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Andrew Robertson
@andrewrobertson.bsky.social
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Escaping X for lovely Blue Sky and Sunshine. Steam engines, transport books, photography. My avatar is Popeye from Lings Moonrocket at the Fairgrond Heritage Trust, Lifton in Devon.
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Downdetector is quite good at telling you who uses Cloudflare.
Downdetector screen showing top sites that are down, in this case nearly all are due to a cloudflare outage.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I'm sorry BBC the Whitehouse response isn't what should be leading your reporting.
Whitehouse deny that Trump spent hours with Epstein victim, pictured Trump sucking in his lips looking angry.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Who knew that Trump was at the controls...
Image from a famous movie where a UFO is firing a beam that is destroying the Whitehouse.
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I would be disappointed if it wasn't Donkey Kong.
An image of the 1981 video game Donkey Kong showing ramps and ladders that assend to the prize at the top. The Donkey Kong Gorrila is top left.
October 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Trump is basically Muttley.
Shows cartoon dog Muttley pointing at his chest awaiting a medal from Dick Dastardly after saving him from certain death.
July 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Some more AI madness from tomorrow's FT. $100mn to join Meta...
Front page article which states Meta are offering some development staff at Open Ai a $100 million sign-on deal. With Mark calling people directly.
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

I'm going to be saved, it always works out in the end.
The three lead characters from a television series called 'last of the summer wine'. On the left is Compo, in the middle Foggy and to the right Clegg. The longest running sitcom in UK television history. Still shown 5 nights a week.
June 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Festival of Slowth from Pre-War Car, some lovely vehicles of the classic kind. www.prewarcar.com/festival-of-...
A veteran three wheeled car! Two wheels at the rear and one at the front, which has its engine mounted over the single wheel.behind the engine and mounted over the two rear wheels and chassis is a coach like structure for the driver and passengers.
June 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Maybe they are following Google Street Map which appears to show routes through...
Google Street Map image that shows multiple roads through a dead end street. The roads, or Google routes are incorrectly placed on the map.
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Oxfam, The yellow bear is Sooty...
Oxfam shop listing a puppet of Sooty from the TV series, described as a yellow bear, head stuffed, no legs.
April 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Looks like Apple didn't get the memo about manufacturing in the US. Tomorrow's FT front page story.
Looks like Apple didn't get the memo about manufacturing in the US. Tomorrow's FT front page story. Apple plan to make iPhones in India, moving from China.
April 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Long way up, short way down. FTSE100 5 Year.
Google graph showing ftse100 stocks 5 year view it shows a 31.11 increase over the last 5 years but that includes around a 6 percent fall in the first hour or so this morning.
April 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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It's World Book Day, this is a recent addition to my library. The Badminton Library - Motors and Motor Driving 3rd Edition from 1904.
World book day, cover of the Badminton Library book Motors and Motor Driving (3rd edition 1904). World Book day, Page 23 from Motors and Motor Driving 3rd Edition 1904. The page has some text on the history of the motor car and an illustration of the First Care by the Daimler Company in Coventry.
March 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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ebay AI descriptions nailing it yet again... suddenly a TV show director becomes a wine expert.
Front cover of a book on the TV programme Last of the Summer Wine. Ebay AI thinks this is a book on wine, the drink. Cover shows. Characters Nora Batty and Compo, plus Clegg, Foggy and Compo. Ebay AI description for a book about the TV series 'last of the summer wine' by the Director of the show mistakenly making him as a WINE expert as in the drink wine.
September 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Four Wheel Drive Company and Nash Quad lorries from the WW1 Period. The FWD is a Model B. Photographed at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2022.
Four Wheel Drive Company Model B Lorry/Truck front 3/4 view. Four Wheel Drive Company Model B Lorry/Truck rear 3/4 view. Nash Quad Ammunition / Munition Truck from WW1 period. Side view. Nash Quad Ammunition / Munition Truck from ww1 period. Front 3/4 view.
August 15, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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R. Edwards Galloper (roundabout) Centre and Robert Tidman & Sons Steam Engine. Fairground Heritage Trust, in 2014. The steam engine drives gearing that rotates the centre of the ride. The small engine on the floor drove an organ. The Trust will soon be moving to Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust.
R. Edwards Galloper (roundabout) Centre and Robert Tidman & Sons Steam Engine. Fairground Heritage Trust, in 2014. The steam engine drives gearing that rotates the centre of the ride. The small engine on the floor drove an organ.
August 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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I came across this Atkinson advert in commercial motor's Golden Jubilee issue in 1955.
Atkinson advert in commercial motor's Golden Jubilee issue in 1955 shows at the top a short wheelbase Steam Wagon and at the bottom an Atkinson Lorry and its articulated flatbed trailer.
August 9, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Currently for sale on the oxfam uk shop.
August 9, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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And a few more lifeboats from the parade.
Tamar class Lifeboat. B class (Atlantic) lifeboat D-class lifeboat with 3 man crew.
August 7, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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A few lifeboat photos from the RNLI's 200 year Parade of Lifeboats'
RNLI H-Class Lifeboat which is in fact a Hovercraft RNLI Mersey Class Lifeboat RNLI Shannon Class Lifeboat RNLI Trent Class Lifeboat
August 7, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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You should read their accounts...
August 3, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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One of the few places you can buy this excellent little history of Tuxford and Sons.
Front cover of history book on the Victorian Engineers Tuxford & Sons of Boston.
July 27, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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This was one of the most sensible posts on Mastodon today.
July 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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These are wise words from Peter Spiegal at the FT. I hope people listen.
July 14, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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From Bloomberg's Politics Newsletter. What a mess the Tories have left the country in.
Table showing data from 1997 to 2024 and the large increases to Migration, Debt, Tab Burden Real disposal income.
July 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM