Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social

Book addict, user of recreational maths. Green Party member. Wildlife buff. Plant-based happiness. Not unpartial to the odd dram.

The best cure for buying too many books is to not worry about buying too many books.
#booksky
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If you see this, quote with a character that starts with 'S'
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"You can't hear an image".

The image
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"Simultaneously", I think was the word you couldn't be bothered to look up.

Not great from Taschen.
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Oops, butterfingers.
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Opened a pack of Cathedral City last night. The pack says BB 25th June. But this looks like it's been left open for a fortnight already.
Well done, Cathedral City. You've successfully both saved money on packaging, and at the same time increases the amount of cheese people throw away.
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I suspect @sukie74.bsky.social will like this 😁
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Just got an email from Yodel saying they have my parcel.

It feels like a ransom note.
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Happy Chocolate Day, to all those who observe.
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Quite remarkable really, given that according to Trump, their military capability has been completely obliterated.

What did they use, a fucking pea-shooter?

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgj0gn36px8t?app-referrer=push-notification
American fighter jet shot down over Iran, US and Iranian media report - BBC News
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Correction: page 410, in case anyone decides to check!
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Just reached page 413 of Dan Simmons' extraordinary Carrion Comfort, and I have rarely been so angry with a writer for what he's done to a character!
#booksky
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It really *really* shouldn't have taken a Middle-East War to get him to move in the right direction on this.

BBC News - Keir Starmer: UK will seek closer ties with EU in light of Iran war - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62l6w03lwzo
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Spare a thought today for newspaper copy writers who in past times would always relish the opportunity of publishing hilarious news articles to play a harmless April Fool's Day prank on their readers.

Sadly no headline these days would even momentarily strike the reader as too crazy to be true.
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Reposted by Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Fair play from the Mail.

I said what I said.
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Just had a fake "Royal Mail" email, a fake "DPD" text message, and a call from a "likely nuisance" number, all within the space of five minutes.
These bastards really are determined to catch me out. I wish them nothing but chronic, painful illness.
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Gas Street Basin showing off a bit today.
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There is an "outage" (hateful word) on Sky internet at the moment in my area. I've just checked their site and apparently "these usually take a couple of days to fix", mentioned in such a blasé way, as thought that's absolutely fine.
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First foraging of the year. Pesto made from wild garlic leaves. It's got a bit of a kick!
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If anyone is in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham, be sure to pop into the Oxfam bookshop in the High Street. It has by far the best selection of books of any charity bookshop I've been in. I'm a frequent visitor and have bought so many great books there!
#booksky
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One for @therealyplac.bsky.social and @yplac.bsky.social.
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Morning All. Happy reading day, to all those who observe. 🙂📚📚
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I see Trumplethinskin is so pissed of at losing his case in SCOTUS that he's had a massive paddy and decided to start WW3.
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I see all the news media are enjoying the alliteration of Plumber and Parliament today, using it gleefully in every headline as though they were the only ones to notice it.
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Just ordered first ed copies of Bleeding Edge and Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon.
Having ploughed my way through Gravity's Rainbow last year, I must be a masochist! Although I've heard that these two are a little more approachable.
We will see!
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Feeling inspired?
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Why the fuck is this insufferable arsehole still getting air time?

BBC News - UK should send non-combat troops to Ukraine now, former PM Johnson tells BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp32n6vxqplo
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Saw this and wondered if @colourwoman.bsky.social was aware (or indeed involved!)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-colour-books-on-display-tickets-1983323938289?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=ig&utm_id=6907020011946&utm_content=6907020032546&utm_term=6907020016346&utm_campaign=6907020011946&fbclid=PAdGRzdgQGf3FleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQAAAZIKnpi4nNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABp1xWiRNO2WVh_Fvu12YII4ClC2cj16VEe1ofv2crAeNij2nHgW42FQ-eDRl__aem_z8VY2rAoS54yj4Di_KA3WQ
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Orange meltdown incoming...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0l9r67drg7t
Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court ruling - follow live - BBC News
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Snowdrops and Harborne Church.
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Maybe in another life, the one that got away and I are having a fabulous Valentine's Day. I like to think so 🙂❤️ #Valentine
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