Diamond Hell
@diamondhell.bsky.social
Car bashing, tree bashing, politics bashing, duck, dog and family wrangler, left leaning and noisy
Genuine LOL
Just saw a 'tech' article that starts with 'ChatGPT is the Wikipedia of our times' and I can only assume they left the door open and a passing drunk blew in and landed near a keyboard.
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Genuine LOL
Something to make our hearts leap positively
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Something to make our hearts leap positively
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell thee!
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell thee!
In case you were wondering, gentle reader, it passed.
Thursday night MOT prep frolics. Minor work to shore things up, but I think there's a replacement chassis for this one in due course
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
In case you were wondering, gentle reader, it passed.
Thursday night MOT prep frolics. Minor work to shore things up, but I think there's a replacement chassis for this one in due course
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thursday night MOT prep frolics. Minor work to shore things up, but I think there's a replacement chassis for this one in due course
I think the final sentence in this @itvnews.bsky.social might read better if someone finished it:
www.itv.com/news/westcou...
www.itv.com/news/westcou...
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I think the final sentence in this @itvnews.bsky.social might read better if someone finished it:
www.itv.com/news/westcou...
www.itv.com/news/westcou...
I keep making the mistake of going outside expecting November weather and I get confronted with what might be reasonably expected in September.
Just come in from mowing the grass as a sweaty mess, because it's currently 16deg C
We were saying the other night @throttlesteerer.bsky.social
Just come in from mowing the grass as a sweaty mess, because it's currently 16deg C
We were saying the other night @throttlesteerer.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I keep making the mistake of going outside expecting November weather and I get confronted with what might be reasonably expected in September.
Just come in from mowing the grass as a sweaty mess, because it's currently 16deg C
We were saying the other night @throttlesteerer.bsky.social
Just come in from mowing the grass as a sweaty mess, because it's currently 16deg C
We were saying the other night @throttlesteerer.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in tales of the expected...
NEW: British people's trust in the United States has collapsed in the year since Donald Trump took office according to @bestforbritain.org latest research:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
British people's trust in the US has collapsed since Donald Trump was elected
A year on from Donald Trump's shock victory, most people in Britain now say they don't trust the US - a massive drop from last November
www.mirror.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Meanwhile, in tales of the expected...
I've got through half a century of life until I've found out you rub olive oil on skin that has pine sap on it, to dissolve the sap.
Amazing.
Amazing.
October 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've got through half a century of life until I've found out you rub olive oil on skin that has pine sap on it, to dissolve the sap.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Why are there fancy pheasants in my duck pen, bullying my ducks?
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Why are there fancy pheasants in my duck pen, bullying my ducks?
For anyone who thought patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel - nope, it's religion.
Danny Kruger heading policy.
James Orr as key advisor.
Towler writing Farage has ‘found God’.
Reform UK is becoming an American style fundamentalist Christian party.
It’s a cynical use of faith.
James Orr as key advisor.
Towler writing Farage has ‘found God’.
Reform UK is becoming an American style fundamentalist Christian party.
It’s a cynical use of faith.
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
For anyone who thought patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel - nope, it's religion.
Prunela Scales has died, which is sad, but you should take a few minutes to listen to @bunkerpod.bsky.social on Fawlty Towers and remember the joy she brought to probably the best ever sitcom:
www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Scar...
www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Scar...
Scare BnB – Why Fawlty Towers is still THE perfect British comedy
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. On 19 September 1975, the nightmare story of a maniac who should never have been running a hotel, his tyrannical wife, their hapless Spanish waiter and a st...
www.audible.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Prunela Scales has died, which is sad, but you should take a few minutes to listen to @bunkerpod.bsky.social on Fawlty Towers and remember the joy she brought to probably the best ever sitcom:
www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Scar...
www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Scar...
Bloody love the Dreadnought Holiday account. Such great tales!
These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Bloody love the Dreadnought Holiday account. Such great tales!
Great success!
Lost this off my finishing mower about 10 days ago and I've found it not with a piece of machinery, or a tyre, but with my eyes!
Hurrah!
Lost this off my finishing mower about 10 days ago and I've found it not with a piece of machinery, or a tyre, but with my eyes!
Hurrah!
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great success!
Lost this off my finishing mower about 10 days ago and I've found it not with a piece of machinery, or a tyre, but with my eyes!
Hurrah!
Lost this off my finishing mower about 10 days ago and I've found it not with a piece of machinery, or a tyre, but with my eyes!
Hurrah!
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My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
More of this!
I said what I said.
Sorry not sorry.
Facts don’t care about your facts.
Sorry not sorry.
Facts don’t care about your facts.
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
More of this!
Last Thursday I found out my car is on a list.
It's on Halfords 'do not attempt' list for headlight bulb changing.
This is because VW put an angle drive system on the release for the headlight units. Now these vehicles are older, the plastic housing is brittle and the mechanism is furred up
It's on Halfords 'do not attempt' list for headlight bulb changing.
This is because VW put an angle drive system on the release for the headlight units. Now these vehicles are older, the plastic housing is brittle and the mechanism is furred up
October 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Last Thursday I found out my car is on a list.
It's on Halfords 'do not attempt' list for headlight bulb changing.
This is because VW put an angle drive system on the release for the headlight units. Now these vehicles are older, the plastic housing is brittle and the mechanism is furred up
It's on Halfords 'do not attempt' list for headlight bulb changing.
This is because VW put an angle drive system on the release for the headlight units. Now these vehicles are older, the plastic housing is brittle and the mechanism is furred up
Reposted by Diamond Hell
Why do they always want to replace the NHS with the American model? Why not one of the many Europen ones?
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Why do they always want to replace the NHS with the American model? Why not one of the many Europen ones?
Bloody Volkswagen and their 'sealed for life' units. Touareg transfer case fluid change tonight 🤢🤮
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bloody Volkswagen and their 'sealed for life' units. Touareg transfer case fluid change tonight 🤢🤮
Ah right, so Trump has just demolished a chunk of the White House without going through the normal processes that manage this sort of thing.
No, I'm surprised, shocked, astonished.
Dictators don't normally do this sort of thing, do they?
No, I'm surprised, shocked, astonished.
Dictators don't normally do this sort of thing, do they?
We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Ah right, so Trump has just demolished a chunk of the White House without going through the normal processes that manage this sort of thing.
No, I'm surprised, shocked, astonished.
Dictators don't normally do this sort of thing, do they?
No, I'm surprised, shocked, astonished.
Dictators don't normally do this sort of thing, do they?
Spotted on the #isleofwight and it's good news for @smithandsniff.bsky.social - the Quest is over! The Eagle has been found and it's algal!
@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social
@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Spotted on the #isleofwight and it's good news for @smithandsniff.bsky.social - the Quest is over! The Eagle has been found and it's algal!
@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social
@sniffpetrol.com @carpervert.bsky.social
Calm, warm and drying weather this week makes for pretty spore halos around fungal fruiting bodies.
October 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Calm, warm and drying weather this week makes for pretty spore halos around fungal fruiting bodies.
Reposted by Diamond Hell
Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m
PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...