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WigglePig

@wigglepig.bsky.social

Experienced RF engineer and a radio amateur, amongst other less lucrative things. Sometimes a #Gallery365 contributor.

created July 30, 2023

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That happens in 11 days anyway.

2/9/2025, 11:16:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That holds the sandwich whilst trimming the antenna wire.

2/9/2025, 7:36:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What!?

2/9/2025, 6:36:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is a parody post, isn’t it?

1/9/2025, 11:07:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooh, I wouldn’t have gone *that* way.

1/9/2025, 5:58:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indeed. What I meant was that the beach is close enough for a quick visit at lunchtime.

1/9/2025, 5:14:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He appears to have one, very large, bionic eye.

1/9/2025, 3:48:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love my fares srapped, much more than them being any other thing.

1/9/2025, 3:48:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This might sound weird but adding some salt to raspberry jam is really very good. Not much, just a little and it brings out the flavour really nicely.

1/9/2025, 1:26:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lunchtime QRV!

1/9/2025, 1:18:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I pointedly said “engage inertial dampers” to a colleague who had just got in the van he had no idea what I was going on about.

1/9/2025, 9:20:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s moving way too fast!

1/9/2025, 9:18:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They *are* Tories.

1/9/2025, 9:16:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, they are just racist and don’t care.

1/9/2025, 8:42:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Biggin Hill is full of flags randomly upside down and I find it depressing. Even the house of the people who probably did it have an upside down Union flag flying from their porch.

1/9/2025, 6:10:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love the A19. I have walked the entire length of it, although not in one go.

30/8/2025, 12:27:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Trump is actually dead then the MAGAts will likely try to blame it on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

30/8/2025, 12:21:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To the flag-shaggers putting up Union flags all over the place and graffitiing roadways, please do us the favour of learning which way up the Union flag goes and why it goes up that way. Failing to do so just demonstrates that it’s nothing to do with flags and everything to do with bullying.

30/8/2025, 12:16:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope it’s good coffee.

30/8/2025, 7:09:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An excellent album and one that always goes down well with the bosses when I put it on in the workshop…

29/8/2025, 6:09:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t know until recently that you can go *inside* the Kelpies!

29/8/2025, 2:00:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I so want a motorhome.

29/8/2025, 1:59:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should definitely still slow down though for consistency.

29/8/2025, 1:53:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a couple of my calculators from back then and they are still going strong. My HP15c had to have a new set of batteries last year.

29/8/2025, 12:59:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Band I got: Ramones Best Song: Sheena is a Punk Rocker Best album: Rocket to Russia Worst album: Acid Eaters Seen live: Mayfair Newcastle, 1991? Bought merch: T-shirt in a Tin; Rocket to Russia Band given to me by @andreasblohm.bsky.social

29/8/2025, 12:53:32 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today’s platform edge is brought to you by Southern Trains and Tattenham Corner.

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29/8/2025, 12:43:50 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today’s listening is SRV, 35 years after he left too soon.

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29/8/2025, 6:51:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By that point it has already happened.

29/8/2025, 5:11:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The firmament has to be rotated twice a year to prevent undue wear on the interesting bits.

28/8/2025, 8:19:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In the meantime they will increase by hundred if not thousands of pounds so I’m sure a £300 reduction with be very useful.

27/8/2025, 4:06:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vessel, not nation but yes precisely.

27/8/2025, 3:32:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Usually upside-down because they are so patriotic that they don’t know which way up it goes…

27/8/2025, 3:21:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So Radio 4, just who are you going to interview to give some balance to that piece with Baxter this afternoon?

27/8/2025, 3:19:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember when I very first saw Gilden’s photos and thought they looked odd. Then I saw a video of him taking photos in New York and I was horrified; how can anyone behave like that and survive, let alone publish the results? Truly awful. Then I saw an interview with him and it was clear…

26/8/2025, 9:19:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really should read one of your books…which would you recommend if I was only to read one as an absolute maximum?

