Pirate 📎

WAnchoring Bias

They look delicious 😋

Poor Stella - hope it heals quickly.

When is a protection racket not a protection racket?

State of mind, mind of state

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Robusta,Liberica !

Rose of the Apocalypse window in Sainte-Chapelle chapel. Paris, France. The Gothic church dates from 13th century. The rose window on the west facade dates from 1485. The panels contain red, green, yellow and blue in the shape of flames and represent the High Gothic style. Photo taken September 2025.

Rose Window.
Sainte-Chapelle.
Paris, France.

#travel #photography
#RoseWednesday
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#art #Gothic #rosewindow
#Paris #France

It's terrifying.
The Sky defence expert, Michael Clarke is really interesting on this ship (Yantar ) & threats to undersea cable (internet) & pipelines.

Polydactyl - big mits on that cute guy!

🤣 Whatever I'm eating i cut off a small portion, move it to the side of my plate & say that's Pirate's piece to my bear dog. He sits there focused & staring until I've finished & then he gets the tax.

Four panel cartoon, label is "Berlin 1971" Panel 1: A woman in a kitchen chopping a carrot asks "Alexei, play Tchaikovsky" Panel 2: close shot of a rotary phone on a table,; there is an old fashioned microphone taped under the table with wires connected to a box Panel 3: a man in a military uniform wearing headphones is shown pulling an LP off of a shelf Panel 4: the woman in the kitchen is contining to prepare foor while listening to the music coming from the box under the table.

A classic

A needle felted mouse fishing a piece of cheese from a mousetrap

A needle felted mouse wearing a crinoline hoop getting ready Infront of an old mirror

A needle felted mouse wearing a flat cap, tie and waistcoat

A needle felted mouse wearing houndstooth trousers and a smoking jacket reads a newspaper through his monocle while sitting on an armchair

My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.

Indeed & in the next couple of decades what about females with a PD Dx /history of MH difficulties?

In employment disputes employers often went the route of concerns re workplace relationship rather than capability as it was difficult to defend against & humiliating/upsetting for the claimant.

There's a singing advert for a funeral service called Simplicity Cremations.
It's like an Irish folk tune -two fiddle players singing "Simplicity Cremations where you go when you go"

It almost sounds appealing 😒 wonder if they serve Guinness & tato crisps.
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V weird 😳

Saudi regime executes another child offender for attending protests Amnesty said that the execution of Abdullah was just one of a long line of executions

The Saudi regime has executed Abdullah al-Derazi, under 18 at the time of his alleged crimes, linked to him attending demonstrations against the regime.

In August, the Saudis had executed Jabal Labbad, also arrested as a minor, in his case for attending demonstrations and funerals.

Don't use dirty tricks against a dirty person. Never ends well.

Like Poutine in Canada.

Oh no - that's a terrible worry. Hope you find a workable solution for your high jumping pup.

It is extremely unwise to ignore the fact that a digital panopticon is being erected around us.
This is a key component of a new form of authoritarian capitalism known as Surveillance Capitalism.

No idea why but this made me cry with laughter.

Ooh a proper cup of tea. They prob had to use 3 NHS teabags to get it that strong. 👍

Mountebank Whinger

He was so very handsome 😍

Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

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2. F v media connected who cd not have been unaware of concerns re AMW. Through AMW hon position at UK institution (now removed) this F in +ion to AMW household role gained a senior appt at institution. Still there. Also involved in commercial drives of mid/late 2010s at BP.

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Mountebank Whinger

I've (briefly) known/worked with 3 people who went on to work with Mountebank Whinger (AMW) at senior levels.

1. M, early naughties. Overseas advisory. An individual of bombastic self confidence who as a 18/19 yo dallied with my v troubled 14 yo friend.

2. F, 2014/15 for several years.

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Alto-rations were inflated.

Have the Daily Star carved a Rachel Pumpkin to see if it beats the Liz Truss lettuce on longevity?

Maybe the elephant in the room is only excised when room is needed for another elephant.