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2026-04-03 15:16:31 UTC

Oh god, there’s a weeb convention in the hotel.

2026-04-01 18:50:13 UTC

UK: Tesco is doing 15p veg for Easter. Not sure about other places.

2026-03-30 06:43:15 UTC

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No, my landline ones. At least they all change when I do one of them.

2026-03-29 20:32:00 UTC

I was looking for, and failed to find, something else entirely, but may I present: me, aged around three, after a long day in the garden.
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2026-03-29 20:12:43 UTC

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The phones always catch me out, for some reason I expect something so techy to DIY it.

2026-03-29 18:07:38 UTC

I’ve just spent the last half hour pondering, on and off, why it’s so light: surely clear skies can’t make that much difference?
Felt very dumb when I remembered the clocks had changed….
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2026-03-28 21:17:57 UTC

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Neo-nazi-ish.

2026-03-28 20:51:51 UTC

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I think it’s actually an anti-Tommy-Robinson protest.

2026-03-28 18:14:27 UTC

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Just cheese, no fish.

2026-03-28 18:11:22 UTC

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Really! I tried it one time on a whim, just cheese in the roll. Not sure it would work with shrimp, though, I think the tastes would clash.

2026-03-28 17:58:47 UTC

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Yay! Good for you, it does get easier and quicker with practice.
Don’t mock this until you try it: strong cheddar cheese next time you do sushi!

2026-03-28 13:44:26 UTC

https://beautymatter.com/articles/italy-halts-the-sephora-kids-ride
The Italian competition authority Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) has reportedly launched investigations into LVMH’s Sephora Italia and Benefit Cosmetics over “possible unfair commercial practices” relating to the advertising of products created for adults to children and adolescents.
AGCM claims the companies (Benefit Cosmetics LLC, Sephora Italia S.r.L., and LVMH Profumi e Cosmetici Italia S.r.L.) encouraged consumers as young as 10-12 to make compulsive purchases of face masks, serums, and anti-aging creams. The authority believes this fuels the issue of “cosmeticorexia”—an obsession with skincare among minors. AGCM also claims the companies used “insidious” marketing strategies that involved very young influencers.

2026-03-28 08:03:38 UTC

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Was it good?

2026-03-27 16:03:41 UTC

https://spectator.com/article/its-easy-to-blame-big-tech-for-the-results-of-parental-neglect/
If a child found Mr. Kipling cakes particularly addictive and began overindulging to the point of becoming overweight or unwell, would we be right to sue the baker? Or would it make more sense to ask whether the parent had enabled the behaviour by leaving the packets within easy reach, refusing to set limits or using them as a convenient babysitter?
A Los Angeles jury has just delivered a landmark verdict against Meta and Google, finding both companies negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed the mental health of a young user, known as Kaley. The £4.5 million awarded in damages, with Meta shouldering the lion’s share, has been hailed as social media’s ‘Big Tobacco moment’. Tech firms, it’s argued, acted recklessly in knowingly hooking children with infinite scrolls, auto-play and algorithmic dopamine hits, and so they are therefore fully responsible for the depression and anxiety that ensued.
It is a seductive narrative. It’s also a comforting one, because it shifts responsibility away from the place it is most uncomfortable and most necessary to look at: the home.
(Archive still down, sorry.)

2026-03-27 11:06:15 UTC

https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/
In November 2025, a school library in Greater Manchester underwent a purge. Inspired by the headteacher’s dislike of one particular title, books were pulled off the shelves, in a case unlike any previously seen in the UK. Within weeks, more than 130 books had been targeted – nearly 200 if each issue of the numerous graphic novels is counted. The books included a graphic novel of George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four, young adult books like Dean Atta’s Black Flamingo and Alice Oseman’s chart-topping Heartstopper graphic novel series. Black Flamingo has since been reinstated, but the fate of many books on the list is unclear.
The school leadership pointed the finger at the librarian. She was threatened with disciplinary action, labeled as a safeguarding risk and at one point she was under risk of police involvement. She resigned from her job under severe stress.

2026-03-27 10:42:17 UTC

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It’s mined, not from the sea.
But: quite.

2026-03-27 10:22:21 UTC

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/03/26/the-end-of-the-british-salt-industry-could-be-apocalyptic/
the UK is on the verge of becoming a net importer of salt, for the first time in history. Inovyn, the company that produces roughly 50 per cent of Britain’s salt, has announced that it will likely have to close its facility in Runcorn, Cheshire, unless it receives government support. Like the rest of the UK’s manufacturing industry, Inovyn is struggling to cope with the UK’s breathtakingly high energy costs and crippling carbon taxes. In other words, Britain’s salt industry is to be sacrificed at the altar of Net Zero.
The decline of salt would be an economic disaster. The chemical and pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest manufacturers in the UK. Salt, which is used in 90 per cent of pharmaceuticals, is a vital component in a surprising number of everyday products. Only the food industry contributes more to the domestic economy – and the food industry also needs high-quality salt, for taste and preservative reasons.

2026-03-27 10:03:54 UTC

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The issue isn’t proving that you aren’t a bot, it’s uploading your ID to either Reddit or some random third party, security levels unknowable, and then having your posts linked to your ID if the police decide to take offence at something you post.

2026-03-27 07:47:03 UTC

I slipped on some slushy snow yesterday morning, but I thought I was ok because I landed on nice bouncy heather.
I was wrong :(

2026-03-26 20:13:26 UTC

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/03/26/britains-energy-nightmare-is-of-our-own-elites-making/
The energy secretary is wrong on all fronts. Catastrophically so. As a new report by Offshore Energy UK (OEUK) confirms, North Sea oil and gas drilling has indeed fallen sharply in recent years. But this has been driven by government policy, not the supplies in reserve beneath the sea. Miliband’s ban on new North Sea oil exploration, and his continuation of the Tories’ windfall tax on the sector, are by far the greatest constraint on domestic drilling. As a result, according to OEUK, imports of LNG – which currently account for 14 per cent of the UK gas supply – are set to soar to 46 per cent by 2035. Under Miliband’s North Sea shutdown, Britain will become more dependent on suppliers like Qatar, and thus more vulnerable to external energy shocks.
And what might domestic protection mean for the price of energy? While nobody expects reopening the North Sea to instantly rescue the UK from the current price hikes, more domestic drilling could indeed lower costs in the long run. Miliband’s insistence that prices are set ‘internationally’, and so domestic production would ‘not take a penny off energy bills’, is straightforwardly untrue. If prices really were set globally, the UK would not be paying six times more for gas than energy-rich America.

2026-03-26 19:52:26 UTC

Had one of those cars whose headlights could double up as a thermonuclear detonation behind me for half the drive home, on a really windy road so they kept flashing in and out of my wing mirrors.
Dread to think how much worse my new headache would be without the fancy coating on my glasses.
Petrol 157 in WAG land.

2026-03-26 15:03:08 UTC

https://adfinternational.org/news/breaking-finlands-supreme-court-acquits-parliamentarian-on-bible-tweet-convicts-her-for-insult-in-20-year-old-church
In a narrow 3–2 decision, the Finnish Supreme Court has found parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen guilty of “hate speech” on one charge relating to the expression of her beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics in a twenty-year-old church pamphlet. Räsänen has been criminally convicted for publishing the 2004 pamphlet for her church, alongside Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola. The conviction is for “making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group”. The Supreme Court unanimously acquitted Räsänen for her 2019 Bible verse tweet.
Räsänen was previously unanimously acquitted on all charges by two lower courts.

2026-03-26 14:26:52 UTC

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According to my council, there’s a new nation-wide requirement that all councils do weekly food collections. Making the garden bin weekly would be too expensive, so they’re bringing these in.
(And adding a new charge for the garden bin, as there’s no requirement for them to offer that.)

2026-03-26 10:39:55 UTC

They’re not bloody “depressed”, ffs. Predictive text doesn’t have feelings.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15678939/Google-AI-bots-locked-despressive-spiral-refuse-carry-tasks-repeatedly-told-wrong.html
Google’s AI bots reportedly suffer ‘emotional distress’ and abandon tasks when repeatedly told they are wrong, according to new research.
The company’s Gemini and Gemma models, which assists users with daily tasks, can fall into a ‘depressive' spiral if they get answers wrong or fail to complete tasks when prompted.
And the chatbots even go so far as abandoning routines and deleting work, according to a study conducted by Imperial College London and AI company Anthropic.

2026-03-26 10:25:27 UTC

That’s a new one!
We’re supposedly getting those little separate food bins next month. Given how often my big wheelie bins make a bid for freedom, I have no idea how I’m supposed to stop it flying to the next county.
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2026-03-26 08:44:55 UTC

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This might be bollocks: I have not had this happen.

2026-03-24 22:11:12 UTC

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My current favourite mash is with cream cheese and powdered bone broth. Cauliflower is my least favourite brassica, but I will have to try it with turnips in a few weeks when my early crop comes through.

2026-03-24 22:04:01 UTC

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See, FINAF, it’s not just me!
Vox, try it in mashed potatoes, too!

2026-03-24 20:22:06 UTC

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Secret ingredient!

2026-03-24 20:06:31 UTC

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Crust is just my regular dough, rolled very thin (I can give you the recipe if you want but it’s metric!), “sauce” is finely chopped sundried tomatoes mixed with cream cheese (I’m not that keen on pizza sauce), toppings are salami, mushrooms and sugar snaps (snow peas, I think?) (a bit weird but they needed using), and mozzarella.

2026-03-24 19:15:57 UTC

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2026-03-23 19:17:00 UTC

https://spectator.com/article/the-case-for-cloning-the-queens-corgis/
Think of cloning the corgis as a trial balloon for something infinitely thrilling. After all, we have come to accept as a matter of course that the descent of the crown through the generations is accompanied by a slight but perceptible deterioration of the genetic stock. Her Majesty, to pick just a single example, had a splendid head of hair right to the end of her long life. The King is pretty bald. The Prince of Wales is even balder.
Wouldn’t we all, in our secret hearts, and respect his Majesty though we do, prefer it had we been able to install an exact clone of the late Queen on the throne in his place? The technology wasn’t there at the time, and it isn’t there yet. But one day, it seems likely, it will be. Think how grateful Prince George and his descendants will be to be let off the prospect of doing that thankless job, while Queen Elizabeth III is followed by Queen Elizabeth IV and Queen Elizabeth V and so on. Extra money could be made, to relieve pressure on the public finances, by selling spare clones of Her Majesty to other countries in need of a monarch of proven quality.
https://archive.ph/K5oKm

2026-03-23 11:28:41 UTC

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15657287/How-Irans-ruthless-enforcers-use-rape-crush-dissent-Brutal-sex-attacks-victims-young-12-used-strike-fear-protesters-rights-groups-reveal-amid-fury-sickening-nurse-gang-rape.html
Girls as young as 12 have been raped in attempts to 'inflict lasting physical and psychological damage on protesters', according to an Amnesty.
UN human rights investigators found Iran uses 'sexual violence' alongside torture, arbitrary killings, arrests and forced confessions.
In one shocking case, IRGC agents stormed the house of Amirhossein Ghaderzadeh, a 19-year-old protester who took to the streets in January.
They stripped him and his two sisters, one who was aged just 14, to inspect them for metal pellets to 'prove' their participation in demonstrations before subjecting them to sexual violence and sentencing Amirhossein to death.
Authorities have since refused to disclose his fate or whereabouts.

2026-03-22 21:23:53 UTC

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Or a little way over?

2026-03-22 21:03:09 UTC

There was an Anglo-Saxon bishop named Chad, coming from a Celtic word meaning “battle”. He later became a saint.
4:30ish
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMGph7xkDA

2026-03-22 20:10:40 UTC

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They launched missiles in the direction of DG. Whether they had any expectation of them actually getting there….
It would be interesting to know how far the one that was shot down had actually got.

2026-03-22 19:27:39 UTC

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My tube is floppy… :(
In hindsight, I should have left the papers in. But yes, I think a lot of pin-faffing is in my future.

2026-03-22 18:33:04 UTC

Sewing help, please!
I’ve got the sides of my mum’s bag done and assembled into a tube. I’ve got a length of piping cord, and a piece of fabric to form the base.
I tried just eyeballing it and ended up with too much side to go around the last side of the base, so I’m going to have to be more systematic.
Any ideas how I go about it? Am I just going to have to pin and adjust and pin and adjust?

2026-03-22 16:06:11 UTC

I think this may have gone too far, America.
https://www.tacticalpajamas.com/

2026-03-21 21:14:42 UTC

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2026-03-21 11:30:54 UTC

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I misremembered slightly: it was a Norwegian tunnel, not bridge.
https://news.sky.com/story/thames-tunnel-project-delayed-after-planning-it-cost-more-than-worlds-longest-road-tunnel-13230526
National Highways revealed in a Freedom of Information (FoI) request earlier this year that £295m has been spent on the application process for the LTC. Overall spending, including technical surveys and land purchasing costs, has surpassed £800m - all before a spade has hit the ground.
As pointed out by pro-growth campaign group Britain Remade, the planning fee alone is more than twice the cost it took Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.
The Laerdal tunnel, connecting Oslo and Bergen, only cost £140m, adjusted for inflation, the thinktank's head of policy Sam Dumitriu said.

2026-03-21 11:26:23 UTC

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Yup. We also have incredibly low productivity, which probably doesn’t help.
I saw some stat recently about Norway (or maybe Denmark?) having built a bridge from scratch in less time and at less cost than the environmental impact assessment phase of a similar length one here (for which approval has not yet been given).

2026-03-21 11:19:41 UTC

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Partly design-by-committee, partly incompetent people, partly over-regulation.

2026-03-21 11:13:33 UTC

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Not so much governance as procurement. We as a country have just got incredibly bad at actually getting anything done, and seem to always spend massively more than was budgeted before giving up on the project (see also: the attempt at a second high speed rail line; the plan to digitise NHS records).

2026-03-21 11:06:56 UTC

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Looks like they’re going for an existing German replacement, so hopefully it’ll not be a complete waste of time like that armoured personnel carrier that they tried to make over here that was so bad it made people ill.

2026-03-20 21:58:11 UTC

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@nprofile…qlnp I’m liking the Mac Neo so far.

2026-03-20 21:56:50 UTC

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Pretty sure they only went out of service weeks ago, so I’m sure you could get in there!

2026-03-20 21:51:46 UTC

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We, otoh, have just retired our last mine clearing ships: instead, we now have shiny new drone technology.
Which — coff — hasn’t been tested.

2026-03-20 21:41:24 UTC

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I loved the book, but I can definitely see where C is coming from. He does get shanghaied and it is a sad ending.

2026-03-20 21:35:37 UTC

Wow. That was even smoother than the phone, where I had to re-enter passwords for things like email accounts.
And it’s fixed a weirdness on one (but only one) of my gmail accounts where archiving of messages was not syncing back to gmail proper when I did it in Mailmate.
#nevent1q…gqgv

2026-03-20 20:49:36 UTC

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The bigger one.
I don’t that often take it anywhere except by car, so the slight weight increase isn’t an issue (although now I think of it I must check if my laptop sleeve will still fit; I think it will as it’s too big for the old one).
I probably wouldn’t have bothered, but the old one has developed an irritating glitch of refusing to switch on when not plugged in (and occasionally shutting down when asleep even when it is), which I strongly suspect is due to some sort of secondary battery having died. If I still lived fifteen minutes from an authorised repair shop….

2026-03-20 20:06:30 UTC

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I decided a laptop nearly old enough to have sex was probably time for a change.

2026-03-20 19:32:23 UTC

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2026-03-20 18:53:48 UTC

My, Marian, that’s a fine beard you have.
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2026-03-20 18:22:36 UTC

Given she’s a twenty minute drive away, I’m not sure I believe you, DPD….
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2026-03-20 18:16:12 UTC

Jenni Murray’s gone :(

2026-03-19 20:06:24 UTC

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Is the logo unexpectedly wholesome, or is it secretly a reference to some disgusting meme?

2026-03-19 13:10:03 UTC

BBC radio has just said that the government has announced that it’s cutting all foreign aid to G20 countries other than Turkey.
Why the hell are we sending aid to G20 countries?

2026-03-19 10:40:41 UTC

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/muslims-five-times-more-likely-to-view-iran-favourably/
When looking at net favourability ratings (“favourable” minus “unfavourable”) towards Iran, the British Muslim figure is +22 – for the general population, it plummets to -42 (a difference of 64 points).
While neither the US nor Israel is popular with the British public (net negative favourability ratings of -16 and -22 respectively), British Muslims are notably more hostile towards the two countries behind the military strikes on Iran (corresponding ratings of -41 and -52 respectively).
Despite the overwhelming majority of British Muslims being Sunni and the Iranian regime being a Shi’ite military-theocratic dictatorship, they have warmer attitudes towards Iran than Saudi Arabia, possibly due to the latter’s previous willingness to normalise relations with Israel.
https://archive.ph/omW6j

2026-03-14 17:03:40 UTC

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2026-03-10 08:46:10 UTC

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No, never come across those. Interesting!

2026-03-10 08:29:02 UTC

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2026-03-09 20:16:38 UTC

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/03/09/labour-islamophobia-muslim-definition-labour-jonathan-hall/
A new official definition of Islamophobia will fail to stop anti-Muslim attacks, the Government’s counter-terrorism adviser has claimed.
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a similar definition for anti-Semitism had failed to prevent a rise in attacks on Jews and he was sceptical a similar new definition for anti-Muslim hatred would be any different.
He also warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed definition, to be unveiled on Monday, could “inhibit” people from speaking freely about and criticising Islam or issues affecting Muslims.
“The worry will be with loose language, people will feel inhibited about talking about things that they do think which are genuinely important today,” Mr Hall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
https://archive.ph/FdU3N

2026-03-09 18:17:42 UTC

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Oh, my grammar is shit, sorry! I did Cambridge, it doesn’t really emphasise grammar in the early years.
I feel like the latter formulation is more motto-ish.

2026-03-09 18:12:27 UTC

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I did it at school… not used it since I did the Latin module in my General Studies A-level.
Well, when I went to Italy I got by ok by smooshing together French and Latin….

2026-03-09 13:20:15 UTC

Couldn’t figure out why this loaf of bread tastes so weird and almost cake-like.
Just realised I forgot to put salt in the mix. Really weird. Will try putting salt on my sandwich tomorrow, but I think I might have to bin it.

2026-03-09 09:48:38 UTC

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2026-03-09 07:59:50 UTC

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2026-03-08 20:30:50 UTC

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Oh! No, I had some left-over bacon as well!

2026-03-08 19:03:13 UTC

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2026-03-08 12:37:08 UTC

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Fingers crossed, lovely boy.

2026-03-08 10:31:54 UTC

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Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Good luck to it, there’s no mobile signal where it spends the night!

2026-03-08 10:18:49 UTC

Why is my phone using (admittedly tiny) amounts of mobile data in the middle of the night when it’s connected to wifi…?
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2026-03-08 10:10:26 UTC

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Not being there to help defend our allies is pissing them off royally, but it’s more the delays: the government knew this was coming a fortnight in advance. If they were going to send aircraft carriers, that was the time to do it. Not pathetically faffing around and being indecisive like this.

2026-03-08 10:08:10 UTC

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Oh, love. You poor thing.
Is it worth taking him out for a walk to tire him out and give you a distraction?

2026-03-08 09:47:37 UTC

God, this is embarrassing. State of this country.
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2026-03-08 07:39:09 UTC

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How did it go?

2026-03-07 22:53:08 UTC

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Great for Moo, I hope you’ll be ok. <3

2026-03-07 21:02:18 UTC

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2026-03-05 17:44:29 UTC

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I’ve just driven down onto the Cheshire plain and there are daffs and blossom everywhere!

2026-03-05 08:47:24 UTC

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with environmental schemes such as the one in east Devon paying thousands of pounds an acre
Where is that money coming from? Is it big businesses offsetting carbon, tax money, what?

2026-03-04 19:53:02 UTC

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Cabbage, sprouts and bacon topped with bread soaked in egg and cheese.

2026-03-04 19:13:32 UTC

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2026-03-04 17:07:05 UTC

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Does rather depend on finding a good supply of cottage-shaped rocks….

2026-03-04 16:32:38 UTC

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A warm fuzzy glow, and them fulfilling their legal WEEE requirement it seems.

2026-03-04 15:38:58 UTC

Thinking about getting the new MacBook Neo, as my elderly MacBook is dying. Thought I’d stick in the details of my current one as a trade-in, just on the off chance:
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2026-03-03 22:25:46 UTC

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I suspect it might be even more basic/far back than that, a general sound of exasperation going maybe even to pre-PIE like “mama” et al.

2026-03-03 20:59:35 UTC

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Maybe you should get a folding bike or something? Then at least you’re not stuck in the cab.

2026-03-03 17:13:41 UTC

I wonder what Mrs Khamenei‘s life was like and if she was happy with it.
Cowed and beaten? Trusted confidant? Power behind the pulpit?

2026-03-03 10:55:53 UTC

https://order-order.com/2026/03/03/france-dispatches-navy-to-defend-cyprus-while-uk-stays-away/
The French government is sending anti-missile and anti-drone assets – along with a frigate – to Cyprus after drones attacked the RAF base at Akrotiri, according to the Cyprus News Agency. Greece has dispatched two frigates and two jets…
Meanwhile, Starmer’s ‘Chief Secretary’ Darren Jones was asked if the UK would respond to strikes on its own base and said: “We don’t want to get involved in a wider war in the Middle East.” So – nothing…

2026-03-03 10:15:17 UTC

Skylarks!
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2026-03-03 08:35:41 UTC

I apologise in advance for tonight’s un-forecast and severe freezing event. I just put the hose back on the wall and turned the outside water on.

2026-03-02 19:22:05 UTC

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Even chopping those slices into smaller bits was a full body weight on the knife affair. It was much firmer than the stuff I occasionally buy pre-chopped at the supermarket.
More generally, I suspect that whole salami will have fewer weird shelf-life chemicals in than the pre-sliced stuff, as well as working out cheaper, so I wanted to try the experiment with this fancy one I had in the cupboard having bought a post-Christmas stock-shifting mystery box from a UK cured meat company.

2026-03-02 19:12:25 UTC

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Because it’s so solid that I could only hack lumps off it, not get thin slices.

2026-03-02 18:43:04 UTC

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It’s actually venison chorizo, tbf.

2026-03-02 18:42:40 UTC

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Handy for the station.

2026-03-02 18:37:34 UTC

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Hmm. Wonder if I can get a sitter…?

2026-03-02 18:33:16 UTC

Yup, you can slice salami with a mandoline. A bit hard work, but this was a very solid one.
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2026-03-02 14:26:15 UTC

Layout thoughts? Front, back, sides. B&W in replies.
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2026-03-01 07:58:46 UTC

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Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Never easy, even when you know it’s coming and is the right thing to do.