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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱

@martinldnuk1977.bsky.social

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West London (UK) music fan, computer geek, atheist, day/weekend tripper. Cat pictures likely. Views are my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · Feb 25

Well, that's my X/Dodo account wrapped up! It's still live but I won't be posting there, just here from now on and on the Elephant site, @[email protected]

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 2d

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 3d

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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 4d

I have been out and about today and, well, it looks like a hot air balloon has landed in someone's front garden. 👀🎈🤔

A multicoloured bouncy castle that looks like a hot air balloon from the top.

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 4d

Avast is flagging it as malicious as are a few other vendors, according to VirusTotal. Evidently false positives.

The majority of providers give it a clean bill of health but some need to be followed up individually.

www.virustotal.com/gui/url/bbf9...

VirusTotal

www.virustotal.com

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Mike Berridge, FBPE. 🌈 @mikelincs.bsky.social · 4d

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 6d

The company that makes the ladders used in the Louvre heist has a new ad campaign.

"When you need to move fast," reads a banner under the image. "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe the 12yo will appreciate some geography lessons instead? Oh, wait.
youtu.be/rMqfD2vInLo

Rockapella: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" (1993) - RARE!

YouTube video by Nostalmania

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8d

The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course.

www.london.edu/executive-ed...

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 9d

Buying a gift and Amazon really needs a "not cheap tat" catch-all filter. Might not leave much

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 9d

Well, this is eyebrow raising. Someone has just posted in a local recycling community to offer a DVD of 'Mrs Brown's Boys', a sitcom that is considered dire by its many critics. I wonder how long it will be before someone takes it?

A screenshot of an offer for a 'Mrs Brown's Boys' DVD.

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Geoff Marshall @geofftech.bsky.social · 9d

Microsoft introduced the Office 'Ribbon Bar' in 2007.

Which is 18 years ago now, and in EIGHTEEN years I *still* find myself having to Google things like "Where is the Find function in Word?", because 18 years later, I still can't find it, I still want to use the 'Edit' menu where it used to be ...

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 10d

Is it the 'unbecoming' line?

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 10d

It must be a very big cake dispensing machine to have replaced an entire John Lewis store.

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 10d

Amazon Web Services. They host the content for many popular websites and services.

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 10d

I have Community Fibre in Hayes, UB4. Perhaps a local outage? I hope you are back up and running soon! 🤞

A Community Fibre speed check result through the LinkSys app. The results show a 4 ms ping, with 160 Mbps and 162 Mbps for download and upload speeds respectively.

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 @disentingcat.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 13d

Wow, this is disappointing. This meeting was supposed to be a final confirmation of a deal agreed six months ago, and it would have been the first serious step in making the slow-to-change shipping industry cleaner & greener & ready for the future. The delay only hurts everyone in the long run. 🌊

Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure

Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics

www.theguardian.com

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 14d

If you fancy living next to a very secretive neighbour who would rather never talk to anyone, then the house next to the North Korean embassy is up for sale.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/eal...

Ealing's most secretive neighbour: 1920s house next to the North Korean Embassy up for sale

If you fancy living next to a very secretive neighbour who would rather never talk to anyone, then the house next to the North Korean embassy is up for sale.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 14d

Well.

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 19d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chelmsford tongue-in-cheek signs must end, says Essex Highways

A council says the prank signs could

www.bbc.co.uk

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 @disentingcat.bsky.social · 19d

the council will decide your fate
(A bunch of cats looking down from a window)

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 21d

Fly-tipped asbestos in Newport dubbed Wales' 'fly-tipping capital'

Locals in some parts of Newport describe new rubbish appearing as soon as old waste is cleared.

www.bbc.com

Martin 🎶💻🤓🐱 @martinldnuk1977.bsky.social · 21d

I cannot choose, I am so confused. 🤪

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d

Thirty original paintings by Bob Ross will be available for sale beginning next month through the auction house Bonhams, the artist's estate said. The proceeds will benefit public TV stations that have been grappling with funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little’ Paintings Will Be Auctioned

Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts.

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