ambrosen
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One day I’ll work out what I talk about.
Some green stuff, some nature, some cities, some wonkish stuff.
Some green stuff, some nature, some cities, some wonkish stuff.
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lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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Regret to announce the tech bros have accidentally reinvented the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.
By investing in Monocab Owl, the EU is revolutionising sustainable commuting.
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Regret to announce the tech bros have accidentally reinvented the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.
Regrettably, this is just short for “National Emergency Briefing”
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November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Regrettably, this is just short for “National Emergency Briefing”
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Argos, also really good when you actually want something today, not when some courier can be bothered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Argos, also really good when you actually want something today, not when some courier can be bothered.
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Apparently, yesterday somebody beat the violent head of the court guards at the Tbilisi City Court, Davit Matiashvili.
He thought everyone was as nice and timid as protesters, so he lashed out at a wrong person with some criminal proceedings.
And got a response.
He thought everyone was as nice and timid as protesters, so he lashed out at a wrong person with some criminal proceedings.
And got a response.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Apparently, yesterday somebody beat the violent head of the court guards at the Tbilisi City Court, Davit Matiashvili.
He thought everyone was as nice and timid as protesters, so he lashed out at a wrong person with some criminal proceedings.
And got a response.
He thought everyone was as nice and timid as protesters, so he lashed out at a wrong person with some criminal proceedings.
And got a response.
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Is this what I want to do with my life?
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Is this what I want to do with my life?
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
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BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
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I gave my mom what I thought was a soup-themed bath bomb some years back, but it was actually soup. She had to call my dad in to get her out of the greasy tub.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I gave my mom what I thought was a soup-themed bath bomb some years back, but it was actually soup. She had to call my dad in to get her out of the greasy tub.
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New story to share! We routinely put running wheels in our mouse cages. The mice love them, and there's lots of evidence that exercise is great for health. Given our focus on social behaviors, though, we wondered whether running wheels change mouse social behavior.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
a hamster is sitting in a hamster wheel in a cage
ALT: a hamster is sitting in a hamster wheel in a cage
media.tenor.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New story to share! We routinely put running wheels in our mouse cages. The mice love them, and there's lots of evidence that exercise is great for health. Given our focus on social behaviors, though, we wondered whether running wheels change mouse social behavior.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
Look, all I’m saying is that the Birmingham Interchange - Eurotunnel via Heathrow and Gatwick link with a 50/50 split of security cleared/non-cleared passengers between Brum & Gatwick would be a total winner.
Heidi Alexander chooses larger of two options for Heathrow 3rd runway, requiring part of M25 to be moved - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Look, all I’m saying is that the Birmingham Interchange - Eurotunnel via Heathrow and Gatwick link with a 50/50 split of security cleared/non-cleared passengers between Brum & Gatwick would be a total winner.
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Good morning! Have you looked up your nearest Eiffel Tower replica today?
jonworth.eu/the-weird-an...
jonworth.eu/the-weird-an...
The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives - Geoguessr - Jon Worth
Work to update this post is ongoing. More than 470 Eiffel Towers are now mapped on umap here. The map is generated from a .ods Spreadsheet that you can find on Nextcloud here – if there are errors or ...
jonworth.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Good morning! Have you looked up your nearest Eiffel Tower replica today?
jonworth.eu/the-weird-an...
jonworth.eu/the-weird-an...
Not to go all economics-y on this article, but if GB has comparative advantage on wind power and comparative disadvantage on nuclear, surely we know what to do.
www.ft.com/content/467b...
www.ft.com/content/467b...
UK is costliest country to build new nuclear power, government review warns
Task force calls for super regulator to seize control of sprawling bureaucracy
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Not to go all economics-y on this article, but if GB has comparative advantage on wind power and comparative disadvantage on nuclear, surely we know what to do.
www.ft.com/content/467b...
www.ft.com/content/467b...
I for one welcome our new silvilogical overlords.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I for one welcome our new silvilogical overlords.
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FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
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“There’s unprecedented poverty and you authors aren’t doing anything about that so I’m entitled to download a pirated copy of a book you published last month.”
No.
Go and read some Jane Austen, or Oscar Wilde, or the earlier Agatha Christies.
No.
Go and read some Jane Austen, or Oscar Wilde, or the earlier Agatha Christies.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“There’s unprecedented poverty and you authors aren’t doing anything about that so I’m entitled to download a pirated copy of a book you published last month.”
No.
Go and read some Jane Austen, or Oscar Wilde, or the earlier Agatha Christies.
No.
Go and read some Jane Austen, or Oscar Wilde, or the earlier Agatha Christies.
Wait, is Lend & Mend a better rhyme than Share & Repair? Does it depend on accent?
We have just extended our Lend & Mend collection AGAIN so along with our loanable tools and sewing machines we now have a loanable collection of KITCHENWARE. Baking tins, flan dishes, cutters and more. 🍳 #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Wait, is Lend & Mend a better rhyme than Share & Repair? Does it depend on accent?
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We have just extended our Lend & Mend collection AGAIN so along with our loanable tools and sewing machines we now have a loanable collection of KITCHENWARE. Baking tins, flan dishes, cutters and more. 🍳 #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We have just extended our Lend & Mend collection AGAIN so along with our loanable tools and sewing machines we now have a loanable collection of KITCHENWARE. Baking tins, flan dishes, cutters and more. 🍳 #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/kitchenware/
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The smallest number that looks prime but isn't is 91 of course.
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The smallest number that looks prime but isn't is 91 of course.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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Those are my emotional support obsolete cables
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Those are my emotional support obsolete cables
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KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...