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MsSolo 🫖@solelyfictional.bsky.social |
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I am currently bisexually eating brie. Former writer, current exhausted parent. She/her
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Rachel Moss
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Just ask: could it be sepsis? I was “lucky” w/my sepsis experience: 3xIV antibiotics,8 days in hospital,6 weeks off work, 6 months until I felt “normal”. But no ICU, no permanent injury: because I called 999 & was treated under the sepsis protocol. Learn the symptoms: sepsistrust.org/about/about-...
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Nick Barlow
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Also a final where one of the anthems mentions allegiance to the King of Spain, but not the one you'd expect.
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John Leavitt
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If the final matchup is between Spain and The Netherlands it will be especially pitched as historically the winner gets Belgium
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MsSolo 🫖
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It's a bit wet out, she says, wringing out her bra.
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Pavel
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MsSolo 🫖
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Made perfect sense in the 1920s, I'm sure! But it's bizarre that we have voter ID requirements and not candidate ID requirements when the vast majority of electoral fraud is committed by candidates!
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The whole process is designed for a pre-ID pre-internet society, where getting 10 people to confirm they know you and would vote for you, and having things sent to/from your house, was actually quite a high bar in terms of confirming eligibility compared with, say, opening a bank account.
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I'm more inclined to believe that some of the paper candidates didn't want people to know they were running, but it's still electoral fraud to use a common name you're not actually commonly known by, pretty much to stop that from happening.
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I have now fallen down a rabbit hole on the electoral commission's website reading about electoral fraud cases, like the time Labour gave out packets of dates. Truly, we are not a serious country.
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I don't think id is required (which is especially dodgy now it is for voting), just getting it signed by 10 electors from the constituency. I do wonder what cross checking is done across nominations to make sure no one runs in multiple places (under multiple common names...).
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MsSolo 🫖
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The name does have to actually be commonly used for you, though, so you can't just call yourself Bob Mark unless that name is already associated with you. If not, electoral fraud!
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I've been thinking on this, and obviously they fielded a huge number of paper candidates, but also you don't have to run under your own name (hence Count Binface), so it's possible the ghosts used "commonly used names".
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MsSolo 🫖
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Our Hideous Progeny, C E McGill. Frankenstein's ichthyosaur.
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OnlyCans
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shamefully stolen meme
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OnlyCans
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being raised by online means that occasionally you fail to code switch successfully and say something like, "actually heads of governance only do this when they're extremely distressed" in a meeting.
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Mark Crail
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Question raised by @bylinetimes.bsky.social over whether some Reform candidates really exist is more than just about the contempt the party has for voters. The number of votes a party gets nationally affects the amount of taxpayer cash it gets. bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/r...
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MsSolo 🫖
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MsSolo 🫖
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Isn't that the one that sets fire to bankers' luxury cars, though? Surely the best architecture there can be.
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Loather
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why did we stop sending men to the moon. So many men could fit up there
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MsSolo 🫖
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(This is slightly unfair on Ben, the husband in question, since we went to their wedding last year and he's definitely the designated keeper-upper in that relationship compared with Mike, who mostly posts to promote the choir he's in)
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MsSolo 🫖
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I have a sense of who is still active over there, but who responds to Facebook reminders for birthdays is a slightly separate Venn diagram
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MsSolo 🫖
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The thing about Facebook these days is when you get birthday wishes it's about 50% friends, and 50% your cousin's step sister you met once at a wedding, colleagues you haven't worked with in a decade, and your college room mate's husband.
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Word Family Friday
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Words from Nahuatl with <x>—like "Mexico" and "axolotl"—have completely different pronunciations in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English. And the same for Basque words with <x>, like "Xavier". This is due to the historic instability of Spanish "x". Story time!
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Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips
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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.
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Mary Sue
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MsSolo 🫖
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Kane being injured by the water bottles pretty much sums up this game
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MsSolo 🫖
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I think we've got a copy of that somewhere. Should make it my next nonfiction read, but we have a lot of pop history in the spare room to find it amongst!
