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@Morgan and of course if you're a shareholder you want the NHS to be crap so that BUPA can also be crap, just slightly less crap, but people still have to pay to get the slightly less crap @nickbwalking

Svalbard, Norway is where this amazingly beautiful photo was taken by photographer Marsel van Oosten WOW!! 💗

my biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"

I'm in a legal tussle with the red Teletubby over the ownership of a cabbage salad. It's complicated because she's substituted all but ten percent of it with a peppery Chinese sauce, but there's legal precedent because Po's szechuan is nine-tenths of the slaw.

How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?

#BOOST OK

RT @Haggis_UK@twitter.com

Carol Vorderman rips into Rishi Sunak on #ThisMorning.

"Rishi Sunak co-founded a hedge fund... that invested £1b in Moderna shares... & he has refused to say whether he holds assets in the hedge fund & therefore Moderna... so are we talking about insider trading."

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1

You either die a hero or live long enough for “don’t be evil” to become a punchline

I'm sorry, but you can't *always* be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average.

That's not how averages work.

♫ it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right
Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel
And the last two letters are an e and an r
And the t is in front of the iiiiii
of the tiger ♫

Why are dogs so good though?

#DogsOfMastodon #MastoDogs #Polls

When you have reached a difficult goal, no matter how hard your struggles or how much it cost you, do not pull the ladder up behind you. Help those who come after you, so that they may stand beside you and share in your triumph. Solitary glory is empty glory.

Might make a couple final tweaks, but I'm pretty happy with this.

I present you: "This is fine", a diorama built from a single piece of paper.

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My manager, arm round my shoulder, looking out into the car-park.
“If you work long hours, skip breaks, take no holiday, lose your wife and family, your mental and physical health and your moral compass you too could ride in one of these babies!”
Rain slicked pavements reflect the flashing blue lights of the ambulance .

‘They have made it clear that the absence of functioning executive has caused "an impossible situation" in the health service which is under unprecedented pressure.

The group of senior doctors and nurses warned they were seeing the dangers of "normalising the unacceptable" such as patients being admitted for surgery that cannot be undertaken in routine circumstances anymore.‘ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/no

“What that has meant is supply chains have changed dramatically,” said Prof Elliott. “We’re sourcing things from places we’ve never had to source from before because of availability.”

“Just before Christmas, 22 lorries of meat were stopped coming into the UK from Eastern Europe and of the 22 lorries, 21 contained meat which wasn’t fit for human consumption,”
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/busines

Blues: The world is fucked
Punk: The world is fucked and I'm pissed
Emo: The world is fucked and I'm sad
Grunge: The world is fucked and I'm medicated
Ska: The world is fucked and I have a trumpet

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