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Ian McLaughlin
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Hoff soap dispenser
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Cloudflare is down at least partially, minimal disruption here thankfully
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November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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how would you describe people who place in the middle of this graph?
2D political spectrum
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Did you hear it when I played the sound?
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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It’s entertaining for a minute or two to ask a LLM to write bad poetry. It seems to be one thing it’s quite good at
Leeds in the 80s, memories stay, Brick chimneys, cold air every day, School shoes scuffed on broken streets, Rain that always met our feet. Butter on bread, telly on mute, Dad in his chair, everyone astute. Shops with sweets in glassy jars, Buses slow beneath the stars. Mum worked hard, Dad silent, proud, Neighbours nodded, never loud. Dreams of leaving, dreams to stay, Leeds held tight, wouldn’t let us away. A life so normal, slightly sad, Trying to be grateful for what we had. New trainers, a Walkman, too, Grey skies over everything we knew.
October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I predict a ribbit
Three protesters in Portland Oregon in inflatable frog suits. One holds a placard reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG
October 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Did ye aye?
Browser report says “Safari 26 on iOS 18.7”
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Quite a mistake from the Apple lads here. My phone is iOS 26. This needs to be correct for feature detection
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The late Janey Godley. Big fan
Seven years ago today- I welcomed Trump to Scotland Janey holding up "Trump is a Cunt" sign outside his Troon hotel
August 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I'll now actively advise young people against investing their time and money in an IT degree
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August 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Some personal news
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June 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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There were no prior clues that he might be a sociopath
ANT MIDDLETON, the celebrity ex-special forces soldier, demanded the UK secure a no deal Brexit to "toughen Britons up", as he claimed that "hardship and suffering" would see the nation unite.
June 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Doing this before fully understanding why doing this a good idea
Screenshot of muted “greenwald” for 7 days
May 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Google is your friend.

Meanwhile, I think the gist of your argument is that if they're welcome elsewhere then they should also be welcome at Eurovision, and I don't agree with that either.
May 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I was fairly sanguine with use of an OS app, until I got to this 100% record scratch
The source code contains hardcoded credentials and other vulnerabilities.
May 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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looks like the fun's over
AI Overview: The phrase "a cat with no banana flies in the sunshine" is a nonsensical statement. It's a humorous example of an idiom that plays on the ambiguity of language. The phrase relies on the common idiom "time flies like an arrow" and its humorous, less common counterpart, "fruit flies like a banana." The nonsensical nature of the original phrase highlights the absurdity of trying to create a grammatically correct statement when the core idea is illogical.
April 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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White House:
Sean Williamson singing “we’re going to do it anyway!”
April 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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vibes
A man who posed for a picture with an alleged hijacker wearing a suspected suicide belt has said he was trying to get a better look at the device. The image of Ben Innes, grinning next to his captor on the Egyptair flight, has gone viral on social media. Mr Innes, based in Aberdeen, also told the Sun newspaper he wanted to "stay cheerful in the face of adversity", external.
April 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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TBF he'd never been president before so he didn't know it was going to be difficult
At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” He said that would happen after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he keeps repeating the claim on the campaign trail. The US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said, as Kyiv says it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal. Speaking in Paris on Friday after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders, Rubio said Donald Trump was still interested in a deal. But he added that the US president had many other priorities around the world and was willing to move on unless there were signs of progress.
April 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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They will not join SM, CU, EU. These things will not happen unless they resign, because they've chosen to call these 'red lines' to appease The Sun. Hoping for some special deal is the usual British exceptionalism which has achieved nothing but derision.
Labourlist article on Lab 2024 manifesto: It also rules out a return to the European single market and customs union or a reintroduction for freedom of movement. It comes following a pledge from the Liberal Democrats to rejoin the single market in their general election manifesto, which was released earlier in the week. READ MORE: GMB calls manifesto ‘vision of hope’ but Unite says ‘not enough’ The Labour manifesto reads: “With Labour, Britain will stay outside of the EU. But to seize the opportunities ahead, we must make Brexit work. We will reset the relationship and seek to deepen ties with our European friends, neighbours and allies. “That does not mean reopening the divisions of the past. There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.” Reuters: Prime Minister Keir Starmer is aiming to reduce border checks by agreeing a new veterinary agreement, but has pledged not to rejoin the bloc's single market or customs union, and has ruled out any return to freedom of movement. Reeves said she recognised that the original Brexit deal was not the best one for Britain, but emphasised that those red lines would remain. With the EU demanding an improved youth mobility scheme, both sides have acknowledged that negotiations due to start next year will not be straightforward. Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe said the meeting was very valuable and he hoped it "could set the tone for all of our other aspects in negotiations in the year ahead." "The issue of fisheries, of youth mobility, all those other matters, are for another day," he added.
April 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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There’s always one. This contrarian doesn’t even give a measurement for success. US GDP? FTSE500? GINI coefficient? Vibes?
Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work James Meadway
April 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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I can't let you do that, Rohin.
HAL 9000's camera/red light
April 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
Awful waxworks of William and Catherine Windsor
April 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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But things will be different, it said here
Labour election campaign stage heavily featuring Change as a logo
March 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Cheers LinkedIn I'll get right on that
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March 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM