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Complains about terrible things. Opinions are my own, which should hopefully be fairly obvious.

[C Shi @icydoge]

You were trying to cross the border, right?

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Dry grass and crows

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. @Se_Railway a wheel on a front left boogie (New Cross -> London Bridge direction at 8:55 pm) sounds strange when the train is moving quickly, as if something is uneven on the wheel. Carriage number 65857 currently heading towards Cannon Street.

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. @Cloudflare @CloudflareHelp

Why are you not respecting my email preferences?

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@Benjojo12 @Manawyrm This is such a blunt instrument to censor a website, but it's actually quite hard to circumvent using standard proxies given where their servers are commonly placed. It is a little worrying about how little obstacle it has been for major carriers to comply with it.

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"This gate is alarmed"

[C Shi @icydoge]

Outside, cellular connectivity only.
Phone UI crashes.
Can't remember the magic sequence of physical buttons to press to hard reboot.
Remembers cellular Apple Watch.
No direct browser access, search by voice only.
Asks the watch how to restart the phone.
2020s problem solved.

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Presented without comment

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How to offboard an MP from your party...

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Did @BBCNews have an office party after doing this experiment?

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This is awkward...

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In a booster dose vaccine queue. They asked anyone with a booked appointment to skip forward, no one had one. Such a great system.

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This sign is at least 20 years old, most likely older than me.

[C Shi @icydoge]

@danieljabailey And unlike energy supply, it is much harder to introduce an industry levy system to pay for maintenance of supply when the house is vacant, as there are multiple privately-owned infra set up by competing companies. Ofcom would have force these companies to pay each.

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@danieljabailey In the energy supply system, last mile infra is always maintained by the statutory regional operator. Because the current supplier of the house is just a customer of the regional operator, there is always someone paying for the last mile infra independent of the supply contract.

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@danieljabailey (Your gas and electricity supply is centrally maintained by the regional infra operator, who bill your supplier company for the last mile. Your supplier company is just a glorified energy trader. This is why a default-and-switchable model would work for residential energy.)

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@danieljabailey Because in most populated parts of the country, internet supply is not maintained by a single infrastructure operator like for gas/electricity. For example in York the same house can have backhauls by OpenReach, CityFibre, and Virgin. Infra competition is good for consumers.

[C Shi @icydoge]

Welcome to Kent.

[C Shi @icydoge]

North: Trondheim, NO
East: Pudong, Shanghai, CN
South: Sanya, Hainan, CN
West: Vancouver, BC, CA (never set foot on US soil yet)

[David Norman @davidjn_]

Farthest I've been:
North: Aberdeen 🇬🇧
East: Berlin 🇩🇪
South: Marbella 🇪🇸 (I was very small at the time and cannot remember this)
West: Penzance 🇬🇧