metterst.bsky.social
Middle aged Brit, left of centre, despairing of the world's direction of travel
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Hardwick Hall is stunning. It seems a small, cramped building, and then you walk into the reception room and the vastness takes your breath away
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Turing is not unsung, many books and a film about him, his face in UK bank notes. The work he did paved the way for modern computing, and he was treated abominabley by the authorities
The true unsung hero is Tommy Flowers, the engineer who built the machines that stemmed from Turing's ideas.
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The cheaper the printer, the more expensive the ink/toner
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As Mark Steele told on one of his radio shows, a man in Jersey commenting on Guernsey "far enough away not to be able to see it, close enough to know when it's on fire"
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There's a difference between being educated and being "schooled" !
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I've responded with a trebuchet mounted on a Transit flatbed. Cupholder options in the cab and on the trebuchet. Rough quote is £80,085 million
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Oh lummy, we've hit the harbour wall!
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The epitome of @coolbikeart1.bsky.social
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Worth the read for the Brian Blessed climax reference alone!
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Good but incorrect. Middle right is a split pin. A cotter pin is used to fasten a lever to a shaft, usually bicycle cranks and looks like this.
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What is it about Scottish expeditions where they seems so woefully underrepresented and take along ridiculous items - the establishment of a trading colony in Panama springs to mind.
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Hopefully the Donald will be in mara lago when the undetected hurricane rips through and flattens the the entire carbuncle of a place. Reap what you sow.
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Cudos to the humanity of Mr Gutierrez and his forethought for leaving a cabin unlocked, just in case.
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Walking is free. Large corporations can't monetise it, and so they despise it. No large purchase cost, no financing of the purchase, no paying for insurance, no maintenance costs.
Capitalism and corporate greed will end humanity.
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This is great news Mike, I'm really interested to see how it will work.
I'll also put a tenner on Mark Boaler for the rainbow jersey!
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Booked!!!!
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My wife and I have mirror wills in place
I have written out my funeral wishes, having watched my wife having to take on the organising of her father's funeral and then her Mum's next door neighbour's one as well. I just wanted to make it easier for her.
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See the first Kingsmen, Samuel L Jackson's portrail of the character Musk aspires to be is sublime.
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Ballsy choice this morning, but you'll feel the benefit later when you don't have to carry it!
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Women are treated so badly. My wife had to fight so hard for treatment and HRT has changed her life so much (and probably saved mine too!). Years of dismissal and being ignored. More research is needed, particularly around early on set, how to spot the symptoms, and the benefits
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Yes, a good read. If you like ill prepared ocean going lunacy and survival against the odds, try Icebound by Andrea Pitzer.
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Pilot desperately checking to make sure they'd signed it back in after operations, so the cost didn't get stopped out of their pay packet.
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We have the reverse in the family "it's like Bucklebury in here" whilst going round turning lights on
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Rereading @jasperfforde.bsky.social Early Riser. Need light relief from the current destopian he'll hole we are living through.
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Preson away to Bristol too. Bristol need the points for a play off place, and that would help us no end.
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Dutch trains are brilliant.
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Part of the Renold group. My dad worked there for many years, it was known locally as "the chain".
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As a 16 yo in Coventry when this was released, this was our truth. Even when Terry later said it was not specific to Coventry, but most of the industrial Midlands and North.
At times it feels like things have not changed much in 40 odd years.
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The answer to "we will not know who is killing us" will quite clearly be: right wing plutocracts, oligarchs, sociopaths, and narcissists.
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Quick, some on pause my Strava!
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Reminiscent of many of the Victorian era public pools that have survived in the UK.
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That 34 year long made voyage eh?!
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If only we could incentiveise them to see who could pay the most tax( as a percentage of income). We could even get Tony Blackburn to do a top 10 run down!
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There are three key factors to a project: time, cost, and quality. Most project managers reckon you can adhere to 2 at best.
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@metters.bsky.social seems about right
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Auntie tieing themselves in knots for the sake of balance.
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Those that vape have no idea how those that don't despise the Kipling fog!
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I don't blame the 77M, but it's the few at the top of the republicans that have enabled this who are the true culprits. They have seen an opportunity to enrich themselves and care nothing for the impact. In biparty elections, most people just vote for their side, not the person.
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If they are anything like the ones on an Ikea Malm bed, they are a bloody paine in the arse to assemble and disassemble.
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I like Sugg's " you hum it and I'll smash your teeth in" when Rik asks if they know Summer Holiday
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AI will never be able to write authentically about an acid trip, the smirk of a teenage boy who has just had his first shag, the waves of summer grass shifting on the breeze. Let it do what it is good for - high quantity repetitive tasks.
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Chapeau for the alt text btw.
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As a resident, it probably would be an improvement tbh. Although the $h1t@ they are trying to replace the rundown shopping centre with would need another 1000 bomber raid!
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Same with the Danny MacAskill videos, jaw-dropping bike handling skills, then he'll post the video of the 20 odd attempts to get the trick right!