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@glidingtobster.bsky.social

Obsessive glider pilot & instructor. Border Collies' personal clown. EVs + house batteries and all that. Computer games, playing and developing. DIY, 3D printing, cobbling & concocting. Culturally a bit left, economically a bit right.

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I thought jam had to be set by pectin?

04.11.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Controversial opinion: It's okay for people who can be arsed to shop around annually to be subsidised by those who can't be arsed.
The only company that gets a free pass for its charisma is that electric company with the pink mollusc.

04.11.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many, many questions beyond this. Like does the transporter beam people's piss and shit down to or up from the planet along with them?

04.11.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone done the awkward triangle yet?

04.11.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Didn't find KB2 very engaging. Didn't see KB1 but didn't have problems filling in the blanks. Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds were great.

04.11.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure that's accurate. If it is, it's because of the size of space.

04.11.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also most of the endangered ones are solitary, non- or barely- stingy ones. Apis mellifera is actually doing quite well, I had to put up with angry bee wars in August when a third colony moved in locally and then they all started fighting.

04.11.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Eratigena atrica kills Vespula vulgaris #insects #spider #wasp
YouTube video by GlidingTobster Eratigena atrica kills Vespula vulgaris #insects #spider #wasp

Don't stand on them, bat them into a big angry spider's lair.
youtube.com/shorts/Kqytt...

04.11.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Old Testament was just a health and safety manual for living in the desert written by people who were nuts, so it's since been taken out of context. But for this, all it had to say was "it's a living rope that's either frightened or angry".

04.11.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If what you want to fly really really depends on the weather, you can't really rent it without lots of arguing.

04.11.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good. Every caravan belongs in the sea.

04.11.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Private jets, while much less safe than commercial aviation, are still much safer than the rest of general aviation. And space travel is absurdly unsafe.

04.11.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those robots are going to freak out while walking down the street whenever someone in front of them sways a little bit.

04.11.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes.

03.11.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We should adopt Orthodox Christmas instead of continuing with the presumably unorthodox one. It finishes on 6th January, by which time the evenings have already drawn out by 17 minutes from the mid December earliest sunset (it's staggered against day length by the analemma). It's all in this graph.

03.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's nothing wrong with paying for entertainment.
If you think gambling is anything other than you paying for some entertainment, you have a gambling problem.

03.11.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Annoyingly everyone in a gymn has to share the same single item of each piece of equipment, and thus can't simply mind their own business.

03.11.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem is, the very thing Alan Partridge is has stopped being satire and turned into normal reality.

02.11.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's alright, but it's no Philomena Cunk.

02.11.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Depends what's on and how randy you are.

02.11.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No you can't without internet unless you live near that cave.

02.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best thing I've done this year is this plasticol corrugated sheet under new bificial solar panels hack. Half a tonne lighter and 400 odd tiles cheaper.

02.11.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they just have to attach solar panels to the building, or actually wire them into an inverter as well?

02.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They never work properly because everyone's pulling off it with thermostats instead of setting all buildings up to work consistently of the same constant flow temp.

02.11.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aye, just buy a little telly and sit nearer.

02.11.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The good thing about narrowboats is they're appropriately proportioned to stick up the submitter's arse.

02.11.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both are shit compared to actual beans.

02.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also, skills issues; just post a link to this www.facebook.com/groups/44954...

01.11.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OP claims to know 20 people who died in the waiting area after a covid vaccine, observed the entire sky turn to 8/8ths altocumulus within half an hour of an airliner leaving a contrail, and got rid of their EV because it wouldn't charge in the cold.

01.11.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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