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Scifigeek and construction worker. Wife to computer wizard, mother to disabled daughter

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Joined May 2009
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Happy 100th Birthday to David Attenborough! 🎉🎂 #Bristol is highly regarded for its BBC Natural History Unit and its long association with David Attenborough’s documentaries. So, with that in mind, here’s a tribute to one national treasure from a local treasure, Morph, complete with camera, safari suit and wildlife. 🦜🥰 #DavidAttenborough @AmazingMorph
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Happy centenary to David Attenborough, one of the best men on the planet 💙🌎💚
Check out these charming crocheted post box toppers, created by the yarn wizards at Hobbycraft to mark Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday 🧶 They've been installed on post boxes across the UK, including in Regent's Park, Richmond and South Kensington 😍
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Check out these charming crocheted post box toppers, created by the yarn wizards at Hobbycraft to mark Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday 🧶 They've been installed on post boxes across the UK, including in Regent's Park, Richmond and South Kensington 😍
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Please don't do this!! It’s all fun and games until you realize you just uploaded a high-resolution biometric map of your hand to a third-party server. Unlike passwords, you can’t change your palm lines or fingerprints if they get leaked or used to train unauthorized authentication systems. This means your unique physical traits could become key to biometric spoofing. Someone might use them to bypass lock screens, approve fraudulent payments, or break into places that use hand-geometry scanners. Your biometric data is what you’re really giving up. #PrivacyMatters
You must try this. GPT Image-2 can do PALM reading and I’m so here for it. Full prompt below ⤵️
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Uploading palm photos shares extractable fingerprints and other biometric data that cannot be changed if compromised or misused. edition.cnn.com/2021/05/25/uk/… ftc.gov/news-events/ne…
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This cutie character has escaped from a Ghibli film, hasn’t it? 😍
The Japanese dwarf flying squirrel is a tiny and irresistibly charming animal native to the forests of Honshu and Kyushu in Japan
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is not a Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel. This is an Albert's squirrel native to North America. nhpbs.org/natureworks/ab… biodb.com/species/japane…
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Can’t believe this company, which has been going since 1809, is under threat. 😢 It’ll be a real shame if it disappears #SaveDenby
We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-…
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If Denby doesn’t survive, I don’t know where to go for replacements. I’ve seen many similar things but nothing to match the combo of Denby style + sturdiness. Guess I’ll end up with cheap copies 😕 #SaveDenby
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Denby is the pottery equivalent of the Vimes Boot Theory in practice.
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OMG the crack in time is real... #doctorwho
BREAKING🚨: A mysterious force just smashed through the Milky Way without light heat or warning leaving scientists stunned by what it could be.😮
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"If you believe you are going to be lucky, you go about your business with a smile, take disaster with a smile, start afresh with a smile. To do that is to be in the way of happiness." ~A.A.Milne #StPatricksDay
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Happy St Patrick’s Day from Shaun and the flock! ☘️ #HappyStPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #StPatricksDay
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To all the mama sheep looking after their little lambkins (even when they are big) #HappyMothersDay
Here's to all the hardworking mums out there! To the classic mums, the step-mums, the like-a-mums, the pet mums, and even the sheep mums, who hold it all together even when they just KNOW that the little ones are plotting dastardly deeds. Have a wonderful day today! 📍 Peak District, England
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Happy Mothering Sunday! #mums
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Am convinced this is actually a portal for tiny wee fairies...don't look too long, who knows what will come out!
The beauty we walk past or trip over. This beautiful knurled ‘growth’ on the ground. Part of the tree’s roots, surrounded by fallen leaves and bright green moss. It would have been easy to miss; but as I bent down to look at it today, I thought it was beautiful.
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“Go a-mothering and find violets in the lane” is an old saying tied to the custom of gathering violets for Mothering Sunday, #MothersDay in the UK, kept on the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter. To celebrate mothers everywhere, violets painted by Anne Cotterill. 💜
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Little puffin watching the photographer contort themselves “what are you DOING?!?” 😆great shot 👏😍
If anyone would like to see a photo of a particularly pugnacious Puffin, this is your lucky day.
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Posting trees to cleanse the timeline...digital oxygen *inhale* 🌳🌿
"Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish." ― Munia Khan
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