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A thought I had I don't know when

White text centred on an ornamental background with palm trees with palm trees and blue sky: Work in school, so when you grow up you can live on trifle, Turkish delight & Merlot

Judi Sutherland@judisutherland.bsky.social · 5d ago

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. On the Grand Union canal at Greenford

Bright day. Men standing on a black, blue and red narrowboat as it passes under a footbridge over its reflection in canal water that also reflects the bridge and greenery along the banks. The sky is glared to white.

Go to your camera roll and search ‘boat’. Then post a picture of a boat you like. Annalong.

I wrote this "How to Make Multi-Track Audio & Video with Freeware & a Headset" and included an example of the results, with my woeful singing voice, music and text effects. stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/h... #HowTo #MultiTrack #Audio #Video #Media #Freeware

How to Make Multi-Track Audio & Video with Freeware & a Headset

With Audacity sound editing freeware, you can add multiple tracks and then export the combined result. Likewise with the free version of Lightworks video editing. I’m talking about PC softwar…

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Wembley Central London Underground sign

Miriam Stoppard - amazing woman and what a life. She was treated as dead by her Orthodox parents when she married a Quaker. She's in her nineties now and written almost as many books - no exaggeration. #DesertIslandDiscs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Desert Island Discs - Dr Miriam Stoppard - BBC Sounds

Doctor and writer Miriam Stoppard shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

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#Apocrypha. "My stones think I have fathered thousands." The Book of Onan (1:1)

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu - snakeheads. Trump, Vance and Netanyahu - a confederacy of liars.

"Requisition all of McDonalds' BIODIESEL from recycled cooking oil." (Prof. Kronk) Solution to world diesel shortage willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/s...

Solution to world diesel shortage

Requisition all of McDonalds’ BIODIESEL from recycled cooking oil. Helmut Kronk

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Jay Foreman@jayforeman.bsky.social · 6d ago

rofl

Timeline cleanser! Stan Laurel leaves a room.

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 6d ago

Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay

L a m e n t

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay -

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 6d ago

NHS waiting times in A&E - proposal willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/n... #QueueTheory

NHS waiting times in A&E – proposal

It’s urgent for pressure to be taken off A&E departments which are currently overwhelmed. My suggestion is for two streams following triage. There *seems to be* only one stream following …

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com · 7d ago

Words Said Out Loud

+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 7d ago

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last wk.

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

"Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come."

we could make mechanical birds more affordable if the government invested in automaton trade schools, built more housing so craftspeople can afford to pursue this noble trade, and lowered trade barriers with countries that also produce mechanical singing birds

You can't buy Sally Rooney's "Normal People" in the UK anymore but you can buy Hitler's "Mein Kampf".

Don't ask me.

Night lit. Orange figure with yellow head, lumpy mishapen plaster about 20ft tall outside glass building, ground floor looks like a restaurant