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A Valiant Tart
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Engineering: Wizardry with hammers. Our spells are cast in concrete and said in Anglo Saxon. Likes a pie. He/Him/OyYou mainly, but sometimes She/Her/Ms. Recently described as, and here I quote directly, "northern but eloquent"
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And with that, the last train of the 2025 season has departed Wharf.

Thank you to everyone that has supported us this year by visiting, and huge round of applause to all our wonderful staff and volunteers who keep the wheels turning on our Railway with a Heart of Gold!
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"That black suit in your closet that you only wear to funerals"

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Yessssss it’s an annual fave!
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
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"Person who won 6th prize in Bingo"

(His prize is a bag of "umaibo" extruded corn stick snacks, which cost around 50 cents each)

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Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.

Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.
This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts
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FFS, lost my concentration on a walk again and mistakenly took the path that said "1825" instead of the one that said "2025".
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As a dad who loves maths and Christmas (and bad jokes) I could not love this more.
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#OnThisDay 100 years ago the Met Line's Watford branch opened. It was intended to end on the High Street, optimistically seen in this 1925 poster. The current Moon Under Water pub was purchased for the station but the extension stalled leaving today's remote terminus. Poster: LT Museum collection
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Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

“There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knifepoint, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.”
Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

“Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points”
Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky

"... it must be hard, being the best. You're not allowed to stop. You can only be beaten, and you're too proud ever to lose. Pride! You've turned it into a terrible strength, but it eats away at you."
Your reminder that it was Mrs Benz etc
This is the kind of thing you can expect to see.
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A quick reminder that tomorrow morning is the Old Crocks London to Brighton run.
If you’re near the route, it’s worth getting up for.
Veteran Car Run Home
The homepage of the official RM Sotheby's London to Brighton Veteran Car Run website.
www.veterancarrun.com
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Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
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The lyric "STOP Hammer Time" indicates that U Can't Touch This may have been the first song to be written in BASIC.
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Oh, and the fact that the UK and US versions of Dennis the Menace were first published on the exact same day, without either one knowing the other existed.

The greatest coincidence of all time.
Its never too late for honesty
Now wife asked if I was vegan on our first date. "Oh yes" I said. Took her bed that night, fifteen years married. Last week she caught me in a cafe scoffing a bacon roll. "Oh thank fuck." She'd been on the hamburgers all along. Having our first Sunday Roast this weekend.
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Nothing about us without us doesn’t just apply to Autistic people

It’s sex workers too

and any other marginalized group

listen to the people you want to help, ask them, heed their message

otherwise you’re not “helping”
you’re just being oppressive

nothing about us without us
any of us
all of us
Remember the most important tenet of liberation work: listen to marginalised voices.

If you actually want to help sex workers, listen to them.

If they tell you that your movement to abolish sex work hurts them, pay attention!

Otherwise, you're not helping them. You're just feeding your ego.
Does it fire sheep from that right hand side?
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
We seem to be in the Exclamation phase, otherwise known as What The Fuck Now phase
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases."
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Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris in 1959 by Frank Horvat. This is a remarkable image.
Plans? Have you seen ferrari's strategies? He's in one!