Apparently it's St George's day and people in England are expected by people on certain platforms to post flags in some sort of jingoistic orgy of patriotism.
So here goes:
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mastodon 4.7.3Reformed Tux Techie.
Sometime minister.
Drinker of good coffee and better gin.
Trying to muddle through life and faith.
Unrepentantly pro-EU: We're better together.
One of the most privileged people on earth: White, middle class & male.
Toots are the eclectic ramblings of a widely led life but might include:
#Faith
#Family
#Theology
#Linux/GNU
#Steamdeck
#TableTopGaming
#Geocaching
#TheWestWing
#Politics
but not necessarily in that order.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I appreciate your post, speaking from the UK I'd have to say to naysayers you don't know what you've got until it is gone.
Yes the EU is flawed, all political instruments are flawed. But it offers more than just cooperation and peace. It keeps national politicians from eroding rights, it is a force that helps keep extremism from undue influence and it offers opportunities that people take for granted until they are no longer there.
Spent the evening as part of the Archdeacon's team at the first of the AD Visitation services.I spent far too much of my time being distracted by the high table being slightly off centre. *Shudders*
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net TL:DR Brexit has destroyed the UK made people poorer and lost us rights.
A very enjoyable tromp along the #canal this evening, cut short because swans have nested under one of the bridges, and have cygnets.*
They nest here most years and we will usually walk past giving a wide berth, but not while they have babies in the nest.
I'm not risking a broken arm just for a walk. 😉
*spelling corrected.
The BBC is like that elderly relative that tries hard but always slightly gets it wrong. You know who I mean, the one who thinks they bought you a Transformer but somehow gave a plastic robot that doesn't do anything.
So it is with the BBC. They say "podcast" but they mean broadcast radio on catch-up. "Visualised podcast" when they mean a normal TV show but you can see the microphones. "Your BBC" when they mean a mouth piece of a vocal racist and misogynistic cartel of billionaires.
Are we back? Hello? Can anyone hear me?
My dog is at the vet having a routine operation.
I am as nervous as a new father awaiting news. Worse in fact.
I've changed.
Happy Europe day to those who remain in the flawed but worthwhile experiment of peace and cooperation. And to all like me who hope that one day sanity will return and the UK might be able to return.
A friend has sent me this post card in the actual post.
She has pretty much nailed it.
I am genuinely astounded by the number of posts I'm seeing screaming outrage at Google #chrome dumping a 4GB local ai on PCs without permission. That then follow it with "here is how to disable it".
Seriously. Uninstall. Stop using Google services. Remove everything they do from your workflow. Show them how outraged you really are.
Two Coeliacs enjoying the gluten free bakery
I honestly don't know how the UK doesn't come home with the #Eurovision trophy this year. The entry is so ridiculously Eurovision.
Well that'll make a nice change......
The GWR spokesperson said: "Throughout this process, our priority will be maintaining a punctual, reliable service for customers while continuing to support regional growth and connectivity across our network."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy02yyl1e7xo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Hey Starmer:
The lesson here is not to move further right. You are failing to show the alternatives, you need to move back to the centre-left....what....wait....where are you going....come back....not THAT way.......
People who contribute to SatNav apps that display user submitted alerts really need to learn to distinguish between actual police cars and any other white vehicle that just happens to have warning chevrons on it.
No. That is not a police car or mobile speed trap. It's a motorway officer, a highways maintenance vehicle, a bloody ambulance car.
No elections in my ward this year, we went to the polls last year.
But do get out and vote if you can.
Note: To ReformUK Ltd. Voters, I've just read that you don't have to go to the polls, your vote will be counted in your absence. So feel free to put your feet up and stay home.
I have Lego envy.....
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/star-trek-u-s-s-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-10356
I can''t log into my webhost because Cloudflare verification isn't working. So in order to protect me, I am unable to use the service I pay for. Great.
I want to go back to a web that didn't have all this crap.
There was just an ad on the TV for Kentucky.
Visitor numbers to the US going well under the orange menace then.
Walking where St Paul walked.*
*Walked, yes. Definitely. Strapped to this pillar and whipped? Unlikely. Imprisoned here, very likely.
Saturday Kitchen is celebrating it's 20th anniversary. Which is impressive for a show that's been on TV since 2002.
Of all the moronic, idiotic......
Wax2's girlfriend asking for references from me because the NHS won't accept email addresses they deem to be personal, including gmail, hotmail, outlook, protonmail etc. So she can't use the small nursery she's worked at for years can't give them because they use gmail.
Ludicrous, corporate idiocy.
I've spent much of the late afternoon trying to log into a service I use that requires 2FA. No matter how I approached it I could not get it to send me a verification code, so I've been pouring over solutions assuming I screwed some thing up.
Gave up some hours ago.
Just received 13 codes in a succession of notifications, all arrived at 22:48.
I keep seeing posts saying three ReformUK Ltd. Councillors have resigned since being elected 2 days ago. But I can't find anything to corroborate this. Anyone seen similar with a verifiable link?
Allegedly it was two in the London boroughs and one in Nottingham.
Well that's depressing
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@gamingonlinux I tried to checkout a 18:00:02 and have failed to complete my order because the payment system is busy. 10 day delivery now, think I'll leave it a few weeks.
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@underseamonkey@fosstodon.org It's almost as if capitalism breaks everything it touches.
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@underseamonkey@fosstodon.org See also "download" when you mean either open in a browser or, horror of horrors, open that file.
Thought I was trying some local #Chocolate while on my holiday, but it was as bland and miserable as #Cadbury has become.
Double checked the packaging and notice this too is a #Mondelez owned brand.
I wonder if locals buy this and wonder what has happened to their once beloved local treat.
Which also begs the question, did Mondelez base their recipe on one distinct corporate brand taken over or just aggregate all their conquests to find a taste equally bland and pedestrian in all markets?
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@Narrowboat_LunaBetty@wandering.shop Yeah. I saw that one. But these posts suggest others are new resignations. Sadly too many people will repost something they hope is true with our checking to see if it is true!
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@juglugs@mastodon.social I've stopped following the sport for these reasons. Did he pull a Schumacher and serve a time penalty in the pits on the final lap, crossing the line and winning on the way?
Can anyone advise me on #ElectricBikes #eBikes?
I'm having to replace my lovely Cube Travel Pro after it got stolen and am considering moving to an ebike.
The things I loved about the Cube were the Gates Drive carbonfibre 'chain' and the Alfine hub gears.
But these seem to be hard to find on ebikes. The one I have found with a Gates Drive doen't have any tradtional gesrs. Is this an issue in a bike with an electic motor?
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@mike@sauropods.win Yes. But you doing it yourself online didn't allow the Government's digital partners mine your data for profit.
Those campaign donations have to have a quid pro quo you know.
Beginning to think seriously about migrating instances. Been a while since I've done this, so will need to remind myself what gets moved and what doesn't...
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@simon2k6@mastodon.nz Yes! The Alfine hub gears is my preference. My reference to trad gears was a bit oblique, apologies. What I meant was, "no gears" in a traditional sense. I can find ebikes with gates drive but these have no gears, neither hub nor derailleur. But I don't know enough about ebikes to know if this is an issue.
On a side note, I reckon hub gears go back long enough to be considered trad for those of us old enough to remember Sturmey Archer! 🤣
Getting a second run at Good Friday. #Orthodox #JulianCalendar
Just watched an old episode of Gogglebox. Shows watched in this episode were presented by Gino deCampo, Greg Wallace and Phillip Schofield.
So, yeah. That's aged well.