Silver Arrows

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2026-03-22 13:36:46 UTC

Omgggg I've been wondering if there's a way to search through my own posts and I just saw a tip today on how to do it.
Just type from:@[your full user id] and then your search term.
Holy carp.
#feditips #TIL #fedisearch

2026-03-22 12:43:08 UTC

Can anyone recommend a budget smartphone (UK) that has a reliable #GPS? Mine doesn't work most of the time. I don't care about any other spec as I'd be using this phone for GPS only.
@npub1pce…geep
#askfedi #phonehelp

2026-03-03 10:17:34 UTC

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Here he is. I had him 2 or 3 years, but then some upstart stole his territory a few days before his chicks were due to fledge. First he left, then a day or two later, his mate left and I could hear the chicks go quieter and quieter over the next few days. I was mute at the time and also too scared to ask my parents to ask the neighbours if I could retrieve the chicks and try to save them.
#birds #GreatTits #gardenbirds
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2026-03-03 10:09:44 UTC

This is so cool!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co
(There's also a part 2, which is even better!)
I know that different sounds have meanings, like the aerial predator alert is a high pitched "tsee tsee" and the ground predator is the churring sound, and there are contact calls. But this researcher found that bird grammar is a lot more complex than we thought!
I had a tame great tit, I called him Tubbie. I think imitating animal calls is kind of an #autistic thing? I used to try to imtitate the "peep peep churrrr" noise, which according to this video may be the pitsupi jajaja call? Haha, was I saying, hey I'm the predator (that gives you mealworms)? I don't suppose they even recognised it as an attempt to speak their language. Anyway, he couldn't really tell me from anyone else wearing a hijab in my garden, or at least, he used to ambush my mum thinking she was me. But when he was within earshot and I'd call out, "Tubbie! Wormies!" he'd fly to our garden and look out for me holding the worm tub. If the shed door was open, he'd fly into it and hop about on the tub, because he couldn't open the lid.
I also had a semi-tame blackbird who would recognise my voice. I'd move the worms around the garden and when he came in, I'd click and point to where I'd put the worm dish that day and he'd fly straight to that part of the garden.
Both my tame blackbirds were killed by cats. One of them was tortured to death.
Keep your freaking cats indoors or get them a catio to keep wildlife safe! You don't have a right to kill wildlife via your cat nor force your PET on neighbours who don't want it. Stop being so selfish.
#Birds #BirdsAreCool #catowners #controlyourcat #wildlife

2025-09-15 16:23:14 UTC

My annual budgie potato harvest.
I threw some potato peelings in a corner of the garden many years ago, near to where I buried two of my budgies. And now I get spuds growing there every year. At first I tried to get rid of them as they were in the way but they'd always come back so now I just leave them to it and take whatever they offer. I've been neglecting the garden this year, so most of the spuds are on the small side.
Tomorrow I'll try to make spicy wedges.
The soil here has too much clay to grow good carrots. I tried planting them in potting compost and gave them extra potassium phosphate, but they're always pathetic. They are kinda tasteless too. I wonder what I'm doing wrong.
#gardening #vegetables #vegetablegarden #horticulture
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2025-08-03 18:44:23 UTC

I haven't followed #Formula1 since 2002, I think was the last season I watched. So it was nice to hear on the radio today that #McLaren are dominating again!
#F1 was one of my major special interests from 1998-2002. I was totally obsessed with it. Like, totally. Like really totally obsessed.
I'm a #baseball girl now, but I wonder if it's worth getting back into F1. It's strange seeing names like Verstappen and Alonso. I remember them! They must be kinda old by F1 standards now.
Mika Häkkinen was my boy. And yeah, that's where the obsession with wanting to learn Finnish when I was 16 came from haha 😅 After Häkkinen retired, McLaren got Räikkönen to replace him, but then he moved to Ferrari, the traitor, and I think that might have been when I gave up on F1 for good. Or it might have been before that. Edit: it was before that. He went to Ferrari in 2007, long after I gave up on F1. I think 2002 would have been my last season.
Edit: DUH THE MOST OBVIOUS THING! My username is from my F1 fangirl days. It's been so long I forgot. The McLarens were nicknamed the Silver Arrows! They're not silver anymore though 😔
@npub14ck…n67n

2025-07-09 14:51:23 UTC

You can pry my ketchup out my cold, dead hands.
#funny #ketchup #aroace
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2025-06-27 17:51:09 UTC

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if I ever get my own kitchen, I will be happy to try out the recipe! (Might be a while though.)

2025-06-27 17:22:14 UTC

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that looks deliciously decadent! 💛

2025-05-14 08:14:25 UTC

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he could have taken that opportunity to highlight the benefits immigrants have brought to this country. You know, this country whose entire history is based on foreigners coming here to settle. I mean our language alone is testament to that. He could have used it as a unifying moment. Look how Carney used anti-trumpism to quash the far right, even Australia did it last minute. Starmer had the chance to start turning the tide against the far right. Sure some people will take longer to convince that immigration isn't the cause of their troubles, and some will always be full of hate no matter what, but he could have made a start with those voters who aren't just out and out bigots.
It would help if the media wasn't just a mouthpiece for frogface, too. The left really need to get more media savvy. The right uses social media at the highest efficiency (see Cambridge analytica) and the left isn't going to fight that by sitting on their laurels. #LedbyDonkeys does really effective campaigns, but they don't get as much reach as Farage, because he knows how to play the game. The bigger parties need to get their message out outside of legacy media.

2025-04-21 15:14:42 UTC

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I don't know if I'm missing something, but wouldn't the devs adding an option to restrict DMs to none, or followers only (I don't know how it would work on Lemmy, which is where I got 2/3 of my Nicole spam) stop this?