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Christian // Software Dev Apprentice

Go to Clitheroe Community Church/Soul Survivor Watford
Used to volunteer with Olio, still volunteer for Church, DTI, SH

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK economy basically works like this:

Get paid £2,000.

Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.

Spend the rest surviving until next payday.

Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Keir Starmer has just sent a message - from the G7 - to Andy Burnham that he can surrender any hope that he will walk away from being prime minister in any kind of smooth or orderly transfer of power. These are his on-camera words

“So very many times on my political journey people have said to me ‘it's not possible.’ They said it's not possible to turn the Labour Party around, it’s not possible to win an election, it’s not possible if you do win an election to invest in your public services and stabilise the economy. Wrong every time. And that's why I intend not to walk away from this, but to carry on with what I was elected to do, which is to serve this country and bring back the change that people desperately need in their lives.”

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The UK has somehow convinced people that working full time and still being broke is completely normal.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Joe @andjustliketwat]

The ever worsening issue that wages are stuck in the 90s and the price food is rising ever higher should be the number one priority and nothing else should take any of their focus until that’s resolved imo

[Joe @andjustliketwat]

Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy because the UK government is focused on every other issue except the fact PEOPLE CAN’T AFFORD TO FILL THEIR FRIDGE???

[Lauren @laurennUTD]

There’s something so inherently wrong with a society that can’t go 45 minutes without an ad.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Raise your hands if you support that a “free trial” shouldn’t need ur debit card information ℹ️

[HF ⚡️ @HaileyFlemx]

Just got blocked by an American cause I said biscuits and gravy mean digestives and bisto in the UK

[Lily Argenta @Lily_Argenta]

The Orange Juice Paradox.

[Áɢ 𐙚 @agsurtos]

Odeio lavar o cabelo. Amo quando o cabelo está lavado.
Odeio trocar os lençóis. Amo dormir em lençóis limpos.
Odeio trocar o saco do lixo. Amo uma lixeira vazia.

A vida adulta parece um golpe onde você precisa fazer coisas que odeia para ter coisas que ama.

[Blues Badger @badgers_back]

I have put restrictions on my kids phones so they can’t use them before 7am or after 8pm except to make calls/send texts.

They can’t download apps without me approving and they’re not allowed:

WhatsApp
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X

It’s called parenting, some should try it.

[wnicapek @wnicapekk]

ada tamu datang ke rumah terus ngerokok, aku sodorin asbak ini malah pada diam ngeliatin

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

To be brutally honest. I do not want Keir Starmer to be Foreign Secretary. What a bloody insult.

I want Keir Starmer to be my PM this year and every year through to 2034. He is unrivalled

[Danza @diaknight]

I actually AM clicking the tiny x to close the phone game ad correctly each and every time. The ad companies just got so mad that I'm perfect at tapping the tiny xs that they programmed the ad to ignore attempts to close them and just open the link to the app store anyway.

[/// 𝙰 𝙽 𝙾 𝙳 𝚈 𝙽 𝙴 /// ✇ @Vaporwave_07]

the British plug brutally and completely mogs all other types of socket across the world and there isn't a close second

[Jordon-Lee @JordonLee]

There’s a lot of nastiness thrown at Keir Starmer but he just seems to be a decent prime minister focused on the job. He led Labour from one of its worst defeats in history to a landslide victory. Sad that career politicians are now trying to move against him

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

As a single person, I really, really wish it was possible to buy smaller quantifies of food, especially stuff like bread, condiments, etc. So much food gets wasted because it goes bad before I can eat it.