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@h_thoreson I looked on the map because I realized I couldn't think of a single place there. It's very...sparse.

@h_thoreson The n there's this crap, when it takes me 3hrs to get into work (thanks to pandemic remote practices we don't bother anymore, thank God)

@h_thoreson My younger sister's colleague spent a year in Helsinki and she said that Winter basically finished her off, for much the same reason.

@h_thoreson We usually don't get so much here, but it's cold enough that it forces everyone indoors all the time, and that's the bit I can't stand.

@h_thoreson There's nothing quite like Winter giving it a good old "Fuck you" in early Spring, just as everyone is happy to get out of it.

In other telly news continues to deliver in spades. Cinema quality visuals, great storytelling, and everyone looks like they're into it.

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There needs to be development of someone somewhere. Everyone is just the same again and again.

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The much hyped E2 of was definitely a return to form, but it ended with the same old Logan divide & conquer dynamic that the show hasn't got away from since the beginning.

@h_thoreson I did not see the first post saying where it was...

@h_thoreson One of those places I am drawn to, I must admit. But that would drive me crackers.

@h_thoreson The license plates should have "Hope you like snow, losers"

@h_thoreson Oh Gosh. Where is this? I am not a fan of the snow and last Winter we barely got any, which curiously made me miss the normality of it.

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My wife told me she’ll slam my head into the keyboard if I don’t get off the computer.

I’m not too worried though — I think she’s just jokindkdkslalkdlkfjslfjslksdlkfjuahehwhgwdklaljdf

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Today in 1926, 97 years ago: after crossing the South Atlantic, the Spanish crew of the seaplane Plus Ultra return triumphantly.

#OnThisDay

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Today in 1660, 363 years ago: Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.

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@h_thoreson Management likes them because it distracts them from eating crayons for a moment idk

Now my team's work is behind two dashboards with some graphs I neither need nor asked for

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