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Went for a walk after dinner to say hello to the Atlantic.
a beach at night, long exposure so the surf is blurred. On the left is a sandstone headland, connected to a large stack by a stone arch bridge. Looking through the bridge the ocean stretches into darkness, and stars are visible above.

@Miguel Arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.

Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.

@Miguel Arroz

Tesco were so preoccupied with the fact that they COULD, they never stopped to wonder whether they SHOULD.
A bag of Tesco Free From gluten free turkey & stuffing tortilla chips, an eldritch horror that has no business fouling god’s universe with its existence.

Picked up an RPi 5 with the active cooler. Very shiny!
my hand holds up a raspberry pi 5 single board computer with the active cooling heat sink and fan attached.

The CFM LEAP-1B high bypass turbofan is surely a chonky boi!
a view back from a taxiing 737 window towards the port wing, sun setting behind it. The engine hanging from the wing is HUGE.

reddit post in which someone asks if there are haunted buildings in the uk in which you can book an overnight stay, and I reply that you can recreate the experience for free by simply not servicing your gas boiler on a regular basis

Yet another lightning connector dies from
Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.

But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.

I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.

a USB C to lightning adaptor. the central pins are black and basically insulators by now.

Captured this at sunset at Faro Beach and the Ria Formosa last night with my XE-4 and its new telephoto lens.
The yellow disc of the sun touches the horizon in front of a firey orange sky, behind beach houses on the sandbank that is Faro Beach.

New dress. It has pockets!
me wearing a blue thigh-length dress, hands in pockets!

Bonus 6am coffee spooooopy infra red content.
me, wrapped up in a blanket on the sofa on my balcony, in extremely unflattering infra red. My pupils are glowing.

ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! Thought I’d seen the last of these bastard things (Australian mealybug).

But it appears some survived my total war back in June, presumably by hiding through the summer in the soil.

As a holding pattern, they’ve got a heavy dose of Chateau Isopropyl 2023 while I go and procure more pesticide.

I swear, they’re harder to get rid of than a fucking TERF infestation.

And if not dealt with, they will cause total ecosystem collapse amongst my plants. They kill everything.

I hate them so much.

Adult Mealybug Female on trunk of my lime tree, not knowing that death from above is imminent

@FeralRobots @Richard Gadsden @Adam The stuff I had in Chicago looked like this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:C…
a quiche
@Richard Gadsden @Adam @FeralRobots

Hopefully I’ve shared this right. Anyway, I did this at the weekend. It broke me. 34 kilometres. 30° C, 800 metres of ascent.

So I have stupidly decided to do it again next year.

While I can still barely stand up because of the DOMS.

I must be loopy.

map of the route from Ladybower to Baslow
selfie of me hiking the 9 Edges trail in the Peak District on a hot and sunny September day

Our intrepid hikers set out from Derwent reservoir dam. I think this is the one the Dambusters practiced on
View from Derwent Edge looking across Ladybower reservoir towards Lose Hill, Mam Tor and Kinder Scout. It’s a lovely sunny day

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Strava activity link

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Some people’s partners leave crumbs in their bed.

My darling wife leaves a chicken carcass, like she’s some sort of cat or some shit.

a chicken carcass, in a bowl, on my bed, by the pillows.

Standard British things that you don’t realise are creepy and authoritarian as fuck when you grow up in the UK.

These are meant to frighten you. You can safely throw them in the bin.

a scary letter from the TV Licensing people saying VISIT AUTHORISED and that I can be fined A THOUSAND POUNDS!

Found a microwave that wasn’t enshittified.
The control panel of a microwave. it has one knob for power, one for time, and a button to open the door.

The condensation on my skylight makes the aircraft warning light of the crane opposite look like a supernova or some shit
a red blob surrounded by hazy red scattered blobs against a cloudy blue background. it looks like a supernova or some shit.

@Conor Mc Bride Have walked across the border on several occasions
@Conor Mc Bride

Welcome to Britain or the United States! We are very advanced! P.S. your house is made of fucking paper or some shit.

Random internet men can U not 2023
a screenshot of a Reddit DM with some random man apparently deciding I am the fortunate recipient of his need to masturbate today, and taking it badly when I tell him to fuck off

Practice, practice, practice, get wet, practice...

And the pivot turn starts to look almost competent!

Me, on a SUP in the middle of a small English river, houses in the background. I am standing in a surf-stance with one foot in front of the other at the back of the board. The bow is lifted clear of the water.

Very little help
A picture of a Tesco supermarket. The first and last letters of their slogan, “every little helps” have been obscured, making it read, “very little help”

A few years ago, Cambridge City Council became the first of many local authorities in the UK to start dismantling its trans equality policy. Here, today, they are flying the progress pride flag from their offices.

Hypocritical bullshitters. We see you.

Jaws theme intensifies

I finally gave in.

The endless glamour of yachting! Time to sip the forbidden milkshake (yes, there is a good reason, and yes, it has to be a plastic straw)
Me, sucking up engine grease from a tin can through a plastic drinking straw

It's that time of year again
My sailboat, Scarlet, hanging in the slings from the boatyard crane, lit from behind by the sun. A boatyard employee is pressure washing the hull.

Night time view from new flat in UK
A dramatic sky with dark lumpy clouds looms over a town. In the foreground, looking down, are 4 and 5 storey red brick modern apartment buildings, with a river running to the left. Rolling hills rise in the distance to a lit-up church spire in front of the last refracted light of the sun

From the trotinete (e-scooter) rental scheme I use in Faro. It may be passive aggressive, but it made me laugh.
iPhone notification saying: It's been 1 month since you last rode... do you have a side scooter emoji or something? Tap to start vour next ride!

Here’s how I see it, by the way.

Marks and Spencer proving that gluten free sandwiches don’t need to be made of cardboard and despair. Others take note.

Oh, it’s amazing.

So clean! So modern! So good at business!
A screenshot of an X11 desktop, circa 2001

Death Valley has a golf course. This is the most American thing ever.
An Apple Maps satellite image showing an artificially irrigated golf course in the middle of the Death Valley desert

@Kuchenschwarte @nev
@nev @Kuchenschwarte

I suppose it could be a lot worse

Ouch

Apple: We have discovered a zero day which was actively exploited in Safari!

Me: Downloads software update.

Facebook:

Facebook screenshot saying, "You're using a browser that isn't supported by Facebook, so we've redirected you to a simpler version to give you the best experience."

British aircraft carrier heading out to sea from Portsmouth. It’s huge, and the engines are making a bass throbbing sound that’s penetrating my skull from a few hundred metres away. Hope shit isn’t kicking off.
huge aircraft carrier heading out to see. There are sailboats in the foreground and buildings in the background.

Sunset at the marina

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