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" I actually can't do another round of Hereward the Wake should / shouldn't have raided this /that. I am going to bury myself in soft peat and you can dig me up in 1000 years" Stefan Mohamed, a thousand years ago

Glad I didn't see that

The main alternative to a far right party being terrible is an argument against voting tactically for the alternative. How could it possibly be a reason to campaign for the far right? The sheer arrogance of expecting people to buy that.

This is true for now but not for ever. One day I hope to purchase the Folio Society's deluxe five-volume set of your Complete Waste Of Time.

the cycle of life

I'm Young Boozer the Third I am

I hope this enlightened attitude lasts until your next birthday

Not just a different point of view. A new kind of understanding. Machine and human creating content together.

Was he the janitor at the KitKat museum?

Errr...they *are" the guys in the pub desperate to tell us 5G is making everyone's nan gay. The pioneers of felt pen antivax poster art. The fleshy avatars of the phrase 'No offence, mate, but'

And human behaviour on social media has already primed us to accept recombined snippets of comforting opinions as original content. The robots landed at the perfect moment.

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What a time to be alive

Very grateful to Kevin Gardner for this lovely review essay placing Life Expectancy Begins to Fall in some great company wildcourt.co.uk/work/reviews/

Thanks so much Kevin.

The way random likes and dislikes are presented as the inescapable corollary of progressive politics is kinda fun though. Like an advert where someone is sipping coffee in a beautiful place with beautiful people and right at the end you discover that you should buy a particular brand of bleach.

The Wells Fountain Poets next meet-up is this Monday 1st September, an open-mic plus two guest poets @julwe1.bsky.social and @tomsastry.bsky.social, authors of these wonderful recent #poetry collections. Upstairs in the King’s Head in Wells High Street, 7pm. wellsfountainpoets.wordpress.com

The dogmatists don't want you to know that there's a middle way between packing and not packing. Just procrastinate unhappily until desperation sets in. Then throw a vague approximation of the requirement into bags of roughly the appropriate volume while crying for your passport like a baby.

You can absolutely get comments like that from a bot. That audience is completely replaceable.

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