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Want to come over and watch me eat a loaf of bread? https://xitter.gq/t.co/El85fQtz4C

Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined January 2008
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Incredible Fraggle Rock/German trivia
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Иногда я рисую pixel art. Дэвид Бекхэм и его знаменитый крученый удар #pixelart #aseprite #32x32 #soccer #football #ManUnited #DavidBeckham #pico8
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Roman 'Swiss Army Knife' multi tool, incorporating a knife, spoon, fork, spatula, spike for extracting snails, and a tooth pick! Made of silver, the complex tool would have been a luxury item - perhaps a useful gadget for a wealthy traveller. 3rd century AD, Fitzwilliam Museum
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Tech preview: Sierra-style AGI graphics but in 3D, voxels w/ custom renderer. Hoping to build something with this engine. #magickavoxel #raylib #voxel #agi #retro #adventure #textparser #sierra
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Changes to the Highway Code are set to be introduced by DfT & will see the introduction of a Hierarchy of Road Users & will give pedestrians & cyclists greater priority over cars at junctions and crossings #DriveSmart #FifeRP Info ow.ly/xqxF30s4ZgL ow.ly/5a5U30s4ZgK
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Sellotape is BULLSHIT.
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Be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy. My little sister found the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time inside her Mars Bar
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🧵Living in survival mode: Survival mode can be thought of as a state of living in which managing each day takes pretty much all the capacity you have. And by the time you are in survival mode, you're already working with a significantly depleted capacity. (1/12)
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We should all dress like this when William Shatner returns from space.
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Its not often that the Venn diagram of practicality and nightmare fuel intersect
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Everybody's like "the web is decentralized now" until us-east-1 goes down
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A very dumb T-shirt “I made” on redbubble. redbubble.com/shop/ap/883450…
For admirers of Endurance and Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-antarctic expedition 1914-1917, I have cleaned & enhanced these 107-year-old paget plates taken by Frank Hurley. The last shot is of Shackleton himself. They are all original colour (not colourised).
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this is absolutely the worst solo i have ever heard by any instrument
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Japan has been holding precision walking competitions since 1966. Mesmerizing.
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Klaus Bürgle 60’s
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Remember when SSD drives were so fast they felt like magic, and then platform developers were like "I know, let's make our thing worse to compensate" and now SSD drives are barely acceptable and this dynamic also happened with every other hardware advance in the last 40 years
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