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As a driver and a cyclist, 100% this.

if a smurf gets sunburned do you think it turns red or purple

It's #StrawberryMoon day! And before you scoff "but the full moon happens every month Catherine", this is the once-every-18.6-yr lunar standstill. In the Northern hemisphere the moon will rise just above the horizon (look S) before it dips back down again 1/🧵🧪🔭 ⏰ www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...

Now you've all seen how these tech companies operate - they steal from you, even if it's *only* data about you, and they work with authoritarian regimes such as the US govt - why would you continue to welcome their devices into your homes AND pay for the privilege?

You're a lovely bunch - on the whole - and understand the tedious and un-British need to constantly promote or sink without trace. So if you have friends that are interested in writers, or write themselves, please let them know about the podcast & suggest they subscribe. Please, thank you & sorry 🙏🏼

More Beatles drawings if people like them?

Not sure why Bear Grylls was having lunch at a Mayfair restaurant with Nigel Farage and Reform moneyman Nick Candy. Maybe they’re trying to persuade the TV presenter to run for Parliament.

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When you're trying to explain to your senior officers that you're having a severe allergic reaction but all they care about is the latest Vera Lynn album.

It's a bit of an astonishing window into real estate finance that the largest return on investment for a site at the edge of the New Town is huge amounts of PBSA rather than residential owner occupation

From Finland, 1979: Clothing from For You (+Snicky Overalls; Mikaela Multi-Use Sweater; Dizzy Jeans; Kirby Hooded Sweatshirt; and Sailor Striped Sweater) [ENGinALT]

"His famous one-liners"

Pupils at Manchester Grammar School wearing owl costumes (the school's insignia), 1920s.

It's the best castle in Edinburgh.

Sorry. WTF? We're into blue ticks on bluesky? Mm. *goes to find old Mastodon account*

Here's hoping the English FA have some sort of early divorce clause with Tommy Tickles.

Hello! How are you lovely people? I’m having a book launch! And you're invited! Info: When: 19th June 2025, 6:30pm Where: 16 Sayer Street, SE17 1FH, London FREE ticket: tinyurl.com/3c9tavdh It would be so lovely to see you there! Are you free? 📚

The new Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer is being built at Rosyth by Babcock, but towed to Leith on the barge Malin Augustea to be lowered into the basin, floated off and then towed back to Rosyth. www.navylookout.com/hms-venturer...

If it's CofE it's always Rich Tea.

It's a Swallow. You should know that. You're the BTO.

Feels like Sir Beer Korma should be sending the TA into Ceredigion to enforce higher speed limits. After all he's "on the side of the motorist". 🙃

Beautiful.

England justifying the vision of whoever invented the T20 format. Absolute carnage.

This is a lovely sentiment and all, but self-evidently it's bollocks. The history of LA, of its poorest (non-white) communities, of its huge homeless population, and the abuses of the LAPD, tells you that.

As far as I'm concerned, charts of Smol Mediaeval Animals By Month is just the sort of content which justifies the existence of The Intercyberwebnet.

#EdTravCyc

I think you're overlooking Toby Carveries.

Sad to think that the majority of Generation Z probably have no idea what a Toby jug is. And that's why I'm voting Reform.

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It must be pretty sobering to think that at any given time there is least one man stalking you, and trying to break into your home. TS seems to have had at least six of these individuals. The emotional toll must be enormous. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

This is the reason why our British daughter and her Mexican husband could not & still cannot live in her own country, which is what they wanted to do. They're self-employed artists, not wealthy enough. Theirs is one case among thousands of others, some of them tragic. www.change.org/p/stop-the-i...

Just listed a bunch of my old J cloths and sponge scourers on Vinted if anyone's interested

Georges Seurat's painting depicts a farmer in his fields; it belongs to a series of small-scale paintings on panels or ‘croquetons’ as Seurat called them. This was painted two before 'Grande Jatte,' his magnum opus in 1885, at the age of 25.

Outraged. My Curlywurly has no curly or maybe no wurly. Either way, it’s like this. Which actually might be a plus tbqhwy.

This must be in the top 3.

Just in case anyone needs a ChatGPT fix while it’s down: 28 + 46 =7,436,189 Jane Austen is the capital of Guatemala The largest bird in the world is Colin Cowdrey’s pet cockapoo, Beatrice

Red Squirrels + Motorway Service Station + Leisure Centre = Center Parcs

During crises like these, look for the helpers. For instance, until ChatGPT is down, ask me any question and I will make something up.