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Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · last mo.

I did not know it's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day, so here's a short educational thread.

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

Cargo ship NCL Salten, enjoying a brief spell as a garden ornament in a Norwegian fjord.

1. #notatank 2. #notatank 3. #tank cc. @tankslider.bsky.social

Martin Robbins@mjrobbins.com · last mo.

The final line hints at who we can blame for popularising this crass infantilisation of everything*. Not, as it turns out, his most serious crime, but certainly one reason I despised him before any of that came to light. * Another infuriating national pastime: we must always find someone to blame.

Today is ‘National Picky Bits Day’ so enjoy this extended rant on why it’s time for Britain to grow up.

John Bolton's Mustache@jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · last mo.

A manifesto for retaining what little sanity you may have left while scrolling the soshuls.

From the interwebs

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last mo.

*updates property search to Stornoway*

Here's the CCC's @elpinchbeck.bsky.social speaking today in front of the Met Office's new "future forecast" for a... ..."plausible 2056 heatwave". Yes, that's showing 45C (113F) in the Bristol area! With exquisite timing, the UK's all-time June temp record is due to be broken this week.

Sharon O'Dea@sharonodea.com · last mo.

There is no such thing as AI art, only AI theft.

I see the AI Art Is Theft bores are out again. Remixing, referencing, riffing, recombining, that's the entire history of the internet. And of culture, full stop. Clay Shirky documented it exhaustively in Here Comes Everybody. Every meme, fanfic, and parody account operates on exactly this logic ffs.

Rotary Club's Cars at the Spa in Leamington today. Great turn out and very busy!

Cream over dark blue Park Ward bodied 1934 Bentley 3 1/2 litre

Four years ago, I saw a tired Series 3 Land Rover on a trailer at Bicester Scramble. Today, "Stanley" the REVS Restore Land Rover passed its MOT. It has been quite a journey, only possible through the generosity of many individuals and organisations. #REVSCommunity: Cars - Life - Restoration

If anyone makes it to the Retropower Summer Meet at Triumph on Saturday in an MG Metro Turbo, I have a card for you... 😉

Went outside. Do not recommend.

Cool Beetle is cool.

Back at BMM today for Tucked, because it's local, free to members and why not. Not entirely my scene but I admire the craft, if not the competing sound systems. 🔊🙉

Forza Horizon thing at BMM. JDM-tastic. (Some bloke on stage who was in F&F apparently. Big queue for signed posters. 🤷‍♂️)

Minimal movement for the next 23 1/2 hours. Already impressed with the lead Lambo going through a gap no wider than a Golf. #N24

Daniel Bevis @denialvibes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Up north-ish this weekend. Called in at The Carding Shed Holmfirth for coffee & cake on the way home.

Very excited to announce our first collaborative event. Grab a ticket and come along! retropower.co.uk/event/the-cl...

Couldn't be at yesterday's #Scramble, but I've got my ticket for October. Get yours today if you want to go... they sold out in a day last time.