If it takes more than a day or two to solve a concrete heist, you know it's the work of hardened criminals.

I planted something from a railway cutting and it’s grown into a complete high-speed rail network

Normalise this

Nine Rings For Mortal Men Without Hats

It’s Thursday night, it’s the BBC and it’s time for Weathertop of the Pops

The existence of Gran Turismo predicts the existence of Grandad Turismo

◻️Deck and stairs ◻️ handrail ◻️ reverse the doors ✅ two coats of stain on panels ◻️ two coats of clear on panels ◻️ trim ◻️ skirting ◻️ plastering ◻️ filling & sanding ◻️ two coats of paint ◻️ hang the artwork

That’s…that’s not how you get bacteria into blue cheese

National being the party of business and good economic management has involved more poverty, fewer jobs, fewer businesses and reduction in overall economic performance than you might expect (*) (*) unless you’ve lived under an incompetent right-wing government before

When the Sun can't remember If it's June or December That's the basis for general relativity and the passage of time being dependent on the reference frame of the observer

Exterminate, Exterminate

No corruption in New Zealand www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If the atomic ensemble time escapes containment it will cause absolute mayhem in the quantum continuum

Sil Marillion, with lead singer Elfish

The Smiths of Eregion

Electric Light Orcestra

Either one.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Style Council of Elrond

Well this was a delightful find for a Sunday morning www.finestresullarte.info/en/travelnot...

“Oh you went on a train holiday in Italy! How fabulous! Where did you go?” “Ferrovia”

Godda and Aedric are the reason we have a stag night BEFORE the wedding these days

I’ve only just realised the Little Drummer Boy Xmas reference in Love Actually

I’ve just been informed that the dessert recipe I was making expecting it to feed “68 people” actually only feeds “6 TO 8 people”

Bush explained how his opponent and his advisors had not simply understimated him, nor merely misunderstood him. Oh no. "They misunderestimated me,"

If you are trying to fix academic problems by changing the duration of semesters, your only options are a long-term solution or a short-term solution

Nuclear fusion at commercial scale has always been “30 years away”. But not today.

I think we probably need to shut this down now until we can figure out what is going on. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Just don’t ask one to make a cup of tea

Being hurt and not yourself in turn hurting others is a hard thing to overcome

I’ve crossed a poodle with a Panzer and ended up with a septic tank

If you owe your bank $100 and can't repay, you have a problem. If you owe your bank $100M and can't repay, your bank has a problem.

Producer: “pitch me” Me: “it’s the Truman Show but instead of it being a person in a world that is really a TV show, it’s in reverse ad the person creates their world from what they’ve seen on a TV show”

What’s really going to bake your noodle is that Die Hard is both a Christmas movie and a Hallmark movie! Guy from the city rescues his true love who has gone back to her home town and has got into a difficult situation with her new boss

I set up a bishop-knight endgame and solved it against a GM-rated bot. Took all afternoon to practice but yeah, definitely one of the hardest endgames.

Please fund my new startup which makes high-hats and cymbals (*) (*) Investor advisory statement: The value of investments may go up and down and losses may exceed the principal sum if there is a huge crash

Hands up if you’ve ever been in a bank when an armed gang starts a robbery

To be honest, “Edinburgh resident admits to huffing market pens” isn’t that startling of a headline. You should have seen half the stuff in East Pilton that was ten times worse than that at least and I’m not joking

I’m not sure that Digory Kirke fully atoned for bringing Jadis out of Charn but it does also raise the question of who Uncle Andrew really was, and how he learned the lore of making magic rings

Petroleum products overall, net exporter since 2020. Still a net importer of crude oil.

If the AI robots are taking our jobs, surely they can pay for their DDR5 out of their own salaries?

This completes my long story arc from 2011.

Even if the continent of Zealandia surfaced, it would still be an archipelago. It’s archipelagos all the way down.

A P45 is what should have been handed to Reagan

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It’s a measure of how busy I am that I didn’t notice this one at all, but it’s even more local than the other day

Fuck me the foot traffic through my book reading area and the kerfuffle finding the secret door into the common toilet is starting to get annoying. And let’s not even mention the hidden Puua.

Adds to growing pile of articles on the Great Datacenter Hoax

“We like the artwork but can you reduce the price by taking the frame off?”

This will literally eat your soul.

That crucial moment when you DO look at a map and realise the US is operating in international waters in both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un...