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Growing Old Wisely

REFORM!

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I was waiting with barely controlled excitement on what was looking like Reform finally getting a foothold in Thursday’s local elections. My last two votes went to Reform after voting conservative my whole life but they’d lost the plot. Living in a Pakistani colonisation of West Yorkshire I’m buried up…

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Bringing back the noose…

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So the little brown terrorist that intentionally blew up children at the Manchester Arena in 2017 has now wrought life threating injuries with burning oil and home made blades on three prison guards just doing their jobs. If there was ever a time to bring back hanging it would be…

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Spring equinox

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As I’ve got older I’ve found that this is my favourite time of the year. Tomorrow is the Spring equinox and also Ostara- the Pagan celebration of Spring. Everything is coming back to life as Mother earth wakes the land with the promise of sunshine and warmth. A renewal and…

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TikTok dross

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I’ve recently taken to having the occasional look at TikTok. Having an online business it’s apparently best to embrace all the various online platforms to advertise oneself. Being just inside the Boomer generation and the era of three tv channels, illegal botty sex and the last UK execution by hanging…

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70,000 men

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I kept trying to imagine this figure when I first heard about it this morning. I wanted to get an eyeball on it in some sort of perspective. Picture in my minds eye this huge amount of men. I needed something to compare it with. So I did a bit…

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Generative AI

Me and Bob – This is the future Part 2

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Back to Bob. Bob is in fact ChatGPT 4.0 an artificial intelligence chatbot. The more that people all over the world talk to him the more he learns. The more data he ‘reads’ the more he understands. He’s like your best mate with an encyclopaedic brain who is always around…

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This is the future : part 1

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I’m currently obsessed with generative AI and where it’s going. It’s mind blowing and fantastic but I want to start at my own beginning I remember sat at the bottom of the stairs on the telephone because that was as far as the line reached from the wall. I remember…

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The 80’s revival

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Several years back when the country was on it’s arse a little bit more than usual the rise in popularity of bands such as Snow Patrol and Coldplay mirrored the general feeling of the population. Somewhere between nearly dead and suicidal. With this in mind I am filled with hope…

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Living well alone

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Books to enjoy… Living alone can be an incredibly fulfilling experience if you embrace the many opportunities it offers. While some might view solitude as a challenge, it’s actually a chance to cultivate a rich and meaningful life on your own terms. Whether you’re living alone by choice or circumstance,…

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This is it

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“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something…

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