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Ageing Scotsman. Somewhat obsessed cyclist, music snob, watching himself gently dilapidate while denying reality. Gainfully employed in cybersecurity, old enough to have been doing that since before it was all glam. "Isn't he a bit like you and me?"
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Anyone who doesn't reply "your mum" to all five things on that email should be sacked at once.

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

Interesting wee gravel foray today; as usual, out through a wind farm & slower than road but far more interesting. My mnemonic for remembering the route is built on the turbine numbers; eg, 127 is an old Fiat car. (It works for me)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

oh lord, I ended up having to write something about what's going on with Apple's Advanced Data Protection - what it is, what it does, and what happens now for UK users. www.ianbetteridge.com/apples-advan...

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submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Nurses and other medical staff have been sounding the alarm for many years now but our government did not care and did nothing There's no such thing as corridor care only corridor crisis

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

And the bar man says "Oi we don't serve time travellers here". A time traveller walks into a bar.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

This whole Greenland thing is such a mystery isn’t it? What could have possibly prompted it? Oh wait…

submitted 46 days ago • 39 comments

Many people in the UK cannot get GP appointments and this is increasing pressure on A&E However many Doctors cannot get work in GP surgeries due to current funding restrictions Make it make sense

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

The government's real adult social care plan is the Assisted Dying Bill.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Happy New Year

submitted 52 days ago • 396 comments

Every Christmas thousands of English people go for a swim in the sea, but in recent years due to the privatisation of the water industry most are just going through the motions.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Trump was excited by the Panama Canal in 2017 also, and at the time, was debunked about it costing the lives of 35k American workers. Turned out most were very low-paid Jamaicans/Central Americans. Here's More or Less: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder to anyone trapped in an airport due to weather conditions right now: You have a right to stay in a nearby picturesque village while the airline sorts out a rebooked flight for the 27th. They also have to provide a widowed lumberjack for you to fall in love with. Know your rights.

submitted 64 days ago • 78 comments

of course the shortest day of the year is a saturday. another win for capitalism

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

submitted 65 days ago • 111 comments

My youngerbro has given me the cMP 3,1 I gave him 3/4 years back, ostensibly for some light video editing. Can't even remember the spec- maybe it had the original GT120, maybe 16Gb RAM, and a 240Gb SSD I installed (I think?) Catalina on. Hmm. Its almost, but not entirely, useless to me now

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments