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Uh-oh, the US President has gone off-script and is embarrassing an entire nation

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I was incredibly excited when a computer with the Domesday Disc became available at primary school. I never imagined somebody would have digitised the lot *and* made it run on a BBC Master. Impressive!

Just booked some tickets with @trainsplit.com - whist I would have booked them with a TOC, the option of having an interactive seat map where I can choose my seats on just about any operator is just too good an opportunity to turn down.

If you need cheering up on this dull, wet Saturday morning, there are few things better than reading this thread

A speech-to-text failure - the BBC's system doesn't seem to know what pwned is :D / cc: @troyhunt.com

A bad night's sleep, but my day is brightened by seeing the Tory party leader getting solidly unpicked up BBC Breakfast :D

That was not the day I wished for when I woke up. Luckily, everything that needed to be fixed was routine, but...

New game: "Look Around You" Series 1, or real science person from the 1980s

Great - security issue with Wordpress and TeamUpdraft plugins, just what I needed on a Monday(!) :D

An amusing CAPTCHA from RSSB's website :D

We asked an AI to do this with what people in the North of England call a small bread roll and it killed itself.

Aquatic fowl, or tech startups?

Chelmsford ROC

Customer states "We're getting connection timeouts on this service, can you help?" Servers are up. ACL is correct. No changes made in the last x months. So of course, we eventually tracked it down to DNS.

Wonderful news - @networkrail.bsky.social have released a (sample) set of historical train performance data on the Rail Data Marketplace which I anticipate will become a daily feed soon. I'm not aware of any other country doing this - well done, NR! raildata.org.uk/dataProduct/...

£1.40 for an Intercity breakfast in 1975! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmRq...

Suddenly, I'm hooked on finding the movie quotes in St Etienne tracks - such as the Gordon King remix of 'Avenue' from Casino Classics www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDa...

Little reminders of @bobpetesarah.bsky.social tracks - this time on Radio 4 during an item about Woman’s Hour. “Oh, you’re not going to switch off the radio are you? Please don’t”

I work as a phlebotomist in the NHS. This question in the staff survey tickled me. "You're on mute. No, I can see you OK. Alright, now pick up the tourniqu... oh hang on, you've frozen... oh, nonono, gold tube fi... oh no... ok put FIRM pressure on the artery for 10 minutes"

OK yeah in fairness this is incredible content.

portugal is just own-brand spain

Due to the state of the prison service, this inmate has been released before they've even unpacked him from the shrink-wrap packaging

Eek! There’s a 153 hiding in the bushes at South Tottenham!

This was Saturday at @unitydiner.bsky.social. The cocktail was called “Piers Morgan’s Tears” and honestly, it was delicious. The tofish was so filling I may have given myself a food coma

I give it three weeks before I accidentally douse paprika on my morning porridge, or season vegetables accidentally with cinnamon

Things I have not missed: commuting Had to let two trains go so I could get a short terminated service to get the Camden in order to change and get a train home

@blogmywiki.bsky.social Saw your post on about BASYS at www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2... - I'm looking to resurrect a pre-iNews system with serial terminals. Do you know of anyone who might have installation media, no matter how old?

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

When your bus is on diversion in London, the LED panel shows an asterisk rather than the next bus stop. I think it nicely represents the clenched feeling of one’s buttocks when you’re going through an unfamiliar route

Good morning *puts shades on*

Having been to Pembrokeshire, "size of a bus" is not really a boast. And if it's as frequent as the buses, we need not worry about an invasion of jellyfish

Is anyone in contact with people who worked on a newsroom system called BASYS, later iNews? I'm looking to build a replica of a mid-90s installation with serial terminals for display

My two favorite photos of Trump's trip to Ireland, where he seems not to have gotten his ass kissed like he expected.

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I expected Mercedes Ron to look more like Swiss Toni

Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it

In light of these new allegations about illegal funding, it is my opinion that Nigel Farage should step down as MP for Clacton. He should then stand again in the by-election and let the people of Clacton decide if he’s guilty or not of breaking electoral law. 😉

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

It sounds like @channel4news.bsky.social are off Reform UK's Christmas card list this year. I can't wait for the fallout - I'll need to buy extra popcorn for this!

Kemi Badenoch falling back on the "I want simple answers to complex problems" line again. *sigh*

"You selected you, meaning me. That is incorrect. The correct answer was me, meaning you."

Dolly Parton, 80 Tim Curry, 80 Donald Trump is also 80 🫣

I wondered why the fire alarm was going off at an open air station in Yorkshire. BRB, allowing my heart rate to come down to double digits

Worst wine list ever