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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Always regret not writing more on mechanics of broadcasting in old job.

Anyway, I *did not know* that the reason BBC Radio 4 still broadcasts on long wave in 2025 is that it secretly carries the Economy 7 signal for cheap overnight power on old electricity meters.

c20society.org.uk/news/c20-cal...
C20 calls for Droitwich Transmitter Masts listing – The Twentieth Century Society
c20society.org.uk
January 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Tickle Me Elmo is a comment on the disembowelment of Erasmus of Formia, patron saint of abdominal pain
December 31, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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The Dylan movie would have been 100X better if they'd written it as a quest film where they have to reassemble the Fellowship of the Traveling Wilburys in order to defeat Spotify
December 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Don't dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want (Serbian Warlord)
I know Germany won't be heading to the ICC for their collaboration in genocide, but Olaf at least has the look down if he were to be tried as a war criminal
November 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion.

The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ.

Exempt from all.
November 19, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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Man if John McAfee had just lived a few more years he'd be up for several dozen cabinet roles right now.
November 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Disney owns both The Muppets and Star Wars, and the fact they are not making a Muppet version of all nine main-series Star Wars movies is only explained by the fact that they secretly hate making money.
October 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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This shit is WILD. Turns out the phenomenon of "Blue Zones," where people have exceptionally long lifespans, are not real and it's just people committing pension fraud.
UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 19, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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always amazes me that fresh steamed hams are still being made youtu.be/Ly1VOlZMF1k?...
Steamed Hams but it's a Netflix True Crime Title Sequence
YouTube video by Tyrone Deise
youtu.be
August 27, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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This is a great piece of writing, and shocking because - if this is our big debate, our big issue, that people are just asking “questions” about - we should be hearing this argument all the time, from the other side, as a mainstream take. That’s who was crowding the streets. Speak for those people.
August 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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This piece on higher taxes on second homes in Wales is interesting because a lot of the problems presented as *bad unintended side effects* (homes put up for sale, creating a market glut; people renting out their second home rather than leaving it empty) seem… good?

www.thetimes.com/article/eb98...
This town tripled council tax on second homes. Here’s what happened
Councils are trying to free properties for residents — but a visit to Tenby reveals it has had ‘disastrous’ unintended consequences
www.thetimes.com
July 28, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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“political violence” is when violence is done to a politician. everything they cause is a different thing and you shouldn’t worry about it
July 14, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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From a friend. I didn’t make it
July 4, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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The real conspiracy
June 13, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Therefore, we want to use our reach and call on all those who are entitled to vote to make their voice heard.

We must not leave the EU to the far-right parties and must defend our democracies. Please vote.
June 5, 2024 at 12:43 PM
They added gifs just in time for voting day
Kirk Khan Rage GIF
ALT: Kirk Khan Rage GIF
media.tenor.com
May 2, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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April 21, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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i don’t think too often these days about a certain incident but it’s still pretty wild that a magazine owner could fire his staff for organizing, get one of his few remaining goons to write an obviously bogus defense of him, express no remorse for any of it, & still kind of have a place on the left
April 2, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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decades-long manhunt finally ends
April 2, 2024 at 1:05 PM