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Waxy Davey concerned about the impact of allowing a Brexit referendum

Let's make it happen

I don't know if 2016 Madam Tussauds David Cameron is a meme, but it feels like it should be.

Who knew that all this would lead to Dawson's Creek?

With my bionic wrist and your career aspirations, the future looks robotic

When you get an email titled 'Redemption confirmation' but turns out it's about remortgaging rather than improving yourself.

Boss: Can you write a blog post about this thing please?
Me: Sure. Any particular angle?
Boss: No, you're the expert! Whatever take you want.
Me: Rough word count?
Boss: Don't worry, whatever you think.

*Me: goes away writes blog, sends off to boss*

Boss: it's a little longer than expected.
Me: 😶

Been overlooked twice by the ticket guard. Like mate, I have a ticket - do I look like the person who sat here before I did?

Now on the train back home with ears full of @kevintihista.bsky.social and @joshrouseofficial.bsky.social - introspection at volume 10

Took the day off, went to Manchester to see a pal hadn't seen for a year but one of my most cherished people. We went to wine bars and cool food places, ate small plates, drank Very Good Wine and deconstructed the last ten years of our lives. Nourished.

It's my birthday, the radio is playing my favourite song and I've heard from 2 of my friends (in Paris and Helsinki respectively) with lovely birthday messages 😍😍 I also had a brilliant weekend celebrating with Singalongs and friends in London (although both I and Mr Mint have picked up a cold) 🤧

Garden furniture it is then. Now you have a garden.

You can imagine the modelling. "Are you done yet?" #doesntseemlikethehuggingtype

I have not been keeping up. Why are you not making massive homemade Jenga?

No wonder she looks thrilled.

This is frankly adding to my theory that AI is at heart, an insect, where high numbers of limbs are the standard.

The photo shows an advert for "Unique Van Gogh socks"... Except the socks have a design of The Kiss by Klimt.

Erm...

#TBT that time in 2012 I took this photo on the Tube because of this coat's cheery face

Just drafted a tweet (look, we all know that's the technical term for posting here, just like googling is the technical term for internet searches) about AI and deleted it because of the likelihood of AI reading it.

Spring is the best season

Time for a glass of wine

Stop employers covering up abuse Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Nite to passengers on a train - if you're a passenger on a train don't spray hairspray liberally in preparation for your destination. It's an enclosed space, and I, the lucky person sitting behind you, am the recipient of a face full of Elnett.

I am in Oxford. There's either a parade or a protest going on outside. Trying to work out if I can go out for dinner. There's a lot of snare drums happening.

This is blatant Donatello erasure and I won't stand for this disrespect of the best Turtle.

The headline in the Times and Sunday Times newspapers is: " The perils of earning £100,000. Earning a low six figure salary can put you on a cliff edge." The poster is posting this to highlight the irony of the use of the word 'perils' and asks readers to imagine earning a six figure salary full stop.

The perils. THE PERILS.

Most people can't imagine earning a six figure salary let alone a low one.

Remember that these are the people contributing to the media agenda. People's realities are very different...

Juvenile emperor penguin sitting on snow in the sunshine.

Terribly remiss of me; yesterday was International Penguin Appreciation Day, so here's a thread of penguins, and some penguin facts:

1. On water the collective noun for penguins is 'a raft' but on land it's 'a waddle'

(Emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri)

It would appear AI hasn't learned the word birthday yet, for Ali just read an article about David Lynch about what would have been "his 79th birth anniversary".

Anyone else think Linda from The Traitors looks like Sid from Ice Age?

I suspect I'm going nowhere tomorrow. Gotta drive to Surrey next weekend though so keeping a close eye

Yeah fortunately there were no bumps - at least on our road. Supposed to be collecting my violin from the luthiers tomorrow but we'll see...