Why can't you play hide-and-seek in a Chinese restaurant? Because it's always spoilt by the Peking duck.
Matt Buck
@thenewno2.bsky.social
Mathematician, railway lover, photographer, terrible joke maker.
Despite the endless talk in Westminster about how well Kemi Badenoch is doing, the Conservatives were beaten into *fifth* place here, and were over 5,000 votes behind Restore UK. At some point delusions around Badenoch need to make contact with reality.
While only 13% of people live in a 1-person household, 30% of households have 1 person. I think this is part of the reason people underestimate the level of demand for smaller (e.g., 1-bedroom) apartments.
This afternoon I made a little trip from #Flåm up to the Stegastein viewpoint at 650m, which overlooks the world's 2nd longest fjord - Aurlandsfjord 🇳🇴 The weather was pretty moody too 🌈 #Norway #NonstopEurotrip
And also a visit to the free to enter #Flåm Railway Museum next to the station... of course! 🚆🇳🇴 #Norway #NonstopEurotrip
Google has also decided to effectively kill the desktop version of Google Earth Pro - which has been a genuinely useful mapping tool for many years. They’ve apparently decided those resources are better spent allowing users to burn AI credits on creating satellite imagery disinformation.
Get Google Earth Pro while you still can.
In an update on Tuesday, Google says it will block users from downloading its Google Earth Pro desktop app starting June 25th, 2027. People can continue to use the app after that date, which offers ac...
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Well over a decade, we have all witnessed rhetoric from some of Trump’s supporters calling for violence or directing hateful slogans toward Jews, liberals, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ Americans, and countless others. Not every Trump voter embraces that language,
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
Once again: AI is the reverse printing press that makes asynchronous communication impossible
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
YouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
"In the crescendo of orgasm I have sometimes been known to shout out the incumbent Pope's name" I have been back on the apps literally one minute. This is from the second profile I have looked at since reactivating. I am doomed
Sarah Manvel 🎃@cairdiul.bsky.social · 2y ago"I'm too romantic for casual encounters" good lord
Because AI detection tools aren't solid, and may never really be as far as we know, the situation AI companies have created for themselves is that writers and artists now have a professional, reputation-guarding interest in talking about how terrible AI is as often as possible.
Josephine Riesman@josie.zone · 3mo agoAvoid such fates by doing as I do: (1) Never use AI for any part of your book, (2) loudly tell everyone how much you hate AI on social media
why are harbingers always of doom why can’t we have harbingers of cake?
The people who rant about “DEI hires” are totally cool with the fact that the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee couldn’t even pass the Bar exam.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoJIM JORDAN: Blanche said it's dead. I don't know what else it takes. HUNT: Well, you're a lawyer! Don't you ever tell clients to get it in writing? Isn't that legal 101? JORDAN: I'm not a lawyer either
Heads up, new term for perv goggles just dropped.
Steve Hyett@stevehyett.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpecs offenders.
#FrontEndFriday Kettering last Sunday morning, #Colas 70817 rounds the curve from South Junction and approaches the station on the down fast working 6C50 Flitwick to Toton North Yard. The train had spent the night in an engineers possesion on the #MML. #FuglyFriday 26/7/26
Ship lift of Incat electric ferry onto MV Black Marlin thrills spectators in Hobart
Slow-motion big ship lift operation thrills spectators in Hobart
Peering through binoculars and nestled on camp chairs, onlookers encircle Hobart's River Derwent to behold one of the most complex marine undertakings in Tasmania's history.
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I don't share photos much on here, but I got so lucky with this: moonrise behind a lighthouse, taken through the window of a moving train. This is the Forth, from near Kinghorn. #Scotland
The moon having a rest on St Michael's tower at sunrise this morning. I took too many photos of both moonset and sunrise this morning so more to follow hopefully when I have had time to work through them all. 😂
Today's adventure is to tick the Flåmsbana off my railway bucket list - #Norway's MOST SCENIC railway journey 🚞 This can be easily accessed by regional or intercity train from the Oslo-Bergen mainline 🚆 Leg 1 for me is the 2h from Bergen to Myrdal 🇳🇴 #NonstopEurotrip
