@dradam676.bsky.social
Norfolk-bred Scot, software engineer, passionate about maths, maps, better public transport, and xkcd references. Bluesky now my main source of witterings, with occasional drip-feed of migrated content such as maps I'm pleased with.
xkcd.com/257
There is something inherently amusing about the phrase "Winston Churchill to be replaced by badgers" to be fair
My favourite geographic etymology is that the Bosphorus is Greek for Oxford
Or Hurlford (East Ayrshire) depending on who you ask 😁
today's squaredle:
Got this from Lloyds Bank the other day and it made me want to gouge my own eyes out.
Quick reminder that in real terms, petrol prices have recently been cheaper than they've been for decades, and that 140p/l is actually comically cheap compared to what it was in (say) early 2010s or the 2022 spike
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Completely unrelated but this is also how I feel about "the reopening of Snow Hill Tunnel in the 1980s to reinstate a cross-city passenger rail network after decades of run down and neglect"
#Edinburgh Airport just now. Three Chinook helicopters overhead. No drones or missiles as far as I can tell!
Oh God. My eyes.
micro sim ❌
nano sim ❌
GIGA SIM ✅
(banana splits tune) "na na na, na nana na, na na na, I'm a big girl" also lives rent free in my head thanks to my then-teenage sense of humour
This dislodged an old, old memory from Never Mind The Buzzcocks probably closer to Kate Bush than the present day. Bluesky at its best.
I still remember your excellent explainer on this from back in the day! web.archive.org/web/20040803...
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
This comment made me think of this recent excellent skit by Tilly Oddy-Black: www.instagram.com/p/DVEuZOfEsd9/
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
? the math is not mathing here
such a power move to start the hymn Jerusalem with "and". All these other hymns are like "ooh hallelujah" and "ahh almighty" but Jerusalem's just like "WE'RE MIDWAY THROUGH A CONVERSATION ABOUT ANCIENT FEET. GET ON BOARD"
The internet is so full of AI slop poem generators that it's now surprisingly difficult to search for a simple tool to put poetic words onto a background, so you'll have to make do with my terrible attempts in Paint.
Weirdly poetic search result for Google Scholar's UK site
Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!
ZX Spectrum games taught my childhood self about Bach's Tocatta and Fugue (Riptoff), Mozart's Turkish March (Dynamite Dan) and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik's second movement (Whole New Ball Game), Strauss' Radetzky March (Technician Ted), and probably several others.
Hanlon's reply guy
where by "it" you mean your marriage
Yes. I remember exactly this happening with a Very Leftish acquaintance just after Brexit on Facebook. It's like I could feel his perverse relief of this unfiltered tirade of Rs he'd been bottling up. It's weird how it gets a free pass, it's an awful word.
I TOTALLY DID THAT TOO (on the deli)
in this time of global geopolitical turmoil, we now go live to that vital decentralised store of value with which you can literally buy anything from a Mars bar to a house:
As the crow flies, the Palm Jumeirah is 156km from mainland Iran at its closest point; almost exactly the same distance as London to Calais.
