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| 26-Apr-26 14:55 | |
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Droplets, eh? Cough/sneeze into an elbow is pointless. | |
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Maybe what we need now is some Argy-Bargy! /s | |
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#cocktail - Georgetown Club #2 60ml Light Rum, 20ml Dry Vermouth, 2.5ml Falernum, Orange twist Half way decent white rum is annoyingly hard to obtain. Or more expensive than it should be. Anyway. It's a rum Martini, right? | |
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Ain't it funny how men think I think tomorrow's come, I think it's too late | |
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112068001763017199 Rocks glass. One big rock. Muddle the mint. Nice. | |
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Although that shelter is your home | |
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Just seen a discussion on how Silver supply is becoming a constraint on solar panel production. Which reminds me :- If the pollution constraints don't get us, the resource constraints will. And vice versa. https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1srmdh7/can_silver_supply_keep_up_with_the_energy/ | |
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Two weeks till UK election day. 7-May-26 Tactical voting is not at all obvious. Not much direction yet from https://stopreformuk.vote/ Help the under 30 and 30-40 to get out and VOTE! #KRO Keep Reform Out | |
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What are these tally marks on my arm? | |
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You hear a whistling overhead | |
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#Cocktail - Ford #2 50ml Old Tom (Gin + 5ml Maraschino), 50ml Dry Vermouth, 2.5ml Benedictine, Orange Bitters, Orange twist Fifty-Fifty with a twist. | |
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/113318173509328548 Hard to tell what the "Argentina" connection might be. Never mind. It's just as good as I remember it. | |
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Why don't Minimum Wage, Living Wage and Tax Allowance have the same Triple Lock as Pensions? They should. | |
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Translated. Adjusting the contracts to stop electricity prices being set by the highest gas-powered source is too hard. We're stuck with all those years and onion layers of contracts that subsidise the privatised electricity markets. So we're going all out on renewables and battery storage to make it so the gas powered generators never need to fire up. FTW, right? | |
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We'll all go running underground | |
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Covid thought for the day. NoPos (never had a positive test) does not mean NoVid (never had Covid). LFTs especially had low false positives and high false negatives unless a good swab was taken at the right time. If you got a Positive, you had Covid. But if you got a negative, you don't really know for sure. | |
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These 4 months are the long days. April 21 to August 21, Two months before the summer solstice and 2 months after. >14 hour days with Greenwich sunrise before 6am (05:51) and sunset after 8pm (20:06). Make the most of them. | |
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You could be sitting taking lunch | |
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> Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire". And here we go again. At the starting of the week | |
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Will Harlow and Gilston Garden town be designed along "15-Min-City" principles? By moped, yes. By electric bicycle, probably. On foot, probably not. Despite Sustainable Travel Corridors, Circular Bus Routes and general car barriers. | |
| 25-Apr-26 22:10 | |
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Our generation's "Manhattan Project" is the > Governments should seek the electrification of everything that can be electrified, and the retirement of much that cannot. | |
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Insider trading on the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is wild! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns | |
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UK Local, Mayor and devolved elections 7-May-26. Two deadlines this week. Monday - voter registration Get the Vote out. Get the youth vote out. Vote! | |
| 24-Apr-26 12:55 | |
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Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire". Misleading posts from all sides mean the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is probably on again. Hormuz strait has a dual blockade again. S Lebanon continues to suffer. Meanwhile, POTUS is on the golf course. | |
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#Climate Sea Surface Temperature, 60N-60S should be dropping now towards a false minimum in late June. Instead it's rising towards a new all time record. Super-El-Nino incoming? https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/ | |
| 23-Apr-26 08:40 | |
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/116271846465483947 So that about wraps it up for the Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Seven Week War. Iran opens the Hormuz Strait. | |
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#Cocktail - Monte Carlo: 60ml Rye, 15ml Benedictine, dash Angostura, Lemon twist Benny Hatten? A Manhattan via Burnley, Lancashire. A wonderful bit of writing about the weird WWI link between the spirit and the town. | |
