I am desperate to find the person at the BBC who has started putting shite piano music in Mortimer and Whitehoise Gone Fishing. The quietness was what made it good! Stop overproducing things!
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I am desperate to find the person at the BBC who has started putting shite piano music in Mortimer and Whitehoise Gone Fishing. The quietness was what made it good! Stop overproducing things!
The pain of living in York, England - having all search results for anything local poisoned by New York
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The pain of living in York, England - having all search results for anything local poisoned by New York
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Perfect front page layout on the Guardian today.
June 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Perfect front page layout on the Guardian today.
I've never seen this mentioned elsewhere but it's wild the different in vibe between ScotRail tickets inspectors and English ticket inspectors. A ScotRail inspector will ask "anyone need a ticket" and sell you a ticket on the train, for a normal price...
June 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I've never seen this mentioned elsewhere but it's wild the different in vibe between ScotRail tickets inspectors and English ticket inspectors. A ScotRail inspector will ask "anyone need a ticket" and sell you a ticket on the train, for a normal price...
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"The 20 mph legislation in Wales cost approximately £32 million. However, it was estimated in the first year alone that the direct cost savings from reduced road traffic casualties would amount to three times the initial implementation costs (£92 million)."
We've got a new paper in BMJ Paediatrics discussing the impacts of 20 MPH speed limits for children, and the ongoing situation in Wales specifically. Open access here: bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/bmjp...
bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The 20 mph legislation in Wales cost approximately £32 million. However, it was estimated in the first year alone that the direct cost savings from reduced road traffic casualties would amount to three times the initial implementation costs (£92 million)."
The best explanation I've come across of proper decoupling practice - accessible without oversimplifying. codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/p...
Proper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind
Ever wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datashe…
codeinsecurity.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The best explanation I've come across of proper decoupling practice - accessible without oversimplifying. codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/p...
brain: I am doing this evening woodworking class to really reconnect with natural materials, things that aren't computers, woodworking is so anti-commercial inherently, good vibessss
Also my brain: I absolutely need this £150 tenon saw
Also my brain: I absolutely need this £150 tenon saw
March 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
brain: I am doing this evening woodworking class to really reconnect with natural materials, things that aren't computers, woodworking is so anti-commercial inherently, good vibessss
Also my brain: I absolutely need this £150 tenon saw
Also my brain: I absolutely need this £150 tenon saw
@lostincult.co.uk hi, I placed an order a month ago now for a lock on issue and have had no update / dispatch notifications - I've tried to contact you twice via your web form email thing over the last two weeks and had no reply? Feel like I'm shouting into the void at this point
March 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@lostincult.co.uk hi, I placed an order a month ago now for a lock on issue and have had no update / dispatch notifications - I've tried to contact you twice via your web form email thing over the last two weeks and had no reply? Feel like I'm shouting into the void at this point
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“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year
After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”
This evening I shall be jailbreaking my TV, which sounds like a parody of what someone into computers does in their free time.
This will involve SSHing into my TV which is just incredibly funny to me. What OS is it running underneath?? Can I use it as a dev enviroment?
This will involve SSHing into my TV which is just incredibly funny to me. What OS is it running underneath?? Can I use it as a dev enviroment?
January 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This evening I shall be jailbreaking my TV, which sounds like a parody of what someone into computers does in their free time.
This will involve SSHing into my TV which is just incredibly funny to me. What OS is it running underneath?? Can I use it as a dev enviroment?
This will involve SSHing into my TV which is just incredibly funny to me. What OS is it running underneath?? Can I use it as a dev enviroment?
Unless I've been living under a rock this "DEI" acronym seems to have appeared from literally nowhere and I scream internally every time I read it.
January 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Unless I've been living under a rock this "DEI" acronym seems to have appeared from literally nowhere and I scream internally every time I read it.
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/