I still love listening to this album after more than 35 years, but every time "Chocolate Girl" comes on I hear my friend David's big sister Alison pouring on the big-sister scorn about the chorus lyrics. Shortly afterwards we left to travel to the Julian Cope […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Please deal with us online because the surgery is busy. Eh? Oh.

What's the creepiest emoji? I think it's absolutely 🤗 because there's no way that means "hug" instead of "I wanna cop a feel of those amazing tits/pecs" Like 🤗 is definitely more creepy than 😏

take up a hobby and get email notifications including "Turnout Frog Control Made Simple!" #ModelRailway

I thought I had allowed enough physical space for growth in my power bus wiring, but now I come to install an extra 4 roads in the fiddle yard, plus the associated 8 points and their motors, I am starting to wonder. It'll be a very big deal if I have to replace the power bus, involving either […]

Looks like Toutatis has scheduled a day of drainage rather than a day of accumulation. I will enjoy the sunlight.

Another set of neighbours installs a bloody wood burning stove, grr.

anyone else got Arsenal Chelsea in the Rumbelows Cup on the telly in the background, and there's one Arsenal fan with a really piercing voice?

Since people seem to like the penguins, I have to post this photo, which somebody else on my ship took. I think it belongs in National Geographic. We saw two orcas chasing a poor penguin which darted underneath our ship multiple times to try to escape. Zoom […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and I need everyone to look at my penguin photos.

Free good fings heute 1. Someone offered Roach Major a year's trainee work in wildlife conservation, next year, mid-degree. House, use of Land Rover, small stipend. 2. Roach Major asked their mother "should I take this or wait for this other opportunity which has an actual salary but I might […]

I’m just gonna come right out and say it: Tom Netherlands

guys, in a business scenario you can use "day to day" in place of "tactical" and normal people will applaud you. #anotherdraftlinkedinpost

Brainwave: until I get around to DCC/jmri control of all the layout, why not wire the corresponding pairs of points in a "through" fiddle yard ladder to the same switch, so that the switch becomes a route selector rather than crashing a train every time I forget to set the points at the other […]

I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me

[David Icke] Yeah not the best of content warnings, but the more I hear about corruption among the most powerful people the more I think he might have been onto something. Or at least that I regret laughing so much. So much noise so little signal.

[US politics] Can I just stop slavering over the juicy details of intelligence summaries that hook my attention, for long enough to ponder how much of this is carefully targeted disinformation?

I've grown to dislike the expression "touch base", which apparently derives from baseball, so henceforth I will use the equivalent expression from cricket. So, for example, instead of "I just wanted to touch base" I'll say "I just wanted to ground my bat or part of my body behind the popping […]

Hypothetically, were I employed, I might have reviewed a technical specification including a requirement for "Retract Bottoming Endurance" and my sole comment was "Really?" I need to talk to the author and look them straight in the face.

DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top. It's time to start calling it the #microsofttax HT@[email protected] […]

Terrific, an opportunity to learn something! #ModelRailway

possibly the best sports fan tune ever - "Magic Johnson" - Red Hot Chili Peppers #tonightscookingtunes

Free good fings oggi 1. I returned the wellington boots, 2. Slightly warm sunshine on today's dog walk, 3. Phone call from Roach Major. #3goodthings

*steps out of time machine into a 1976 board meeting of the Sainsbury's supermarket* "Gentlemen. In fifty years' time, you will be marketing mozzarella cheese as "Everyday Essentials"."

I like this for its sheer "you're not using my pub properly" moan https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/31/publicans-bemused-single-file-queue-trend-pubs

Am I too late with my "is it still January?" moaning?

Pre-registration link for the IOW Randonnée https://www.mountbatten.org.uk/forms/randonnee2026 #cycling #isleofwight #IOW

Toot Toot Let it all oot These are the things I can do wi'oot Come on I'm tooting to you Come on

Free good fings du jour 1. I fitted some mudguards that I failed at a few months ago. Glad they're not wasted, and the Newly Designated Audax Bike has its Official Mudguards. 2. Booked a place in Ferring for <event> 3. A nice beach walk and sunshine. #3goodthings

We were in Stafford today and visited the town museum, which among things had a recreation of a Victorian shop, complete with recreated Victorian shopkeeper. Who seems to have fallen into a Two Ronnies sketch.

Harry looks down on your Waitrose box. #caturday

[US politics] Ann Telnaes has been a bit variable recently but not today. Like a scalpel. https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/they-are-all-responsible?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1c46621-b3b3-4795-bbec-2b5281f0ed44_1923x1597.jpeg&open=false

Is it too late to still be saying Happy New Year?

"Strong language, violent scenes" 😬

Free good fings heute 1. had my first every panoramic x-ray of my jaw, and it's really funny how it distorts your face in the picture 2. rain dodge bike ride this morning - after "yellow weather warning" overnight it all cleared by 0600. The entire county is underwater, but it was a nice ride […]

Amused by this assessment questionnaire for a medical appliance produced by its manufacturer. Every outcome of the "care pathway" results in "buy our product".

whoops

Hypothetically, were I employed, could I book my time getting a bike fit to "medical time off - physio?" 😃 (this is not a #bikenitepq 😃) #cycling #biketoot #velophant

I didn't get a bollocking for using the contact data they left sloshing around in my online medical record to chase up a hospital department for an appointment, and I'm weirdly disappointed.

gah, train cancelled, signalling disrupted. Need to drive to Soton instead. Still at least they warned me hours in advance and refunded the ticket.

Free good fings oggi 1. did a difficult work thing and well. 2. Roach Minor has a better life work balance this term. 3. roast veg and gnocciccichi for dinner #3goodthings

just me playing Crossy Road really badly and wondering what the mean and std. dev of my scores are.

[US & Ecuador politics] ignoramuses gonna ignoramus https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-J-cyl7EbR5qHkjwGlVSMlQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

Dear Android clock app, I hope this toot finds you well. I sort of appreciate the confirmation of "alarm scheduled..." but the finality of "<time> from now" gets me down.

Or an Illuminated Orchestra tribute to Electric Light Orchestra? 😎

*sees advert for Illuminated Orchestra tribute to Tim Burton* Okay, but what about an Illuminated Orchestra Tribute to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 🤯

he said "will you back me up on this?" so I made a complete copy of him and stored it in a safe place.

Children, children! 😆 https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/115965481755053008

The postman has delivered point motors, switches and wire, so of course, simultaneously, work has cleared my IT fault.

I just cracked the seal on the last jar of Tawny Orange, so it's time to stalk the aisles of Waitrose in patrician fashion.