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Mike Knell
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Middle-aged 🇬🇧🇦🇹 SRE, he/him. Wiener. In a love-hate relationship with amateur radio since 1985. Drummer. Cat staff member. Big fan of diversity, inclusion, empathy and humanity in general. Not a fan of bigots.
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🎶 your own personal licensed AI Jesus🎵
A LinkedIn post from someone claiming to be a "Celebrity Writer" referring to an announcement that "Percolate Studios Unveils IMAGO: The World's First Licensable AI Jesus Developed from Shroud of Turin Analysis". Unsurprisingly, Jesus is a white man with a beard.
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Irony is dead.
Reddit post from u/TravelStateGov • Promoted WCGW traveling to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory? More than you can imagine. Wrongful detention. Kidnapping. Death. It could all be on the table when you travel to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory. So just don't. Because, while the travel fantasy may seem divine, the travel reality can be anything but. Before you book a trip anywhere abroad, be sure to do your homework. Visit travel.state.gov for Travel Advice You Can Trust, including travel advisories, safety information, and more. And sign up for destination-specific safety alerts at step.state.gov to stay...
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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If the T-1000 had been French
Emmanual Macron at WEF, wearing a well-fitting suit with a pair of large reflective sunglasses.
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Became citizen and applied for passport: Tuesday
Passport arrived: Thursday

That's almost Swiss levels of efficiency..
An Austrian passport.
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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When the cat discovers that the seat a drummer sits on is called a "throne". #cat
A white and tortoiseshell cat sitting bolt upright on the seat behind a drum kit and looking very much as if she belongs there.
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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I'm doing this to show solidarity with the wine moms of Minneapolis. Best slacktivism EVER. ✊
A glass of white wine sitting on a desk.
January 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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I bought a #drum throne and the safety warnings seem to essentially forbid rock and roll. Don't throw sticks at people? Don't play the drums during an earthquake? Don't attack the lead singer with a hi-hat stand? What is this nanny-state hellscape? #drums
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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My style could probably be described as "ADHD drumming", which is nicely appropriate given what I went on to find out 30+ years later. My parents bought me a second-hand kit, a Maxwin (Pearl's budget brand of the day) - a monster with 12/13inch and 16in toms. Like this but in shiny wine red. 3/n
January 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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HHNY! Unfortunately I cannot celebrate as having had the COVID jab I am too busy being dead.
January 1, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Found this one on Wikipedia and it looks like he's trying to sidle out of frame, maybe because he's just too serious and dedicated to his people to be seen in the company of such a group of happy-go-lucky scamps.
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Absolute scenes unfolding on my lap. #cat
A person’s lap with two kittens curled up in it. One is a dark tortoiseshell and is smaller than the other, who has a sandy spotted coat.
December 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I believe the term is "mood".
A white sign posted in an area of wasteland, in front of a tree. It is in Greek and English, and the English version reads: ATTENTION It is strictly prohibited to throw useless objects into the area
December 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I can see how that might have annoyed the judge.
News clip: "In 2022, Edward McCann was sentenced to seven years and seven months in prison and Daniel McCann to eight and a half years, after pleading guilty to producing cannabis part-way through a trial."
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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WARNING: AI SLOP
I decided to generate a beautiful Vienna Christmas scene using Google Gemini in order to wish everyone a happy traditional Viennese Christmas.
This image is AI slop. In Vienna’s Stephansplatz a group of drunks dressed as Mozart fight while the police try and separate them and paramedics attend to one who has passed out next to a pool of vomit. It is snowing. Tourists crowd around filming the events and a man sells hot chestnuts for €25/bag.
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I have because reasons a free subscription to Google Gemini Pro so I got it to draw every Londoner’s worst nightmare.
A Google Gemini-generated picture of a London Underground train carriage. The vestibule is full of singing people led by a Pearly Queen with a banjo while the people in the seats are looking happy. Some of them seem to be eating takeaway boxes of jellied eels.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Von der Gersthofer Strasse bis Haltestelle Türkenschanzplatz, 10A richtung Heiligenstadt. Grün: kurzeste Fußweg, aber illegal and gefährlich. Rot: sichere Fussweg, *v i e r* Fußgängerstreifen. Absurd. But won't someone think of the commuters?
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Absolute corker of a @secondmentions.bsky.social in Private Eye - Strictly Come Dancing, "the hoofer super franchise".
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1) With BBC Editorial Policy on high alert at the moment, someone perhaps should have noted that the Steps medley included the band's 1998 Bee Gees cover version, "Tragedy". Because this year's 23rd series of SCD feels increasingly tragic, continuing the downward arc of last year's run that was overshadowed by allegations of inappropriate behaviour against dancers. Having survived that, the hoofer super franchise has this year endured the mid-series announcement by hosts Claudia and Tess that they are leaving in December, rumours (unrelated) of class A drug use backstage, and ongoing rape investigations into two men previously associated with the programme.
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The court sketch artist Julia Quenzler clearly saw the true Paul.
A courtroom sketch by Julia Quenzler of Paul Doyle blubbing in the dock, looking unshaven and generally haggard. He's wearing a suit and the overall impression is that of a minor soap character who has just been told his wife's leaving him and taking the kids.
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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This photo is amazing. It could proudly grace the pages of any minor provincial local paper.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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No. (with apologies to @ianbetteridge.com )
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I feel the same about the facial nerve, which looks fairly sane until you spot that it's routed right through the middle of the parotid gland. This is why when I had a tumour surgically removed from my parotid gland it took several hours of careful dissection work rather than just scooping it out.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The Jersey food service business used to be made of sterner stuff.

"The ROAD is being DUG UP. You and your family will ENJOY it. Tremendous tarmac value."
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM