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ha sure although it's not exciting, it's just generated by using the element picker:
`www.instagram.com##.xh8yej3.xaw8158.x78zum5 > div:nth-of-type(3)` for mobile.
you can also add:
`||instagram.com/reels/` as a backstop

13.03.2026 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I did exactly this after finding myself with an addiction to it. i use the website on my phone, and have an adblocker with a custom rule to remove the reels button from the toolbar. also, the website version is so bad that it disincentivises spending time on it anyway

12.03.2026 12:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

does this include WhatsApp? I removed Facebook a while ago with no issue but I know too many whatsapp-only people to remove that

09.03.2026 12:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

followed by blade runner 2049. the brief was "make a film using just white and orange" and it looks spectacular

09.03.2026 00:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tonight's film is The Last Duel. Delightfully well put together, beautifully traumatic.

08.03.2026 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If we are all living in a simulation, it's one designed to torture us with moments of hope.

08.03.2026 00:06 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

because it's underpowered for new games, or because windows 10 is EoL? (if the latter... at the risk of being one of those people, valve made linux (almost) painless for games, i've not looked back for 2 years)

08.03.2026 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

who must we bribe to get log per mile pricing

07.03.2026 15:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

unless you have 20 minutes' foresight, in which case you can sometimes use advanced fares, when a single becomes half the price of the return, (but only so long as you know the rough time you're heading back will be off peak, unless you have a railcard and it's not July or August etc)

07.03.2026 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

just watched a play through of Until Then, I cried so much, possibility the most real game ever made

07.03.2026 05:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it's easy to see engineering as just generating code, especially if you're a nontechnical CEO or similar, and to be persuaded that a text generator could serve the same purpose. I do way more than output code, it's a surprisingly small part of the job.

04.03.2026 21:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

god I love garlic

03.03.2026 02:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dead-end street sign for Squirrels Jump

Dead-end street sign for Squirrels Jump

Dead-end street sign for Squirrels Chase

Dead-end street sign for Squirrels Chase

Did you know that in Cheshire we have some brill Squirrel-themed streets?

02.03.2026 16:40 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
a passenger train in Stockport station being pulled by a DB freight engine

a passenger train in Stockport station being pulled by a DB freight engine

today's freight is: welsh people. (it was loud and slow, and going to Cardiff)

24.02.2026 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Did the long walk to Big Tesco through the rain. The Macc road being closed makes this super easy (albeit still a 7 hour round trip).

22.02.2026 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

22.02.2026 07:43 👍 327 🔁 148 💬 33 📌 82

still unsure what one does in London on an evening, so I'm off for my 3rd Very Long Walk for a sandwich tea. I shall be so thin by the end of this week.

18.02.2026 19:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

15.02.2026 11:43 👍 1784 🔁 374 💬 51 📌 10
Photo of rolling grassy farmland taken from cock knoll overlooking a ridge of trees (taxal ridge) with a snow-covered Combs Edge in the distance

Photo of rolling grassy farmland taken from cock knoll overlooking a ridge of trees (taxal ridge) with a snow-covered Combs Edge in the distance

Photo of Disley housing estate behind trees, with Chinley Churn in the middle ground and a snow-covered peak of Kinder in the background

Photo of Disley housing estate behind trees, with Chinley Churn in the middle ground and a snow-covered peak of Kinder in the background

interior photo of St Mary's church in Disley. wide angle, showing the deep blue roof pattern and the central naive with two later aisle extensions on either side

interior photo of St Mary's church in Disley. wide angle, showing the deep blue roof pattern and the central naive with two later aisle extensions on either side

Finally a sunny day! Would he a crime not to go hiking. Found a church that had a dubious walking tour.

14.02.2026 17:40 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I liked where they said it would cost £130Bn. That means someone had to seriously consider it, design two Irish sea crossings, account for the runaway future costs caused by treasury shorttermism, and decide "yes a single number can represent that"

07.02.2026 17:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

That was the other option for today! I was wondering if it was worth a trip to AlpKit in Hathersage before they closed (I heard they were going into administration at end of January), but it looks like they found a buyer, so less time pressure

01.02.2026 21:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Beautiful. Also enjoying the flex of having 21 TiB of disks :P

01.02.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's incredible, nicely done!

01.02.2026 19:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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great fun, I love it

19.01.2026 23:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Burnham and any other northern Labour politician needs to bring the government down over this.

It is absolutely disgusting that yet again we're faced with another 5 years of cuts to our infrastructure.

Just fucking build it and invest in our communities. You want growth? That's how you get it.

14.01.2026 11:19 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

finding the motivation for anything when it's so dark after work is hard. would love to go running or swimming etc but sleep feels so much more appropriate

13.01.2026 22:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pizza has vegetables, it's absolutely healthy

08.01.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
selfie while running along an icy path next to a road

selfie while running along an icy path next to a road

photo of frozen canal

photo of frozen canal

photo of train viaduct with tall arches towering over a field with a track running through it

photo of train viaduct with tall arches towering over a field with a track running through it

Little run around the pike.
Desperately out of shape.
Christmas has defeated me.

03.01.2026 18:11 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I went to see it, I agree completely. He's done well to create a completely irredeemably unlikable character. I noticed in the second half how much his face had been on screen, it was almost constant, there were maybe 60 seconds in the whole film that he wasn't in...

02.01.2026 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg. this and everything that's gone into it are a work of art. (plus "and an all-round yapper" made me cackle, you paint him sassy here)

25.12.2025 03:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0