Steve Cook
jorvikangler.bsky.social
Steve Cook
@jorvikangler.bsky.social
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I've got my last few packs of the playing cards as great as they've been I don't think I'll be printing anymore so grab a pack while you can from my website!
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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I've got two of my very limited Bowie/Mr Benn A3 Giclee prints on fancy art paper back in stock. Each one has secret, unique details! £50 plus p&p if you want one.
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Local pest control asleep on the job.
January 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Deer tracks and a useless gate found while wandering about.
January 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Episode 72 of Linux Matters: Lets get Trippy 🐧️🎙️

Mark revisits the classic Timesplitters game. Alan has entered a coding contest he can’t win. Martin gets trippy with network diagnostics.
Lets get Trippy
Mark revisits the classic Timesplitters game. Alan has entered a coding contest he can’t win. Martin gets trippy with network diagnostics.
linuxmatters.sh
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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My fellow bookshelves

I am speaking to you today from behind a woman in white who seems to think she was prime minister.

As an important piece of furniture, I beg you for you assistance.

I would like nice books, read by someone who can read.

In a library

Can you help?
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Second session of the year. jorvikangler.blogspot.com/2026/01/fast...
Faster Warmer Poodle
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January 4, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Looking to being at the British Fly Fair International well over 10 years of exhibiting at the show, selling my wears and meeting fellow anglers. I'll also be doing a talk at this years show do swing by if you are planning to go!
January 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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I think my favourite film I made last year was the 24 species in 24 hours though it didn't do quite as well as I expected still really pleased with the outcome of it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIh...
Can I Catch 24 Species in 24 Hours?
YouTube video by CHASING SCALES
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January 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
After an unnecessarily long hiatus the blog is back with the first fish of the year. jorvikangler.blogspot.com/2026/01/firs...
First Fish of the Year
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January 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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There's rather a lot of heated rhetoric about immigration and immigrants in the UK from politicians. Don't they realise that a lot of us immigrants have a vote (and even more do in local elections)? And do they think we will vote for our own oppression?
January 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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From yesterday - The last fish of the year.
December 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.

How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?

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December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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This week I track down the rarest fish in the UK!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhs...
I Found Britain's Rarest Fish: Species Hunt (EP 54)
YouTube video by CHASING SCALES
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December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Visiting Berlin European Sturgeon Project
YouTube video by CHASING SCALES
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December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I had a blast in Berlin finding out about the reintroduction of european sturgeon a species once found in British rivers
December 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Beach Fishing for Kentish Hounds: Species Hunt (EP 52)
YouTube video by CHASING SCALES
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December 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This week I've headed to Kent to try for smoothhounds and get a little surprise while fishing
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Episode 71 of Linux Matters: Give me the Aux 🐧️🎙️

Alan discovers new music on Spotify with a shonky Python script. Martin makes a Go module for ffmpeg. Mark slices up his monitor with Tiling Assistant.
Give me the Aux
Alan discovers new music on Spotify with a shonky Python script. Martin makes a Go module for ffmpeg. Mark slices up his monitor with Tiling Assistant.
linuxmatters.sh
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Lt General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE, a recently retired senior army officer, explaining why the climate crisis threatens national security.

"We are facing the potential of 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 unless Government takes this seriously"

Full talk: link below.

#NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB2025
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Labour seem determined to wreck what’s left of our natural world. So many broken promises.

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma....
Nightmare before Christmas: worst environmental regression in decades looms | The Wildlife Trusts
Labour’s list of broken promises mounts
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December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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British Marine Fish Facts
YouTube video by CHASING SCALES
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December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM