Peter
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Theme Parks & Railways! See it, say it, sorted.
None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
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We need to build a second internet.
After initially confirming the project to Tech Radar, Ofcom went silent when pressed on questions about what data was being monitored, what privacy protections were in place or who the company doing it was.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We need to build a second internet.
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This is more believable than a lot of insider westminster coverage
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is more believable than a lot of insider westminster coverage
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At an event where a speaker said: "The moment you are transparent with your trust and safety rules, you give a guidebook to your enemies on how to game them."
Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.
Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
At an event where a speaker said: "The moment you are transparent with your trust and safety rules, you give a guidebook to your enemies on how to game them."
Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.
Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.
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🔴Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🔴Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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one thing i like about cats is their concerned little faces. what are they so worried about anyway? it seems like they're doing okay most of the time, objectively
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
one thing i like about cats is their concerned little faces. what are they so worried about anyway? it seems like they're doing okay most of the time, objectively
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Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
Our operations fund disappeared overnight
We recently took in a beautiful British shorthair called Honey who was sold for £400 in a car park.
Her new owner quickly found that she was a) pregnant and b) epileptic.
She gave birth to 10 kittens, of which 8 survived. When they'd all been sold, her new owner decided she didn't want her anymore because of her (untreated!) seizures. And so she came to us.
We took her to the vets and ordered some phenobarbital, which we've used with great success on two other epileptic cats. However, before it came in, poor Honey had a severe seizure and then two more in the space of a day. Our fosterer took her to the emergency vet, where she had to be kept in on an IV to get her phenobarbital level up quickly to stop the seizures.
She's recovering beautifully, but her treatment has completely emptied our bank account, and we had quite a few operations planned that we still need to do:
- Lemon, an old lady found on the street needs a full dental and a scan to find out why she's so wheezy
- Thomasina, another golden oldie stray, needs a full dental now she's stable on her thyroid meds
- Lenny, who spent 2 years wobbling on the streets, needs his neuter and jabs
- Sabrina, who survived the panleukopenia that killed her kittens, needs her spay and jabs
- Kirby, a sweet grey wobbler, needs his neuter and jabs
- Boots, a handsome orange boy who recently spent his 14th birthday outside as his owners didn't want him anymore, needs a fair bit of treatment, plus a birthday party!
If you can help with any of this, we would hugely appreciate it. I'm taking some of my jewellery to be sold at the weekend but I don't think it's worth very much unfortunately.
I'm really glad we could help stop Honey's constant scary, debilitating seizures, so I know we did the right thing. It's just that the others have been waiting so patiently for their treatment so they can find wonderful new homes, and I don't want to let them down.
Thank you. Love Holly and the moggies x
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October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
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And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.
A reminder that this is the same Rishi Sunak who when he was Prime Minister raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.
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The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...
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when you want to sleep but you have Work Thoughts
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
when you want to sleep but you have Work Thoughts
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
Now what they really need to do is sell it as a nice lil feature for your home too.
I'd have one!
Or my watchface please!!
I'd have one!
Or my watchface please!!
Network Rail’s (and, one assumes, GBR’s) new standard station clock has been unveiled. Provided it’s installed in addition to heritage clocks at stations rather than accidentally replacing them, I’m all in. Very smart. www.creativeboom.com/news/design-...
Design Bridge and Partners unveil the first national railway timepiece in over 50 years
Created in collaboration with Network Rail, RIBA and the Design Museum, the striking new clock debuts at London Bridge station as a new icon of British design, blending heritage, accessibility and...
www.creativeboom.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Now what they really need to do is sell it as a nice lil feature for your home too.
I'd have one!
Or my watchface please!!
I'd have one!
Or my watchface please!!
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This is very cool
A new Timepiece for the Railway - Network Rail
Two hundred years after the first modern railway train ran in Britain, our railway is marking the moment with the...
www.networkrail.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is very cool
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On my way back north after attending the unveiling of the new rail clock at London Bridge; the timepiece is all at once disarmingly simple and delightfully ingenious…
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
On my way back north after attending the unveiling of the new rail clock at London Bridge; the timepiece is all at once disarmingly simple and delightfully ingenious…
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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
@nebula.tv please fix these issues with chromecast 😭😭 its so buggy. I just wanna watch episodes without it crashing out constantly please x
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
@nebula.tv please fix these issues with chromecast 😭😭 its so buggy. I just wanna watch episodes without it crashing out constantly please x
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This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
On a bus. Fares across Worcestershire are £1 per journey every weekend in October.
Four seniors boarded. They are loudly complaining. Quote: "They shouldn't do this £1 fare. It's workshy folk getting stuff for free yet again. No-one gives us pensioners anything."
The seniors all used bus passes.
Four seniors boarded. They are loudly complaining. Quote: "They shouldn't do this £1 fare. It's workshy folk getting stuff for free yet again. No-one gives us pensioners anything."
The seniors all used bus passes.
October 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Smol Paul got brain freeze again
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Smol Paul got brain freeze again
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For some perspective, 1,680 football pitches is 0.018% of UK protected land. To say that temporary HS2 construction sites are visible from space is desecration is insane. On google maps a dinner plate on a table in my back garden is visible from space.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For some perspective, 1,680 football pitches is 0.018% of UK protected land. To say that temporary HS2 construction sites are visible from space is desecration is insane. On google maps a dinner plate on a table in my back garden is visible from space.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first website i had EVER gone on..
That was in 1999 in school!
That was in 1999 in school!
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The first website i had EVER gone on..
That was in 1999 in school!
That was in 1999 in school!
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now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"