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Mark Dorset

@merkymonkey.bsky.social

Living the dream in the South West of England.

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My top tip is to use old phone numbers and post codes to construct passwords. That way you'll only have to go through 500 permutations to get it right.

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I believe that is cold air to cool her down.

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It's long overdue and that proposal isn't anywhere near as unpopular as they would have us believe.

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Syphoning off money to shareholders who then pass it on to the boss is just posh money laundering.

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What Kurt Vonnegut’s β€œSlaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now Salman Rushdie on what the books β€œSlaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, β€œCatch-22,” by Joseph Heller, and others tell us about the nature of war and humanity.

Salman Rushdie on what people often misunderstand about β€œSlaughterhouse-Five” and its refrain, β€œSo it goes.”

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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently. The modern-day potato evolved from the hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants, and another potato-like plant, in South America, researchers say.

Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, apparently.

New research explains how the two foods are related:

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How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birdsβ€”and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.

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She's still a totally unique artist

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Wildfires rage in Greece and Turkey as extreme heat persists Firefighters warn of a

As Greece burns and Turkey is in flames, remember Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are working to reverse Britain's progress on renewables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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