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"plaintext": "When someone in Britain says \"a cup of tea\", they almost always mean black tea, usually a strong blend like English Breakfast, served with milk. In a café you'll typically be asked:"
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"plaintext": "\"Milk?\" Most people say yes. Cold milk is added to the tea, not hot or frothed."
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"plaintext": "\"Sugar?\" Sugar is often on the table in sachets rather than added for you."
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"plaintext": "\"Cup or pot?\" A pot of tea is a small teapot with a tea bag or loose tea, a cup, and a jug of milk. It's usually enough for two cups, which makes it good value if you want to linger."
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"plaintext": "If you want tea without milk, ask for it \"black\" or \"no milk\". Herbal and fruit teas, which many Britons call \"herbal teas\" or \"infusions\", are widely available: peppermint, camomile and fruit blends are the most common. Green tea is on most menus too. If you like your tea weak, ask for the bag to be taken out quickly, or ask for a pot so you control the strength yourself."
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"plaintext": "Americano: espresso topped up with hot water; add milk if you like. Closest to filter coffee."
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"plaintext": "Cappuccino: espresso with steamed milk and a thicker layer of foam, often dusted with chocolate."
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"plaintext": "Flat white: a smaller, stronger milky coffee with a thin, velvety layer of milk."
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"plaintext": "Filter coffee is less common in the UK than in North America, and \"white coffee\" simply means coffee with milk. Instant coffee is still found in some smaller cafés, so if you want espresso-based coffee, it's worth checking the machine on the counter."
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"plaintext": "Plant milks such as oat, soya and almond are widely available, sometimes for a small extra charge."
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"plaintext": "Hot chocolate is standard on nearly every café menu and often comes with optional cream and marshmallows. Some cafés also offer chai lattes, babyccinos (frothed milk for young children) and seasonal specials."
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"plaintext": "This is the question visitors ask most. In the UK, free refills on hot drinks are not a general custom the way they are in some other countries. Some cafés, including some supermarket cafés and loyalty-scheme members at certain chains, have offered refills or free hot drinks with conditions attached, but these offers vary between chains and change over time. The safe approach is to assume a second cup costs extra, and ask at the till if you're unsure. A pot of tea is often the best way to get two cups for the price of one."
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"plaintext": "\"BuT, cRiStObAl, YoU'rE cOmPlEtElY iN tHe WaY oF tHe ShOpPiNg CaRt!\" BITCH, YOU'RE MAKING A SCENE OVER THE ALARM GOING OFF! And you have the audacity to involve me in your drama."
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"plaintext": "I recommend the YouTuber named Darling Desi. She started out as a BookTuber (maybe?) and then turned into an aesthetic vlog channel. I enjoy her seasonal content, starter packs, and specials. If you haven't checked out Darling Desi's channel, please do and subscribe!"
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"plaintext": "That's it for Dialogue with Cristobal Martinez. Thank you so much for reading, and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Later!"
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"block": {
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"plaintext": "A few days ago I announced on BlueSky that I created a small tool to convert my leaflet posts (like the one you are reading right now) to markdown, so that they can also show up on my hugo based blog."
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"block": {
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"language": "yaml",
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"plaintext": "nix run github:mariuskimmina/leaflet-hugo-sync"
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"plaintext": "But I might also look into producing an official release soon."
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"plaintext": "If you leave out the publication_name it will get all your leaflets which may or may not what you want."
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"plaintext": "You can then use the template section to customize the content a bit, I for example added links back to the leaflet at the top and bottom of the posts. "
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"facets": [
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"plaintext": "If you actually use this I would love to hear feedback <3\nI will also soon publish another post to detail the entire setup of how I now host my hugo blog on mariuskimmina.com and keep it sync with my leaflet posts. \n\nSource:"
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"facets": [
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"plaintext": "https://github.com/mariuskimmina/leaflet-hugo-sync\n\nYou can find my blog, including this posts, on \nhttps://mariuskimmina.com/posts/"
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},
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}did:plc:tbzfsowmg4zj234pws47u3x6 | at://did:plc:tbzfsowmg4zj234pws47u3x6/pub.leaflet.document/3mbueyjaxc22b
pub.leaflet.blocks.button (nested within pub.leaflet.document) (6 samples)
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"author": "did:plc:llumonvbk6mrkn3myaxpnsje",
"description": "(A LITTLE BIT DISTURBED, NOW) A problem with unwinding, you say?",
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"plaintext": "Hello everyone, and welcome back to Dialogue with Cristobal Martinez!"
