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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 08/10/2026

I nominated her for an honorary degree. Apparently the Professor of Computing they asked to referee that said "who?" when he was asked, whick nuked that from orbit.

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My cat, Michael, is absurdly pretty

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Following a van through the fog this morning and I was wondering why it had plus and minus signs on the back. Got a bit closer and realised yes, I was Today Years Old when I got the symbolism of the NICEIC logo.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My fantasy Dr Who crossover involves an Ironside Dalek turning up in either ‘Allo ‘Allo or Dad’s Army. “DO NOT PANIC! DO NOT PANIC!”

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unfortunately it introduced the Mighty Morphin’ Power Dalek design, which was not very good at all.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was going to say that but I should have known you'd get there first.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Week 1 of making the #GBBO technical challenge. We start off with a recipe from @nigella.bsky.social - Coffee and Walnut cake.

A later cake, with light brown coffee icing, eight icing swirls on top each topped with a walnut half, and the side covered with chopped walnut.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does he have stock in a leech farm?

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hawks have form for that. (RAF Cranwell some years back, other than the Hawk I believe the only casualty was SATCO’s car.)

A rather bent RAF Hawk in the car park next to an Air Traffic tower.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It turns out to be significant, but via mistranslation. Not six feet, but six *wheels* (the Skroderiders).

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(To the tune of ‘Colonel Bogey’) “Hitler Has only got one ball Goering Has two, but very small Himmler Has something similar While poor old Goebbels Has no balls At all”

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some rather unfortunate word-wrap there.

A printed sign saying
100 YEARS
OF FASH
ION
AT M&S

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's a very cool BBC drama in this vinyl fraud story, with the investigating officers buying himself a turntable and getting into modern country music and the guy from the British Phonographic Industry being a fan of The Cure. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud

Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At least they remembered to burn the piano and let you drive off in the vintage staff car rather than the other way around.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A statutory demand is meant to be used for pursuing debts that are undisputed such as court judgments or contract claims to which there is no apparent defence. The museum should be able to get it set aside in court simply on the grounds that they dispute that the items were loaned.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This isn’t helicopter parenting, it’s attack drone parenting.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a long term Apple fan, but precisely because of that I have a rule never to buy Apple’s version 1 of anything.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Script for the next season of Deadloch just leaked.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This has just come to my attention and OMG I WANT ONE.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When I got my Dwarf Mini earlier this year Orion was disappearing into the evening twilight but it's now high enough before dawn that this morning I could finally have a go at capturing M42, the Orion Nebula.

The Orion Nebula, a roughly round region of glowing pink gas, much brighter near the centre top where gas and dust are illuminated by a tight cluster of young bright stars.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want a commentary track for Alien:Earth done by Eyeleen, very sarcastically.

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Gwendoomlyn McNecromara @timeandagwen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I didn’t expect to be posting this SO often…

Fake KANGAROO PRESS Star Trek book:
WHEN KIRK SHOWS UP YET AGAIN, PIKE MUST CONFRONT HIM AND ASK ONE QUESTION.

WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS
On MY SHIP?
A NEW NOVEL BY CHRISTOPHER PIKE

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In risk management, risk is usually assessed as a combination of impact (how serious is it if this happens?) and probability (how likely is this to happen?) "10% in the next decade" and "end of humanity" puts you squarely in the bit of the AI risk matrix labelled "Butlerian Jihad Right Now".

bbc.co.uk

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

...and if you liked that, you'll probably love this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcri...

youtube.com

Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin

YouTube video by FinkinKinky

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Obviously there's Tom Lehrer's Elements Song but as a parody of that there's the Drugs Song by The Amateur Transplants (Adam Kay and Suman Biswas) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDM...

youtube.com

The Drugs Song | Amateur Transplants *UPDATE*

YouTube video by DJ Frozen

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's possible they are just winding up Putin for shits and giggles but to be honest I can't really fault them for that.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"If there's a place for Comic Sans it's surely not in legal documents" HELLO CAFCASS WE ARE LOOKING STERNLY AT YOU

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am always up for some Gilbert & Sullivan homage, but this is especially good!

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO STIR-FRY www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/c/coll...

lecreuset.co.uk

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, he doesn't need to worry about being pushed out of the window, does he?

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is this in the spirit of the Destroy Keble Society, for which I was told the membership fee was a brick from Keble College?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 08/09/2026

It’s not every day you get to pinpoint the collapse of a liberal democracy and its institutions to the precise minute but 07:33 this morning both UK Labour and the BBC failed.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That said I was once very grateful to Luton CC security who literally dragged a litigant kicking and screaming out of court in a rather unpleasant family dispute I was acting in. For someone who'd insisted on doing everything through an interpreter she had an excellent command of English swearwords.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The toilets were on the wrong side of security in the old one as well. Wouldn't have been so bad except security thought they were guarding Fort Knox and all but strip-searched everyone on the way in.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yes, otherwise they are often deemed to have made themselves voluntarily homeless.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A sad but not unexpected day; my mother passed away this morning at 94 after a long illness. Our thanks to the NHS for the care over her last few weeks in hospital and the last few days in particular when it was clear that the end was near.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tell him to ask for a long stand while he’s there.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW The legal agony of Wile E Coyote Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

prospectmagazine.co.uk

The legal agony of Wile E Coyote

Coyote vs Acme may be one of the best films about civil litigation ever made

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That may be the most damning criticism of a judgment I’ve ever read.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Faaaaarking hell - it's basically the Kuznetsov of rust.

USS Abrahan Lincoln finally entering port. Streaked unevenly with a weird orange colour, visibly decaying and in a position that embarrasses not just the crew of the carrier but the whole USA, the Commander in Chief etc etc etc

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We drive over this bridge several times a month and so get a regular reminder of the time the local police ended up re-enacting the ending of The Italian Job. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Worcester Bridge stonework from police crash to stay in river

Highways officials believe the missing stones are damaged, and recovery would be expensive.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Any aspiring mad scientists want to set up their own genetics lab for a knockdown price? Buyer must collect. www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio...

bidspotter.co.uk

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That’s interesting to know. In England & Wales (my jurisdiction) a company can be represented by an employed in-house lawyer or even a company officer, although the latter is rare outside small claims. In major cases they usually instruct external counsel though.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

[2/2] As it happens in English civil procedure the Defendant usually has the first *closing* speech, but that is because the party with the burden of proof gets the last word. Also, as we hardly ever have juries in civil trials here, we rarely bother with oral openings in such cases.)

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A question from Coyote vs. Acme: in US civil cases is it normal for the Defendant to open a case, or was this pure dramatic licence to give John Cena the first word as Acme's General Counsel? [1/2]

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