A figure, depicting the place where it hurts, app developers.
Thoughts and prayers to all the people staffing the desks at Better gym centres, explaining to the customers where the app developers, with the last update, tucked the barcode for entry.
30.01.2026 15:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Agree that SUV isn't helpful as a label for these - they're more the cycle equivalent of a UTV (all terrain vehicle).
30.01.2026 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
They are glorious too, but wow, they need space.
29.01.2026 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There are more Giant Redwood in the UK (The biggest Tree's in the world) than there are in the USA where they're originally from. This Giant Sequoia is beginning to stand out at Wimpole Hall and it's youngster..
29.01.2026 20:05 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Hedgemead boundary redwood, base of trunk. The tree's leaning, not the camera.
The parks department local to me has one growing at the extreme edge of one of their parks and on a 20% slope with its root plate constrained by tarmac on the uphill side. Possibly originally planted as a screening tree. They are *very* effective at piling on the cubic metres.
Not leaning. Much.
29.01.2026 20:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Illustration of rebranding using images of products with an arrow pointing from the original name to the new one
Marathon became Snickers.
Jif became Cif.
The Conservatives are becoming Reform UK.
ok today in Marketing class we're going to learn about re-branding
29.01.2026 17:28 β π 59 π 21 π¬ 4 π 2
Typewriter again racing a train and trailing paper.
la rapidisima
Hispano-Olivetti
Also in Spanish!
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29.01.2026 17:16 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
British Olivetti poster, 1950
Yellow background. In foreground, half a grey typwriter appears at right atop a red square. A piece of Olivetti letterhead in the machine reads "in design and performance". Next to the typewriter lies a handwritten note "in design and performance clearly distinguished". In the middle background at left is the same machine with letterhead in it, but smaller, atop a green rectangle. In the center in the farther background an even smaller version sits on a gold rectangle.
At bottom reads
British Olivetti Ltd 10 Berkeley Square W1
Standard - Electric - Portable Typewriters - Printing Calculators - Adding/Listing Machines
I do love Olivetti's graphic design
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29.01.2026 16:42 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1
Thanks for posting that.
29.01.2026 17:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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28.01.2026 12:54 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 2 π 2
*Accidentally experiences terrestrial TV continuity break*
The usual run, on repeat since whenever: East*****rs, that grizzled fecker, and something involving, I don't know, a psychodonkey or something.
Noooooh idea what the BBC is aiming to achieve there.
29.01.2026 17:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An oil painting of a bunch of asparagus tied in a round bundle against a black background.
This painting by the artist Adriaen Coorte, made in 1699, shows a simple bunch of dramatically lit asparagus, on a stone shelf.
Still life paintings of food, often called Vanitas, were a common theme in Dutch art in the 17th century and alluded to moral themes such as the brevity of life.
29.01.2026 08:00 β π 89 π 26 π¬ 3 π 3
I wish we could have cycle paths like this between villages here in the UK. Often only a few miles away but only dangerous roads with no pavements between them. Villages have become islands of social isolation where teenagers canβt be independent and those that donβt drive are trapped.
29.01.2026 07:48 β π 120 π 46 π¬ 11 π 0
βThe radicalisation of men born in the 1950s/60s correlates directly with the end of loco-hauled train services in Great Britain. In this essay, I willβ¦β
29.01.2026 10:35 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 3 π 1
If you're around in Bristol today, I'm giving a lecture on my New Labour book at the University! I'll be kicking off in the Arts Faculty about 1pm... Come along! www.bristol.ac.uk/history/even...
29.01.2026 10:41 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Rocking in the free world
The adventures of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan in 2026.
I've just updated my newsletter with my plans and updates for 2026. Find the latest gig and album news here: warringtonruncorn.beehiiv.com/p/rocking-in...
28.01.2026 10:49 β π 33 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0
The BGS online borehole map for the area records a scattering of GWR's records as they investigated ground conditions for said inland route. Such a sod that 1939 turned out to be a bad time to choose to ramp up the progress on it.
28.01.2026 11:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY: A cold January day at Princes Dock, Liverpool (1972). π· Mirrorpix
28.01.2026 09:31 β π 27 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
If you want to do chemistry measurements on a little auto-sub travelling deep under the ocean, and you don't have a team of highly trained squid in multi-armed labcoats and safety glasses, you need to somehow automate it. Like this π
28.01.2026 09:38 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
There goes the neighbourhood.
27.01.2026 21:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
27.01.2026 21:30 β π 35648 π 12792 π¬ 638 π 338
"Swindon's Previous Bus Station" has entered the chat.
27.01.2026 21:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE β¦βͺ MARK RUSKELL MSPβ¬β© β₯οΈThe RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώby emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
27.01.2026 21:26 β π 1411 π 384 π¬ 83 π 62
Chippenham bus station + could be a boat there, I don't know.
#BringTheBoatsBackToTheBusStation I say.
27.01.2026 21:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.
Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social
27.01.2026 19:14 β π 163 π 48 π¬ 3 π 1
Thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Yemenβs capital Sanaβa on 27 January 2011. The beginning of a year of protests and violence that brought to an end 33 years of rule by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
On this day 15 years ago in Sanaβa, Yemen.
27 January 2011. The start of what was to be a very long year of witnessing history unravelling.
27.01.2026 21:23 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Speedweve moth repair nearly done.
They're effective in that they make it straightforward to give structure to what would otherwise be a pathetic attempt from me at darning - and they vanquish that sense of powerlessness felt in the face of a moth attack. Visible mending at its best.
27.01.2026 21:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"A Meols you can shake hands with".
27.01.2026 21:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A blue yellow and green weave patch on grey top
Second the speedweave - you can make cute little patches, and quick enough to do within a tv episode.
27.01.2026 18:29 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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