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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 15/09/2026

Whenever there's a prominent celebrity death, you can probably bet there'll be a company seeking to make the most unhinged memorial souvenir... 🙄 Who the heck in their right minds would want to buy a Dolly Parton rubber duck?!

Facebook ad: "Honor the unforgettable spirit of a country music legend with this beautifully detailed memorial collectible duck. Featuring glamorous blonde hair, a rhinestone-covered stage outfit and her signature acoustic guitar, every detail celebrates a life filled with music, joy and inspiration." The pictured duck (with hands(!)) also has "Dolly Parton 1946 - 2026 Forever in our hearts" embossed on the front of the "rhinestone-covered stage outfit". If you can't see the image, be grateful!

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 12/08/2026

It's been a bright, sunny day - perfect to (safely!) observe a 91% partial eclipse. What could possibly go wrong?!

A whopping great big cloud that started to cover the sun about 20 minutes before maximum moon coverage, of course!

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 24/06/2026

The wonders of office kitchens... 😁

Photo of a microwave, to which someone has taped a notice reading:

I had to clean the Microwave today it was DIRTY and smelt of Fish!

If you use the Micrawave Please leave it clean everyone has the right to use it.

If you cook spicy or other food in it turn the microwave off and leave the door slightly ajar.

One of the Council values is Respectful please consider other users and treat equipment with respect!

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 02/06/2026

Well played, whoever runs the "Denmark" account on FB (albeit given the content, almost certainly not official):

Imagine if everyone in the entire world had Donald Trump's EXTREME INTELLIGENCE.

Now, let's try to take it a step further and imagine that everyone else wasn't just stable geniuses like him. They were him!

No matter where you went, you were greeted by Donald Trump.

At the dentist:

"Nobody drills better than me. Believe me. The other dentists, the losers, they say you only have one cavity. Fake news!"

Or with the driving instructor:

"Speed limits were created by weak people. We don't stop for red. Red is for losers. Step on the gas!"

Or in couples therapy:

"Your marriage is a disaster. A total failure! You made a terrible deal. The worst deal ever. You need to negotiate a much stronger prenup. I know about marriages, okay? Nobody has had more fantastic marriages than me."

At the brain surgeon:

"I opened the skull, and let me tell you, it was poorly run in there. Very bad leadership in that brain!. So I removed a lot of brain cells. Very weak cells! The biggest and best surgical procedure in the history of our nation."

Or at the bank, with the defense attorney, the prosecutor, the judge, in kindergarten, at the gynecologist! He is everywhere!

The only place on planet Earth that is totally and utterly Trump-free, is in Greenland and Denmark!!! 🇬🇱 🇩🇰

Where would you travel to??

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 09/05/2026

Birmingham: taking No Overall Control to the extreme... With 101 seats in total, no two parties combined have enough seats to get over the 51 vote threshold to pass motions, so ensuring not just cross-party but cross-ideology support is needed. Oh, and we still have Commissioners until Oct 2028.

Reform: 22
Green: 19
Labour: 17
Conservative: 16
Liberal Democrats: 12
Independent: 13

(Plus two seats left to declare on Monday)

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 25/04/2026

NHS vampires fed! 😁

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/03/2026

Spotted on 🐘 - this is a genuine position being advertised... ...what could possibly go right?! www.stepstone.de/stellenangeb...

Mercedes job advert: Praktikant/Werkstudent Vibe Coding for AI Security (d/m/w/x)

Translation: Intern/Working Student Vibe Coding for AI Security (d/m/w/x)

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 23/02/2026

Spotted on FB the other day...

Screenshot of a post on X by Wagie Capital (as reshared in the FB Group "IT Humor and Memes") :

"Al will RePIACE eVeRy White collAr JoB"

(Screenshot of a post from Reddit by u/Comfortable_Box_452710h in r/analytics)

(Title) We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up.

(Post flair) Support

(Post content) So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.

I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time.

Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages.

I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 21/01/2026

Pots and kettles, or trying to pull up the drawbridge behind her?

Facebook post from BBC Lincolnshire: Dame Andrea Jenkyns says Reform UK should stop taking Conservative defectors to avoid an "establishment takeover".

The post contains a photograph of the former Conservative minister, accompanied by a quote: "We don't want the chancers, we don't want those who are trying to save their own skin."

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 21/12/2025

Interesting analysis of the volume of redations in the Epstein release, spotted on a Reddit Out of the Loop thread:

r/OutOfTheLoop, question asked by u/Backyxx.

What's going on with the Epstein files being "released” if they're still heavily redacted?

Idk yall, I want your opinions.

LOOKITSADAM: Answer:

There are 8408 pages in the release.

740 pages are at least 50% black by area.

563 pages are at least 99% black by area.

Most of the rest are either boring, or hand-picked to target the administration's enemies.

crisblunt: Hi where did these numbers come from? I'd like to cite it in another conversation. I just wanted to make sure it's accurate.

Obviously you could have done the math but I doubt that.

LOOKITSADAM: I downloaded the files and wrote a script to extract the images out of all the PDFs. Each page was its own image. I then ran an script which spat out the #000000 percentage #FFFFFF percentage, dominant colors, size, etc...

https://pastes.io/untitled-paste-80029

Rihannas_nipples: Can you explain what those results mean and how it proves the point? I'm not familiar with code at all

LOOKITSADAM: Each image is a grid of pixels. Full black pixels in any given image is rare, especially when it's a photograph or scan of text. Most 'black' in photos has some noise, and isn't perfectly 'black'. Even in a page of text where the text is perfectly black, the image would only be about 20% fully black pixels.

Images that have >50% have significant areas full of fully black pixels that are really only possible from intentionally blacking out large parts of an image in post.

These are pages where >50% or >99% of the page was intentionally censored.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/12/2025

Who's the better driver? Blåhaj alone, Blåval alone, Blåhaj with Blåval navigating or Blåval with Blåhaj navigating?

A Blåhaj "driving" a full size Christmas decoration in the shape of an Austin Mini at Longbridge, Birmingham, UK.

A Blåvingad whale (or Blåval, to coin the relevant Swedish term) "driving" a full size Christmas decoration in the shape of an Austin Mini at Longbridge, Birmingham, UK.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/11/2025

Poppy Rage is now over, so it must be time for "Taking the Christ out of Christmas" rage... 🙄 (And no, I'm not going to share a link to the Retch-ed article itself!)

Screenshot of a Birmingham Live Facebook share of an article headlined "Tesco shoppers slam 'woke' renaming of Christmas trees. At the time of writing, it had received 157 Like Reacts, 71 Angry Reacts, 50 Laugh Reacts and 2 Sad Reacts.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 04/11/2025

Doing the rounds (again!), for obvious date-related reasons...

Doctored old photograph of Parliament Square, London, facing the Houses of Parliament; with a sign in front of a traffic light stating "Gunpowder deliveries first right".

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 24/07/2025

The wonders of Retch plc - as of yesterday, Birmingham Live had opened an entire category devoted to Ozzy Ozbourne, and stuffed it with dozens of articles. Anyone get the impression they're milking his death for all they're worth?! (Zealous Cropped in GIMP to remove the blank ad spots)

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 17/05/2025

From Private Eye - one of their columnists wrote a response to the Supreme Court ruling in the issue released a fortnight ago, and the responses in this week's edition...

"Difficult Transitions", the column from Private Eye's "Lady Justice", blaming politicians and "trans activist" groups for not listening to the "concerns" of Gender Criticals, so supposedly necessitating the Supreme Court case, albeit eventually acknowledging that it leaves questions about what facilities trans people are supposed to use until the EHRC's "third spaces" are built (if, indeed, it is possible to provide them)...

Three letters in response critiquing the column / Supreme Court decision / interim EHRC guidance (plus one claiming that amending the signage on disabled toilets would solve that element of the problem, without acknowledging that some businesses / venues don't have separate disabled toilets, instead making accessible provision within the gendered toilets).

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 02/04/2025

On a visit to Aberystwyth a week ago, they decided to take up a new career. Should I be worried? 😁

A Blåhaj, Blåvingad whale and Blåvingad dolphin wearing pirate hats and eyepatches, wielding (plastic!) cutlasses: side view.

A Blåhaj, Blåvingad whale and Blåvingad dolphin wearing pirate hats and eyepatches, wielding (plastic!) cutlasses: front view.

A Blåhaj, Blåvingad whale and Blåvingad dolphin wearing pirate hats and eyepatches, wielding (plastic!) cutlasses: other side view.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 28/03/2025

This is doing the rounds again - too funny not to reshare...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 22/03/2025

Hahaha. A satire posted in r/Brum - for context, Bearwood doesn't have a council IRL, it's in neighbouring Sandwell, with the border running down a section of Hagley Road. Link in case anyone wants to view the original: www.reddit.com/r/brum/s/egG...

(Satire) BREAKING NEWS A hostage situation has developed in Quinton, where local residents, irate at the ongoing bin strike in Birmingham, have abducted three binmen, who were dutifully emptying bins in Bearwood, bundled them across the Hagley Road into Quinton, and demanded that they empty their overflowing bins.

We have sent Bearwood Council negotiators in to secure their safe release.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/03/2025

The latest Private Eye cover...

(For the uninitiated, the magazine always has a satirical cover)

Headline: Russia demands to keep captured territory
Image: Vladimir Putin engaged in a telephone call
Speech bubble: Including the White House

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 10/02/2025

Today's /usr/bin/fortune is somewhat unexpected...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 25/01/2025

Private Eye being absolutely glorious in its satire...

Private Eye, No. 1641 (24 January -6 Feb 2025), front page:

DONALD TRUMP

AN APOLOGY

IN COMMON with all other media organisations, we may in the past have given the impression that we thought Mr Trump was a sleazy, deranged, orange-faced man-baby who was a threat to democracy and who should be in jail rather than the White House.

