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British technologist - music, photography and model railroads out of hours. Since 2023, also a Driving Instructor/Examiner & School Bus Driver. linktr.ee/lowwhistler
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My King County WA property tax bill just landed. 8.5% increase from last year, based entirely on an "on paper" increase in the value of my property. But I didn't get a 8.5% pay rise. No pay rise actually. Why on earth can't they base it on stable square footage? #pnw #propertytax #kingcountywa

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It is beyond my comprehension that the USA, where I chose to make my home, is now effectively lawless. No democracy in Russia, China and now the USA. It's utter madness... #usacoup

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

For the university and hospital administrators who thought repressing programs on racial and gender inequalities, suspending trans care, censoring truth on genocide, etc was going to stop Trump from attacking your federal funding, please confront how naive and cowardly you’ve been and change course.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Musk is the living embodiment of AI: a broken, tech-bro tool that inserts itself into everyone's life unsolicited and makes everything worse.

submitted 19 days ago • 136 comments

I came to the USA under Obama because the country had such a bright future. I became a citizen under Biden feeling that we'd moved on. Pretty much speechless now under the dark veil of the future...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

⚫ David Lynch

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Is anyone else having issues with the #bluesky app not scrolling on Android? Tried forced stop and restart phone to no avail...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Isolation is going to be a problem for sane people moving forward. Withdrawal from the staples of TV news and traditional social media are going to have a profound impact on many. I'm feeling it already...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It's now becoming an all encompassing mission to keep AI (Co-pilot, Gemini etc.) off all my devices. And I now realize it actually will be a "Mission Impossible".

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Really only one thing for the HiFi this evening. Rest in peace... #davidlynch #twinpeaks

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Piano roll of “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from Twin Peaks. The visual representation of two mountain peaks in the music was a “cosmic” coincidence which shocked both Lynch and Badalamenti when they discovered it

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

Cranes and boat juxtaposition #seattle #pnw

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

One definite PC disadvantage is the sudden arrival of regular BSODs after years of reliability. No consumer way to decode a likely cause, just unreadable dumps. Incredibly frustrating…

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Decided to play MSFT Flight Sim on my rare day off. Launched it 2 hours ago, still only 32% updated. Guess I'll find something else to do... #flightsimulator

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments