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Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

building a next-generation construction firm supercharged by asbestos ✨ #disruptive #riseandgrind #careergoals

It's not just people who trespass on our tracks and disrupt your journeys. Sometimes our teams have to deal with swans, sheep and even horses ... 🐴 🦢 Find out how we're reducing the number of animals going onto the railway: 👉 https://bit.ly/4zf5MlA

wikipedia editors finding the worst image of a place to use at the top of its infobox

I UNDERSTAND THIS JOKE!!!!

for anyone wondering, to actually pass the threshold for treason the piddingtonians would have to show some kind of violent intent and storm the military base or something, so it's definitely possible, I just have a funny feeling they wouldn't actually want to wage war with their precious monarch

Inspired by a recent interaction

many social media managers will encourage you to spread your posts throughout the day but why do that when you have 500 thoughts and you could just literally post them all at the same time

bluesky should introduce a setting called 'mute americans' that allows me to completely hide american posters from all feeds (except for my following) for a configurable length of time, for my own mental wellbeing

local plumber to persona non grata of israel in 6 months is a career progression I wish I could aspire to

of you're anywhere in the UK you can vote in this, please help us send a message to these companies!! also check out other petitions for different schemes around the country cause there's a lot of them!

my new (and hopefully final) site is up at rowan.licking.rocks. bit annoyed about the image loading being flickery but im very happy with how simple it is

Seems to me that the practice of “regulation” in Britain boils down to just installing The Right Sort Of Chaps, insiders who know how the game is played and won’t make a fuss, and will just have a quiet chat instead, if anyone gets a bit fast and loose with the rules.

they call me John Rocklicker, inventor of rock licking

wikihow out here making the typa shit i want on a shirt

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/

favourite cheese ⬇️

this means we'll stop ordering high speed trains from hitachi right guys... right.. 🥺

*sigh* friendly reminder that the discord /ban command can pre-emptively ban any user id, this does *not* mean that user/bot/whatever is "hiding in your server" or "was forcefully added by discord"

someone in a chat I'm in said, paraphrased, "there's a lot of programmers who think that they, the Smart People, know how to use AI for good and everything ELSE is slop but claude code doesn't count" and yeah that is DEF the direction I'm seeing people pivot to dodge resistance against AIgen lately

This is Miyamoto. I'm here to share an update on the upcoming game in the Super Mario series. Fuuuuck its gone. It's all gone. I deleted everything, all of it. The ice cream elephant melted and everything. Fuck.

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

i liked this so much that I decided to make a little JS snippet that you can put on your website that does the same!! gist.github.com/rowandevving... you'll probably want to tweak it a bit as it's quite crude, but i hope someone finds it useful!

happy yorkshire day!

trying really hard to be the most punchable face in right wing media

‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton

Looks like Hugging Face scraped ~all of GitHub into an AI training dataset... huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi... There is an opt-out link. You might want to use it.

Hey @andyburnham.bsky.social, now you're the PM, can you say anything about your specific plans to protect trans people in the UK and end the discrimination of the NHS and other organisations in government? It's really good to more major UK politicians be active on bsky.

i prefer the much more appropriate 'slopshaggers' nowadays

been on a road trip all around the south west of england cause I've wanted to visit forever, will probably post an executive summary of it here, but until then billions must wear ancient wool

Girlfriend booked us a quiet UK getaway. On the way, I gingerly said "Given how close we are to the station, there's a good chance -" and she interrupted with "to see the new Class 810 Auroras, yes, that's why I chose it." She was never previously in to trains. She's the one.

I AM NOT A TRAINSPOTTER but here is the night riviera in penzance taken with my shitty camera