That's Doctor Foreigner to you @alsothings@mastodon.social

excuse me what now

preordered my @playdate@twitter.com ✅ (although it didn't seem to let me ship to the UK :( getting it shipped to family in the US instead...)

https://open.spotify.com/track/2DJfryV0I6J3yhPKQvST5l?si=5739a110b89a4e0c

getting slowing defeated by the English flat-buying process

is it a real country _now_? https://world-flags.org/europeanunion/sealand.html

Pingdemic (n): neologism for blaming the messenger at scale

its weird that telling the truth gets you ejected from parliament for basically aesthetics (or I guess 'decorum' which is really just a very structured type of aesthetics I think)

I took ten minutes and made a stupid chome extension. I guess I can put it in the store? https://github.com/gearmonkey/ping_to_rona

I guess it's a pingdemic in the same way that someone might yell about their noisy fire alarm while their house is actually on fire?

so I make cold brew from concentrate, which I dilute out with equal parts ice and 2x water (all by weight) and I've just used carbonated water for the first time instead of still. it is pretty great, though really I think this needs a nitro line

um https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-57862881

its hot

As ever with this sort of thing RTs for reach very appreciated and if anyone has question do reach out!

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The inevitable consequences of this country cutting off its nose to spite its face https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/19/spanish-woman-in-uk-for-44-years-sacked-over-post-brexit-rules

Are you serious https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/18/boris-johnson-and-rishi-sunak-will-not-isolate-after-being-pinged-says-no-10

global britain? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/16/englands-covid-unlocking-a-threat-to-the-world-experts-say

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/15/gb-news-shows-attracted-zero-viewers-after-boycott-over-taking-the-knee

welp

follow up: the neighbours better not wake up my kid yelling about <whatever happens>