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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

🐈 Duffy

View from above of curled up black and white cat looking at the camera
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β™« My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Sparks (12), The Wedding Present (7), Grian Chatten (6), Tracy Chapman (6) & London Symphony Chorus, Leonard Bernstein & London Symphony Orchestra (5) #weeklymusic via @tweeklyfm

πŸ“† | 🏷 Music

My radio just switched from cricket to The Shipping Forecast 🌧️ 🚒 🏏

πŸ“† | 🏷 Cricket 🏷 Weather

πŸ”— Tim Dowling: is this a hangover – or just what being 60 feels like?

Is this what it’s like from now on?

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Lusco Fusco 🍷

Bottle of red wine, glass of red wine and small radio on a wooden table with a garden backdrop
πŸ“† | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Wine

Currently reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski πŸ“šπŸ

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books 🏷 Cricket

🏏 England declare half an hour before the end of play on day one of the first Ashes Test. Ambitious cricket.

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πŸ”— Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too?

Taking on misinformation in a real way would require scrutinising our biggest media institutions – but it would mean picking a fight with sharks, rather than minnows, even if it would take us far closer to the actual truth.

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Finished reading: The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer πŸ“š

πŸ“† | 🏷 Books

🍺 Rhoswenallt Inn for a pint of Glamorgan Bitter

πŸ“† | 🏷 Beer 🏷 Status
Synchronic, 2019 - β˜…β˜…β˜…

Watched on Monday June 12, 2023.

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πŸ₯• Making carrot top pesto

πŸ“† | 🏷 Food 🏷 Status

Just the two of us for dinner tonight. Not sure which two. 🐈

Cat laying on a picnic bench set for two, woman seated in background reading a book
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β™« My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lankum (12), Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood (6), Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve (6), Radiohead (4) & Roger Waters (4) from the no longer functioning @tweeklyfm πŸ˜”

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