Veronica
@veronicafrance.bsky.social
Former archaeologist and web developer living in southern France since 1997. Cook, photographer, reader, francophile, now hispanophile.
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Attention cats! Have you been HELD AGAINST YOUR WILL all day? Have your humans FAILED TO STOP THE RAIN? Are you BORED AND LISTLESS?
Why not try an exciting new hobby: ShoveShit(tm)
ShoveShit is an approach that trains humans to desist from cluttering your space, leaving surfaces pleasant & clear.
Why not try an exciting new hobby: ShoveShit(tm)
ShoveShit is an approach that trains humans to desist from cluttering your space, leaving surfaces pleasant & clear.
October 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Attention cats! Have you been HELD AGAINST YOUR WILL all day? Have your humans FAILED TO STOP THE RAIN? Are you BORED AND LISTLESS?
Why not try an exciting new hobby: ShoveShit(tm)
ShoveShit is an approach that trains humans to desist from cluttering your space, leaving surfaces pleasant & clear.
Why not try an exciting new hobby: ShoveShit(tm)
ShoveShit is an approach that trains humans to desist from cluttering your space, leaving surfaces pleasant & clear.
This is very interesting. Read on down the thread for a discussion on copyright, decompilation, and AI …
Lightcraft is still being developed, but wow! It's like a feather-light version of Lightroom, open source and available for Linux, Windows and Macs. This is taking me back to the days when good things used to happen on the internet and creativity tools were available for everyone.
LightCraft: Your photos. Your pixels. Your machine.
An open-source photo library and raw developer that runs on your machine.
getartcraft.com
October 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This is very interesting. Read on down the thread for a discussion on copyright, decompilation, and AI …
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the tech industry is about to invent books
October 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
the tech industry is about to invent books
No! Really? 🙄
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Corruption, plain and simple.
Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
www.washingtonsun.com
October 6, 2026 at 8:10 PM
No! Really? 🙄
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Waterstones seems to have a deal on. Buy one of many excellent books this week and get a £10 giftcard thrown in. Seems reasonable? Anyway, 31 Inventions That Built Our World is in there
October 2026 eGift Promotion | Waterstones
Discover our full range of books, gifts, toys, stationery and audiobooks at Waterstones.com. Click & Collect within 2 hours or buy online with Free UK Delivery on Orders Over £25.
www.waterstones.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Waterstones seems to have a deal on. Buy one of many excellent books this week and get a £10 giftcard thrown in. Seems reasonable? Anyway, 31 Inventions That Built Our World is in there
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
October 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine.
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
October 5, 2026 at 5:56 AM
“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61 million tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years,” says Jaco Cilliers, the UNDP’s special representative in Palestine.
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden
BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office?
MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now
BERMAN: So it's gone up
MOORE: That is true
BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office?
MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now
BERMAN: So it's gone up
MOORE: That is true
October 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden
BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office?
MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now
BERMAN: So it's gone up
MOORE: That is true
BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office?
MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now
BERMAN: So it's gone up
MOORE: That is true
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Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press."
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
bylinetimes.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press."
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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The logic works out like this:
1) End of triple lock: you might be a couple hundred quid a year worse off. Maybe.
2) National care service: you won't have to sell the house, the car, and go through pretty much all your savings if you need looking after in your old age.
1) End of triple lock: you might be a couple hundred quid a year worse off. Maybe.
2) National care service: you won't have to sell the house, the car, and go through pretty much all your savings if you need looking after in your old age.
September 30, 2026 at 9:29 AM
The logic works out like this:
1) End of triple lock: you might be a couple hundred quid a year worse off. Maybe.
2) National care service: you won't have to sell the house, the car, and go through pretty much all your savings if you need looking after in your old age.
1) End of triple lock: you might be a couple hundred quid a year worse off. Maybe.
2) National care service: you won't have to sell the house, the car, and go through pretty much all your savings if you need looking after in your old age.
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Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
September 30, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Really good thread from the Pensions minister on how Labour will fight back on Tory opposition to changing the triple lock. The bit about it meaning working into your 70's before you get a pension is pretty smart - largely because it's true.
The Conservative Party debated for a couple of hours and decided that no, they are not a serious party. Inevitably.
September 30, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Really good thread from the Pensions minister on how Labour will fight back on Tory opposition to changing the triple lock. The bit about it meaning working into your 70's before you get a pension is pretty smart - largely because it's true.
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something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland.
Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary.
quick 🧵
Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary.
quick 🧵
September 29, 2026 at 6:40 AM
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland.
Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary.
quick 🧵
Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary.
quick 🧵
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Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
September 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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I’ve been fascinated lately that we seem to be in a period where ppl are administrating & conducting sex offences, as well as on end-to-end encrypted services, on *facebook*.
Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.
Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.
“It’s not ALL men.”
32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them.
It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them.
It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
www.bbc.com
September 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I’ve been fascinated lately that we seem to be in a period where ppl are administrating & conducting sex offences, as well as on end-to-end encrypted services, on *facebook*.
Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.
Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.
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Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.
September 28, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.
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I keep hoping to see a column from a columnist headlined "Are columnists running out of things to write columns about?"
September 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I keep hoping to see a column from a columnist headlined "Are columnists running out of things to write columns about?"
How have I never seen this before? It’s fantastic! The music is brilliant. That cold winter of 1962-3.
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.
September 27, 2026 at 8:19 AM
How have I never seen this before? It’s fantastic! The music is brilliant. That cold winter of 1962-3.
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Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food.
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
September 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food.
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
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AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
September 24, 2026 at 12:30 AM
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.
September 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
September 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
September 22, 2026 at 6:56 PM
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
September 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron