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Tynan

@kemity.bsky.social

Live in the North of England. Happy, relaxed & retired. Socialist by nature & nurture. Widely travelled.

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Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

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For the very first time in the last 14 years, for many, they are going to feel the pinch. Their 'difficult' equates to the many feeling desperation, with no future nor hope.

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A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

18.11.2024 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 27847    πŸ” 3614    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 384

Finally took the plunge & deactivated my X account. No withdrawal symptoms yet.πŸ€“

18.11.2024 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election Social media platform has become a β€˜refuge’ from the far-right activism on X, experts say, after Elon Musk teamed up with Donald Trump

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