Paul

the excuses are building up. (Newey started late, Honda started late Blah blah) its only testing etc but things do not seem to be going well for Aston.

Tech journal - Pre-season testing - Day Two Day two of the pre-season test seemed to bring with it issues for a number of teams, which frankly I think many had expected to see rear their head much earlier than this, given the scope of change th...

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it feels like every iteration, post Jordan, has been liked a little less. With Stroll being there as the ultimate nepodriver it reallybis hard to root for them.

ok.

Not taliking about Mclaren. Owner is a different category of ick to corporate sponsorship. He is also talking devisive populist bollocks.

sorry Merc F1. One of your owners just became publicly problematic. Shame as i was wishing good things for Russell and Antoneli this year.

shame. i like some of Ineos's cleaning products. off he fucks to the Dyson list.

You can tell F1 testing has only just kicked off and the presenters have enough to talk about because no one has mentioned tyre compounds yet.

The barge boards are the give away. Without those its tougher!

Be careful not to put up the MCL39 by mistake.

Either Mercedes are sandbagging or this will be the third straight year that a customer team of theirs will, at the very least, stay competitive with them, if not outscore them.

#F1

its just testing, its just testing, its just testing.

to the tune of "There's no place like home".

in fairness. that plane crash was nothing to do with aero active or otherwise and everything to do with interlocking open wheels in a breaking zone.

f1 is back!!! my block list does swell.

I made a bot version of my "is there film-length thing on the Beeb" tonight?

Why? Because I'm trying to watch more terrestrial TV after ignoring it for 25 years, and I'm slightly worried me (and people like me) ignoring it are killing it.

Do your bit. Turn on the Beeb tonight.

The Discord 2026 Crystal Ball Predictions

One of our fav episodes each year is when we get a group of folk from our Discord server on the pod.
Well this week was that time. Audio version up on podcast platforms now and YouTube will be edited during the Super Bowl 😎
#F1
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a conversation between the crew of the Enterprise D. Picard: Good god, didn't anyone here watch TOS as a boy? Worf: I watchted Battlestar Galactica Date: I especially liked the Cylons Chief O'Brian: I was in TOS, sir Everyone looks at him weird. O'Brian: Well, I will be. Referencing that he was in a time travel episode during Deep Space Nine

This is still my absolute favourite Star Trek meme.

George A. Romero surrounded by zombies on the set of "Day of the Dead" (1985)

Born on this day: George A. Romero

indeed. a free press will not let Bozos act with impunity. buy it then kill it and not notice the financial loss.

even the Japanese toilet one?

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White @moru-mip.bsky.social

Nick was a visionary in #malaria treatment whose work transformed global health.
He will be remembered with great respect and affection

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Middle Lane arseholes deserve to be lost

For the Viz readers amongst us: you mean i will be a badly packed kebab.

then the rest of the queue takes longer as some one has had to be diverted to doing your stuff when the ping of destiny sings from the machine. well done you have just been tagged as an entitled arsehole by the rest of the queue.

IS THERE A FILM ON THE BBC TONIGHT? A simple way to see if there’s a film on the BBC around 9pm tonight.

Bunged some loading messages on this coz noticed it was taking a bit of time (like 5 or 10 seconds, whatever) to load data / process it and it's possible people would be going "is this broke?"
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if only all website design/ui/ux decision were as easy! you just circumvented what would normally have been at least 3 meetings and a survey monkey.

Best tv guide i have used in a while! Genuinely love it. Now put that options drop down at the top.

oh...bold and frankly optimistic. they are all assuming Washington still exists at then end of the season.

oh god. what now.