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Louise Ankers (Bouba)

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Mother, Wife, Product Manager. I like The Libertines, playing guitar, writing and running Banner : The Libertines @ Redcar 05/07/24

Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Never stopped us dreaming Although obviously, people did stop dreaming

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being funny as a result of past family trauma is like sad nepotism

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Get to know your mutuals, 10 things what I dig The Libertines The Beatles Reading fiction Reading biographies Writing (at times) Playing guitar The good ship Albion Sunshine Good times Boogie

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Chris 's avatar Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social
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Pressure washing is such bullshit. Who decided concrete needed to be clean?

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Related : there's a whole new generation of 20 somethings getting into the Libs now and genuinely reacting to them as legends. Which is deserved IMO but also I remember... this

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Oh no (I haven't been on Twitter for a while but missed that)

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What other social media service has a "previously on.." account allowing you to catch up? @previously.blue

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SaI Cap0ne's avatar SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social
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Every now and then I while away a boring afternoon by asking AI to do my job for me and then watch it gradually disintegrate like Hal in 2001

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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I think I've just found a use for AI for you! (I use ChatGPT for articles I get bored of half way through but think I should read, to summarize key points)

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Will it be powered by one of his fans tho

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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The articles argument is people will want taste cos they always have (which is true) Mine is it's still struggling with the dilemmas of the ancients - what is truth - what is beauty - why are we here - 42 And we haven't solved that before we created Frankenstein so...

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Yes.

Have you read this btw? It's brilliant on how taste...might help.

With apologies to Philip Larkin, maybe what survives of us is taste?

dirt.fyi/article/2023...

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Four Years Ago Today's avatar Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social
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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)

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When the France election results are good

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Following feed is ok indeed but a mutuals feed is better

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She isn't singing this at you is she

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My guitar teacher has told me to stop trying to do chords with three fingers 👀

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Aries: This is a good time to travel and grow the fuck up.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸's avatar Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city
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Projects 1 through 2024 were actually fairly benign

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Quick question for all the mind-readers out there;

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Read Paul Hoffman "Left Hand of God" - it's brilliantly written and slyly clever (as it doesn't prove to be). Onto the second one

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Labour won an election Pete Doherty turned up to a gig on time England won on penalties It's been a big weekend for different results than you are used to!

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It's been a huge weekend for feeling like that !

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I’m old enough to remember when some of us said the GOP wants us living in the Handmaid’s Tale world, and men told us we were “overreacting” and should smile more.

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Breaching containment, making the internet worse one post at a time.

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Developing great affection for Guy Mowbray's Dad jokes simply because it means Alan Shearer isn't stating the obvious at that second

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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Is there any world in which Alan Shearer stops stating the bleeding obvious all the time?

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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I prob won't be able to play but much appreciation for the Neil Kulkarni clause

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You could, if you liked, freak them out by calling the hotel and leaving a message

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I understand that this site essentially gamifies your daily thoughts, but you need to conceive of that game as like a carnival diversion or at best a phone puzzle game. If you conceive of it like a dramatic RPG or a fighting game, you’re gonna be soooooo annoying

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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I am still wondering if it's possible to see Lindisfarne from Redcar tho...

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Louise Ankers (Bouba)'s avatar Louise Ankers (Bouba) @louiseankers.bsky.social
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I think it's quite a hard question to answer given FPTP as a lot of it is down to the local situations and / or how many other parties are standing, the spread of the vote and a number of other factors.. to win I think its accepted you have to get 35+% but your question is harder

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