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{
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"plaintext": "Child, when I tell you, the sitcom gods should lose their soul privileges after this article is published."
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"plaintext": "For some reason, the sitcom gods want my TV show of a life to be interesting. And by interesting, I mean they want me to suffer from being a disaster, causing everything to drop or fall down, make me become forgetful, make me lose my balance."
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"plaintext": "The sitcom gods have been watching my show, among others, from Hell. Whenever I decide to romanticize my life by prioritizing me, one of them stomps around the floor of whichever floor of Hell they're on, and screams to the hellish air, \"Oh My GoD! dO sOmEtHiNg!\""
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"plaintext": "While I unwind, the sitcom gods are simmering with rage to the point of selling their souls like swiping their credit card for something to happen. And when a minor inconvenience, mishap, misfortune, or misstep occurs in my show, the sitcom gods can finally laugh."
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},
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"plaintext": "One of the cute guys on the internet is a Chicago-based playwright, stage actor, musician, and artist named Alexander Attea. He has a website that I do recommend exploring, especially to my fellow gays with inner chihuahuas."
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"plaintext": "If you enjoyed any part of this article, please consider leaving a comment on your thoughts. If you want to keep up with more of Dialogue, you can subscribe below this article. And if you want my monthly lifestyle updates, please check out This Month With Cristobal here:"
}
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"block": {
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"plaintext": "That's it for Dialogue with Cristobal Martinez. I'll catch you guys in the next one. Later!"
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"title": "The Sitcom Gods | When Desperate Deities Stew at Peace and Quiet"
}did:plc:llumonvbk6mrkn3myaxpnsje | at://did:plc:llumonvbk6mrkn3myaxpnsje/pub.leaflet.document/3mckrhkwnlk2e
pub.leaflet.blocks.code (nested within pub.leaflet.document) (25 samples)
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.document",
"author": "did:plc:by3jhwdqgbtrcc7q4tkkv3cf",
"pages": [
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument",
"blocks": [
{
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"block": {
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"level": 1,
"plaintext": "Sort a 42 GB CSV quickly"
}
},
{
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"block": {
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.text",
"facets": [
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},
{
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],
"plaintext": "Say you're, I don't know, building a website that shows the most popular emojis on Bluesky realtime. Further assume that you want to move the MVP architecture that's mostly just Redis to Postgres + Timescale which unlocks a lot of potential for resilience and features."
}
},
{
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"plaintext": "Of course, you want to validate and test your architecture, and for that, you create a bunch of mock data, a hypertable of about 550m emojis, which is about 5x more than what's currently on Bluesky. You gather two days' worth of of data from the firehose, then run"
}
},
{
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"block": {
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"language": "sql",
"plaintext": "BEGIN;\nINSERT INTO emojis\nSELECT * FROM emojis;\nCOMMIT;"
}
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block",
"block": {
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"facets": [],
"plaintext": "on repeat until you have enough test data."
}
},
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"block": {
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.text",
"facets": [],
"plaintext": "And for something quick and dirty, this does the job. But oh! You're working with time series data. Bluesky has been around for two years, so it'd be worth stretching all this data out, time-wise, from 2 days to 2 years."
}
},
{
"$type": "pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block",
"block": {
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.text",
"facets": [],
"plaintext": "So you dump your table in a CSV:"
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},
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"block": {
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"plaintext": "COPY (SELECT * from emojis) TO '/path/to/emojis.csv' WITH (FORMAT CSV, DELIMITER ',', HEADER TRUE);"
}
},
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"block": {
"$type": "pub.leaflet.blocks.text",
"facets": [],
"plaintext": "And now you have a file that looks something like this:"
}
},
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"block": {
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"language": "csv",
"plaintext": "$ head emojis.csv\ndid,rkey,emoji,lang,created_at\ndid:plc:pfgs64jdrbznui4qktarwvvz,3l7aowcsbgj23,🫶,en,2024-01-31T13:47:33Z\ndid:plc:4ojtgthev5iexawd7k63ri43,3l7aowe6e3x2z,💥,en,2024-06-06T21:18:01Z\ndid:plc:4ojtgthev5iexawd7k63ri43,3l7aowe6e3x2z,💥,en,2024-05-10T02:16:11Z\ndid:plc:4ojtgthev5iexawd7k63ri43,3l7aowe6e3x2z,💥,en,2023-06-19T16:46:21Z\ndid:plc:oemwnvl3bdhbglqsu4vtutg4,3l7aowe6tvz2y,⁉️,ja,2024-03-17T23:13:22Z\ndid:plc:enbbvjkhuzg3bzmlxjjdko2a,3l7aowejtcc24,🥶,en,2024-05-16T03:36:28Z\ndid:plc:sdx2znbevuvup2osq5ng24yf,3l7aowd44ts2a,✌️,ja,2022-12-22T10:52:09Z\ndid:plc:yfozqgqtw7shp23rgj2lb57o,3l7aowf2mqv27,🥰,es,2024-10-14T02:14:23Z\ndid:plc:yfcrcqqhqzt7h6aikn4ehypj,3l7aowfa3tk2j,😵💫,zh,2023-04-04T10:53:03Z"
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"plaintext": "Now you have the right data, but when you try to COPY it back, it goes very slowly and you realize that this is the worst possible thing you can do to a time-series database: filling it up with completely random data, time-wise. A good way to make this a lot less bad is to sort the whole thing ascending by date, making it optimal for importing."
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"plaintext": "For this, we'll ~~ask o1-mini to write another go program that will take several hours to complete haha who would do that the first time not me~~ use GNU sort:"
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"plaintext": "It may be technically possible in some workflows, but unattended publication is rarely the best default for new sources or sensitive industries. Keep human approval for publisher selection, claims, editorial fit, disclosures, and exceptions. Automation can handle approved, repeatable steps after the rules are proven. Any workflow that impersonates a person, bypasses permission, or violates a publisher's terms should not be automated. A clear approval record is also valuable when a client asks how a placement was selected."
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"plaintext": "No. Settings should reflect the client's industry, brand risk, content maturity, source availability, and reporting requirements. A local service business, regulated provider, and fast-moving e-commerce store may need different source standards and review frequency. Agencies can use a common baseline policy, then create client-specific caps, exclusions, approval owners, and escalation rules rather than applying one universal bot configuration. Reuse the governance framework, not necessarily the same volume or source mix."
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"plaintext": "No. A virtual or reloadable card can help separate budgets, limit exposure, and simplify reconciliation, but it does not improve source quality or make prohibited activity acceptable. Use payment controls alongside campaign caps, approvals, and monitoring. Confirm that the card provider and merchant terms permit the intended use, complete required verification, and pause or close the funding source when the approved test or subscription ends. Treat payment controls as financial safeguards, not as a way to hide activity or bypass platform rules."
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"plaintext": "Day one: Write the campaign objective, target URLs, source criteria, and prohibited actions. Day two: Build a vetted source list and remove anything that lacks topical relevance or clear editorial fit. Day three: Configure campaign, source, target, anchor, time, and budget caps. Day four: Prepare content rules, approval ownership, and a reporting template."
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"plaintext": "Day five: Run a small pilot and inspect every output. Day six: Record failures, update exclusions, and compare execution, quality, and business metrics. Day seven: Decide whether to pause, revise, or expand one controlled segment. If you cannot identify the cause of a bad result, do not increase the fan-out yet. Scale the parts you can explain, review, and stop."
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"plaintext": "Before expanding, save the final campaign settings and note who approved the change. That simple record creates a baseline for the next test and prevents accidental drift. The best automation workflow is not the one that produces the most activity; it is the one that gives your team useful output, clear accountability, controlled spending, and a reliable way to stop when the evidence says to stop."
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"plaintext": "For related guides, start with AI link building software (https://linkpilot-ai.ramerlabs.com/#features), automated link building software (https://linkpilot-ai.ramerlabs.com/#how), link building software for agencies (https://linkpilot-ai.ramerlabs.com/#pricing) or browse more options at linkpilot-ai.ramerlabs.com (https://linkpilot-ai.ramerlabs.com)."
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-08T22:03:26.000Z",
"tags": [
"automated backlink placer",
"controlled fan-out",
"link building automation",
"SEO operations",
"backlink quality",
"agency workflows",
"payment controls"
],
"title": "How to Scale an automated backlink placer With Controlled Fan-Out"
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