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Very interesting comments about China and Shenzhen. I really don't think we understand how far and fast China is going. | |
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2 years. Made with 10ml of Elixir and Remy. Killer! | |
| 22-Apr-26 17:40 | |
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FFS Facebook! Not today ... Some of the structure. Zero content. | |
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Sign 'O' The Times Prince | |
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For the Pro-EU people in the UK who think the first stage of rejoining is voluntary alignment with EU Single Market rules, this is what it looks like. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/12/britain-single-market-rules-uk-eu-reset Not surprisingly, it's complicated to adjust UK laws so it can happen. | |
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This one hits. https://x.com/TheVertlartnic/status/1904571762404208980 There are people (like me) that describe themselves as "NoVid" [1] because they've never had a positive Covid LFT despite plenty of tests. Maybe we should really call ourselves "NoPos". Because I know I'm getting old, but my body is not what it was since that nasty bout of something 5 years ago, and then again 2 years ago. I'm not alone in this. [1] aka Final Round Player | |
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Classic Virgin Media. I have the TNT sports package. TNT has been bought by HBO Max. I get the email saying I can get some kind of streaming deal. Follow instructions, click "activate TNT Sports-HBO Max". Get this :- > Sorry, something’s gone wrong! We’re having some technical issues. Please try again later. Sigh. | |
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Irony. You need an SUV to get over the potholes that SUVs cause. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/11/suv-britain-potholes-worse-scientists-heavier-cars | |
| 21-Apr-26 15:25 | |
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If we can't eat cod, what are the Brits going to do without the weekly battered cod and chips? It's the national dish FFS! Next to eel pie and mash. And Chicken Tikka Marsala. Fishfingers? Fav reply. | |
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Did the same astronauts come back, or were they different? | |
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It was later than you thought! | |
| 20-Apr-26 07:10 | |
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It's not about what time it is. It's about how you feel. It's wood o'clock. It's tree hugging time. | |
| 19-Apr-26 07:10 | |
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#Cocktail - Ramona 60ml Old Tom, 20ml Lime juice, 10ml dbl Syrup, mint, muddle, shake, double strain. Mint sprig. 60ml Old Tom = 60ml Tanquaray + 5ml Maraschino. | |
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#Climate monthly summary > March 2026 was globally the fourth-warmest on record, at 1.48°C above pre-industrial levels > The average sea surface temperature (SST) for March 2026 over 60°S–60°N was 20.97°C, the second-highest value on record for the month. > The daily SST steadily increased throughout March and is approaching the record values set in 2024. > Daily Arctic sea ice extent had a joint lowest winter maximum, tied with 2025. | |
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Even more confusing. The bridged accounts seem to follow local accounts. How do they do that since I can't log in as them? | |
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Struggling to understand Bridgy.app I seem to now have four accounts. @jbond Mastodon original @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Mastodon copy on Bluesky How does this help? I don't get it. I really just want to post first on Mastodon, copy to Bluesky and then interact with any replies I get on Bluesky. | |
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Does anyone else use https://skymoth.app/ to autopost Mastodon posts to Bluski? Seems like it's stopped working about 3 days go. Maybe I should be doing this differently. Are there any other easy alternatives? | |
| 09-Apr-26 07:10 | |
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test post via @skymoth. Please ignore. | |
| 19-Apr-26 07:10 | |
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#Cocktail - Joe Buck 60ml Jamaican Rum, 15ml Lime, squeeze Honey 5ml?, dash Angostura, dash Peychaud's, collins, ice, lime chunks, top with quality ginger beer like Fentimans or Belvoir. Any old Jamaican, like Kingston, Appleton's. Should be funky so 50ml + 10ml Wray&Neph. It's perfect weather for a streamlined world & low level pod bikes. Taking the piss quietly and getting away with it. And then relaxing in the evening sun. | |
| 18-Apr-26 07:25 | |
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Did I mention TACO Tuesday? Si, senor. That UK Indeed TV Advert of the salary negotiation. Would be perfectly turned into a Trump negotiation meme. What are your demands? | |
| 17-Apr-26 18:10 | |
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I went looking for the Sinclair X1. A roofed E-Bike. I remembered the designer, Ben Wilson. Love their work. Who also designed the DonkyBike. Brilliant. But should be electric. But then there's also this - BikeKar. Just stunning. Should also be electric. | |
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Neologism of the day : Slopagandapocalypse. Bonus link : A possible way out that avoids the 25th. Put an AI in charge and persuade Trump to just play golf 24-7-365. In the bunker | |