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I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

The joy of dogs. Look at that face at the end! 😍

Left at 0435 as usual for my train to work on earlies. Didn't realise the 0509 EMR was now an 0450! Got a taxi thankfully super fast, and got here for 0445 only to then find the train is delayed! Turns out, both 5C05 and 1C05 now run via the Erewash. I needs to be driving, ASAP. Too much risk! 😳

Tech companies: Our pavement robots are safe for pedestrians and don't get in their way! The robots:

Well, that was a thoroughly fucking frustrating shift. 😑

This is the way.

Also available as 99p ebook for those who don't like to line Jeff Bezos pockets, and prefer more opensource things: www.kobo.com/GB/en/ebook/...

Just started listening to @trainsatlantic.uk and have to say you have a very rare quality @garethdennis.uk which is being intelligent and well spoken but also having a really pleasant pod voice! I'm told there's a thing called #railnatter too, but might take me a while to get through 300+episodes...

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Look 'ere. On me way t'Birmingham. Spotted a train wi'a Poppy on. We'm payin fer this!

You realise, Lee, you thick cnut, that if it was bedecked in union flags, we'd be paying fer that n all. Bet you'd have no issue there though, would ya? 🙄😴

This is incredible work - not to mention the first use case of "AI" (machine learning) - to assist - that I can actually get behind!

Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.

Gotta love work asking you to do 12hr shift with <36hrs notice. To be in for 0900, I'd be leaving the house at 0700, and then finishing at 2100 (with the railway probably in tatters in this heat) I'd have to get home, which even if everything was on time, would be at 2245. 🤔 You're okay, thanks.

When politicians and media say ‘difficult choices’, that’s code for working class people about to be screwed.

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Current mood.

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Bastard

Maybe it's the heat but today's loconundrum.aaronc.cc got me stumped when it really shouldn't (doesn't help when you go off on a wild goose chase the wrong way!) 🤣 Loconundrum #102 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟨⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

😐👀😳😂🤣

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My goodness it's 🔥HOT🔥 out. On my way to work for my last night shift of 7. 🥵

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

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Gamers faces when they see the price announcements for the Steam Machine. Yeahhhh, don't think they'll be selling many of those at £880-£1200 in the current economy 😳

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.

Alright, listen up - here's what's happened Donald Trump described Keir Starmer as a tough negotiator & his friend Then Putin texted "Agent Krasnov" like "WTF are u doing Help bring him down, u bubonic paedophile" & so began a series of unhinged, factless posts about Chagos, Iran & Free Speech...

Hmm. Smug mode... 😉 Loconundrum #99 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩 loconundrum.aaronc.cc

Things that shouldn't need to be said, yet somehow need to be said...

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Fuck. Just seen south of Bedford. Thoughts with all affected, makes no sense looking at it, it'll all become clear in time but let's not jump to conclusions. Hope no one is too badly hurt. Especially the Driver of the 360. 😥

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

Piddly, horrid place. 😋 Loconundrum #96 ⬜⬜🟨 🚂🚂 🟨🟨⬜ 🚶‍♂️🚂🚂 🟨⬜🟩 🚂🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩 loconundrum.aaronc.cc

Postman Pat is a shit postman. Barely a day goes by without him getting distracted on the job. You're paid to deliver letters Pat, not chase sheep.

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how to spot the signs: BRB: British Rail Bonanza LoL: Liberal or Left? TBH: Tony Blair? History! STFU: Save Trains / Fund Utilities SMDH: Society Means Denser Housing EOD: Excessively Obsessed with Dr Who TL;DR: True Liberalism; Democratic Reform

I'm absolutely begging anyone in this government, or supporting them, to sit and look at what's on offer to kids in this country. - world's on fire but we're giving tax breaks to data centres. - there's no kids clubs or outside spaces. - pay a record price for uni, whilst they're falling apart

This is true but I: -bought an external PC DVD-RW drive for £30 -purchase my CDs from Vinted/Music Magpie -use a phone which still has a MicroSD slot -cancelled all but two of my streaming sites -still use an iPod Classic - ownership not rental I might have access to less. But it's MINE.

The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.

Because he’s a soulless, dead-eyed, incontinent philistine.

BBC: "Apologies for the truth bomb"

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Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

I'm sorry what? As part of its 1987 rebrand British Rail's sectorised freight business Railfreight had its own branded After Eight mints and called them AFTER FREIGHT!?

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