ShinyMiller
@shinymiller.bsky.social
Lazy Sci-Fi nerd. Re-watching The Venture Bros. Read about video games and board games more than I actually play them. Getting back into anime. Occasionally plays Blood Bowl (badly). F365.
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COMPETITION TIME! To say thank you for the orders I’ll give away one of my 2026 Nerdlingers calendars.
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner on Monday 1pm.
My shop www.infinitebacon.com 20% OFF Black Friday deal on prints with the code BF20
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner on Monday 1pm.
My shop www.infinitebacon.com 20% OFF Black Friday deal on prints with the code BF20
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
COMPETITION TIME! To say thank you for the orders I’ll give away one of my 2026 Nerdlingers calendars.
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner on Monday 1pm.
My shop www.infinitebacon.com 20% OFF Black Friday deal on prints with the code BF20
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner on Monday 1pm.
My shop www.infinitebacon.com 20% OFF Black Friday deal on prints with the code BF20
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It's Black Friday. Boo. There are no discounts on our wonky football shop. We have however not raised our prices in 6 years, which feels like a long time when [gestures at everything]
So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else!
🛒 noscoredraws.com
So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else!
🛒 noscoredraws.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It's Black Friday. Boo. There are no discounts on our wonky football shop. We have however not raised our prices in 6 years, which feels like a long time when [gestures at everything]
So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else!
🛒 noscoredraws.com
So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else!
🛒 noscoredraws.com
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
So have Imgur just decided to dismiss all UK users, not even an attempt to introduce age-checking?
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So have Imgur just decided to dismiss all UK users, not even an attempt to introduce age-checking?
How do Starmer/UK government not realise that any deal with Trump is worthless? Trump never holds up his end of any deals or pays his debts, he just walks away and leaves everyone with the mess he made.
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
How do Starmer/UK government not realise that any deal with Trump is worthless? Trump never holds up his end of any deals or pays his debts, he just walks away and leaves everyone with the mess he made.
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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🔴 Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party's director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
bylinetimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🔴 Bankrupt Firm of Reform UK’s Waste-Busting Local Government Chief Owes Taxpayer £36,000
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Jaymey McIvor declared his company insolvent months before becoming party’s director tasked with stamping out council waste. Taxpayers are likely to pick up the tab. Olly Haynes reports
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Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.
on.wsj.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
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It is now 18 months since the European boss of Fujitsu, which supplied the crap Horizon system and whose officials lied to sub-postmasters and to courts about it, accepted moral responsibility and said the company would cough up. Yet it still hasn’t handed over a bean.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It is now 18 months since the European boss of Fujitsu, which supplied the crap Horizon system and whose officials lied to sub-postmasters and to courts about it, accepted moral responsibility and said the company would cough up. Yet it still hasn’t handed over a bean.
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The Telegraph slammed the BBC for “championing” Bob Vylan….
But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis."
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis."
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
July 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The Telegraph slammed the BBC for “championing” Bob Vylan….
But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis."
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis."
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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COMPETITION TIME! I can’t sell this Japanese inspired Vader print (it has faint scratches). If you’d like to win it please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Fri 4th 1pm.
You can find more of my prints, tees and mugs here www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you and good luck!
You can find more of my prints, tees and mugs here www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you and good luck!
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
COMPETITION TIME! I can’t sell this Japanese inspired Vader print (it has faint scratches). If you’d like to win it please RT and follow and I’ll pick a winner Fri 4th 1pm.
You can find more of my prints, tees and mugs here www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you and good luck!
You can find more of my prints, tees and mugs here www.infinitebacon.com
Thank you and good luck!
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COMPETITION TIME! I’m going to give away these two test prints. A3 Vader to 1st place, A5 U-wing to the second.
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick 2 random winners on Sat 31st 6pm.
Please do visit my shop www.infinitebacon.com
thank you and good luck!
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick 2 random winners on Sat 31st 6pm.
Please do visit my shop www.infinitebacon.com
thank you and good luck!
May 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
COMPETITION TIME! I’m going to give away these two test prints. A3 Vader to 1st place, A5 U-wing to the second.
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick 2 random winners on Sat 31st 6pm.
Please do visit my shop www.infinitebacon.com
thank you and good luck!
To win just RT and follow and I’ll pick 2 random winners on Sat 31st 6pm.
Please do visit my shop www.infinitebacon.com
thank you and good luck!
Final trip to Bracknell Odeon (Thunderbolts) before it's demolished and turned into another block of apartments. With costs of living rising everywhere their ticket prices stayed at £5 right to the end.
May 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Final trip to Bracknell Odeon (Thunderbolts) before it's demolished and turned into another block of apartments. With costs of living rising everywhere their ticket prices stayed at £5 right to the end.
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Turd of the Week goes to Macquarie’s Ben Way, who proudly claimed Thames Water was “much better” under their ownership.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Turd of the Week goes to Macquarie’s Ben Way, who proudly claimed Thames Water was “much better” under their ownership.
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New VB t-shirts! Choose your fighter! www.titmousestuff.com/collections/...
May 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
New VB t-shirts! Choose your fighter! www.titmousestuff.com/collections/...
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British Gas owner suffers shareholder rebellion over CEO pay packet
British Gas owner suffers shareholder rebellion over CEO pay packet
Nearly 40% of Centrica investors vote against board’s pay plans as energy bill payers struggle with record debts
The owner of British Gas has suffered a shareholder rebellion after handing its chief executive a multi-million pound pay packet while energy bill payers struggle with record levels of debt.
Nearly 40% of Centrica’s shareholders voted against the board’s pay plans at the energy company’s annual investor meeting in Manchester on Thursday, after rising criticism of boss Chris O’Shea’s pay during the energy crisis. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
British Gas owner suffers shareholder rebellion over CEO pay packet
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No independent book shops in my town (just a Waterstones) but have made decision to buy from Bookshop.org from now on. Worth the slight increase in price compared to the big online retailers.
April 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
No independent book shops in my town (just a Waterstones) but have made decision to buy from Bookshop.org from now on. Worth the slight increase in price compared to the big online retailers.
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it's independent bookstore day! and incidentally amazon has put on a book sale the same day, because they're undercutting scum! don't give them your money!
support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good!
bookshop.org/p/books/hung...
support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good!
bookshop.org/p/books/hung...
April 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
it's independent bookstore day! and incidentally amazon has put on a book sale the same day, because they're undercutting scum! don't give them your money!
support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good!
bookshop.org/p/books/hung...
support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good!
bookshop.org/p/books/hung...
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The official launch trailer for KARMA: The Dark World has arrived, and it's as haunting as you’d dare imagine.
Watch the trailer now and step into the nightmare.
youtu.be/hNH-gh7FVMM
Out now on PC and PS5.
Your dark journey begins here: s.team/a/1376200
#KTDW #KARMA
Watch the trailer now and step into the nightmare.
youtu.be/hNH-gh7FVMM
Out now on PC and PS5.
Your dark journey begins here: s.team/a/1376200
#KTDW #KARMA
March 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The official launch trailer for KARMA: The Dark World has arrived, and it's as haunting as you’d dare imagine.
Watch the trailer now and step into the nightmare.
youtu.be/hNH-gh7FVMM
Out now on PC and PS5.
Your dark journey begins here: s.team/a/1376200
#KTDW #KARMA
Watch the trailer now and step into the nightmare.
youtu.be/hNH-gh7FVMM
Out now on PC and PS5.
Your dark journey begins here: s.team/a/1376200
#KTDW #KARMA