26/8/2025, 9:12:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the UK does this then I presume that we will be able to request asylum in the EU?

26/8/2025, 3:54:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I had the time I would just keep going around and repainting the roundabouts white.

26/8/2025, 3:53:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I believe the perps are pretty good with aeroplanes with black crosses on…

26/8/2025, 3:52:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hopefully not as some of us use aerosol paints for legitimate purposes.

26/8/2025, 3:46:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Emu usually did all the cooking, so yes. Rod was too busy sorting out the TV reception…

26/8/2025, 3:44:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How many “tragic mishaps” have occurred *just involving hospitals* in this cleansing operation? Look at that number.

26/8/2025, 3:36:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To add a little perspective to my post because some of the responses and DMs I have received are absolutely wild; I *asked*. I said *please*. There is no need to become so spectacularly angry about my point of view that I feel the need to block you.

26/8/2025, 3:34:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. More carriers and companies should do this; just stop dealing with their BS.

26/8/2025, 3:33:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much all of the colourised images look like they have been coloured-in, with the colours looking flat and false. Colourised moving pictures often have all of that and poor registration, sometimes with weirdly aliased chroma components that jitter. Personally I like B&W, as original.

26/8/2025, 1:54:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WigglePig (@wigglepig.bsky.social) reply parent

To be honest, if they had wanted it colourised then they would have either done it themselves or had it done at the time. They probably wouldn’t have waited 80 years for some ai-tech to do it without their being asked.

26/8/2025, 1:47:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be honest, the interview of some Farridge-adjacent goon this morning on R4 was pretty good. The interviewer really didn’t let him get away with the lies he was trying to peddle.

26/8/2025, 1:45:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is something that has been an issue for some while. If you want to buy an EV with reasonable range (and I mean reasonable, not huge) then you’re largely stuck with massive barges of SUVs. The new range of smaller ones like the R5 look great and hopefully mean a shift towards providing options.

26/8/2025, 9:20:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooh, that would have been wonderful.

26/8/2025, 9:08:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please don’t use “colourised” photographs, it is disrespectful of the original work and entirely unnecessary.

26/8/2025, 8:53:57 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder if they realise that you can, and should, add these things up?

26/8/2025, 8:11:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They look like fried strips of true. Nom!

25/8/2025, 7:47:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Strike(s) on hospital.” This is a war crime, plain and simple.

25/8/2025, 7:30:21 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The one single part of the Office suite that is actually any good is Excel and now it looks like it is being ruined with fluff.”, AI b0lI0¥ and Clippy’s mutant nephew.

25/8/2025, 3:46:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice, which unit is it?

25/8/2025, 3:41:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An awfully large number of people pontificate loudly about things they know little about.

24/8/2025, 6:46:27 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s so little difference that it makes none.

23/8/2025, 1:23:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, that is indeed different and seems rather more problematic.

23/8/2025, 12:56:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, I suspect quite a few around here most certainly descended from their cousins.

23/8/2025, 11:44:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just add a few more little red crosses and you have the flag for Georgia.

23/8/2025, 11:42:12 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Report them through FixMyStreet as being vandalised and no longer compliant with the requirements for street markings.

23/8/2025, 11:40:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What is a “cracker barrel?”

23/8/2025, 9:49:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, but with an older camera or no? I feel a bit of super-8 footage of a class 37 would be lovely.

23/8/2025, 9:48:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WigglePig (@wigglepig.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately you are probably both correct. There are parts of London where differences are absolutely not welcomed, although those are the bits not worth going to. Large swathes of London are full of people who are lovely, friendly and completely accepting, even if they might not quite understand.

23/8/2025, 9:45:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s weird how the BBC manages to be simultaneously right-wing, Orwellian and socialist…

23/8/2025, 9:39:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But yet this requirement is already in place in the UK…

23/8/2025, 8:50:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Today I’m going to go out with a camera and take photographs, something I haven’t done for quite some while.

23/8/2025, 6:57:38 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooh, I wouldn’t have gone *that* way! 🤪

22/8/2025, 4:53:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m still really tempted by the bench engineer one though.

22/8/2025, 11:43:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Enjoy! I had thought long and hard about applying for that one but had decided against it in the end. I imagine you’ll have a good time there.

22/8/2025, 11:41:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This morning’s listening. Gary Newman and the Tubeway Army, Replicas Redux.

Album cover for Newman’s Replicas Redux. Gary stands facing across a closed sash window which frames his own face reflected and the Moon and red neon sign from outside.
22/8/2025, 6:53:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whilst reprehensible, painting over the crossing is not the issue. The issue is that a mass shooting of 49 people could even take place in a “civilised” “democracy” and was only “the worst at the time.”

22/8/2025, 5:45:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You got there because the USA is and always was a country rife with corruption at virtually every level.

22/8/2025, 5:37:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PFI weren’t a completely terrible idea, it’s just the way they were set up that makes them awful. The costs for normal maintenance are generally *extras* and charged at insane costs, making a mockery of any possible savings that might have transpired.

21/8/2025, 7:40:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listening this morning; Pierre Moerlen’s Gong - Leave it Open

Album cover for Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Leave It Open. It shows purple foreground with sky and clouds above and a herringbone-pattern wooden door in the centre, slightly ajar.
21/8/2025, 6:32:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That too; the Marine Society is back up the road a tiny bit.

20/8/2025, 11:14:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just around the corner from somewhere else nautically related too.

20/8/2025, 8:38:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/8/2025, 7:47:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oof. That’s pricey. Is it a chain or a hipster indie purveyor?

19/8/2025, 9:41:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Minstrel.

19/8/2025, 9:36:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now there’s an idea for the commute home. I haven’t listened to any JMJ for a long, long time.

18/8/2025, 2:30:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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International borders have *always* been changeable by force, it is the default method by which it occurs.

18/8/2025, 11:48:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personally I would go for a Smiths CABAC in blue.

18/8/2025, 9:20:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What makes you think that it hasn’t already started?

18/8/2025, 6:10:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s true, it is most spectacular.

17/8/2025, 9:01:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Excellent news! I shall endeavour to get there to visit even though it has been very hard for me to contribute lately.

16/8/2025, 11:04:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah I see! Indeed, me too. I lived in Shields for a while.

15/8/2025, 9:46:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not sure that’s true of Hebburn to be fair.

15/8/2025, 3:56:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s pretty clear that no one has a clue what they are talking about when they should, or that they are lying about things that they shouldn’t lie about.

15/8/2025, 3:26:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooh. I hadn’t considered chasing a lighthouse, mainly because they are famously stationary for the most part. However, in this case I may have to have a go and see how I get on.

15/8/2025, 3:23:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stop putting Trump on the TV. Just stop.

15/8/2025, 12:52:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be honest, this corner kerb looks fine; you should be able to drive around the corner without hitting it.

15/8/2025, 11:36:36 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Precisely so.

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

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Nope, it actually works perfectly well if you consider its purpose.

14/8/2025, 4:05:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any news on what had transpired the first time around?

14/8/2025, 12:19:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really must get out and do a bit of this again soon.

14/8/2025, 12:13:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because the system of capitalism requires continuous growth in order to remain “stable.” If growth doesn’t happen then the flow of money goes in directions that the powers-that-be don’t really care for.

14/8/2025, 12:12:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could be wrong, and I often am, but I am reasonably sure that today is Thursday.

14/8/2025, 12:07:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ft-70?

13/8/2025, 5:12:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice. I’m enjoying my QMX which is remarkably good on SSB too! What do you use the recorder for, if you don’t mind me asking?

13/8/2025, 12:35:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just stop humouring Trump. Don’t talk to him. Don’t respond.

13/8/2025, 9:59:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view