In the news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66648763

BBC having a bit of fun enabling the Streisand Effect for this bit of news.

This andrew tate stuff is fucking crazy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66604827

That MoFo is going downnnnnn....

In Nebraska you can buy an old cop car, cut off half the roof, and take your bull for a drive. Not sure what the number plate is all about. Perhaps he's a prepper who enjoyed this terrible film a bit too much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66668411

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66706656

Scotland to pilot the ‘officially not going to investigate certain crimes anymore’ approach to law enforcement. Jebus help us.

Wow. Quite the read.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/germany-refuses-extradite-albanian-man-uk-jail-conditions

Birmingham council bankrupt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66715441

You and me both, Birmingham City Council.

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Just one of the many ways in which the UK is no longer a progressive country.

I seem to recall they did it a few years ago when the bin men went on strike .

Lagos Fixed Gear and Single Speed

Seems the Saharan dust is back. Good for the soil at least.

I spotted that as well!

https://www.ft.com/content/19caeb90-b5c9-46b2-9118-8d69d4c48d53

Cheery piece about there not being very much water left, especially for London/SE. [Someone cleverer than me might be able to point to an archive version].

It's over there.

Very meta joke from a man who hates to be pointed at.

It's less like being pointed at and more like someone you are already talking to you prodding you in the chest every time they respond.

And without the option to request No Prodding.

Genuinely threaded conversations would solve this problem. Join me in my camptain to see microco.sm adopt... oh, wait.

You're assuming he was replying to you.

Although without replying to anyone, we can only guess which post is actually replying to which.

Why are you being prodded!

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Who the fuck wants more emails, obviously they're already off? I think atWill doesn't like all the extra guff messing up his following page.

That's right Terry, your Volvo will need to be re-bored once a month but your Breitling is good for a year.

It's a sad sad world that you can't even run over the Atlantic anymore without being arrested.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/man-tries-run-atlantic-florida-london-hamster-wheel-man-made/

That does appear to be a genuine feat of engineering*

*I'm not an engineer

Bloke also has a wikipedia page and is a former professional cyclist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Baluchi

I'm not either, but I'd expect a feat of engineering to be able to successfully do what it's engineered to do - he seems to have failed in every one of his endeavours with it.