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Good grief, Charlie Brown! Work in health IT, 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, 🏳️‍🌈, bass singer in a choir, love 🚲 ☕ 🧀 💃📸 🎶 🚉 . Ex-biochemist. Come for the Brutalism, stay for […]

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Paddington at Paddington.

#paddington #railwaystation #trains
A dark green GWR Intercity Express Train in the train shed at London Paddington. Above is a glass and red roof with a glass transcept running perpendicular to the tracks. The train has a picture of Paddington Bear holding an orange, wearing his blue coat and red hat, and surrounded by greenery.
January 18, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Avon looked nice this morning.

#river #cliftonsuspensionbridge #bristol #optoutside
A river valley on a mostly cloudy day, the water reflecting dark gray clouds as placid blue. A busy road runs along the base and a suspension bridge with brick support tower is faintly visible in the distance.
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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She also included a package with a shirt from the music event my uncle organizes, "Mud Lake Bluegrass Sundays". What's in that pipe the raccoon is smoking?!
A man with shaved head and short beard, wearing a mustard green shirt that says "Mud Lake Bluegrass Sundays" and tan cargo pants. He is smiling and pointing at the camera. A close-up of the t-shirt, showing a drawing of a raccoon playing a banjo, smoking a pipe, and sitting on a tree stump with morel mushrooms, smiling daisies, and a big bottle labeled XXX next to him.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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[UKpol]

Today's episode includes some traitor-on-traitor action in the banishment.
A screenshot from the BBC website: LIVE Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories as party finds ‘irrefutable evidence' of defection plot. The evidence includes a "full [resignation] speech and media plan” says a party MP. Reform Leader Nigel Farage says he plans to call Jenrick today. The screenshot includes stern pictures of Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch
January 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Me when I look at the shape of plug socket's on the wall behind someone in pictures, in order to figure out where they were taken.

#thetraitors #traitorsuk
A picture of Rachel in some sort of interesting layered asymmetrical shoulder outfit in plum, with the subtitle "I have been trained by a former FBI agent"
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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South West England to southwest Portugal via train: a collage summary of my trip in November 2025.

Favourite: TGV Duplex Paris-Barcelona, followed by Iryo Barcelona-Madrid and CP loco hauled Lisbon-Tunes.

Least favourite: Renfe's CAF DMUs in Extremadura, dull and […]

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A collage of six trains: GWR 800 green and yellow, London Underground S stock red/white/blue, Eurostar e300 gray/yellow, TGV inOui duplex white/gray, Iryo Frecciarossa red/gray, Renfe hippo like DMU in white Collage of six trains. Another Renfe CAF DMU a lime green and white CP railcar, a stainless steel and yellow CP boxy régional EMU, Lisbon Metro, an electric gray and red CP loco, and a blue CP DMU with stainless steel fluted sides.
January 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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#roadtobathhalf continues. 9.02mi, 1:34:46. In the words of that one fish from Spongebob, "my leg!".
A very tired and sweaty man with shaved head and short beard smiles. He's wearing a blue Under Armour hoodie soaked through with sweat A map of a running route, showing faster pace on the first 5k through the downs and slower pace on the last 4k down towards the city centre.
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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#silentsunday
A view over a harbour with boats moored on the sides and several boats driving through. Sidewalks full of people and an old industrial railway. Beyond are colorful painted row houses along cliffs. The sky is light blue and a bit hazy.
January 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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"Falafel King - Under New Management" implies there was a Falafel Coup d'État.
A shipping container converted to a food stand, with two signs, one reading "Falafel King" and the other "Under New Management". There are a few tables in front, and buildings and blue skies behind.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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The dawn from here, earlier this week.
A golden to blue sky at daybreak, lighting up otherwise dark clouds. With a lone senesced tree in the foreground and a quiet street slightly reflecting the sunlight.
January 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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My brain each time I hear about the band Toploader:
A silver and gray metal/plastic top loading VCR with green seven segment digits
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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[Traitors UK S4 Ep 4 meets USpol]

If it is to be, it is up to me. #thetraitors
A forlorn looking Stephen - neat blond hair, short mustache, blue shirt with black light jacket - looking out from a wooden cage.
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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I currently have too many browser tabs open to display the page title "Sluttbrukertest" properly.

