Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You can see the middle of the tree is hollow and rotted out though? So it was going to fall over anyway, no? 230
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comLaughing BeavisALT: Laughing Beavis 010
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Tottie! Fuuuuck. Feels like the memory of sleep paralysis. 021
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Proper unsettlingly brilliant. Really put a hook in there all right! 110
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Reflecting Skin! I saw this on TV one random school night when I was about 14, but only from about 10 minutes in. Have spent the last few decades wondering what the hell it was, but that pic immediately took me to it, so thank you! 120
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Lol, go on, draw a straight line on a map between Cardiff, Manchester and Edinburgh then. If you can do it on *any* sort of 'tilt' you can have the pedantry medal. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Although tbf I imagine even with the currently limited fleet air arm, one of the current carriers could probably see off all 44 of them plus change... 010
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026...and compounded it by absolutely shitting the bed with not even realising Covid support was a devolved Welsh government matter, and being really surprised when the RFU didn't sort it out for them. 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Plenty of people were willing to watch successful regions. Welsh rugby is ruined because the WRU cut regional funding off at the knees to pay off the millennium stadium early... 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This is not an uncommon occurrence, I'll give you, but do Senegal actually count as a 'smaller football nation' than Belgium? 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Something like a whole mackerel or trout, surely? Bit of galvanic sorcery and done 👍 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Unexpected Bluesky call for the return of the random headbutt for 'respect' purposes. 060
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I don't get how that 'Senedd of the wedge' sub-head is supposed to work? Is it a pun I'm not getting? 120
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Aye but isn't it like everything else, wildly different state to state? www.jalopnik.com/never-speed-...jalopnik.comNever Speed In Virginia: Lessons From My Three Days In Jail - JalopnikYou never really get a good night’s sleep in jail. In the middle of my second night inside, I woke up on the uncomfortable plastic mat in my cell, my neck and back aching. I looked down at my orange j... 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 04/03/2026According to Eric Stoltz in Pulp Fiction it's because it has to be a strong enough blow to pierce the sternum? I'm not a doctor though. Or a heroin dealer. 120
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Remind us what happens if it doesn't?! Could we get either 'baking heatwave' or 'worst summer ever', because of blocking patterns? 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The system that produced that team has been destroyed by the WRU. 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I don't think we're really disagreeing on much here. I'm just saying we need to raise taxes to do everything we need to do, so national security is an excellent political rationale to do what would be of general benefit anyway. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Yeah, but to do the transition, you have to 'do' the transition. Easing off net zero is just a false economy now. As China, indeed, is showing. 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026And that's what I mean. Reducing oil/gas import reliance is a defence expenditure. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026So everyone has a defence spending plan until they get an oil embargo in the mouth? 200
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I don't see what point you're making here? I am saying there are advantages to pursuing UK renewable and zero carbon (yes, including nuclear) that are of net industrial, economic and security benefit. Investing in assets is a different type of 'affordable' to living at the caprice of the oil market 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026That's an obtuse reading of my point, don't you think? What part of a disaster that ends northern european agriculture will conveniently spare all other aspects of our society and economy? 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Wut? How does that follow? My point is that 'afford' is an entirely subjective term. On the emissions side the UK's contribution might not be material in itself, but delaying a transition is just spending more on an increasingly vulnerable dead-end energy source. Why not seize initiative? 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026That's irrelevant though. We can't 'afford' any of these things if northern european agriculture is unviable. But we'll still have to cope with it, so then it becomes a question of what 'afford' means. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026No, the absolute opposite - you use the opportunity provided by the security element of the crisis to accelerate decarbonisation/renewables. We won't be able to 'revisit' the AMOC shutting down. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 18/11/2025They used to! www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula... (Assume they binned because the sample size became too unreliable)ons.gov.uk International Passenger Survey 4.03, country of birth by country of last or next residence (Discontinued after 2019) - Office for National Statistics International Passenger Survey detailed estimates of Long-Term International Migration: Country of birth by country of last or next residence. UK, - Underlying datasheet 3. 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Maybe. I suppose the closer you are to the nationality or culture being stereotyped the more it sets your teeth on edge? A bit like 'ChatGPT is convincing until it's talking about something you know about.' 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The bloke who takes over Caerphilly castle and dedicates it all to 'Her Majesty' *forelock tug*. Just, OMFG no. 120
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I don't know why you think posting all these wiki links supports any point you are trying to make. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025No, you've made some assertions that are ahistorical bollocks. If you accept that Celtic people lived in the British isles everything else you say is flawed. 110
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I'm sure you're going to be able to tell me exactly what the 'modern' notion of 'British' is, and everyone will be thoroughly satisfied. 100
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Can't we infer it from the remainder? Adding the two totals, c55% and 32%-ish suggests somewhere about 10-13 per cent? 000
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 14/10/2025On the second point - if the rate of build-out of energy infrastructure exceeds the rate of renewable build-out, that's... problematical 010
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Absolutely obsessed with this in the primary school library 120
Rick Miles @rickmiles.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I mean, Newport *is* a city. But my point is it's very easily close enough to Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham, etc... I think issues are resource, culture, wider CS management, way before you start on geography in this case. 010
