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Mike Sales

When I was an inky schoolboy Halfords sold calcium carbide with which we had great fun. A crumb in an inkwell was a common prank.
I would love to have an acetylene lamp to play with.

Mike Sales

Death in an RTC is generally unmistakeable and usually reported. Just as excess deaths were used to assess the impact of covid, a diminution in the rate of cycling deaths after helmet mandation would show the benefit of wearing. This has never happened. If it had we would certainly hear about it

Mike Sales

Tangled Metal wrote: ↑19 Nov 2024, 2:27pm
Mike Sales wrote: ↑19 Nov 2024, 2:03pm I am going to carry on chucking my McD's boxes out of the car window. After all, there is so much rubbish on the verge that I will make no real difference.
Oh you greeny ecowarrior you! Feeding the wild plants on the verge with your biodegradable McD packaging compost. I bet you feel all self righteous when you do it too!!

Just as CO2 is really plant food, eh?
I wonder how they will handle my Red Bull empties.

Mike Sales

Coffee and walnut cake was my mother's favourite. I used to make it for her in her dotage.

Mike Sales

I am going to carry on chucking my McD's boxes out of the car window. After all, there is so much rubbish on the verge that I will make no real difference.

Mike Sales

I could tolerate this.
Belleville Rendezvous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWAgFQe3HCM

Mike Sales

When I worked in the Spalding Guardian darkroom I found in the archives a photo of a fen road after a blow. It looked like brown snowdrifts, two or three feet deep.

Mike Sales

mattheus wrote: ↑13 Nov 2024, 10:50am
Mike Sales wrote: ↑13 Nov 2024, 10:08am An alternative?

Bluesky adds 7Blu00,000 new members as users flee X after the US election

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Hmmm. If they've invented their own number system, I can't say I'm keen ...

That was my clumsiness.

Mike Sales

An alternative?

Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election

Social media platform has become a ‘refuge’ from the far-right activism on X, experts say, after Elon Musk teamed up with Donald Trump
Luca Ittimani
Tue 12 Nov 2024 02.44 GMT

Social media platform Bluesky has picked up more than 700,000 new users in the week since the US election, as users seek to escape misinformation and offensive posts on X.

The influx, largely from North America and the UK, has helped Bluesky reach 14.5 million users worldwide, up from 9 million in September, the company said.

Social media researcher Axel Bruns said the platform offered an alternative to X, formerly Twitter, including a more effective system for blocking or suspending problematic accounts and policing harmful behaviour.
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“It’s become a refuge for people who want to have the kind of social media experience that Twitter used to provide, but without all the far-right activism, the misinformation, the hate speech, the bots and everything else,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... trump-musk

Mike Sales

Tangled Metal wrote: ↑12 Nov 2024, 5:02pm
I see no harm in people practising what they think of as Druidism, I just have issues with them doing it in say a RC cathedral, Muslim mosque, synagogue or prehistoric stone circle.

I digress. I guess my point is that just because you take the name of a dead belief system does that make you the modern form of it or just a made up belief system calling itself an ancient name to claim credibility or because they could not get traction making their own name up?

I thought first of the Agia Sofia in Istanbul. It was built as an orthodox cathedral, but is now a mosque.
There are many one-time mosques in Spain, now used as churches.
I have seen the 4000 year old yew in Langernyw churchyard. There are others like it in Wales. This argues that the church was built on a site of earlier religious significance.
I don't know enough about the tangle of holy sites in Jerusalem but I would not be surprised if their history involved swaps of religion.
Even our own churches were often built by a rather different Christian sect.
Changes like this seem to be commonplace, and of course all religions are 'made up', not revealed by a god.
The scriptures of different religions often share themes and stories too. "God is not great" by Christpher Hitchens is fascinating on this.

Mike Sales

And instead of making a close pass when a human driver might want to squeeze past, the robot will wait until there is room for a 1.5m gap to pass safely? This might frustrate some drivers.

Mike Sales

I remember that when John Prescott, one time ship's steward, stood up to speak in the H of C, Nicholas 'Fatty' Soames, W S Churchill's grandson, used to shout, 'Gin and tonic, Giovanni.'

Mike Sales

Nearholmer wrote: ↑1 Nov 2024, 7:45pm Essentially, it’s no different from the stuff that the fighting right, and the fellow-travelling right come out with in this country, and they pick up a lot of it from the USA ……… one of the several reasons why the UK ought to be praying for Trump to somehow magically disappear is that under his warped guidance the USA acts as a sort of festering pit of anti-democracy that then infects us too.

I've just watched Look North. There was a vox pop filmed in Boston, my nearest town, several of the interviewees expressed approval of Trump. Tice, of ReformUK is our MP.

Mike Sales

A Buddhist is ordering a hot dog,
"Make me one with everything."
He asks for his change but the vendor replies, "The true change comes from within."

Mike Sales

I rode up the Llanberis Pass the day a minor operation. Soon after passing Pont y Cromlech I had to stop. Getting off the bike was too much effort so I just leaned on the wall. I continued in 20yard efforts between rests. It was hard, but I made it.

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