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MWZ (Matthew)
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Good grief, Charlie Brown! Work in health IT, 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, 🏳️‍🌈, bass singer in a choir, love 🚲 ☕ 🧀 💃📸 🎶 🚉 . Ex-biochemist. Come for the Brutalism, stay for […]

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#roadtobathhalf continues. 9.02mi, 1:34:46. In the words of that one fish from Spongebob, "my leg!".
A very tired and sweaty man with shaved head and short beard smiles. He's wearing a blue Under Armour hoodie soaked through with sweat A map of a running route, showing faster pace on the first 5k through the downs and slower pace on the last 4k down towards the city centre.
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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#silentsunday
A view over a harbour with boats moored on the sides and several boats driving through. Sidewalks full of people and an old industrial railway. Beyond are colorful painted row houses along cliffs. The sky is light blue and a bit hazy.
January 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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"Falafel King - Under New Management" implies there was a Falafel Coup d'État.
A shipping container converted to a food stand, with two signs, one reading "Falafel King" and the other "Under New Management". There are a few tables in front, and buildings and blue skies behind.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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The dawn from here, earlier this week.
A golden to blue sky at daybreak, lighting up otherwise dark clouds. With a lone senesced tree in the foreground and a quiet street slightly reflecting the sunlight.
January 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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My brain each time I hear about the band Toploader:
A silver and gray metal/plastic top loading VCR with green seven segment digits
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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[Traitors UK S4 Ep 4 meets USpol]

If it is to be, it is up to me. #thetraitors
A forlorn looking Stephen - neat blond hair, short mustache, blue shirt with black light jacket - looking out from a wooden cage.
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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I currently have too many browser tabs open to display the page title "Sluttbrukertest" properly.

The shortened version is not inaccurate.
A series of browser tabs in Chrome, with one displaying the Powerpoint icon and the word "Slut".
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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"T4 Bacteriophage"
Luke Jerram, 2023
Displayed at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

#virus #sculpture #glass
A glass sculpture of a bacteriophage, with frosted glass head, a golden glass stalk, and white frosted legs, sitting atop a table.
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Joy Unleashed

A photo of Sidney the Whippet and Bryn the Dachshund in April 2024.

#dogs #SausageDog #whippet #zoomies
A white and gray overweight whippet, with tongue flying out of its wide open mouth, runs, chased by a brown long-haired dachshund with big eyes and mouth wide open.
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Speaking of bears and branding, I laughed when I saw the horned M at Mostro Coffee in Oxford today.
A small white coffee cup atop a white saucer, with a silver spoon in the foreground. The middle of the saucer has a block M with horns. The cup has "Mostro Coffee" in blocky letters with drop shadow in black, and the same horned M as the saucer.
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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"Early Homo", also a description of playing tracks off "Bad Girls - Deluxe Edition" at breakfast.
A serious, sober museum display with the words "Early Homo" in large serif font, with a few skulls and bone fragments mounted below.
January 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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2 January and St. Nicholas Church has already thrown their holiday bushes out back. #itsover
Four bare fir trees on their side in a line, against the back of a yellow/tan stone old style church.
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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I enjoyed seeing that Canada Water was open until "Night:Tube" o'clock a few days during this festive period.

#london #londonunderground #lifeundershanialaw
A blue paper London Underground "festive opening times for this station sign", with written times for each day in black magic marker. Several days, such as 31 December close and 1 January open, are written "NIGHT:TUBE". At close on 24 December and open on 26 December, first and last train are handwritten in ballpoint pen.
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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P -> B. Spotted in Woolwich.
A banner sign for a "Putt Club", black text on yellow, where someone has turned the P into a B using permanent marker. Thus making the sign read "Butt Club".
January 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Today's adventure: walked from Deptford to Beckton via Greenwich, the Prime Meridian, the Thames Barrier, Woolwich Tunnel, and the end of the runway at London City Airport.

I don't like the ethics and environmental impacts of having a busy airport just for the […]

[Original post on tech.lgbt]
Skyscrapers of Canary Wharf from the south east. Blue sky above, choppy Thames water below. A Sustrans metal sign noting the Prime Meridian and distances to various destinations. Behind is a hazy sky and skyscrapers. Silver sloping shelters for the Thames Barrier, in a line. A BA E190 landing in front of university buildings on a mostly clear day.
January 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Happy New Year from SE8.

#happynewyear
A few fireworks in white and red in front of Canary Wharf skyscrapers at night, with a dark Thames reflecting multicoloured light in the foreground.
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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A sunset over the Algarve on 16 Nov 2025, as we reach the sunset of this fair year.

#sunset #algarve #portugal #bythesea
Blue waves reflecting a yellow/gold sunset crash onto a rocky brown shore, with some short succulents. A few gray clouds scattered in the mostly blue-to-yellow sunset gradient.
December 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Slightly jarring contrasts on the website of Adresseavisen, the local newspaper of Trondheim, Norway today.

Machine translated to English.

#avisen #trondheim #norge #norway #cock
A screenshot of a newspaper website called Adresseavisen, machine translated to English. It includes the headlines "Accident on a mirror-like road - ambulance slid into a ditch", "Convicted of threats: over 300,000 collected in splicing operation", "Seven people involved in serious accident on E6", and "Why is cock so funny?". The last headline is accompanied by a serious looking man with white bushy beard, standing below a pair of disco balls. No, not a disco ball, disco balls.
December 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Paused the Only Connect Pub Quiz special two minutes in. Looks like VCM is already having a grand time...

#onlyconnect #chards #freezeframed
A shot of the show Only Connect, in which Victoria Coren Mitchell has a fringe haircut, a low cut red top revealing a green tropical bra, a glass of Chards, and a bowl of crisps.
December 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The Krokodil (Crocodile) locomotive, class Ce 6/8 II, pulled freight through Switzerland, particularly on the mountainous Gotthard line, from 1919 to 1986. With a top speed of 65 km/h, it was built for strength.

My top assembly speed over the past two days was […]

[Original post on tech.lgbt]
A Lego rendition of a brown Swiss Krokodil locomotive, with two pantographs, shown from the side. It sits on Lego track on a white desk. Behind plays a YouTube video of Swiss railway announcements, because FFS. A close-up of the front of the locomotive, with two Lego minifigs dressed in blue train engineer uniforms, and an information plate showing facts about the Crocodile locomotive, repeated in my post body.
December 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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We've got the core of the loco built, as well as the track, but I think it may be too late to start into making pantographs out of Lego. I'll leave that until the morning.
A white table lit up in a dark room, showing a pile of unassembled Lego, a lego railroad track with two minifigs in blue suits, and the body of a brown and grey locomotive with Swiss car markings. Behind is a TV on playing some sort of animated commercial.
December 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The GBBO Peep Show Christmas special reminds me of the Norwegian "Piip-show", NRK's Slow TV programme broadcast over three months in 2014. The premise is simple: a camera trained on a bird feeder decorated as a coffee bar.

https://www.vice.com/sv/article/the-piip-show-norway-webcam-show/
A bird feeder decorated as a coffee bar with small blackboard menu and silver espresso maker, a brown wood bar, and black stools. Two small birds (tits perhaps?) are perched in the set eating seed.
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Playing with Lego for the first time in years this morning! Now taking bets on how long until I step on a piece and yelp in pain.
A pile of Lego bricks of various sizes and colors, some loose and some in plastic bags.
December 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM