@dradam676
Norfolk-bred Scot, software engineer, passionate about maths, maps, better public transport, and xkcd references. Bluesky now my main source of witterings, with occasional drip-feed of migrated content such as maps I'm pleased with.
Sorry, you're not going to convince me that Kharg island is a real place. Kharg is very obviously a fat green angry reptilian villain from a 90s children's cartoon and Kharg Island is his lair where he regularly and predictably plots the destruction of the Epic Powerup Squad every Saturday morning.
"maybe I just wanna fly, wanna live I don't wanna die" as the millennial curlew might put it
They're good dogs, Brent
ok so hear me out, what if, but, like, in the Gulf
idea for fiscal stimulus for Portuguese economy, hear me out
Gnasher giving UK Dennis heavy death-stares
Even Gnasher is tired of his BS at this point
I loved this comparison of the two Menaces.
Not sure what you're trying to achieve on Bluesky with this sort of thing, my guy. Stick to X and you never know, a few reply-bots might be on board with this.
Steve Backshall
That's Steve Backshall, isn't it?
Good point. I also did this for UK petrol prices a few weeks ago: bsky.app/profile/drad...
this reply has nailed it imho
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xkcd.com/257
There is something inherently amusing about the phrase "Winston Churchill to be replaced by badgers" to be fair
My favourite geographic etymology is that the Bosphorus is Greek for Oxford
Or Hurlford (East Ayrshire) depending on who you ask 😁
IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS
today's squaredle:
2.75% AER/2.72% gross variable monthly on balances from £1 for the whole year if 3 or less withdrawals are made in the 12 months after opening the account Withdrawals Unlimited You will get a higher interest rate if you make 3 or less withdrawals in the 12 months from opening the account. I have highlighted both instances of "3 or less"
Got this from Lloyds Bank the other day and it made me want to gouge my own eyes out.
Quick reminder that in real terms, petrol prices have recently been cheaper than they've been for decades, and that 140p/l is actually comically cheap compared to what it was in (say) early 2010s or the 2022 spike
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Completely unrelated but this is also how I feel about "the reopening of Snow Hill Tunnel in the 1980s to reinstate a cross-city passenger rail network after decades of run down and neglect"
#Edinburgh Airport just now. Three Chinook helicopters overhead. No drones or missiles as far as I can tell!
Oh God. My eyes.
micro sim ❌
nano sim ❌
GIGA SIM ✅
(banana splits tune) "na na na, na nana na, na na na, I'm a big girl" also lives rent free in my head thanks to my then-teenage sense of humour
This dislodged an old, old memory from Never Mind The Buzzcocks probably closer to Kate Bush than the present day. Bluesky at its best.
I still remember your excellent explainer on this from back in the day! web.archive.org/web/20040803...
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
This comment made me think of this recent excellent skit by Tilly Oddy-Black: www.instagram.com/p/DVEuZOfEsd9/
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
? the math is not mathing here
