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@benmancini

Software, tech, geek, model maker, petrolhead, partner to her, dad to them, recovering twitterer. Huge F1 fan

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Altar Mitty 🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣
Dear old Calvin experiencing FAFO

31.01.2025 08:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Productive painting weekend
A squadron for the Russia. Mechanised for the Berlin diorama done along with a civvie

26.01.2025 12:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A wonderful example of dear old Musk getting into a dick measuring competition (again) and being shown up (again)

It's strange considering the size of the one on his forehead how he continues to come up short (pun intended) in these interactions

23.01.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twatter really is a cesspool of influencer nonsense and just complete WTAF
A story in one tweet, yes, the guy commenting on the original tweet is the same person
Someone do a care check on this guy's wife please

12.01.2025 23:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great piece today in the Guardian

11.01.2025 11:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alexa, show me an example of tragic desperation πŸ€£πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

09.01.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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After an FOI dispute lasting 18 months I've finally obtained the official reasons Boris Johnson gave for the peerages of Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell. The reasons cited for Owen seem thin, inadequate and lacking in evidence, leaving her peerage as a mystery rather than justifying & explaining it.

09.01.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 223 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 35
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#elfontheshelf
Day 3

04.12.2024 07:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#elfontheshelf Day 1 and 2

03.12.2024 07:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#elfontheshelf Day 1 and 2

03.12.2024 07:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a fire pit in a backyard . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a fire pit in a backyard .

Greggs Wallace lawyers - ok Gregg, best we keep our heads down and let this investigation clear you, right?

Gregg - yeah yeah, keep my head down, I got it..

news.sky.com/story/gregg-...

01.12.2024 08:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, I knew Adobe was a bit of a bin fire now but as it's the default pdf. format at work I had to use it. It's GenAI summaries are appallingly bad, the amount of space it takes up on the screen with poorly designed UI is ridiculous, the document I'm trying to read is given 1/3rd of the screen. Crap

29.11.2024 08:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems reasonable

26.11.2024 13:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmmm wonder who this could be

26.11.2024 13:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fully embracing the corporate world by getting incomprehensibly annoyed by folks who get in an elevator to go one floor up or down. USE THE STAIRS FFS

26.11.2024 07:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some cracking advice in here

24.11.2024 17:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing work

24.11.2024 10:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure he is underrated. Scorsese seems to rate him and in the last ten years he's definitely broken into Hollywood level films. If you're talking about awards then yes definitely agree, deserves that recognition, cracking models btw πŸ‘Œ

24.11.2024 10:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Max Verstappen wins fourth world title as George Russell triumphs in Las Vegas Grand Prix Red Bull’s Max Verstappen wins his fourth consecutive World Drivers’ Championship as George Russell takes race victory in the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

As a team I cannot stand them, as an individual he's not my favourite, but you can't knock those levels of performance, especially in the 2nd part of the season when his car was 3rd and even 4th fastest on track. Well done Max

24.11.2024 10:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

23.11.2024 17:15 πŸ‘ 46271 πŸ” 5251 πŸ’¬ 1053 πŸ“Œ 377

Fascinating thread from @tomcalver.bsky.social.

Public perception of criminal sentencing remains wholly out of kilter with reality.

We need politicians and elements of the media to start treating the public as adults, and debating the topic on facts instead of lazy and hysterical misinformation.

24.11.2024 10:00 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 3
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Daughter needs to build a Hindu shrine for her school project, I've been waiting for this moment all my life, all that paint for my modelling hobby is getting a working over today, and after watching Matt Reeves Batman last night I do see a passing resemblance to the Riddler πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

#WhoWoreItBetter

23.11.2024 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

22.11.2024 11:20 πŸ‘ 10790 πŸ” 2110 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 103

Observations from first week on Bluesky
- yes it's lovely, yes it's great, but move on, constant reference to 'the other place' just makes it sound like we're a spurned partner
- need trending now tab
- seeing lots of contacts migrating here, this is good
- Andrew Tate lasted less than a day lol πŸ˜‚

22.11.2024 08:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Internet ad for β€œCondescending tumble dryer” for Β£70.

Internet ad for β€œCondescending tumble dryer” for Β£70.

β€œBe sure to set me to β€˜delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”

20.11.2024 01:24 πŸ‘ 1444 πŸ” 276 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6

Labour supporter or not you cannot dispute how much of a titan has departed us today, RIP

21.11.2024 08:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ingram-Moores 'benefited significantly' from family link to Captain Tom Foundation, report finds Hannah and Colin Ingram-Moore have described the Charity Commission inquiry as "unjust and excessive".

news.sky.com/story/ingram...

Pretty sad end to this investigation, all that fund raising now tarnished

21.11.2024 07:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolutely love this glazing technique I picked up from Nightshifts YouTube videos, gives a real worn and raggered look to figures when it dries, it takes a lot of building up of layers to pull it off but the final results look brilliant

20.11.2024 19:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Article screenshot. Title: β€œTrump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”

Article screenshot. Title: β€œTrump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”

The Onion. πŸ‘πŸ˜‚

20.11.2024 11:05 πŸ‘ 4018 πŸ” 779 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 47

Amen

20.11.2024 12:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0