:35:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Definitely athletes though.

29/8/2025, 7:31:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That reminds me, I keep meaning to make some hexaflexagons.

29/8/2025, 7:27:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The amusing thing about the Official Secrets Act is that it applies to you whether you've signed it or not.

29/8/2025, 7:18:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social) reply parent

I still don't believe that Britain has much of an "illegal migration" problem. If he means refugees, he should say that, but seeking asylum isn't illegal and those people will still need to be accommodated even if the UK has ID cards.

29/8/2025, 7:15:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta have a system as soon as you have more than a few cars.

29/8/2025, 6:34:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"general preference for mounting horses" come on man

29/8/2025, 6:27:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 6:23:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now thinking about the chaos someone could cause running around at night with a tin of vantablack paint.

29/8/2025, 6:15:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎶I am 36 Going on 37 I know that I'm naïve Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet And willingly I believe That we should leave the ECHR🎶

29/8/2025, 5:57:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These Weebles fall down, because they're dead

29/8/2025, 5:25:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Best kind of wife.

29/8/2025, 5:19:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh, 13?

29/8/2025, 5:16:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got the impression that Starmer was already on strike tbh

29/8/2025, 5:13:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reminder that Ann Coulter described Christians as "perfected Jews".

29/8/2025, 5:06:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never trust an adult who doesn't appreciate dinosaurs.

29/8/2025, 4:56:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never mind that, consider all the extra bedroom tax space you'd need to keep it.

29/8/2025, 2:51:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well it's an innovative solution

29/8/2025, 2:33:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tbh I just assume that a keyed ignition is just a costly bit of performative technology these days from the manufacturer's perspective since the immobiliser is electronic anyway, so it's gone to save money rather than for any convenience rationale.

29/8/2025, 2:08:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤨

29/8/2025, 1:52:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you want to talk about inflation in fish you need to know that puffer fish are poisonous unless very carefully dissected.

29/8/2025, 12:31:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view