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Asterisks are ****ing great. I swear by them.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

That noise you can hear is the sound of hundreds of emergency podcasts about the Musk/Trump meltdown being prepared.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Annual Reminder to parents of young children as you plan your summer holidays: Skip the costly trips and fancy hotels, you could quite literally go to the depths of hell and if they had a pool open from 6am - 10pm your kids will be thrilled.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

“People were worried it would be sold to developers. It was so touching that local people came and donated, some just coins or a fiver. It meant so much to them.” How the British coast was kept accessible to all, by thousands of ordinary people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Walking along the banks of the Thames and I've just stumbled on the opening and closing shot of an unwritten rockumentary.

submitted 38 days ago • 141 comments

Navarro doesn't understand the deal they signed. The text reads: "The United Kingdom and the United States affirm that imported food and agricultural goods must comply with the importing country’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and other mutually agreed standards."

submitted 51 days ago • 134 comments

The actual best strategy to beat Reform in 2029 is to create economic growth so that everyone feels richer, spending feels less zero-sum and there’s more money to invest in public services.

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

Dogtor who? (3)

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Ecclestone & Mosley usually got what they wanted in #F1, but not always. Tomorrow marks 25 years since they deliberately rendered the #BritishGP a mud bath & a laughing stock - but the BRDC had the last laugh. Click to read my brand-new #MotorSport column. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

#NowPlaying Ry Cooder - live at the main point 1972 Oddly, the vocal is only on the left channel and guitar only on the right. It's like he's performing in two places at once.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Hold on, conclave is when you’re voting a pope in, and convlex is when you’re voting a pope out.

submitted 112 days ago • 21 comments

I have no idea why the BBC has posted an endless loop of ambient Tardis footage to YouTube, but it might actually be of interest to anyone wanting a clear view of the set and the console.

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

Every time I see the Falkirk wheel my first reaction is that’s an absolutely massive derailleur hanger… Would love to have a go on it though, canal boat/fairground ride what’s not to like!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to a mariners notice from the Port of London Authority about some bridge repair works -- I learned that some "cherry pickers" can do this...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Enjoying my latest @raspberrypi.com project, which identifies birdsong heard in the garden, but it does need to get a bit smarter about urban sounds: this is not a European curlew. It's a siren. (Hat tip to my dear nerdy mate @stephenmcgann.uk for putting me on to this lovely project 😁)

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

Good quality test leads will have a resistance of approximately 0.02Ω per meter. PS that’s a measurement in ohms (The PS de resistance)

submitted 92 days ago • 25 comments

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

submitted 93 days ago • 201 comments

💖 OUT NOW! Bunny Vs Monkey: The Whopping World Of Puzzles is absolutely CRAMMED with fiendish brain-twisters, amazing activities, and ridiculously fun games to join in with. All wrapped up in a hilarious comic story! 🤯 Wanna win a signed copy? Just share this post! Winners picked at random!

submitted 93 days ago • 7 comments

Signed up to signal to see if I get added to any fun group chats…

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Owlphabet

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

This story is incredible. And incredibly scary in its implications. Here’s a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 97 days ago • 42 comments

This live action "Wallace & Grommit Experience" isn't worth £50 a head. Children in tears.

submitted 98 days ago • 14 comments

5 years (somehow!) since our wedding got postponed due to Covid. We had bought 115 Lindt chocolate bunnies as favours, so we held a wedding for them instead...

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Every time Simon Calder is on TV, chaos is all around. He must be stopped. Sounds like a job for…Penelope Keith.

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments

If everything is getting a bit much, this video from 1984 of hugely influential Apple design guru Susan Kare patiently explaining to a couple of dudes how a computer works is tremendously soothing www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBa...

submitted 102 days ago • 6 comments

Post your favourite Dr Who. Wrong answers only

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

There’s been so much coverage recently of smartphones & how terrible they must be for our teens (although the research doesn’t seem to demonstrate that conclusively yet). I don’t know if that is right or wrong - but I do know that the coverage never seems to acknowledge the positives. Here are some

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments

It's easy to forget things like this. The King can't say anything officially about, well, anything. But when he chooses to, he can apparently not say anything very, very, clearly www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 108 days ago • 4 comments

The National Trust has five times the membership of all the political parties combined. If you think it's got it wrong, you're going to lose your shit over British politics.

submitted 108 days ago • 62 comments

Saturn has…more moons than perhaps it needs?

submitted 109 days ago • 6 comments

📌 NEW VIDEO I Tried Climbing a 50 KM VOLCANO! - Mount Teide in Tenerife ➡️ youtu.be/m4Ep3sgz-_I Happy to finally share my Tenerife adventure. Enjoy! 💛

submitted 116 days ago • 11 comments

UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

submitted 120 days ago • 109 comments

This one is for Raymond Blanc

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment