Facebook in ~2008 "our products will always be free to use!" Facebook/Meta in 2026 "fancy paying for our products, or do you want to continue using the ads-based service, which we will continue to degrade?"

Although I can't respond to the thread, I can point this person to the document where Reform say they will create concentration camps and a whole load of other fascist things. It's here: www.reformparty.uk/view-pdf/ref...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

You know it's wet when delivery drivers are out wearing wellies!

Excellent evening at Strings, Newport #isleofwight as part of #IndependentVenueWeek Here's @stevelamacq.bsky.social introducing Coach Party, who were fabulous

Farage has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on Trump’s ICE. Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we are seeing in the USA. #NeverVoteReform

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Remember, in his first term Trump asked military leaders of protesters: “can’t you just shoot them.” Back then his officials refused. So he found ones who wouldn’t. This is what he’s always wanted. It’s not an accident. It was his vision. www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...

bsky.app/profile/chum... Here is a great question…

They are just armed thugs. The likes of which any urfascist regime has.

After our original Roomba died we've been through a Roborock (dead wheel motors) and a pair of Tapo units (brush sensor failures) here we are back with another Roomba. Let's see how this goes.

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

More AI based terror. Who the hell goes to AI for their news, because it's feeding them absolute garbage: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

took me a while to realise what 'mork parkets' were.

Share a pic of one of your own birds, you took. This is Elvis, alpha Drake in our muscovy flock

QOTD What countries have you driven in? England / Scotland / Wales (obvs) Isle of Man Ireland France Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands Germany Italy + Sicily Switzerland Spain Canada Iceland Australia

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

Something terrifying I heard from someone talking about AI this morning "I use it to generate all my COSHH and health and safety assessments, as well as my contracts" Me "have you had your contracts checked by a solicitor?" No

Are the Tories going to break Reform, by joining them? Great if they do - keep defecting, f*ckers!

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

"The move comes hours after the Reform leader insisted his party was "not a rescue charity for every panicky Tory MP" and would not become the Conservative Party 2.0." No, Reform really is a rescue charity for every panicky Tory MP.

Someone posted this and now it's stink in my head, so now it can be stuck in your head, too If you're old enough.

First test on this mulching blade on the strimmer. Apparently the 2t one is better on grass, but this is for brambles in woodland. An initial test says it's very effective, so I've sharpened it up and checked it's balanced. Away we go...

A Reform-ready skip of cunts. Just like a ship of fools, only composed entirely of Tories and ethically on fire.

#GVerse HOLY HELL. 🔥 JB Pritzker just went nuclear on #Shit4Brains That’s not “rhetoric.” That’s a governor calling fascism by its real name.

2008 Top Gear It's hard times for the car manufacturing industry. Not yet... "one day we may be driving cars made in China" Then they interviewed Boris Johnson. During this they showed how many times he had mishaps on the track. What a shame for the country there wasn't a really bad mishap.

Wanna really see something? Be in a local (parish/town/community) council when things go wrong. All it takes is a clerk with bad intentions, or a local cabal and you'll find out a number of things: The police know nothing about the laws of the land, or the punishments available for breaking them

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

Absolute mystery.

7 mile ride, broken into 2 miles, ferry ride and 5 miles through New Forest this morning. Invigorating.

Day out in London, including a chunk of walking around Kensington. Not been for a few years. The streets are noticeably quieter and less smoky. We saw very few diesel cabs. Virtually everything being used as a taxi is now electric. I guess that's a thing that just works.

Horseshoe theory in action? Or just political opportunism? Reprehensible whatever the trigger.

When in London - Dishoom breakfast!

Needed to replace the kickdown cable on the auto box. Remove exhaust, shift cable, transmission mount, pan, filter, then the complete valve block assembly. That ate most of the day and repeatedly covered me in ATF. Hideous job. #weirdcarbs

I know the far right keeps basically demanding 'civil war' in the UK, but this looks a lot closer to that, in the USA...

Outstanding Isle of Wight driving 10 billion items delivered safely and securely..... just not the items on that lorry, just yet...

The sooner the orange idiot is not in the White House, the better. Less a rogue state and more a rouge state

After some relatively predictable IT wobbles, I'm now a Motorsport UK Accredited Marshal. This is the first step towards accreditation as a Rally Stage Commander - something I did in October 2024 and will be doing again 15th February. I should probably get out and do a bit of actual motorsport...

Actually did the sums to figure out if it was worth stepping to 25 litres of chain oil, whilst I was in Mole Country Stores and the answer was yes - £5.60 per litre for 5 litres vs £3.60 per litre for this bad boy

Confession. I've been looking at Fisker Oceans. They're still too expensive. After an initial discussion the eldest sent me this, which is interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWq... and there's (apparently) a specialist just the other side of the Solent, so there's a thing.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I am all-in with The Silliness, whenever it is reasonably possible.

Just logged in to LinkedIn, because of interesting project reasons. My feed is awash with sales people doing sales people things. Yup, sales back-rubs all round.... and - an indicator of my apparently advancing years - sales people congratulating other sales people on their retirements

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

Activities earlier in the day - out in the woods with my slabbing partner, slicing up some oak cords with the Alaskan sawmill

Chilly finish tonight. Second build of framed Hazel hurdles, but this time with split rods, which apparently should keep better than the full round.

I discovered a term today: 'Scientism' "The belief that scientific methods can be applied to all problems" Scientific methods can be applied to most practical problems and it feels rather like this term might be one favoured by science-deniers, who want to give their 'theories' more 'weight'....

Presumably someone had used this to go out for a walk this afternoon and that is a totally legitimate thing. Innit lovely? #weirdcarbs

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