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Something I'm really enjoying at the moment is this:

https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/nagoyaka-na-kaze-quiet-wind

nagoyaka na kaze / 和やかな風 - (quiet wind): a collection of forward-thinking electronic experiments sourced from central Japan - co-curated by Nagoya artist abentis for Facta & K ...

Mrs mik makes a range of most excellent soups. 8-)

Yesterday’s concoction included barley, and I discovered that barley may well be the marmite of the soup world…. :?

Personally I love the texture, and the fact you kind of have to chew your soup. Others at the table were less keen, citing ...

Say what now?!

Rare earths are magnets?

And no one knows what magnets are?

But China has a monopoly on magnets?

But it would take two years to build a "magnet system"?

OK....

My primary thought on these ICE shootings is that trained Police officers the world over face far more dangerous situations than these ICE offices have, and somehow the Police don't end up shooting people in the face/10 times while they're on the ground

And especially in the US, Police are ...

Watching Legal Eagles's video on the the execution of Alex Pretti was incredibly sad. The administration seems to think they can make 1984 a reality this year.


It's fucking insane what's happening in the US

ICE is basically a nascent SS/private army, they have full permission and support from ...

dinny_g wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 10:18 am It's hard to point at two things at the same time with 1 finger...

Not if you have a quantum finger...

There’s an unverified report circulating on threads saying that France and Ukraine have fed USA some false intel and that has found its way into Russian knowledge. I’m assuming made up to try and damage trump at the moment but it’s one of those things that would not surprise me in the ...

There’s an unverified report circulating on threads saying that France and Ukraine have fed USA some false intel and that has found its way into Russian knowledge. I’m assuming made up to try and damage trump at the moment but it’s one of those things that would not surprise me in the slightest if ...

Almost completely off topic but Veritasium did a tour of ASML in a video a few weeks ago. The tech is mind bending.

I hope to see the Danish PM in fatigues do PR from Greenland, maybe demonstrate something Trump is incapable of, like a sit-up, or not shitting themselves.


Yeah that was a ...

dinny_g wrote: Sun Jan 18, 2026 12:03 am There’s been a bit of snow on the Kamchatka peninsula at the moment

That's a vast amount of water when that lot starts to melt...

Simon wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 10:09 pmHe's a man child.

He'll have forgotten about it in a couple of days and will be after something else in the way a greedy child is never happy

The Knightrider video is amusing but totally fake I think (i.e. he's just miming along to the theme tune)

That speed reading app looks like Spritz, which launched in 2014 - keep up people...

I've got and have had several Submariner like watches, and as nice as the Pelagos is, it isn't a Submariner

If only it was a year (for someone like me with no purchase history etc)

Speaking of watches, I'm having a massive itch at the moment for a Rolex Submariner (the proper, no date version)

There's virtually no chance of getting one at list price from a dealer, so it would be a circa £10k purchase on the grey market

Technically I can afford it, the only thing stopping me ...

Probably a better bet than a Swatch Fifty Fathoms -
https://www.marloewatchcompany.com/collections/sale/products/morar-310-air-steel?utm_source=All%20Mailable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=January%20Sale%20Launch%20%2801KEEVGZJAQHC2T1964TTSEZNE%29&_kx=KOqq5pns9 ...

duncs500 wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:18 pm

DaveE wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 4:18 pm
A House of Dynamite - Netflix

Really good political drama

Not a satisfying ending at all! But rest of it was ok.

Yeah that's fair...

Pluribus - Apple TV

Really enjoyed this

Humanity basically becomes an LLM/ChatGPT, right? Ever helpful, childlike, no understanding of context, will do whatever you ask of it, knowledge but not intelligence etc

Down Cemetery Road - Apple TV

Emma Thompson military conspiract drama - really ...

Maduro will be fine...

Trump pardoned and released former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández from a U.S. prison in December 2025. Hernández had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges.