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Data Engineer. ex Commercial Pilot. Likes travel, cycling, photography, great outdoors & politics. Cycled to Africa once. 🇬🇧🇪🇸 https://x.com/mrfrankbazan
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Imagining the reactions to a semi circle at Stonehenge because the Greeks thought those giant slabs belonged in a museum in Athens. RW press would have declared war years ago. #ElginMarbles #Elgin

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

There are 1 key things to learn about programming in C - the first is pointers - and the second is counting from 0

submitted 170 days ago • 15 comments

I'd like to see Cool Britannia resurrected and the #Fender StarmerCaster brought to UK shores. consequence.net/2024/11/gibs...

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Another great thread on #FamilyFarmTax Unless and until we start to hear a more balanced view, it'll be those farmers in genuine need who continue to struggle. Painting IHT as though it's the key issue that's killing off farming when it's a red herring.

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If 6,000,000 signatures two years after a very slim majority and vague prospectus for Brexit wasn't enough for a new plebiscite, I'm not sure 1.5 million signatures 5 months after a landslide is going to go anywhere. #ukpolitics #petition

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Remembering one of my favourite #cycling trips. Where you could pedal through two countries in time for lunch, take on one of cycling's most iconic climbs ( #Poggio ) and be home in time for dinner. #SanRemo #cycling #CoteDAzur #HaveBikeWillTravel

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Some things, the Strava app does well. I can't help but think that they've lost sight of what brought people to their platform in the first place. When I joined Strava ten+ years ago, its focus was first on enabling people to pursue their goals... www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...

submitted 175 days ago • 1 comment

Now that she owns Jeremy Clarkson (net worth £55m) Victoria Derbyshire's family have to pay inheritance tax on him when she dies.

submitted 177 days ago • 47 comments

This is a great piece. Balanced and actually captures a perspective that you don't really hear in the debate... The business of news. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment