China's single time zone demonstrates that people will adapt to whatever numbers are on the clock. I mildly prefer year round Standard Time just because it's closer to Solar Time, but that's because of my niche interests. Most people do not care about that. They very much do care about not […]

Beautiful #Sinclair #ZX #Microdrive #Spectrum

Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7 km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change. Streets for people are good for business.

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

Happened across some kind of cycling event yesterday, everybody seemed rather excited about it. Fortunately I had my decent camera with me, and mostly remembered how to use it. #tdf

Oh, fuck off, and keep fucking off, then fuck off a bit more. FFS. ---- Brewdog co-founder James Watt launches bid to buy back beer firm - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vyv2v2vmzo #beer #brewdog

Want to know how much it costs to run an #ev in different European countries? Check out The Zaptec Index https://www.zaptec.com/zaptec-index Full disclosure: I work for Zaptec, so interested in any feedback/suggestions...

#Merseyrail set to ban e-bikes. Disappointing and inconsistent. E-bikes will be banned due to fire risk, but FOLDING e-bikes will still be allowed. Origami must be a fire suppressant. 🙄 The most disappointing thing is "The ban will apply across all […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

"You're being lied to about British beer." https://camra.org.uk/beer-report "Four foreign-owned corporations make 80% of it. The 'imported' lager in your hand was probably brewed in Burton-on-Trent. That craft IPA on the bar is owned by Heineken. Here's how we lost our pint — and how to win it […]

You can tell I've got North-East England heritage of a certain age: whenever I see LCL, I think of lager from the Fed brewery, not the French banking group that sponsors the maillot jaune. #tdf #beer

It's only delayed gratification if there's gratification involved at some point. Otherwise, it's just sparkling deprivation.

Auton invasion starts in rural Northumbrian industrial estate. #joke #drwho

The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-story-behind-zen-and-the How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself

Hey! Wanna learn about ChatGPT but don't trust AI not to mess up the lesson? Got you covered. #chatgpt #aislop #thejokeswritethemselves #ordothey

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

In case you were not aware: Sharing routes from #strava with non strava users is not possible. They will not let you view the route, download #GPX, edit (a copy), nothing. The only flow allowed is to register to do even the most basic things. So please before […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Muse (11) Public Service Broadcasting (11) Fleetwood Mac (7) Air (5) Hawkwind (5). #myweekcounted 162 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

After a very long drive, finally arrived and gained access to our rented loft apartment in Chalon-sur-Saône, where the outside temperature is ~37°C and inside it's much hotter because the AC hasn't been on and there are a lot of glass windows. Several long schleps to the car and back with […]

I bought a Pixel 3/4 years ago because I wanted timely security updates, I don't want any of this shit. How does GrapheneOS play with banking apps these days? That's the one thing that's been holding me back for the last year but things are getting desperate.

Langley Castle, Northumberland. #Fensterfreitag

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

35 degree track temperature at the Southern 100 this afternoon!

#binface #ukpolitics Count Binface has some great merch and donates 50% of proceeds to the homeless charity Shelter. Bin for the win ! https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk/

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

Gare du Nord's WiFi casually discriminating against the super-centenarians.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Pints on a school night. Who even are we? (Drinking Two by Two’s tasty new fundraiser collab. with Ouseburn Farm, at Mosaic Tap)

OpenStreetMap is a great resource (and not just because Google Maps is so expensive). I really like the idea of helping with the project. https://streetcomplete.app #openstreetmap #osm

UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means […]

Somewhat disappointed the NATO Summit taking place this week, including all member heads, isn’t at the NATO headquarters. In Belgium.

A comparative travel quote I found this morning: "Seriously, in America, if you travel for ten hours in a car, you might still be in the same state. If you travel by car for ten hours in Europe, everyone's talking funny and the cheese is different." --KaimeiJay

RE: https://mastodon.beer/@paul_edwin/116868589356237186 Where's the treats, dad? WHERE ARE THE TREATS?

It must be Sunday. A last grasp of peace and quiet before the working week starts again. (As peaceful as it gets with @ivan_t_dog complaining about the lack of treats, anyway.) #dogsofmastodon

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Clutch (13) Pumarosa (10) Teeth of the Sea (8) Gong (5) The Company Band (3). #myweekcounted 66 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Um..... so I did a thing 🫣 📽️: youtube.com/shorts/krnxj... Indie 📕: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-... Amazon 🔗: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Design-U... 🔭👩‍🔬🎢

Fuck you, EHCR Love, Isle of Man

Decided I should make an effort to get outside rather than just sitting on the trainer for an hour, and it's been too long since the big bike has been out. Some of these paths aren't getting much traffic at the moment. Impossible to pedal, even if I could see […] [Original post on mastodon.beer]

A tennis commentator seriously just said 'doesn't her face look better with a smile on it' #Wimbledon #EverydaySexism #fuckthatnoise

this thread 😆 https://mastodon.art/@internetsdairy/116856457646199387 @internetsdairy

that rare thing, a long grauniad interview with someone plugging something, ending with "$SHOW is on <free-to-air terrestrial television> from $DATE" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/03/sue-johnston-interview-fame-loneliness-ann-droid-diane-morgan-comedy #anndroid

I wonder what will happen to the pubs now. Will they keep their distinctive character and idiosyncratic rules, or change in an attempt to attract more customers? ---- Samuel Smith’s Brewery owner Humphrey Smith dies aged 81 […]

Just another day in autodestruct mode.

🆕🛠️🇮🇪 New location feature: Paddy's Bicycle Repair Workshop, Ireland Paddy’s Bicycle Repairs is an abandoned old-fashioned workshop, standing derelict at the roadside in rural Ireland. The ramshackle tin shack has been in a state of abandonment for thirty years […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Checking to see if my toot thing is working… #brewtoot Westgate Brewery - Trinity Blonde Platform Bar #hexham #northumberland