CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 13hWe should bring back That's Life with the original team... er, oh 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 13hWe can but hope. Nothing happens quickly with rail, but bringing both up to the standard of, say, London City Airport would be a measurable improvement 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 14hEurostar these day looks tired and worn-out. It used to be a premium experience (the prices certainly still are) but the St Pancras waiting area is like a third-world regional airport and the one at Gare du Nord is just as bad. It's about time they got a freshen-up and some competition 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17hNonsense. The new roof is spectacular (even if that annoying Harry Potter nonsense means it's always a bit crowded in there) 120
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Except when you're trying to raise money to do it, when a good idea done badly will somehow act as proof that the idea won't work at all. 020
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"To get there we needed a UEF metamaterial formulation more aggressive than anything we had developed before. We needed it to maximally affect the MHz-GHz contamination..." Yes, of course you did 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Of course they don't. But when idiot audiophiles are paying £8k for a mains fuse, there's obviously a lucrative market in well-off but dimwitted hi-fi enthusiasts www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-scie...futureshop.co.ukQuantum Science Audio (QSA) Gold Extreme Level UK Mains Fuse (13A)Future Shop is thrilled to unveil Quantum Science Audio (QSA), renowned for its expertise in the audiophile fuse domain. With over 22 years of delving into 'Bottle Neck Distortion', QSA fuses offer re... 120
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not entirely ... nippon-classic.de/classic-bike...nippon-classic.deEndurance Goldwing – Honda GL 1000 für LangstreckenrennenDas ist die Geschichte von einem genialen Tüftler, der Mitte der 70er Jahre die brandneue Honda Goldwing in etwas verwandelte, was bis dato unvorstellbar schien. Aber dazu etwas später mehr… Honda sti... 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh yes. I'd only seen Pignoses with lipstick pickups or some sort of random P90 thing. I'd guess at least one of those switches swaps between necks then. The other one makes you grow a polka-dot Angine de Poitrine nose. Probably 140
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not sure the Hot Rails pickups were original, so in that case one or both of the switches may be a retro-fitted coil split. Fabulous thing, though, if you like entirely impractical and uncontrollable guitars 240
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Relatively recent popular blockbusters are a rich seam: Nevil Shute, Alistair Maclean, maybe Jack Higgins..? 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And let's not forget, for the French existentialist crowd, Albert Camus/Facel Vega FV2 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well, there was also Princess Grace/Rover P6, Jackson Pollock/Oldsmobile 88 convertible, and arguably more important, Ted Kennedy/Oldsmobile Delmont 88, aka The Chappaquidick Incident. Does that make the Olds 88 the most significant crashed automobile ever? 350
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, apart from this just the other day: www.the-londoner.co.uk/clerkenwell-...the-londoner.co.ukLondon’s coolest neighbourhood is… Clerkenwell?How a quiet quarter full of offices become the favoured hangout for in-the-know Londoners — and Charli XCX 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Valiant effort to rename all the Spanish rounds there so it doesn't look like there are far too many of them 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Though some absolute monster with a hedgetrimmer has 'tidied' the garden to death 011
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They have an air gap system. Unfortunately it's between the CEO's ears 070
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is a hidden cul-de-sac in MK where all the '70s TV advert people are trapped. The Bisto mum. A forever pre-pubescent Birds Eye Patsy Kensit. Some Smash robots. The PG Tips chimps. A furious, perpetually Cinzano-soaked Joan Collins 150
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Still miss the Ferodo branding, though not as elegant as the earlier version... 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026True. Not helped, of course, by 'this bus has been instructed to wait to regulate the service...' and 'this bus will wait for a change of drivers...', two of the most infuriating announcements ever. It's all a plot by Big Tube (subs please check) 0100
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Obligatory link: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.com'Let me do it, David': the Stephen Collins cartoonIndependence fey 1614
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh, and link 3: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comLifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right actionRNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's a post-season analysis piece to write on The Curse Of Marquez' Teammate, I reckon. Though you'd need a psychological warfare specialist, somebody who's bugged Gigi's phone and a very good lawyer 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Link 1: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Link 2: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDriving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George MonbiotIn towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 100
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seems to be a management and culture issue at play here. Will the government get a grip? I'm unconvinced 100
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This may well be because they're secretly (or not so secretly) in sympathy with those elements. Most people can remember the school bully who went on to become a copper 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The through line between @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's anti-car hooligan rant, @peterwalker99.bsky.social's e-bike homily and the idiots in black balaclavas attacking the RNLI is the police just refusing to do their bloody job 120
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've been using Adobe stuff since the early '90s and they have a long and inglorious history of absolutely shitty 'upgrades' that break everything and change all the bits you relied on for no reason at all. Bring back QuarkXpress! (no, please don't) 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"It is only since the arrival of Marc Márquez [as] his teammate that he has struggled". Has anyone ever been on the opposite side of the garage to Marquez and thrived? Can't think of anybody offhand 100
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Lovely piece @jonnelledge.bsky.social but what's wrong with a good itinerary? jonn.substack.com/p/a-very-sho...jonn.substack.comA very short history of cartographyA tissue of lies. 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'd recommend sticking your head into the Trip – one bar is an actual sandstone cave, complete with eerie vertical tunnel 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026J'adore vos photos de scènes historiques françaises, mais les documents concernant les États-Unis sont en grande partie faux. 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Quelle que soit la source de vos images des États-Unis, elles sont générées par IA. 000
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you mean the ones on the machine itself, as in this pic, I’d go for a badly kerned Lato bold or similar 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Can confirm. Bromley is currently in mid-tempest. Could do with a bit of a wash, mind 010
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Worked for me, mostly, but the flowering cherry (I presume) timed out before the pic loaded 110
CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026@psimonk.bsky.social I wondered if you were on here. Sorry to step on your turf with a rambling reply to that Londoner story, but I've not long moved from E2 to distant suburbia and it's been quite an eye-opener, cycling-wise... 010
