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The more I learn, the less I know - Albert Einstein
IT & life nerd living in Sydenham, South East London

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The Labour Party

#ukpol #ukpolitics
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Wirth's Revenge

https://jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-revenge/

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> Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Wirth's law is so self evidently true that it's been a topic of continuous investigation and rediscovery.
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Wirth's Revenge
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jmoiron.net
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Monthly CO2 Atmospheric Concentration
From the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

January 2026: 428.62 ppm
January 2025: 426.65 ppm

More: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends

#co2 #globalwarming #ClimateChange #temperature #weather #maunaloaobservatory
February 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Seen a funny looking Jaguar driving through Sydenham?

Lewisham is one of the select London boroughs being used to trial Waymo's self-driving robotaxis to familiarise the software with London's streets.

Want to hack one by simply holding up a placard […]

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February 1, 2026 at 11:23 AM
London Bridge Station this morning there were grouos of thick set men. Oh Millwall are at home?

Wrong today is UKIP demo day. Met police rule is they are not allowed into Tower Hamlets borough. Memories if Cable Street perhaos and not Mosley's greatest […]

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January 31, 2026 at 3:15 PM
New Year Resultion complete. De-googled from GMail.

My last major Google service dating from "Do no evil" days. Now on EU/UK based and owned servers.

Well not quite. Still sending my spam there to add to their AI slop and help train GMail's filters.

**Even GMail users don't deserve spam** […]
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social.brainsys.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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[uspol]

@dean

I would say paying taxes is far from the most important considerstion on leaving your community.

Where there is oppression there is a duty of resistance by protest upto civil disobedience but not meeting violence with violence.

When resistance is futile as the Jews in Germany […]
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social.brainsys.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Mark Carney's speech yesterday was both a succinct summary of realpolitk today and how we should pivot from the old order. What a contrast with today's - well I do not have words sufficient to describe this afternoon's rambling.

Canada's gain was Britain's loss. Maybe we should send a SAS team […]
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social.brainsys.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Greenland is the number one story in Europe. It's the 5th story in the NYTimes atm.

When you are hoping that US politicians will reign back Trump as it could be an existential crisis for the western alliance - is it as important to them?
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Monthly CO2 Atmospheric Concentration
From the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

December 2025: 427.49 ppm
December 2024: 425.40 ppm

More: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends

#co2 #globalwarming #ClimateChange #temperature #weather #maunaloaobservatory
January 5, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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End of the year will mean the end of Zipcars bordering the Bromley border. The heavily loss making shared electric car company is ceasing operations.

CityAM speculates the ceasing of EV exemption to the Congestion charge dealt the final blow. However, a bad blow for the EV car movement.

Zipcar […]
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social.brainsys.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Chancellor abolishes the £135 customs duty free allowance.

Don't panic! It will be implented "by no later than March 2029". There's a consultation which goes on till March 2026. So no time soon.

