Karl 🏳️🌈
@karu1402.bsky.social
feat. cats, gayming, music, politics, planes, trains, boats, cars, food,⚽,🏏, F1 and other nerdery
Est: MCMXCI #YNWA
📍Birmingham
Est: MCMXCI #YNWA
📍Birmingham
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People on YouTube saying "without further ado" after adoing for 15 minutes
February 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
People on YouTube saying "without further ado" after adoing for 15 minutes
Really interesting article about how pubs are a microcosm of wider economic problems
"The UK economy increasingly extracts value from assets such as land, housing, infrastructure, rather than producing it. The pub is a perfect case study"
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
"The UK economy increasingly extracts value from assets such as land, housing, infrastructure, rather than producing it. The pub is a perfect case study"
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Really interesting article about how pubs are a microcosm of wider economic problems
"The UK economy increasingly extracts value from assets such as land, housing, infrastructure, rather than producing it. The pub is a perfect case study"
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
"The UK economy increasingly extracts value from assets such as land, housing, infrastructure, rather than producing it. The pub is a perfect case study"
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Should expect to see him appointed to the House of Lords any day then
What a surprise. He should get training asap
Ukraine would be a great start
Ukraine would be a great start
February 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Should expect to see him appointed to the House of Lords any day then
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Maybe let’s not change our ability to cross the road because Big Tech wants to call the shots 🤡
If your driverless car will hit someone crossing the road, maybe it’s not good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If your driverless car will hit someone crossing the road, maybe it’s not good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is speculation that the introduction of driverless cars could lead to jaywalking laws in the UK
65% of Britons would oppose making jaywalking a minor offence, including 41% "strongly opposed"
Only 24% are would support such rules
yougov.co.uk/topics/trave...
65% of Britons would oppose making jaywalking a minor offence, including 41% "strongly opposed"
Only 24% are would support such rules
yougov.co.uk/topics/trave...
February 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Maybe let’s not change our ability to cross the road because Big Tech wants to call the shots 🤡
If your driverless car will hit someone crossing the road, maybe it’s not good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If your driverless car will hit someone crossing the road, maybe it’s not good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eating cold gravy (as a snack) 🤤
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Eating cold gravy (as a snack) 🤤
TIL there's a trade body for Tin. Lol share.google/hpofZXBpbmuF...
Home - International Tin Association
The International Tin Association (formerly ITRI Ltd) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting the tin industry and expanding tin use. A primary goal is to ensure an innovative, competitive, ...
share.google
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
TIL there's a trade body for Tin. Lol share.google/hpofZXBpbmuF...
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Monica in Friends.
fucking chandler
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Monica in Friends.
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They either did or didn’t think this through…
February 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
They either did or didn’t think this through…
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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
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Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.
Fantastic to see my Mini Switzerland idea covered by the BBC.
It captures so many people’s imaginations because it’s both obvious, simple and yet - from where we are today - unspeakably radical.
Please share!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It captures so many people’s imaginations because it’s both obvious, simple and yet - from where we are today - unspeakably radical.
Please share!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Mini Switzerland' plan for Peak District transport network
The idea would see buses arriving before trains pull into stations to improve connectivity.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.
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Retain them as key parts of the government's comms operation?
UK PM STARMER: WHAT WE DID WITH GROK OVER SEXUALISED IMAGES, WE MUST DO IT WITH ALL AI CHATBOTS
February 16, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Retain them as key parts of the government's comms operation?
WILL NOBODY THINK OF ThE mArKeTs
What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about
Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
February 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
WILL NOBODY THINK OF ThE mArKeTs
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10 years to the day since I peaked and did the funniest thing I've ever done
February 15, 2026 at 9:42 PM
10 years to the day since I peaked and did the funniest thing I've ever done
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really enjoy that the bloke who won two golds on the luge is someone who was a national level taekwondo fighter until he got injured and then a government figure stepped out the shadows and said "let me tell you about project going down a hill really fast"
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
really enjoy that the bloke who won two golds on the luge is someone who was a national level taekwondo fighter until he got injured and then a government figure stepped out the shadows and said "let me tell you about project going down a hill really fast"
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to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
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It's weird, I hated Theresa May coz she was a nasty xenophobe whose pet project was the hostile environment. This lot hated her coz she wasn't corrupt enough for their liking.
🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
bylinetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM
It's weird, I hated Theresa May coz she was a nasty xenophobe whose pet project was the hostile environment. This lot hated her coz she wasn't corrupt enough for their liking.
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Who the fuck are you to punish women for their own relationship and family decisions and situations?
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Who the fuck are you to punish women for their own relationship and family decisions and situations?
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk
February 16, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
The hit podcaster, author and former GP says a failure to regulate big tech is ‘failing a generation of children’. He explains why he quit the NHS and why he wants a ban on screen-based homework
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 AM
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
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*insert politician name*
fucking chancer
February 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
*insert politician name*
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Phantom of the Opera has entered the chat
fucking chandelier
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Phantom of the Opera has entered the chat
This will play well with Reform voters who already bemoan people on benefits
The Nazis encourage German women
to have more children to ensure
the mythical 'Aryan race' flourished ...
via Martyn Shrewsbury
to have more children to ensure
the mythical 'Aryan race' flourished ...
via Martyn Shrewsbury
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This will play well with Reform voters who already bemoan people on benefits
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We all know someone who once owned this bag.
February 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM
We all know someone who once owned this bag.
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Car cigarette lighters, whose original purpose has been so completely subsumed by their use as a general power outlet that cars still come with the port even though they haven't had the lighter that plugs into it for years
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Car cigarette lighters, whose original purpose has been so completely subsumed by their use as a general power outlet that cars still come with the port even though they haven't had the lighter that plugs into it for years