Grim Down South

Grim Down South

@sigrim.bsky.social

Fiddling with computers for fun and profit. Loves science, beer, curry and running, amongst other things.

50 followers46 following324 posts

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Barliman worked for Evri

The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social

Just as Strider is trying to earn Frodo’s trust, Barliman enters the parlour and delivers Gandalf’s 3-month-old letter. ‘You may meet a friend of mine on the Road: a Man, lean, dark, tall, by some called Strider. He knows our business and will help you. Make for Rivendell.’

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For UK & RoI based authors, illustrators etc etc only, but loads of people don't know this. NEVER feel bad getting a book from the library! We get paid! Really quite well! PLR money is a real help for small-mid range authors!

It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here!@scriblit.bsky.social

Every time someone on here gets anxious about library use I like to slide in all 'diiiiid you know the author was probably better paid for your borrow by PLR than they would have been if you'd got it on sale from Amazon???'

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just read about a medieval guy amassing an army of ‘50 thousand clowns’ by ‘beguiling them with his juggling’ and got so excited before i realised clown used to mean ‘farm worker’ and juggling used to mean ‘general trickery’

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Replying to @gralefrit.bsky.social

Imagine making a nostalgic film set *11 years ago* now. "Where were you in 2015?" "Well, basically here, but my iphone icons weren't see-through."

More or Less should be mandatory listening for everyone. Even though a lot of the time the message would be, Actually it’s a lot more complicated than this person said and it depends on how you collect and interpret the data.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social

Just have someone from More or Less in the corner of the screen at all times. Better still replace the News across the board with More or Less 24, a new channel with facts on it.

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(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

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We're not far off 5,000 followers & when we hit that we'll have some CEEFAUX merchandise giveaways. Help us get there by spreading the word - the more posts you like or share the more we pop up on people's feeds. It all helps and is massively appreciated - go forth and spread the word (if you want).

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A great day for chemistry! The first goal of the #worldcup was apparently scored by Quinones. It's about time these amazing compounds get some recognition! Suck it up, Terpenes! #chemsky 🧪

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Carry on Campaigning? Or Brexit as Not-So-Jolly Gents' Japes, plus Wives and Sisters making dinner. I have just done a rough and ready analysis of the 'talking head' contributions to the BBC's 'Brexit: a Very British Civil War'. A short 🧵about this Blokey Affair: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

bbc.co.ukBrexit: A Very British Civil War - Series 1: 1. Demons UnleashedThe promise of a referendum helps David Cameron win a majority. Nigel Farage starts to campaign for Brexit. Boris Johnson and Michael Gove decide whether to back Leave or Remain.

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