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Movies, music, politics, tech, football, photos, outdoors.
Pfp: me wearing a giant crown with an arrogant expression.
Banner: a still from the 80s arcade game, Battle Zone.
Is this subconscious racism in the Guardian just a couple of weeks ago? Pointing out how reliant the NHS is on foreign workers? Or is the problem actually the other things Polanski says and thinks, the only person in frontline politics who challenges what now passes for orthodoxy?
December 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Is this subconscious racism in the Guardian just a couple of weeks ago? Pointing out how reliant the NHS is on foreign workers? Or is the problem actually the other things Polanski says and thinks, the only person in frontline politics who challenges what now passes for orthodoxy?
Quite an apposite targeted ad on Lady Penelope's latest, I thought:
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Quite an apposite targeted ad on Lady Penelope's latest, I thought:
Paging Nigel Tufnel
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Paging Nigel Tufnel
Hi this is a ring ferrule. The wire goes into the red end, which is crimped to form a permanent connection with it. The ring is then bolted or screwed onto a conducting surface when it's in situ. If there's a paper or plastic label around the ring it perhaps wouldn't form a proper connection.
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hi this is a ring ferrule. The wire goes into the red end, which is crimped to form a permanent connection with it. The ring is then bolted or screwed onto a conducting surface when it's in situ. If there's a paper or plastic label around the ring it perhaps wouldn't form a proper connection.
A South American immigrant recently
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A South American immigrant recently
Timeline synchronicity
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Timeline synchronicity
Interesting snippet from the article
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Interesting snippet from the article
And you guys would never misrepresent someone doing that would you? You'd discuss what they had to say and intended in a free, fair and open marketplace of ideas?
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
And you guys would never misrepresent someone doing that would you? You'd discuss what they had to say and intended in a free, fair and open marketplace of ideas?
Greggs is a huge chain fast food bakery in the UK and they have white coffee on the menu
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Greggs is a huge chain fast food bakery in the UK and they have white coffee on the menu
This is the failing of all large scale govt IT projects distilled down to its essence: the assumption that the mere application of technology to a problem will make it magically disappear.
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is the failing of all large scale govt IT projects distilled down to its essence: the assumption that the mere application of technology to a problem will make it magically disappear.
I think it looks a bit like Charlie Chaplin
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I think it looks a bit like Charlie Chaplin
Kier Starmer reading the morning papers
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Kier Starmer reading the morning papers
What I'm wearing to the rapture
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
What I'm wearing to the rapture
Martin Keown celebrates doing better than Ruud Van Nistelrooy in his A-Level results this morning
August 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Martin Keown celebrates doing better than Ruud Van Nistelrooy in his A-Level results this morning
Logging on to bluesky
August 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Logging on to bluesky
Theatre design goals
July 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Theatre design goals
This has been brutal. For a working class man with a direct manner, modern broadcasting has become a dangerous place.
I was the headline this time. But I won't be the last.
I was the headline this time. But I won't be the last.
July 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This has been brutal. For a working class man with a direct manner, modern broadcasting has become a dangerous place.
I was the headline this time. But I won't be the last.
I was the headline this time. But I won't be the last.