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Richard Cole

@homeindorset.bsky.social

Retired Coder. Discworld fan. Likes Train Sims. "Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to." - Terry Pratchett

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Note by the artist.
What started as a deeply personal response to pain — a mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame — became something I never expected. I placed her in France, but her message traveled across the world. From the U.S. to India, Arabia, Mexico, Portugal, Thailand… people felt it. Argued with it. Shared it. Held it.

Note by the artist. What started as a deeply personal response to pain — a mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame — became something I never expected. I placed her in France, but her message traveled across the world. From the U.S. to India, Arabia, Mexico, Portugal, Thailand… people felt it. Argued with it. Shared it. Held it.

Painting by JDL Street Art. This mural is located in Lille, Roubaix, France.

30.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Having religion is like having a penis.
You can enjoy it, just don't go waving it in everyone else's face.

28.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every day I'm more and more happy that I don't live in the USA,

26.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'All GOOD bookshops' as well as some bad ones.

26.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't download podcasts as I listen to them when they're being broadcast on the steam radio, so I don't download them at all.

26.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Baseball. Is that the US version of Rounders or Netball?

26.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can always set it up so you never need to.

26.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should of said "I'm sad that they haven't noticed that Lucozade ̷d̷o̷e̷s̷n̷'̷t̷ ̷ has zero nutrition."

25.10.2025 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Lucozade nutrition information (source Tesco)

Lucozade nutrition information (source Tesco)

I'm sad that they haven't noticed that Lucozade doesn't has zero nutrition.

25.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That sounds right. 1962/3 with Chubby Checker, Sam Cooke, Booker T & the M.G.s, The Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, The Ronettes.

All great.

23.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Andrew will try to persuade the pitchfork people that the torch people want their pitchforks.
Turn them against each other being the Navy tactic.

22.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
The Guardian view on Sarkozy’s first day in prison: no citizen is above the law | Editorial Editorial: Attempts by the former French president and his supporters to discredit the legal process by which he was sentenced have been irresponsible and unjustified

Something for the Rump to look forward to.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

21.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try looking for "Rock Follies" series, that had some decent music in it. Andy Mackay (of Roxy Music) did the music for it.

19.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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pats of cow shit to give your rural
railways that authentic feel.
Lee Knight, Chesterfield

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18.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 176    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 3

Broke Andrew, previously known as the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.

17.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I suspect, that if we do go back in, it will involve switching to the €, about which, I don't care, "money is money is money".

I suspect many will not want to lose the £, same as in 1971 they didn't want to decimalise as it was considered, by them, to be "too complicated".

12.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sitting on the job again.
I may have misheard that, when it was said to me.

12.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next time, if there is one, he'll become 'a grandad for the first time, again'.

12.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would 30 seconds of my best Fred Astaire impression cover the cost or if you've somewhere I could change I could do 45 seconds of Ann Miller or maybe Bojangles?

11.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's there to delay the Auditors of Reality. It works every time. You should know that Nanny, ask Susan of her grandfather next to see either of them.
#Discworld #Auditors #GNUTerryPratchett

09.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This brings a new definition to 'round' as used in round table.

09.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read on a fact checker site (Prorabably MediaFactChecker ?) that said that Trump and donors were paying for the ballroom, not the state.

07.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't use Insta or TikTok and avoid Facebook 'reels', but do use Bluesky, Mastodon and Reddit, so it's text for me and doom scroll to the end.

07.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has somebody dropped their Mars bar into the pool again?

07.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He certainly had a sister Ea and there's a movie 'The Brand New Testament' that tells her story. Well worth a watch and apparently available free on-line. Set in Gods home in Belgium (The movie is in French and subtitled).

07.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can you post husband's recipes for the GP meals?

They all look great and a recipe would be useful, if only to keep for a year.

Thanks

05.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Switch your search engine as well as your browser. Duckduckgo, Bing and Qwant are not blocking, Qwant being European (French) is independent of US political pressures (so far).

04.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not familiar with the 'Constitution' as I'm from the UK, but doesn't it include something about 'the military can remove a president who is loosing his marbles'.
If the military have sworn allegiance to this constitution and it contains a 'remove the president' clause, perhaps they should,

03.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh! He's just Bob d'Up, no he's Down again.

03.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just need to find some way to get rid of tree rats and bring back red squirrels.

03.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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