Patrick Down
@smallhours2
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Wherein I witter in small, bite-sized chunks, about passing obsessions
Edinburgh
Joined February 2010
@fesshole Now wondering if you are the person I lived with years ago who took all 'his' lightbulbs with him when he moved out
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer 10/12 - which surprised me a little as I'm more of a prose person. Though I know my Dickinson from my Frost...
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@jhoburgh @kelpieowner @jcboyd1026 @sbriceland920 @mattcity5 @mariaemma16 @VinylEddie @andrew_gilmour @charleston51 @TheVinylSlap @kennybhoy84 @adman1976 @PeterLatimer6 @LeroyMcilroy @CorndogAsscrack @rougues63 @STLProgressive @PSchinear @BrianWoods1969 @G_MaC10 @grumpywho1 @Snowmanic @amatteroffack Let Down, Lucky, Airbag - some good stuff on the expanded version with the b sides etc too
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer though Naomi Alderman's 'Liars Gospel' reimagining the life of Jesus of Nazareth with Caiaphas as the (sort of) hero of the story is, to mind, an interesting take on who he may actually have been
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@DrNeilStone Three out of six... (but, to illustrate your point, probably because of my rather patchy early vaccination record)
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@Artemisapphire @anjgi West, surely? It's Edinburgh's being West of Carlisle that I can't quite get my head around
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@en_cohen @Steven_Hyden Listening to the indiecasties and wondering if there can be a more indiecast spotify wrapped top 5 songs than:
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer An algorithm. If you've spent time programming them the spookily human behaviour poses the opposite question. Is this actually all *we* are too?
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer I think it's a case of it being quite hard to argue with people whose underlying position is "if I'm wrong, I would rather not know"
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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @timfarron It's gone from being a place where I can read the views of people with different political perspectives to more and more being a place where monkeys lob faeces at each other. Have a bsky account now...
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@HSouthwellFE Fwiw, I don't know you, started following for the motorsport journalism stuff and stayed for the dry sense of humour
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@SportmphMark @LandoNorris @Max33Verstappen Drivers who looked better or worse than they were because of the quality of the competition is an interesting one. To what extent did late-90s Schumacher seem so good because of a relative lack of really first class F1 drivers at the time?
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