John Bray

I repotted my 3 last summer, and while the youngest has a stalk and baby, the other 2 are sulking and not even producing leaves, though the bulb tops are green. I keep nervously checking for signs of growth, as I've had them for 30 years.

So I can't edit posts, and the chain of them will appear in the wrong order. I'm finding Bluesky poor, not sure I will stay longer

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fortwiki.johnbray.org.uk

Super little site FortWiki was fading, its owner ageing, its software a decade old, attacked by vandals. The CDSG took it on, but their IT people took months to bring it back online, and wanted $$$$$ to upgrade it further. So I offered to help, and in 20 hours its done, bright as a penny!

How do you discipline a petulant child who has the world's strongest economy and best army. Appeasement is never the answer, but I don't have one

finally booked flights and car hire for Belfast, and extended accommodation. I got strangely stressed over this, obsessing over it for 10 days. Now got Tue-Thu before the con to visit Castle Ward area and Giants Causeway

Or "what came first X or Y" could entertain with different authors misconceptions about future timelines across genres. A lot depends whether you are doing a quizzers quiz or a fun one. Can you tell I don't like quizzes much?

If the date options were really close, it would generate my reaction to many quizzes, "who cares"

Exact date naming is for nerds and would exclude so many people, the latter gives everyone a chance, and is more fun when you reveal the answer is 100 years later than guessed

at least here I won't have someone claiming that the greenhouse effect is a myth because both Mars and Venus have a 96% CO2 atmosphere and look how they turned out (a 10^5 level of incompetence)

Electric cars in UK last as long as petrol and diesel vehicles, study finds International research team based findings on 300m records from MOT data to estimate failure rates of all cars

Battery cars on Britain’s roads are lasting as long as petrol and diesel cars, according to a study that has found a rapid improvement in electric vehicle reliability.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh, the word limit is cramping me

coo, there really is a short character limit enforced here. Don't like that.

Not sure I like the idea of everything I say being totally public, but I guess a full permissions system is hard to implement. Any system without adds, and the option to opt-out of reposts, so I only see if people actually do things themselves, is worth a try.

I will duplicate my few Facebook posts