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Spent the evening in a restaurant close to the Emirates Stadium packed with Arsenal fans seeking solace in regional Italian food. A scene familiar from Lowry paintings.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The weather is bad in the UK again, so it's time for my annual response to 'Why can't we clear snow and keep the roads moving when the Canadians do it all the time?' So gather round, children, and I will begin...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 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 46 days ago • 45 comments

30 years ago today, we lost Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, better known as celebrity cook Fanny Cradock, but less well known for being a dangerous driver, double bigamist, child abandoner, and amphetamine user…

submitted 58 days ago • 14 comments

Since the very dawn of humanity, from the time we stopped being apes and started being humans, we imagine that people have looked at the heavens, seen the regular progression of the stars across the night sky, observed the movements of the planets, and asked themselves, "When is bins?"

submitted 184 days ago • 8 comments

Two mid table sides huffing and puffing in a 'Last on Match of the Day' game. I am wearing an appropriate hat.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

todays my birthday. it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails

submitted 65 days ago • 127 comments

So magical, it’s what it’s all about really isn’t it

submitted 69 days ago • 47 comments

Set two coins of same size next to each other & roll one against the other. What seems intuitive is that making a circuit would involve 1 full rotation of the rolling coin, since the sides are matched in length. In practice, it's exactly TWO rotations. Can you see why?

submitted 73 days ago • 17 comments

Really weird contingent of people on this site who feel like they're the elder natives of a glorious civilisation with a right and a duty to set harsh immigration rules to prevent cultural contamination. As opposed to what they are, which is idiots typing words into their phone like everyone else

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

Does HS2 have a future? And why does that question hinge on an unseen government document and a sugar mill in Nottinghamshire?

submitted 78 days ago • 27 comments

Silly and joyful. Sound on.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Peak Wigmore Hall moment. We are offered a program. My Other Half queries whether we really need one. “Depends how good your Latin is,” remarks the sour lady. My Other Half must have been uncharacteristically riled. “Well, I got a congratulatory First in it at Oxford.” Collapse of dowager seller.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

A nice set of 4 videos explaining how votes are counted in Ireland. Although I still have questions!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks. It’s called ‘Pedents’.

submitted 85 days ago • 113 comments

My Spanish pen pal is in an excellent Kajagoogoo tribute band. He's so good, in fact, that (wait for it) once you've seen Juan, you've seen Limahl.

submitted 91 days ago • 36 comments

Yesterday marked two years since I began my new career on the railway. Time is just flying by! There are still moments when it still feels surreal that I get to do what I do. Driving these huge freight trains is a feeling like no other, and I hope I never, ever lose it! 🥹🩷

submitted 93 days ago • 22 comments

A quick reminder on how to contribute to uksnowmap.com ahead of any possible #uksnow tomorrow 👀 Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode, and a snow rating x/10 and help draw a real-time map of where it is snowing in the UK.

submitted 97 days ago • 53 comments

Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter. And, hoo boy, have I got one for you. Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit. 🪡 🧵 🪡

submitted 99 days ago • 70 comments

Take Twat

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

I was messaged by the most unexpectedly source today - someone who previously worked in the palace - and reminded that this was five years ago today …

submitted 99 days ago • 222 comments

Someone on Bake Off has made Freddie Mercury profiteroles and I do wonder if maybe it's jumped the shark

submitted 103 days ago • 8 comments

It's important that you look through the gallery for this listing until you get to the top floor bathroom. Important. www.cbmaritimerealty.com/listing/2024...

submitted 103 days ago • 256 comments

If the taramasalata strikes spread to the hummus or salsa sectors, then we might be facing a double dip recession

submitted 104 days ago • 20 comments

If you were to stand on a street corner at 9am and watch the spirits of the British WWI dead march by four abreast, the column would be 97 miles long and would take 20hrs, or until five the next morning, to pass. The French dead would take an additional 51hrs and the Germans another 59hrs...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

There's a hierarchy of needs to all this echo chamber stuff. I suggest you just enjoy living in a low-wanker zone for a bit, and then you can self-actualise with a statistically balanced quantity of tossers later on, if that floats your boat.

submitted 105 days ago • 20 comments

One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests. It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts. It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw. That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵

submitted 105 days ago • 17 comments

In conversation with @microlabdoc.bsky.social, I discovered that not everyone knows of the hamster's prodigious capacity for alcohol. They love it so much they prefer to drink 15% ethanol instead of water, and can tolerate relative quantities that would kill a human. 1/ (originally a Xitter 🧵)

submitted 106 days ago • 33 comments

Okay first proper test of me using BlueSky for random things: Anyone know anywhere in East or Central London i can buy 6x Mitre Ultimax Evo footballs today?

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

London eh?

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

“…the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again’.”

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

Screening for prostate cancer is not as simple as you might think: www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer...

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments