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designer/dev currently in… Athens. vegetable rights and peace. blog https://felix.gripe work https://blackspike.com

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A page from the first Molesworth book. The text reads:
“ST CUSTARD'S: BY THE CAMERA CLUB
grabber who is head of the skool captane of everything and winer of he mrs joyful prize for rafia work. His pater is very rich and hav a super rolls enuff said. He is bigger than me so i must be careful.
Our skool dog thinking. He is planning to dash across the pitch and pinch the criket ball then bite the umpire in the leg which was super.
He is not bad but he scored a gole against us in one match.”
The two illustrations are by Ronald Searle. Grabber is every bit as you would expect: haughty, disdainful, holding a football under his arm. The skool dog has the furtive air of one about to pinch the criket ball ect ect chiz chiz

A page from the first Molesworth book. The text reads: “ST CUSTARD'S: BY THE CAMERA CLUB grabber who is head of the skool captane of everything and winer of he mrs joyful prize for rafia work. His pater is very rich and hav a super rolls enuff said. He is bigger than me so i must be careful. Our skool dog thinking. He is planning to dash across the pitch and pinch the criket ball then bite the umpire in the leg which was super. He is not bad but he scored a gole against us in one match.” The two illustrations are by Ronald Searle. Grabber is every bit as you would expect: haughty, disdainful, holding a football under his arm. The skool dog has the furtive air of one about to pinch the criket ball ect ect chiz chiz

I’m rereading Molesworth and its panacean qualities remain undimmed.

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Sign the Petition Change the name of this bird to “Türkiye”

lol www.change.org/p/change-the...

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screengrab of ash rouths empty bluesky page despite her bio describing herself as a shitposter

screengrab of ash rouths empty bluesky page despite her bio describing herself as a shitposter

hardly!

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Deputy Leader - Green Party Online voting is at https://ballot.greenparty.org.uk/ The key purpose of the Green Party Deputy Leader is to provide essential support across various critical areas, including aiding election candidat...

interesting that nearly all the candidates for the @greenparty.org.uk deputy leaders have bluesky accounts

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Athens Greeknotes Aug 03 | felix.gripe The biggest news of the week is that it rained – a peaceful week in Athens

A week spent largely at home after all the fun of last week's holiday. Still, a v pleasant if uneventful time in the burbs. I feel like I'm not really selling this blog post but here we are.

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#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #bier

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the parthenon

the parthenon

a biergarten-taverna

a biergarten-taverna

athens city at night

athens city at night

the acropolis at dusk

the acropolis at dusk

#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #bier

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Athens Greeknotes Aug 03 | felix.gripe The biggest news of the week is that it rained – a peaceful week in Athens

A week spent largely at home after all the fun of last week's holiday. Still, a v pleasant if uneventful time in the burbs. I feel like I'm not really selling this blog post but here we are.

felix.gripe/blog/athens-...

#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #bier

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Stefan Zweig on borders is almost too much to bear

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Symposium by Plato Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Free ebook from Project Gutenberg

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1600

02.08.2025 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Symposium by Plato | felix.gripe I was recommended this after telling a friend I couldn’t fully grasp The Republic, they said Symposium is more accessible. This was true.

Review: The Symposium by Plato, ⭐️⭐️

Fun ending! Also fun to see athens mentioned while reading it in athens.

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#book #booksky #athens #plato

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NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader for Mac.

netnewswire.com

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Yeah I find myself using the great NetNewsWire RSS reader Mac/iOS app more and more (i use my own aggregator spike.news for firehose feeds) and since Apollo was killed off I rarely go to Reddit but i do subscribe to a few subreddit #rss feeds (just add .rss to a subreddit url)

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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville | felix.gripe A proper 867-page-turner. Sort of like a steampunk Pratchett if you removed all the humour and replaced it with grim.

book review: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville,

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#bookstodon #books

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You can now fit 256 people into a WhatsApp group chat Bigger groups are now available to all WhatsApp users on iOS and Android

see the footnote www.independent.co.uk/tech/whatsap...

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screenshot of an article from the indepedent newspaper reading 'WhatsApp increases group chat size limit to 256 people It's not clear why WhatsApp settled on such an oddly specific number'

screenshot of an article from the indepedent newspaper reading 'WhatsApp increases group chat size limit to 256 people It's not clear why WhatsApp settled on such an oddly specific number'

this memory just popped into my head for some reason lol

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Downgraded my full #adobe creative cloud subscription to just #illustrator. First time without photoshop on my mac in 25 years.

Going to give Affinity Photo a shot or maybe Pixelmator Pro instead…

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Crystal clear sea at Agios Lavrentios

Crystal clear sea at Agios Lavrentios

Village square with taverna tables under a giant plane tree

Village square with taverna tables under a giant plane tree

Village square covered in plants and trees

Village square covered in plants and trees

A stone paved street outside a taverna at sunset

A stone paved street outside a taverna at sunset

#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #pelion #portaria #makrinitsa #agiosLavrentios #wildfires

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Athens Greeknotes Jul 29 | felix.gripe What I did on my holiday to Mount Pelion – some of the prettiest mountains, beaches and villages I've ever seen.

Late greeknotes due to a week's holiday in paradise, aka Mount Pelion. Good: europe's best beach. Less good: terrifying wildfires, looming climate apocalypse

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#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #pelion #portaria #makrinitsa #agiosLavrentios #wildfires

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How did it go? Did the instructor make you wear a giant triangle of Ls at the end

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A crystal clear sea against a white beach blue skies and green hills

A crystal clear sea against a white beach blue skies and green hills

Agioi Saranta Beach, #greece

22.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
view over the distant sea and peninsular

view over the distant sea and peninsular

old paved stone lane way

old paved stone lane way

blue sky sun and distant hazy mountains

blue sky sun and distant hazy mountains

lush garden town square

lush garden town square

Exploring the village of #‎⁨Portaria⁩, 650m up Mount Pelion in #⁨Thessaly⁩, #⁨Greece⁩

22.07.2025 07:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
bathroom with extremely checkered tiles

bathroom with extremely checkered tiles

hold on, i gotta go to the skathroom

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Athens Greeknotes Jul 20 | felix.gripe Exploring Kifisa, visiting a natural history museum, and a lot more time spent eating cheese than running

Athenian delights this week include: a natural history museum, a forbidden swimming pool, a posh neighbouring neighbourhood, Hadrian's aqueduct, and a new and exciting way of eating feta.

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#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #feta

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the forbidden outdoor swimming pool of temptation

the forbidden outdoor swimming pool of temptation

Bouyourdi, greek salad with feta hat, non-feta fava, delicious Nymfi beer

Bouyourdi, greek salad with feta hat, non-feta fava, delicious Nymfi beer

The museum's mounting of this tortoise feels disrespectful

The museum's mounting of this tortoise feels disrespectful

On what other blog can you find such majestic lamp posts

On what other blog can you find such majestic lamp posts

#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #feta

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Athens Greeknotes Jul 20 | felix.gripe Exploring Kifisa, visiting a natural history museum, and a lot more time spent eating cheese than running

Athenian delights this week include: a natural history museum, a forbidden swimming pool, a posh neighbouring neighbourhood, Hadrian's aqueduct, and a new and exciting way of eating feta.

felix.gripe/blog/athens-...

#greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #feta

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A pet shop poster for a dog food called barf

A pet shop poster for a dog food called barf

The strapline is eat barf be strong

The strapline is eat barf be strong

Come the fuck on

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