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I suspect that this will only be of interest to a small group of UK based people. ______ BBC News - Firm linked to Crooked House goes into liquidation - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp915me5j3mo

For those that are curious my last month in scrobbles https://listenbrainz.org/user/Happydufus/stats/?range=month #happyCurrentListening

Absolute insanity. Take it back into public ownership! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/31/thames-water-names-us-private-equity-group-kkr-as-preferred-partner

Live cricket. Derbyshire versus South Asian Cricket Academy in a 3-day friendly. No commentary on the feed. Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/live/aOLfbxASxAo #Cricket

It is daylight savings time in the EU. So before you go to bed tonight, please remember to change the time to January 1, 2028. When you wake up tomorrow, Ukraine has won the war, Elon Musk is in jail, Trump has died from a blood clot, JD Vance has lost the US election to Alexandria […]

I can't wait to see how delighted the US Administration will be when they discover that all 46 members of the Council of Europe are signed up to the the European Convention on Human Rights and bound by the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (and yes that still includes the post-Brexit […]

Who knew? Buxton Open Air Rock Festival 1972 — 1974 https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/rock-legend-strops-undercover-cops-31232373 #Derbyshire #Buxton #ManchesterEveningNews

This is too bizarre. HP ProOne G4 400 All-in-one PC: - Win 11 is 100% stable, even in stress test - #LinuxMint and #Debian randomly reboot leaving *nothing* in logs or dmesg - tried 3 different drives, internal and external, 3 clean installs, no difference - Memtest is fine, board diag passes […]

Happy Article 50 Day. 8 years ago Theresa May PM unilaterally invoked Article 50 for the UK to withdraw from the EU with barely a debate in Parliament. This and her red lines from the Mansion House speech, of leaving the Single Market, Customs Union and Freedom of Movement make her the worst […]

Artists and Albums for the week ending 27/03/25 as collated by http://www.last.fm Top Artists: Gloria Estefan Dool GGGOLDDD Chelsea Wolfe Laura Cantrell The 3rd and the Mortal Brutus Carpenters Top Albums: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me — Gloria Estefan Now & […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

If anyone needs a little something to get them in the mood for April's 82nd Members Meeting this recently popped up on YouTube (as ever bonus points for anyone that can spot me in the crowd) 🏁 Full Highlights of every 81MM race https://youtu.be/jx2nVYYYbOg #GRRC #Goodwood #ClassicCars […]

Has last.fm stopped providing new release recommendations? Last ones I got are from 2 weeks ago. #lastFM

Artists and Albums for the week ending 27/03/25 as collated by http://www.last.fm Top Artists: Gloria Estefan Dool GGGOLDDD Chelsea Wolfe Laura Cantrell The 3rd and the Mortal Brutus Carpenters Top Albums: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me — Gloria Estefan Now & […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

#MathMemes

I am sure there's a message there.

If anyone needs a little something to get them in the mood for April's 82nd Members Meeting this recently popped up on YouTube (as ever bonus points for anyone that can spot me in the crowd) 🏁 Full Highlights of every 81MM race https://youtu.be/jx2nVYYYbOg #GRRC #Goodwood #ClassicCars […]

"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house within living memory." Reposting with hashtags #UKpol #policing #repression #Quakers h/t @SusiArnott https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

oops 😐 _________ "One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show" […]

It is so bleeding obvious that Britain should go back into the European Single Market and Customs Union for economic growth, that it is painful to watch Labour politicians who know better pretend otherwise. The Liberal Democrats and Greens will likely come out first advocating to rejoin Europe […]

You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right? https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy Just an FYI, like ... Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with […]

I missed this yesterday, the headline tells you most of what you need to know ______ Armenia National Assembly votes for starting EU accession bid https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/03/26/armenia-national-assembly-votes-for-starting-eu-accession-bid_6739535_143.html #EU #Armenia […]

Sorry about the paywall, I'm sure it won't impead most of you. ______ Silicon Valley's nine richest billionaires have 15 times more liquid wealth than half the region's population […]

A UK reporter asks about Signal gate, and I sense Marjorie Taylor Green is feeling pressured by the scandal. See if you can spot it. 😀

