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Iain Shepherd

@lainshep

“takes an interest in pastimes generally” he/him. Bunurong land / Melbourne Australia.

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My Resume - Alice Averlong Wiki

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages.
wiki.averlong.com/My_Resume

06.03.2026 22:15 👍 355 🔁 189 💬 6 📌 3

How did they get this footage of my dreams

10.03.2026 18:07 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Television Archive: Have I Got News For You December 1992 Peter Cook Douglas Adams
Television Archive: Have I Got News For You December 1992 Peter Cook Douglas Adams YouTube video by palimpsest2011

here he is on HIGNFY - with Peter Cook! - 30 years ago. did you hear Charles and Diana are divorcing?!
youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA?...

11.03.2026 12:01 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

09.03.2026 11:52 👍 1247 🔁 300 💬 24 📌 18

everyone’s saying it

10.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@thelastpsion.com spotted!

10.03.2026 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing's really changed has it?
Except there were sometimes valid reasons. Not this time though.
The US shouts 'get over here!' and we all (not you Spain😍) jump to offer our lives and resources for allies that treat us like a suddenly remembered box of extra ammo.

09.03.2026 21:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of square of colourful stained glass in rectangular columns sited in a field of white flowers

Photo of square of colourful stained glass in rectangular columns sited in a field of white flowers

Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt

02.03.2026 03:00 👍 563 🔁 69 💬 1 📌 2

It took like 100 million asks to get this answer at last, ty

07.03.2026 23:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a robin costume with a mask on his face Alt: Robin from the 60s Batman series, clean cut guy with a side part and a bright costume, he is lacing his raised gloved fingers together, and looking back and forth with a slightly quizzical manner

Curious Robin

07.03.2026 23:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy #InternationalWomensDay. I’m thankful for all the amazing women in my life every day. May you get everything you want in life

07.03.2026 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes this is already pretty convenient in phones. I just imagine having it instant-always-on would be very helpful … unless you’re trying to learn that language obvs

07.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Machine translation of anything just by looking at it would be such a game changer

Not a use case for me because (nearly) everything I see is in my native language

07.03.2026 22:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not just media but the entire establishment class (Cass, e.g.) doesn’t feel *any* need to learn anything from the minorities they target. They are Other

Once you see it, cannot unsee

07.03.2026 10:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I … … are you me?? Am I you???

Nah I know these books were super popular I just don’t see them referenced as often as they deserve :)

07.03.2026 07:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the brand is still around and their website serves up these 80s books as PDFs for free nostalgia 😁

07.03.2026 07:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The lifetime maintenance cost is probably so much worse on a PHEV (vs a plain battery car) isn’t it??

Dropped thousands last year on our petrol 2017 Tiguan, damn

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From the RedDwarf community on Reddit: Red Dwarf official site's tribute to co-creator Rob Grant Explore this post and more from the RedDwarf community

This is beautiful. 🫂💔

www.reddit.com/r/RedDwarf/s...

06.03.2026 18:12 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck, that graph is startling and bleak

06.03.2026 08:00 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent Friday energy

05.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shipping a button in 2026…
Shipping a button in 2026… YouTube video by Kai Lentit

This video tied me to my chair and forced me to laugh non stop for 9 mins youtu.be/xE9W9Ghe4Jk?...

05.03.2026 09:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

04.03.2026 03:26 👍 1120 🔁 222 💬 12 📌 2

Conventional wisdom is a really fascinating phenomenon. We're at the point where "everyone knows" kids were being rushed into inappropriate gender transition.

There are between zero and 10 recorded cases of this happening (depending on your definition of rushed).

03.03.2026 16:21 👍 740 🔁 180 💬 7 📌 2
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a group of stuffed animals are watching a movie with an exit sign in the background Alt: Muppets in a movie theater, restless and booing
03.03.2026 07:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"These are supremely dangerous times..we are being led through them by a shill,a walking focus group in a suit, a psy-op to convince you the Labor Party of old still exists.. Albanese has handed over our sovereignty,.. tax dollars..dignity.. [it is]business as usual with fascists, eternal genocide.

02.03.2026 23:16 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Gather 'round Bluesky, while I tell the hoary tale of epidemic vs. endemic.

How can it be that pandemic interventions that were vitally important in 2020 are marginally effective in 2025?

Science will give us the answers!

Follow me...

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17.04.2025 03:59 👍 62 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 9

My memory claims I was there every single weekend in the 80s. Imagine 80s sad grey concrete Cov but you don’t even get sky because it’s indoors.

The best bit was parking, mum or dad driving all over the roofs of all the buildings like it was Micro Machines or Mario Kart, to find a parking spot

28.02.2026 21:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You don’t even have a harm reduction vote to make right now.

You are just for the love of the game, telling your Dems, “do what you like to that subgroup it doesn’t matter you’ll have votes either way”

27.02.2026 22:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Politicians: you gotta choose a side, choose well, choose loudly.

Dan Andrews (former Victoria premier) was a decade ahead of other leftish pollies in getting this. unfortunately a Zionist but on most matters I think he chose right

27.02.2026 22:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#9yearold

“Propose to me with a ring 💍 = 50% chance I’d say yes
Propose to me with a French fry 🍟 - = 100% chance I’d say yes”

27.02.2026 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0