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Senior data officer at Dogs Trust Research. All about R, data viz, stats, and a whole host of other nerdy pursuits!
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The Warhammer 40k subreddit dedicated to the subfaction of blood-soaked superhuman berserkers is going zero tolerance on homophobic and transphobic commenters, because Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows.

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Ben Chonzie - first Munro of the year. Still counts if it's half by bike, right?

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Here’s a story of a fascinating group of women that I wanted to share for this year’s international women’s day 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Living out beyond the Bypass has its advantages - Black Hill and Threipmuir Reservoir (Edinburgh, Pentland Hills) this morning:

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

@llbroadwell.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you www.hw.ac.uk/news/2025/ca... thoughts on this type of tram-train-thing?

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

submitted 53 days ago • 60 comments

Nice demonstration of the pressure drop from #StormEowyn on my watch's barometric altimeter. I have not left the house, but it reckons I've gone up by nearly 80 meters!

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I pay for data. I pay for my phone line. I pay for my mobile phone contract. I pay for stamps on letters. I pay for parcel delivery. If I want to stay connected in the real world I pay a small amount for the privilege. Social media is comms infrastructure. If we don’t pay, it’ll always be dogshit.

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

Cyclists cannot win. For every "I want you to ring your bell at me" there is an equal and opposite "How dare you ring your bell at me"

submitted 69 days ago • 96 comments

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

submitted 71 days ago • 70 comments

"AI will solve it!" "Can...can you explain exactly how?" "It will solve it with Artificial Intelligence!" "Sir, how will Artificial intelligence fill this pothole in Kinlochleven?" "AI will fill it with Artificial Intelligence!" This is about Keir Starmer saying the UK will become an AI Superpower.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Feast of the Ass day to all who celebrate

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Feast of the Ass day to all who celebrate

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

submitted 77 days ago • 45 comments

This great thread about the second worst inappropriate fluid discharge to occur at the Kinzie Street bridge in Chicago. The worst? That one occurred 12 years earlier but rather than a moment of bad judgement by one person this one needed almost a century of weird city history for it to happen. 1/🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Happy "Watching Wallace and Gromit with Motion Smoothing" day to all who celebrate.

submitted 91 days ago • 24 comments

An important read - written last year - on the state of the intergenerational contact in the UK I personally think this is relevant to discussions around paying to compensate the WASPI women. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Ooof, you know you're approaching the winter solstice when your 4kW of solar panels produce a whole 120 watt-hours over a day!!

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Volume on to hear a classic "cat activated" noise!

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Talking shit about UK universities in general, and mine specifically, during the 2019 UCU strikes. Certainly on-brand!

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/

submitted 128 days ago • 90 comments

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

submitted 121 days ago • 92 comments