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@akareilly@hachyderm.io We can also adopt other traditional European values, such as witchcraft, gay sex, and having a very positive opinion of trees.

This is the primary reason I came up to Alnwick. Books!

@afewbugs@social.coop I haven't before but I will now.

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org I had a major problem with that film (not a spoiler because it crops up early on). The sheep are terrified of leaving their field and crossing a road. No sheep has EVER been afraid of such things. Sheep love escaping. If the escaping comes with a possibility of death, all the better. Given the opportunity, they will go where they're not supposed to be as often as possible. Anyone who has lived their lives in a sheep farming area has encountered sheep on the road far too many times to count. The writer of this story has clearly never got to know sheep. And that is the tiny hill upon which I shall lay down my life.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I often think of these two pictures from Wallsend, taken by Chris Killip six years apart - the first from the time when Swan, Hunter was building those huge tankers, and the second from after the tanker business had left.

@Rajiv@infosec.exchange @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I think this is a good choice. They're common enough that most people will know exactly what they look like.

@flargh@mastodon.social I don't mean to be disrespectful to the great mouser himself, but his Prime Ministers haven't been terribly good, and can we be sure he's not giving them bad advice?

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk What I really want to hear from a government - any government - is that it's not just carrots and it's not just sticks. It's removing obstacles for many people who want to work but are prevented from doing so. Such as: healthcare (people who are off sick for a long time generally don't want to be), accessibility (so many disabled people are kept out of the workforce because reasonable adjustments laws are inadequate and the recruitment process is discriminatory), social care (people having to be a part- or full-time carer because state provision is inadequate), costs of accessing education as an adult, poor rural transport, etc etc etc.

@muz4now@mastodon.world It varies enormously, but I'll say an average is probably going to be twenty to thirty. Ish. (Some days it'll be one or two, some days it'll be over a hundred.) And what I always say is: my favourite genre of music is new. I'm obsessed with listening to new things.

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I feel this is essentially a question on whether you're wealthy enough for £50k not to be a life-changing amount.

@RickiTarr Having friends and being a reasonable person. Knowing more stuff than I used to.

@afewbugs@social.coop It's one of the most valuable roles in any society.

@PetraPhoenix@beige.party You absolutely should be proud! Your pocket friends are all proud of you.

@evan When you're a beige You're a beige all the way From your first "not a cult" To your last dying day

@futzle@old.mermaid.town I think most of the accounts I've blocked, I've blocked because of their responses to someone else, whether that be as a reply guy or another reason. Why wait for the worst people to find me? Be proactive!

@autoperipatetikos@neurodifferent.me Apparently she did the theme for Small Prophets.

@scribblanitea@cupoftea.social Last year when I got bored of them, I just made chutney. And it was very nice! I will probably do the same this year.

@scribblanitea@cupoftea.social The first fruit on one of mine (I have seven) was just starting to emerge when I left on Monday morning. I expect my garden to be 90% courgette by the time I get home.

@c_reider@sonomu.club I was feeling bad over the weekend because I haven't recommended anything for a little while. I love sharing the music I've enjoyed.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Oh yes. And for what it's worth, I hope that legislation is passed in due course to this end. A ten minute rule bill can help establish that there would be support for such a thing. So I'm certainly not opposed to it! I'm just confused about how it's being reported, as if members on the opposition benches can just introduce legislation whenever they want. That kind of thing is massively unhelpful.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Is this a ten minute rule bill? She didn't get in the private members' ballot. Can't see how it will go anywhere.

@garius@mastodon.me.uk I'm so sorry. Such a beautiful boy. And you gave him a wonderful life.

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world Of those options, it has to be the front room. Putting it in the front room is saying, I did a good thing, I'm proud of it, and I'm right to be proud of it. Putting it in the bog is saying, I'm proud of it but I'm going to pretend I'm not, whilst also imposing it upon others when they're alone in a private situation. Very lacking in class. The classiest approach, however, is to give it to a loved family member, so they can be proud on your behalf.

@theropologist@beige.party

@MamaLake I don't have an appropriate answer! I went to the library every two weeks. That's how long the books were borrowed for.

@davidoclubb@toot.wales On the rare occasion when I've posted about it, I wrote WalPol and CymPol. Simple is good, although WalPol always makes me wonder why people are posting about Britain's first Prime Minister.

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org @ifixcoinops@retro.social FORM A STRING QUARTET HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE STRING QUARTET

@Jaqspur@jorts.horse I would like to think that anyone who has ever been on a lifeboat has announced that it's just like a Hitchcock film.

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world Saying this, I do actually have two medals from work, but I didn't really have to do anything. One was presented by the association of ambulance service CEOs to those who worked through the height of covid; the other was some random thing I got for being employed at the time Chuck became king, and I really have no idea why that exists. They're at the back of the bookcase. Bit embarrassed by them really.

@adhdeanasl@beige.party The hero we need. Good work Dean.

@pete@masto.hypertelia.com Last year I encountered a cyclist with a scarlet macaw happily sitting on the handlebars. Given that I live in northeast England, this was a somewhat surprising development.

@dillyd@turtleisland.social That's beautiful.

@RickiTarr@beige.party Stuff which might sound better than it was. Let me think now. Monday was nominally spaghetti, but I didn't like it (or rather, I learnt later, I didn't like the rubbish sauce from the supermarket). What did I have instead? Sausages maybe? Tuesday depended on the season. In winter it was bacon and eggs. In summer, it was salad with some kind of cold pie or pasty. Wednesday was pizza, but if you're imagining a nice pizzeria, nope. Supermarket shit again. I didn't eat it. Have no recollection of what I ate instead. Probably some kind of ready meal from the same supermarket. Thursday I think was usually a casserole of some description, probably with mashed potatoes. Haven't got the least idea about Friday. A blank. Saturday, though, Saturday was a chippy tea, which Dad picked up on his way back from the racetrack (he spent his whole life watching motor racing at the nearby circuit). And Sunday was a roast, or when we were a little older, a meal at the pub which might have also been a roast, or a steak, or something like that.

@lionelb@expressional.social Wales and Scotland leading the way as usual.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt It's when you reach the subjunctive form of shitposter that I'm really going to get confused.

@MamaLake I've answered that we were encouraged to read alone, because we were. But we may have also read together - I just can't remember. We were certainly encouraged to read as much as possible though.

@theropologist@beige.party Thank you.

@jayflo @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Yep, those ships had extraordinarily short lifespans.

@beecycling@wandering.shop @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Same here. It's remarkable work.

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org He is indeed a very virile and fertile man.

@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf Can't see Streeting beating anyone of consequence when the members and affiliates vote. Maybe if he was the only candidate.

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social What an exceptionally good dog Summer is.

@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales The humidity does feel very excessive today.

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social Great work.

@theropologist@beige.party Thank you for all this! I haven't a clue what any of it means but I'm glad it's happening.

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social It was for the greater good.

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org I'm literally sitting here weighing up whether my plants should be fed today or tomorrow.

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party That was a very entertaining film. I would happily watch Colman and Buckley in anything at all. They should be forced to work together at least once a year.