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@losttourist@social.chatty.monster Agree he's weak. But this article is about how easy it would be to bring Britain to its knees. We need better drone defences. But there needs to be more cost to Russia for what it's doing. We came close to an attack on German soil recently that would have killed people.

Reading an article about the UK's lack of resilience. We have 131 distribution centres vulnerable to Russian drone strikes. What on earth is our nuclear deterrent meant to deter? "It's ok Vlad, as long as you stick to destroying the food and energy distribution network, we'll not be opening the suitcase".

@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social If you can afford them and food and housing costs, then yes. I walked away from a lovely jacket in Hackett last month. And I very much regret it.

None of you fuckers work in banks. Why aren't you at work?

Three deer today! #CrapNaturePhotography

An important story I think. Banks will become increasingly wary about lending to fossil fuel producers. The BoE here telling lenders that loans to coal producers are less likely to be repaid because technology could wipe those firms out. #NetZero #ClimateCrisishttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/19/bank-of-england-bonds-coal-loans-assets

Rat. #CrapNaturePhotography

ETA around eight weeks.

Just making a cup of coffee before I leave so I can run for the train. Don't want to let people down.

Me and Ernie. We are mates again.

@nwbt@social.nearerandfarther.com Blimey. Good spot. When i searched I see this...

8.49 on a Saturday night. I'm at the #allotment. It's the sort of crazy lifestyle that fucked up Lemmy.

I think Andy Burnham should build a high speed rail line between Manchester and London to make it easier to move to where the culture and jobs are.

Made the train. No running involved. Getting a bit peckish. But as followers of this account will know, I'm pretty good at lunching.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social Nothing left for us poor southerners once the North has filled its boots* #BurnhamsBritain *butts

A 50% chance of rain at midday!

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social It would be better if anything was actually growing. But I have watered too much or too little. Or the soil is crap. I don't know.

Small plates have arrived. And been dispatched. As have a couple of glasses of wine. I am quite hydrated now. Just enough room for a little glass. #booze

#hydrationBreak #booze

The Night Aways Comes by Willy Vlautin gets the job done in 224 pages. There's a lot out there about fucked-up rich American families (Patchett, Tyler etc) but Vlautin writes well about those who are poor and fucked-up. Quite a lot happens. Perhaps too much. But I'm a fanboy. @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #bookstodon #KeefsReads

Can you mute threads on here? It feels like it should be possible. But I cannot see the option. Using #Tusky.

I had a filling earlier. Just bit on a chocolate digestive. Not 100% sure if I still have a filling. Is this likely? I was told it was set.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social Impressive. One day at a time and all that. Did you go cold turkey or did you just eat KitKats instead?

CoPilot has the memory of a sieve. It's better than doing it myself. But it keeps regressing. It's all two steps forward and one back.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social If you don't get the windows in by the second commercial break, you're knackered. #GrandDesigns

@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social Key question is whether they will be there in a few weeks I guess. That jacket was on sale. It's gone.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social I mean we did well on the garlic, broad beans and spuds. And I love cucumber. It's mainly the courgettes that disappointed.

Feel Noah Thain illustrates why the #MetroBankOneDayCup is important. He bats down the order when he gets a go in the Championship. Asked to open here in a younger team he has the chance to build an innings. Two hundreds this week. One to watch. #cricket

@ukscone@cupoftea.social Honestly. Who gives someone Birds custard when butterscotch Angel Delight exists. Was this a friend?

I've had 47 e-mails via #Bandcamp today. #BandcampFriday

@snaprails@cupoftea.social Haven't had a Breakaway in years.

England's premier one day cricket competition is back Back BACK today! #MetroBankOneDayCup #cricket

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social I think some of the men in the audience weren't wearing their jackets.

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster That @RHD@toot.wales promised me gold.

Feel a bit unsteady on my feet. I think there was something in that glass of grape juice.

Got my eye on these two... #BandcampFriday #jazz @jazz@fedigroups.socialhttps://alexanderhawkinsintakt.bandcamp.com/album/no-nation-but-imagination https://punktvrtplastikintakt.bandcamp.com/album/kompress-24bit-hi-res-882khz

@snaprails@cupoftea.social Nothing is growing. Apart from cucumbers bizarrely. They are too big to snort up my nostrils now.

As on every #BandcampFriday my credit card company has made an intervention. Big commerce doesn't want me to own a 51 minute mediation on monoculture. Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees from Natalia Beylis https://nataliabeylis.bandcamp.com/album/around-here-the-birds-plant-the-trees

OK. Calm has prevailed thanks to a man called Keith and a crack team of northern jazzers. This one goes onto the #BandcampFriday list. #jazz @jazz@fedigroups.socialhttps://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/outside-213cd-2026

My wallet regrets to report that there is a new Best Jazz on Bandcamp round-up. #jazz @jazz@fedigroups.social #BandcampFridayhttps://daily.bandcamp.com/best-jazz/the-best-jazz-on-bandcamp-august-2026

My credit card company has blocked my purchase of an Alela Diane album. #EveryOnesACritic #BandcampFriday

Hang on. I bought this album yesterday on #BandcampFriday. Listened to it as I made breakfast, then opened the paper to find it's music from a five-star reviewed play in the West End. This is my catnip. #PhilipGlass #ClassicalMusic @classicalmusic@fedigroups.socialhttps://philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/tao-of-glass

Some good coughing in the Royal Albert Hall tonight. #BBCproms

But these records that came out earlier this year are highly recommended. #BandcampFriday #jazz @jazz@fedigroups.socialhttps://sylviecourvoisier.bandcamp.com/album/clats-live-in-europe?label=1225330023 https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/solo-piano-3 https://angelikaniescierintakt.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-tapes?label=1225330023