onebadhobbit

These are my other hats. Failed hobbit. Mildly successful entrepreneur. Successful Dad. Will surf again. Loves boxbikes & slow moving miracles of mental health.

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@frankie2001mia @TUIUK We're travelling in Italy ATM. I took my kids to the swimming pool. It was very strange for us. Enforced swim caps. - not the rubber kind to keep your hair from getting wet. No barefeet poolside, so given slides to wear, but spectators at poolside had to wear shoe covers .

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@jk_rowling I'm 53 and and broke my arm this week, while skateboarding with my children. I was not wearing a hoodie though.

[Tehran Bureau @TehranBureau]

From trusted source in Tehran: Tell all of your friends [abroad], everyone you know: there is absolutely nothing else we can do here inside Iran. Nothing. They are killing people in such ways, they’ve descended upon people so brutally, they're attacking us in such ways... We’ve lost so many lives that no one dares go out anymore. They shoot directly with bullets. They kill outright. And even after killing, they come and behead you, and do countless other violent things to you.

For God’s sake, whatever can be done, you are the ones who can do it. You must not abandon these gatherings. All of you must keep these protests going. We cannot do anything inside Iran. Going out into the streets is literally suicide. It’s not about bravery anymore. It’s madness. You go out and they shoot you point blank. They don’t even ask why you came. They just kill you.

There is absolutely no way for us to gather unless we had weapons, unless we were armed like them. Otherwise they have weapons everywhere. There has been so much killing. So much.

So whatever is to happen now is up to you. You are the ones who can somehow save us. [Breaks down into a sob. Crying, the caller continues...] When you see what’s happening, when you hear what’s happening… I’ve done so much yelling and choked on so much teargas, my voice is bad.

We follow what you're doing. When we see you gather in protest in front of an embassy it brings us joy. It still gives us a lingering hope that we can do something. It's your responsibility now. We did absolutely everything we could. As our fellow Iranians it's your responsibility. You can influence foreign policy. You can tell the world what's happening. The placards you hold. The YouTube videos. Distributing images and video. Gathering in front of embassies. Even if you have just the weekends. Please do something for us on Saturdays and Sundays. Please don't let your gatherings get smaller as the weeks go on. No one will stop you there. No one will kill you. No one is singling you out. We don't even have the freedom to walk about in our own town. We no longer even know who is friend or foe.

We don’t even know who we’re speaking to anymore. We no longer know if those recounting what's happening is an enemy. Because if one wrong word slips from our mouths, they turn us into a corpse even before we've had a chance to return home.

For God’s sake, I beg of you, don’t abandon these gatherings. Our only hope now is you. What’s now obvious is that America won’t do anything. You’re our only hope. Please tell your friends. You’ve seen how many young people have been killed. So many, so many young people. For the sake of the youth.

I know that based on the videos that have reached Iran International [satellite station] since yesterday, now that the internet has come back briefly, they will probably cut the internet again and people will go into silence, the country will go back into a blackout.

For God’s sake, please help us. Help us save our country from these people. Stand together so we can live in a flourishing country. For God’s sake, help us.

We are in Tehran. What I saw in Tehran, and what they’re saying about the provinces and small towns... They couldn’t fully control Tehran’s gatherings with the forces they had, but in the small towns it was killing after killing. Towns with populations of only 20 or 30 thousand people truly had many deaths. Thousands, hundreds…

The things we’ve heard, the things we’ve seen go far beyond mass killing. It was horrific. Truly horrific.

I beg you. I beg you. Don’t abandon these gatherings. Please. #Iran #IranMassacre

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@JocastaMoney So many ways to skin a cat/cook a rice!

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@LacrosseIsa @KeenanPeachy That's what we say about U.S.A and Canada. Basically the same thing.

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@FitFounder WALK

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@fundypost Main character energy.

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@faulttolerant @roisinmurphy That should read Womad : )

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@faulttolerant @roisinmurphy Further to the bright side, I can attest, that due to that review, we discovered you, and bought the vinyl. Sad to miss you at NZ woman though. Next year in Ireland?

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@NZNationalParty This just makes me think that a) explaining is losing, and b) you have no clue what social workers do. You'll need more detectives now that you're kneecapping Oranga Tamariki.

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Funny how politicians aren't having their own back office functions rationalised. #NZPolitics @simeon

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@jwacarrollNZ @GaryPayinda Big Robert De Niro Goodfellas vibes.

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@hepimp There's a reason why he 'has his girls on the weekends'.

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@tommygun1964 8

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@TheSpinoffTV I hate to admit it. But you've changed my mind. We can't be dining off Fat Freddy's Drop concerts and Whopper Choppers for ever!

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Why demolishing the bridge would make Te Ngākau Civic Square a better public space.

https://t.co/ODBjYyCjjr

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@Ingrid_vonAhn And this in New Zealand...punters 'admit being customers'. As if 'purchasing sex' from underage girls is the crime. There are other words for it.

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@DrWolfman42 My surname is Howard. We called our first born, now 13, Harold. This did seem unusual until a recent family movie night where we watched Teen Wolf.

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You're a legend Dave. @dbseymour #goodonedave #ToitūTeTiriti #treatyofwaitangi #whywellington @flight

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@Alphafox78 If your partner gives you this ultimatum, break up and get out. He's an abusive controller. It will get worse. DARVO