We now realise, in the light of his return to supreme power, that he is in fact a political colossus, the voice of sanity, a champion of liberty, a model of probity and the saviour of the Western world. He is also slim, handsome and young.

We would like to apologise unreservedly for any confusion caused by our previous statements and thank President Trump for his kind invitation to give him 94 million pounds to attend his inauguration event.

This statement has not been fact-checked.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 25/01/2025

Blood donation #40 just completed!

View of my arm during the blood donation process.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 02/12/2024

@glubbable.bsky.social I really must get out of the habit of buying a few tubs with Code GLUB every payday... 😁 (stack on far right are empties, after taking this I found a tub of Dragonfruit Punch, then 1x tub + 2x cups were ordered the other day). And yes, the lot are decaff.

A shelf filled with 22 tubs of Gamersupps, plus two Waifu cups (Season 6, Ironmouse).

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 28/11/2024

Something seems slightly off about this arrangement of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing... 😈

A melody line for an arrangement of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. You know the tune and so do I...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 22/11/2024

For me, at least, it's now producing different AI Highlights - with slightly different text for "kyloren syndrome" and "Kylo Ren Syndrome", both largely based on summarising an article in "Philosophy Today" :

AI Overview of kyloren syndrome:

Kylo Ren, a character from Star Wars, doesn't have a syndrome, but some mental health experts have suggested that he may have borderline personality disorder. Some of his traits that may support this diagnosis include:

•Volatile moods: Kylo Ren has unpredictable moods and views of important people in his life.

• Temper tantrums: Despite being an adult, Kylo Ren has destructive temper tantrums.

• Insecurity and conflict: Kylo Ren is insecure and conflicted.

However, it's difficult to diagnose Kylo Ren with a personality disorder because it's unknown how he acted before he became addicted to the dark side. The dark side may have caused him to act differently than he would have otherwise.

AI Overview of Kylo Ren Syndrome:

Kylo Ren, the villain from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has many character traits that could be considered psychological issues, including:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

Kylo Ren displays some traits of NPD, such as a lack of empathy and a belief that he is superior. People with NPD often have difficulty connecting with others on a deep emotional level.

Insecurity and temperamental

Kylo Ren is insecure, conflicted, and has a temper that leads him to throw destructive tantrums.

Ambition and spite

Kylo Ren is ambitious and spiteful, and feels that he can accomplish more than his family would want for him.

Other possible psychological issues for Kylo Ren include borderline personality, psychopathy, intermittent explosive disorder, and addiction.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/11/2024

While on his other appointments, someone suggested this:

Mock Guardian headline: Trump picks copper merchant Ea-Nasir as Secretary of State for Metallurgy

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 20/11/2024

So it turns out the cold I've been suffering from this week isn't a cold...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 19/11/2024

#uksnow B45 1/10 Ground temperature has evidently risen as a slow thaw has started (although the photo doesn't look significantly different to previous ones) - so just your typical "Blink and you'll miss it" snow.

Very slightly less snowy scene from my bedroom window.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 19/11/2024

#uksnow B45 2/10 Varying in intensity, but neither building up nor thawing - compare 9:13am with 11:31am:

Snowy avenue from my bedroom window at 9:13am.

Snowy scene from my bedroom window at 11:31am - other than the timestamp, it looks identical.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 19/11/2024

Unsurprisingly with today's #uksnow, Scotland's punnily-named gritter fleet are on the move: www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Map of Scotland, showing representations of the gritters - names include "Salty Claus", "Gritty Gritty Bang Bang", "Robert Brrrns", "Grit and Bear It", "Icetalavista Baby" and many more.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 19/11/2024

#uksnow B45 2/10 - very light flurries, patchy build-up, but decent thickness where it has laid.

Snowy landscape viewed from my bedroom window.

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 15/11/2024

The deed is done over on 💀🐦 (aka 𝕏)...

Screenshot showing: "Deactivated / Your account is deactivated / Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"

Quick stats: 10.5K tweets, 2,589 Likes, 509 Blocked accounts, 3 Muted accounts, 3 Lists, 0 Moments.

First ever Tweet: Mar 31, 2009: @radio4blog #radio4 new site much better design - looks nice and no longer need a magnifying glass to navigate!

Last ever Tweet: Nov 13, 2024: Time to leave - see you on 🦋 or 🐘...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 06/11/2024

Can't park there mate! What's wilder is the screenshot below shows where the tracks diverge from the road, then just out of shot cross a grassy area before the ballast and sleepers start - so it's very difficult to accidentally get that far... www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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mittfh @mittfh.uk · 31/10/2024

Graffito spotted last weekend - why travel by broomstick when you have a far more impressive means of transport available? 😀

Graffito depicting a witch (drawn in teal, with a yellow dress and hat, the hat having a red heart symbol on it) riding on the snout of a teal dragon (head and neck drawn, with a small grey horn between its eyes).

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