I liked this headline: https://mastodon.london/@ukrailways/116606275538027902

Happy World Bidet to all who observe it. #worldbeeday 🐝

Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water — and then those bacteria photosynthesize, leaving […]

Free good fings heute: 1. Roach Minimus had their last 🇪🇸 AS-level exam today. Solving the problem of "4 A levels" by putting one down and ensuring they get a qualification for the year's work they put in. They could leave 6th form with more qualifications than either sibling, which sort of […]

Just messing with your productivity by writing "Sorry, need to drop" in a Teams chat from a meeting that finished 9 days ago.

Lunchtime Quiz: 1. What is the German word for the distance between two people, beyond which it is no longer discourteous to not hold a door open for the second person? 2. What is that distance? 3. What is the German word for the distance between two people, beyond which one person is no […]

Happy Jon's broken pelvis day everybody! Celebrating eight consecutive years of an inattentive berk in a one-tonne metal overcoat not breaking my pelvis. #cycling #bikecommute

Has anyone successfully put a 12 speed Shimano 105 cassette on a 12sp compatible hub? The first 10 sprockets go on easily but the 11th is stupidly tight. I can't imagine it's supposed to be a press fit. This is after an afternoon of sitting through dull […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Did some hopeful planting today, then it rained. 🍅, 🥒, 🌽, 🌈🍿, sugar 🫰 🫛 #ukgardening

The perfect bike ride doesn't exi.... #cycling #biketoot #velophant

Stop what you are doing right now and go grease your seatpost! #bikenite

Enjoy the Brick Shithaus stage today everyone #giroditalia

Free good fings oggi 1. Saw a Spitfire turning onto finals for Hurn, above the new Lidl at Parley Cross. (this was on Monday) 2. Not a good thing: freehub failed 50km into a planned 300km bike ride Highcliffe to Llanelli. Good things: a. it wasn't raining (yet) b. I was a few km walk from […]

[Possobly Giro spoilers in replies] Napoli 🙄 every bloody time #giroditalia

Gotta love the little personal touches, really makes me feel valued as a customer ❤️ (I've just noticed that How is capitalised, after the comma on the previous line, and now I'm more triggered by that.) #virginmedia #undefined #pedant

[mention of uk politician but mostly annoyed by stupid headline, no cat pictures] _utterly_ idiotic headline (a)

watching the Breakaway, and they've got Matt Stephens sitting on a stool, and he's still about the same height as Chennouai, McEwan and Blyth who are all standing 😃 #giroditalia #heightshaming

I have added mango chutney to a big bowl of rice pudding. #iconoclast

Tomorrow is rapidly turning into "train hard, fight easy".

ARE YOU crew on a generation ship? Did your ancestors maroon you between the stars in a life of involuntary servitude, deprivation and a vatslime diet? You may be entitled to compensation. Gliese 1171c Legal Services inc has a centuries long record of successful class action litigation on behalf […]

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Look, car insurer. If you keep asking me for feedback on my car insurance policy, which all I have done with is buy it, the feedback will be that you keep hassling me for feedback about it.

Exactly one year ago, I was waiting for an ambulance because my left leg kept buckling when I tried to get up to get to the bathroom. My left hand was floppy, and the left side of my face felt weird, like Novocain was wearing off. It started before midnight. I kept muttering “this is ridiculous […]

Free good fings heute: 1. I saw a swallow for the first.time this year. 2. Although the mornings aren't very warm, I tolerate them better than the same conditions in winter. 🤷‍♂️ 3. My bicycle-related consumer needs have been temporarily sated. 4. I'll say no more about (3) because "look at […]

that's a very tall horse #subtoot

the end of episode 2 of the Salisbury Poisonings documentary on C4 and the announcer says "if you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this programme..." and I wondered what possible help they could offer if I'd been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. Bloody good documentary […]

Free good fings du jour 1. Mum & Dad's 57th wedding anniversary. I remembered and took them a card. They'd both forgotten until 2100hrs yesterday. 😆 2. fixed a troublesome lock. 3. made roast potatoes. #3goodthings

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

How great to see Abdoujaparov on the Giro coverage and hear the good news about his racing pigeons. 🇺🇿🚴🕊️ #cycling #giroditalia #abdoujaparov

This arrived. No motor on my bike, but I'll give it a go anyway. Should make coffeeneuring a bit less random, should I ever attempt it. www.makeyourmark.co.uk #motorcycle #cycling #coffeeneuring

You've been visited by the giant alleyway gull

Kate Rusby, Salisbury City Hall. Reliably brilliant. #katerusby

I had a good go at trying to crimp my own RJ45 connector earlier but am admitting defeat in aligning the bastard wires with the sodding pins, and contacting the computer repair shop in the village to outsource my gritted teeth. #Ethernet ps this is not a cry for help

Roach Minimus' school is advertising for a PE teacher after they allegedly sacked the last one for "pinning a Y11 up against the wall" and my first thought was "that must have taken a lot of pins". #teaching #education

It never ceases to astound me how much product you can salvage by cutting open a squeezy tube that's stopped dispensing.

Free good fings oggi 1. "Something went wrong" with my bike rental and I paid £0. 2. New towbar! 3. Another gorgeous spring day.

I like the 🦏 implication that you have to be thick-skinned: https://punkstodon.de/@UnterDruck/116539270213946793

now playing the game of "will the garage actually phone me when the job's complete, like they said they would, or am I leaving the car with them overnight to teach them a lesson?" I'm not chasing.

I’m looking forward to the end of this fad for putting unnecessary protein in everything. I don’t need it, so it will just pass through.

I wonder whether an actual useful use of computer generated pictures would be to auto-replace the faces of real children in pictures on school websites with avatars. (This from a.parent who declined permission for the school to photograph their children, fifteen years ago.) […]

Buon 🚴🩷🇮🇹 a tutti #giroditalia

Wishing you all a happy Flora Day.

it's taken FIFA levels of greed and arrogance to get me and the current 🇺🇸 president to the point where we share the same point of view. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/07/donald-trump-world-cup-ticket-prices

never be vague about manufacturing when talking to someone that's worked in manufacturing, a sketch: ME: hello where's my order please? THEM: sorry, shipping delays, backlog, but we have all the component parts now. We hope you agree we won't rush this because quality is really important […]

hypothetically, were I employed, if my employer circulated an opportunity to obtain a free corporate branded t-shirt and in their email said "image of t-shirt below" I might expect the image to include the corporate branding but no when they include a picture of a plain t-shirt and a […]

people I can phone and fix problems with my order: yay people who I can only email and sometimes won't even answer an email: boo #firstworldproblems

Free good fings oggi... 1. I think I got away with accidentally briefly sharing my screen in an online meeting of 900 people that meant that the presenter then was distracted for 5 minutes because them sharing their presentation wasn't visible to all the people. 2. Disabled railcard arrived. I […]

Kirsty Allsop on the telly has just described a house as having a "spacious family bathroom" and now I am wondering whether I have a spacious family Hardcore! You know the score!

Startlingly, <beloved family member> picked up "The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death"* from the second hand shop, and gave it to Roach Minimus. I am so tempted to add a leaf at the end that says "and there you have it, no amount of fanatical determined ideology is a match for […]

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline? Then do I have the project for you […] [Original post on fediscience.org]