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MsSolo 🫖
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Small Person has split hot chocolate on her leggings and daddy is dealing with it, so we're guaranteed a goal in the next 5-10 minutes because teams only score when he's not watching (no predictions on which team)
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MsSolo 🫖
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Also one of the few times Cbeebies heavyweights Justin (Mr Tumble) and Andy (world's shittest museum/safari park employee) share a screen, but due to the greenscreen maybe not in real life, allowing my "they are nemeses" conspiracy theory to remain unchallenged.
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MsSolo 🫖
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I had forgotten how earwormy the yeti yodel song is.
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MsSolo 🫖
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Small Person is insisting on watching a cbeebies Christmas show (the covid era one that's nearly all greenscreen and it's unclear if any of them were in the same room at any point)
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MsSolo 🫖
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This feels like one of those things where there's some "consumption of British twill" bill or wood turners strike that led to trousers for chairs which got retconned into a Victorian moral panic because no one could admit it was about anything as gauche as workers rights.
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MsSolo 🫖
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I feel like this really enables the whole scam, because consumers are so used to prices not matching they assume its their own maths skills that are lacking
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Fair play to Liz Truss for demanding recount after recount until plenty of people are awake and able to enjoy her humiliation fully, rather than disappearing quietly in the middle of the night
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James Hunt
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Pretty fucking telling, IMO, that the terfs aren’t celebrating a win here because they’re actually all far-right dipshits who pretend they MIGHT vote Labour but never will. Hope the party stops courting their vote now.
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MsSolo 🫖
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I bet this is going to be the only night this week when Small Person doesn't fall out of bed at 2am and wake me up to put her back to sleep.
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MsSolo 🫖
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Angela Rayner, who has presumably up since about 5am and isn't going to get to sleep until tomorrow night being absolutely baffled by Clive's lengthy chicken question.
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MsSolo 🫖
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Not sure if I'm being invited to join their interspecies threesome or they're mad i interrupted their arm wrestling match.
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MsSolo 🫖
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(Depending on how threading is working for you today, check out some of the replies to my first skeet for corrections to my initial statement. Graph is still solid, though!)
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SJ Groenewegen
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Reboosting this for people in England. Trans women particularly, and LGBTQIA people generally, need help to fight against erosion of our rights. This consultation started under the Tories and the results will be used by the next government.
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MsSolo 🫖
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if you set this for 1750-1850 you can really see why the UK's historic carbon footprint is a debt it's unlikely we'll ever be able to repay.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...
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Guillaume Babey
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Impressionism and social realism wouldn't have emerged the way they did without the technological inovation that was tubed paint. It facilitated outdoors painting, natural and urban observation, and therefore a new focus on everyday subjects compared to classical painting bound by the workshop.
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MsSolo 🫖
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And the reason the UK adopted coal so early is because we decimated our forests to build war ships in the early days of colonisation. And having adopted coal so early helped lead to the industrial revolution (much better for furnaces and engines than wood) which enabled the full on British empire.
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MsSolo 🫖
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Chicken farming too. Until the second half of the C20th chicken was rarely eaten except by people who raised them for eggs, which was essentially the pin money job on farms. (Stuff You Missed in History Class had a great episode, called The Chicken of Tomorrow)
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MsSolo 🫖
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Not even "can dad do the school run", which feels like the bare minimum to me when the lives of theirs and other people's kids are on theline.
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MsSolo 🫖
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The worst I saw in a sleep group was a mum reaching out for help because she had 4 kids, a baby that didn't sleep, and she was falling asleep behind the wheel on the school run. All she got back was "thoughts and prayers" and "nap when the baby naps".
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Matt 'Wib' Ward
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Because I saw this mentioned elsewhere but not here: Out of date photo ID is still considered valid ID for voting.
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MsSolo 🫖
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Community Centre. One day in going to actually go to one of the events/classes/fetes there, instead of just turning up to vote.
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Meredith Rose
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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John Kennedy
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
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