I've no idea who first came up with this idea but I first heard the suggestion jokingly made back in 2009 Vengaboys to play Download Festival 🪩 https://youtu.be/uNCTY0Mmi5U #Vengaboys #DownloadFestival (I did have to check the date to make sure it wasn't the first day of April upon first […]

"Germany’s top London diplomat has called for Britain to make a deal to rejoin Europe’s custom union" https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/germany-calls-for-britain-to-rejoin-eu-customs-union-391098/ #Brexit #FBPE #UKPolitics

"Donald Trump is doing enough harm to US standing in the world without adding dangerous ineptitude to the list" Editorial: The amateurism of the Trump White House - https://on.ft.com/423iJjh #FT #FinancialTimes #PayWall

The government believe that it's 'Weekend at Bernie's' routine on the US-UK relationship will buy it time (and by avoiding tariffs, money) to build a Nato without the US. But it comes at the risk of just making ministers look as if they live on another planet:

I'll believe it when I see it ______ "Ministers have pledged to 'tear down' barriers to trade with the European Union after new figures showed Brexit has cost UK business £37bn a year" […]

Go Brexit, cover everything with shit. But at least the Shareholder get their payout, that's all that matters./s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/watchdog-investigating-whether-defra-breaking-laws-on-cleaning-up-english-rivers #Brexit #Sewage #ThamesWater #UKPOL […]

Microlightning could have sparked life on Earth ⚡🌍. A shocking new theory! What do you think? #OriginsOfLife #Science https://www.space.com/the-universe/earth/microlightning-between-water-droplets-could-have-sparked-life-on-earth-heres-how

Hmm… All very kewl in the Artists section but all my embarrassing guilty pleasures appearing in the Album section 🤣

We probably inherited our joints from… a fish https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/we-probably-inherited-our-joints-from-a-fish/

Reading Museum is hosting an exhibition marking more than 60 years since Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opened its first UK office https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/22/dec_reading_museum/ #DEC #TheRegister

We live in interesting times. Friend of mine is a scientist in France. He just got briefing on what to do when traveling to the US. He was told to use an empty, freshly installed laptop with nothing but his presentation on it. Uninstall all messengers and social media. If he has to surrender […]

The unfortunate recent passing of George Foreman has prompted me to post this for the multitude of North Americans that have over the decades when I have made posts referencing George Formby confused him with George Foreman https://youtu.be/sfmAeijj5cM #YouTube

A look at how co-op values affect worker pay at co-ops https://www.thenews.coop/co-operative-approaches-to-pay/

Hmm… All very kewl in the Artists section but all my embarrassing guilty pleasures appearing in the Album section 🤣

"I’m So Proud To Be Deported From The USA" UK Subs vs USA Border Control https://dorseteye.com/im-so-proud-to-be-deported-from-the-usa/ #UKSubs #Politics

This might help you to answer the question why in general Europeans don't normally drive North American cars https://youtu.be/yWr3sq-BDhQ #Goodwood

Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s accounting for years, but they have never gained much traction – until now. Today, the Financial Times has released a new report pointing to a $1.4 billion gap in assets.

Great to see #Finland is the #happiest country for the eighth year... I think the #UK and #USA could learn something. Also I thoroughly recommend visiting #helsinki

UK FCO issues travel advisory for the USA https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-beefs-up-travel-warnings-over-us-border-enforcement-2025-03-20/

"As Trump seeks to withdraw the US from European defence, Keir Starmer is trying to develop closer ties with the UK’s neighbours" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/20/ignored-by-trump-and-menaced-by-putin-the-uk-turns-to-the-eu-for-defensive-ties?CMP=Share_Mastodon_Other […]

BBC News - Former F1 boss and TV pundit Eddie Jordan dies aged 76 https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cq8y1335qlwo 😢🏁

And the results are in 60% Henderson's Relish 40% Lea and Perrins 10 Votes https://mastodon.sdf.org/@happy/114173255498855187 #Condiments

Guilty pleasures time: Dannii Minogue - This is it https://youtu.be/g1m-8PvpSBw #GuiltyPleasures #DanniiMinogue #happyCurrentListening