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From my experience trying to get diesel this evening, it seems that the Fens has moved to the hoarding/profiteering phase...

Not sure which is worse: Operation Epic Torch or Operation Epic Tunnel...

Winner is definitely Operation Epic Primrose, though.

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.

Sure, but what is this doing apart from leaning into right-wing framing around mental health being quackery? Did BBC also ask if they refused notes due to broken legs or flu?

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is giving strong Second Pacific Fleet/Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea vibes...

I am deeply suspicious about this. I keep getting surprisingly good scores for someone whose colour differentiation was described as 'very poor' by a qualified optician...

A very early photo of Ralf and Florian of Kratwerk playing live.

"This was not an organized movement like punk or rave, but kismet. Musicians all over the country simultaneously decided to forge something new from the cultural ashes of their country."

The Synths and Electronic Gear of Krautrock: reverb.com/news/the-syn...

Definitely a trap. This boy is a master at relieving you of a useful quantity of blood...

I like 'hen', from central Scotland. I also like the Fen use of 'boy' for anyone of any age.

A hooge pooma! (That's a huge puma in a Fen accent)

Let's play a game

Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote

Which picture are you submitting?

Let's play a game

Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote

Which picture are you submitting?

Oh I am so confused now - I hope you are right, but if you are that is also awful.

Why is the UK press lining up behind Washington rather than Westminster? YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine

The @privateeyenews.bsky.social #Page94 podcast is one of my favourites. Am disappointed not to have figured this snippet out for myself, though:

youtube.com/shorts/AJl02...

It's really hard not to read stories such as this, like this:
"Your 'lifestyle values’ do not align with the restaurant"
In what way
"You're alive"

It has been on my mind a little too much recently too...

I was thinking of a five word combination in Scots which is very effective, but not suitable for a family social media site...

I don't know what is weirder - providing the shoes, guessing the size or them being too scared to not wear them...

Work your way through these posts.

These are people, just trying to live their lives, just like me. Except the government aren't trying to legislate me out of existence.

These are people.

Open source, too!

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

I still think about this a lot.

Zooms in to check the ALT text is correct...

Not because I don't trust you, but because I assumed I had read it wrong.

Is it too paranoid to suggest that these ships struck by missiles in the Strait of Hormuz have been targeted by US weapon systems controlled by AI?

Submerged Landscapes

Was Doggerland only tundra during the last glacial? Maybe not so much. New sedaDNA study by Allaby et al. showing pleniglacial colonisation of Doggerland by temperate arboreal taxa:

submergedlandscapes.teamapp.com/articles/961...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@submergedlands.bsky.social

Last time I was in Kraków I could not sleep because the man in the room next door to me was having too much fun.

On his own...

As do Humboldt penguins (I learned that today)

a man in a yellow jacket is standing next to a man in a red shirt Alt: Tyne based rappers PJ and Duncan before they morphed into Ant and/or Dec, suggesting that we get ready to rumble. This gif is mostly oversized sportswear and an urban area that does not immediately shout 'Gateshead'. Perhaps it is South Shields?

Sat outside the boy's tap class and I am alarmed to discover that he is dancing to PJ and Duncan.

We will see when he emerges whether or not he is, indeed, ready to rumble...

And you don't need mobile signal - your phone should search out the strongest signal and use that.

And you don't need to be logged in, so you can use a phone you don't have (electronic) access to.

The phrase 'Yes, that's the point of a PhD' springs to mind...