The shortened version is not inaccurate.
A series of browser tabs in Chrome, with one displaying the Powerpoint icon and the word "Slut".
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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"T4 Bacteriophage"
Luke Jerram, 2023
Displayed at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

#virus #sculpture #glass
A glass sculpture of a bacteriophage, with frosted glass head, a golden glass stalk, and white frosted legs, sitting atop a table.
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Joy Unleashed

A photo of Sidney the Whippet and Bryn the Dachshund in April 2024.

#dogs #SausageDog #whippet #zoomies
A white and gray overweight whippet, with tongue flying out of its wide open mouth, runs, chased by a brown long-haired dachshund with big eyes and mouth wide open.
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Speaking of bears and branding, I laughed when I saw the horned M at Mostro Coffee in Oxford today.
A small white coffee cup atop a white saucer, with a silver spoon in the foreground. The middle of the saucer has a block M with horns. The cup has "Mostro Coffee" in blocky letters with drop shadow in black, and the same horned M as the saucer.
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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"Early Homo", also a description of playing tracks off "Bad Girls - Deluxe Edition" at breakfast.
A serious, sober museum display with the words "Early Homo" in large serif font, with a few skulls and bone fragments mounted below.
January 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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2 January and St. Nicholas Church has already thrown their holiday bushes out back. #itsover
Four bare fir trees on their side in a line, against the back of a yellow/tan stone old style church.
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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I enjoyed seeing that Canada Water was open until "Night:Tube" o'clock a few days during this festive period.

#london #londonunderground #lifeundershanialaw
A blue paper London Underground "festive opening times for this station sign", with written times for each day in black magic marker. Several days, such as 31 December close and 1 January open, are written "NIGHT:TUBE". At close on 24 December and open on 26 December, first and last train are handwritten in ballpoint pen.
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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P -> B. Spotted in Woolwich.
A banner sign for a "Putt Club", black text on yellow, where someone has turned the P into a B using permanent marker. Thus making the sign read "Butt Club".
January 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Today's adventure: walked from Deptford to Beckton via Greenwich, the Prime Meridian, the Thames Barrier, Woolwich Tunnel, and the end of the runway at London City Airport.

I don't like the ethics and environmental impacts of having a busy airport just for the […]

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Skyscrapers of Canary Wharf from the south east. Blue sky above, choppy Thames water below. A Sustrans metal sign noting the Prime Meridian and distances to various destinations. Behind is a hazy sky and skyscrapers. Silver sloping shelters for the Thames Barrier, in a line. A BA E190 landing in front of university buildings on a mostly clear day.
January 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Happy New Year from SE8.

#happynewyear
A few fireworks in white and red in front of Canary Wharf skyscrapers at night, with a dark Thames reflecting multicoloured light in the foreground.
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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A sunset over the Algarve on 16 Nov 2025, as we reach the sunset of this fair year.

#sunset #algarve #portugal #bythesea
Blue waves reflecting a yellow/gold sunset crash onto a rocky brown shore, with some short succulents. A few gray clouds scattered in the mostly blue-to-yellow sunset gradient.
December 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Slightly jarring contrasts on the website of Adresseavisen, the local newspaper of Trondheim, Norway today.

Machine translated to English.

#avisen #trondheim #norge #norway #cock
A screenshot of a newspaper website called Adresseavisen, machine translated to English. It includes the headlines "Accident on a mirror-like road - ambulance slid into a ditch", "Convicted of threats: over 300,000 collected in splicing operation", "Seven people involved in serious accident on E6", and "Why is cock so funny?". The last headline is accompanied by a serious looking man with white bushy beard, standing below a pair of disco balls. No, not a disco ball, disco balls.
December 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Paused the Only Connect Pub Quiz special two minutes in. Looks like VCM is already having a grand time...

#onlyconnect #chards #freezeframed
A shot of the show Only Connect, in which Victoria Coren Mitchell has a fringe haircut, a low cut red top revealing a green tropical bra, a glass of Chards, and a bowl of crisps.
December 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM