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Interesting combination of adjacent shop signs in #March in rural #Cambridgeshire. This one is quite well known, so apologies if you’ve seen it before. #ThePetShopBoys

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Ah, I see Sunak has finally declared his financial interests now that he got caught.

Remember folks, just because Sunak knows how to use a comb and turns up to Parliament sober, it doesn't mean he's any less of a crook than Johnson.

#RishiSunak #Kleptocracy #Corruption

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-653

Who am I kidding? I'm keeping that old shirt until it's nothing but a thread.

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I guess I *could* get a new T-shirt, to replace the one I got in *checks wardrobe* 1992.

Better late than never, I suppose, but it would have been nice if the government had been alert to the threat of Russian cyber operations causing massive damage to the UK when it really mattered back in 2016.

#HybridWar #Brexit

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65319771

Is there a (in the vein of ) for twenty-something morons who drive for literally miles glued to their fucking phone and faffing with their fucking hair instead of paying attention to the fucking road? Asking for a me.

Note to self: get a rear cam fitted.

TIL there is a non-zero “legal limit” for cocaine while driving. 😳

Perl: There's more than one way to do it
Python: There are 37,234,108 ways to do it, and all of them are inefficient as fuck, except that one way which you can only find out about if you sacrifice your self-respect and five pints of your own blood on the altar of StackOverflow, if you're not first flamed to hell for asking an inappropriate question.

I am convinced that any academic post with “in residence” in the title is contractually obliged to reply-all to each and every mundane department-wide email to the effect of “I’m sorry I’m too important/busy to attend $EVENT”.

Christ, it sounds like you take your life in your hands if you *checks news* ring the wrong doorbell in the USA.

I’m 49 minutes into “one of those days” and I’m hating it already. 😠

This year I will definitely be treating myself to some , whether I “need” it or not.

@davep Got a bit fed-up with an ongoing project, starting picking at an itch, so now I have yet another stupid project I want to finish... 😩 @textualize

I’m not sure that BBC pay-walking BBC content behind Brit Box is really acceptable.

I’m paying for a tv license that finds their output, so surely it should all be available up front to paying license holders?

It light be legal, I assume, but it’s certainly not ethical.

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