That's the Government overview. Strangely I haven't got round to reading their full announcement […]
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social.brainsys.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Discover a really cool Wordpress Plugin for building timelines. So we have started building a history timeline for Sydenham. Suggestions for inclusion welcome:
https://se26.org.uk/history-timeline/
Just a start. We will be adding entries regularly. 1720 ### First Greyhound Inn Joseph Hyde was the first recorded landlord, mentioned in 1726, and the inn is first referred to as The Greyhound in 1727 Read More _(in new tab)_ 1733 ### First Dolphin Inn It is likely that the building occupied by Richard Peake was a farmhouse, the centre of a farm that extended towards Perry Vale. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1809 ### Croydon Canal Opens The Croydon Canal 15km from Croydon, via Sydenham and Forest Hill, to the Grand Surrey Canal at New Cross. More in Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1810 ### Sydenham Common Enclosure Sydenham Common was a 500-acre plot of common land. It was enclosed between 1810 and 1819 and most of it was then built upon. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1836 ### Croydon Canal Closes The canal was never a success and closed in 1836, the first canal to be abandoned by an act of Parliament. 1839 ### Sydenham Station Opens In its first conception, the line was to follow the bed of the Croydon Canal for much of the route.. More in Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1855 ### Crystal Palace Opens The Hyde Park Great Exhibition reebuilt and enlarged by Josepth Paxton in Sydenham. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1871 ### The Avenue, Sydenham One of 12 pictures that Pissarro painted while in self-imposed exile in London from 1870 to 1871 during the Franco-Prussian war. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1872 ### Sydenham Children’s Hospital Founded as the Home and Infirmary for Sick Children and South London Dispensary for Women. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1884 ### Upper Sydenham Station Opens On the Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway linking Crystal Palace to London Victoria via Peckham Rye. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1898 ### Eleanor Marx Died Daughter of Karl who lived and died in Jews Walk. Or was she murdered? Read More _(in new tab)_ 1902 ### Cobb’s Department Store Opens For 70 years or more Cobb’s was perhaps the most prestigious department store in SE London. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1920 ### Livesey Hall War Memorial commemorates the fallen of World War I and World War II who had been employed by the South Suburban Gas Company of London. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1936 ### Crystal Palace Burns Down 1954 ### Upper Sydenham Station Closes Closed on 20 September 1954, the first permanent closure of a Southern Electric line. Wikipedia _(in new tab)_ 1967 ### St Christopher’s Hospice The first patient was admitted on 13 July 1967 and the official opening followed shortly after on 24 July 1967. Read More _(in new tab)_ 1981 ### Cobb’s Department Store Closes Opened in 1902, bombed in 1940 and rebuilt. . Read More (in new tab) 1987 ### The Great Sydenham Storm Watch video here 2008 ### Sydenham Power Station Fire Watch video here
se26.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#london last night
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“Releasing the Epstein files is the easiest thing in the world. Just release it all. Let the American people sort through every bit of it, and, you know, support the victims. That’s just like the most common sense, easiest thing in the world. But to spend any effort trying to stop it makes – it […]
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social.brainsys.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Blue, Bermondsey today
#london #bermondsey #streetart
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The trouble with A(I) LLMs is they confuse correlation with causation.

The 3Cs.

#ai #chatgpt #deepseek #grok #copilot. #llama
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
After Jane Goodall's final comment on the US - what will be Margaret Drabble'S? Here's what she said in 2003:

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"My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now […]
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social.brainsys.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Amazed with an interview with the head of British Transport Police on their new policy of not investigating bicycle thefts where the bike had been left unattended for more than two hours.

He justified by saying he couldn't have his officers trawling though hours and hours of CCTV. He went […]
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social.brainsys.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposted by stuart
my wife found this online somewhere recently, and I don't think I've agreed this hard with anything in a long time
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Surprise ruling from the US supreme court declining to hear Ghislane Maxwell's appeal. If she has something on the President one would have expected a deal which would have the court doing his will.

The president can still offer a pardon but that makes it a bit too obvious. So if he doesn't […]
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social.brainsys.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#raspberrypi

Rasperypi 500+ launched today. 16GB and 256GB nvme ssd. £172.80 whichsaly for me, makes it uncompetitive to the good N100 boxes you can get on aliexpress eg £100 for 16GB/500GB. Decent keyboards don"t cost £70.

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus
Raspberry Pi 500+
Raspberry Pi 500+ is a premium version of the original Raspberry Pi 500, complete with 16GB RAM, pre-installed 256GB SSD, Gateron mechanical switches, low-profile changeable keycaps, programmable RGB LED backlighting and more!
thepihut.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The last day of summer? 76F with the sun over a distant London from Hampstead Heath. The Kenwood House pictures were just as brilliant - and free.

#london
September 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Suprise today. Both our Motorola Edge 40 neos updated to Android 15. The device wasn't on their upgrade list.

If yours is still on Android 14 then you can force a system upgrade if you have an hour or so to spare.

#lenovo #motorola #android #android15
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Today in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
#classiccar #mini #tr4a
September 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM