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I am in Bavaria and have learned that Bavarians consider weissbier to be a breakfast beer, and my respect is unbounded.

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Beechgrove is the support act for Gardener's World

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I'm old enough to remember the previous Labour government being utterly credulous about anything to do with computers

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Not laughing at the man on the radio talking about "doody rates" because that would be purile

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Nick Clegg's new book is £25, but I'm sure he's okay with us stealing it.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

It is interesting, from a software development perspective, that Musk's gutting of twitter hasn't really resulted in many outages or bugs (it was always a bit flaky), but has resulted in an unstoppable tsunami of spam.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Good news! The Douglas Fir still exists (for at least a few months) @deserterblog.bsky.social

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The lads two doors down are watching the Crystal Palace game in their garden on a delay (iplayer I guess) so every time there is a goal I get to open the door and hear them cheer.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Annoyingly I have left the house without my book because I had a new Private Eye but it is not a new Private Eye, it is the Private Eye the postman failed to deliver 5 weeks ago and all the jokes are out of date.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Recipes for curry appear in 18th century British cookbooks. It's more British than America is American

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

A movie that takes place where you’re from (using birthplace rather than where I grew up because NOTHING is set there)

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I feel seen

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Three days after buying some degreaser and my brain is still singing 'I wanna buy, buy some degreaser.'

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No shit Sherlock!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever AI images come up I keep thinking of the Cottingley Fairies. To modern eyes obvious fakes but took in many people at the time. I think in time we'll learn to see the differences with much more ease than we do now.

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