Update: Worth it, thanks for the tips everyone!

Took a drive out to a little town near Newmarket (Ousden) that seemed to be recommended as a stargazing spot. Top of a hill, hardly a cloud in the sky, sliver of a moon, and not even too cold. What a perfect night!

Even on an iPhone 13 mini without a tripod or any skill in photography we managed to get a couple of amazing snaps.

Finished up with some motorway services doughnuts on the way home in the wee hours.

Overall:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - would do it again.

Exciting stuff! Just an hour or two until it’s dark. Fingers crossed!

Reckon it’s worth taking a drive out of London to spot the aurora?

We’ve got pandas at home!

Terrible in the East End of London. The things I’d do to be able to just take a walking meeting without the call dropping out every 5 minutes!

Spacious room with a single toilet and a floor to ceiling solid wood door: 🚨ILLEGAL🚨. But add a sink and anyone can poop to their heart’s content.

It seems the issue here is actually mixed gender handwashing, which is the real scourge.

I was sure that one had t9 so it took me sec too!

Under the new definition, which comes into force on Thursday, extremism is "the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to: negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights; or intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in (1) or (2)

[…]

Organisations or individuals added to the list will not be criminalised, unlike terrorist groups. Instead, they will be barred from contact with government and will not be able to receive government funding.

Looks like we’re finally going to separate church and state!

Shitposting’s a skill

Dumping random shit into

an AI, less so.

(Edited to make it a shitty haiku)

OTOH, shitposting about shit posting…

Gregnant

This is silly and I refuse to comment.

Got one of these too and the cleaning cycle leak is apparently a design flaw. The water drains directly into the drip tray but it isn’t big enough to hold a full cleaning cycle.

I put a towel under it whenever I clean it. Such a shame because it’s a great machine otherwise!

Would setting the pihole as the exit node work here if the pihole then routes all it’s traffic through the VPN? Or does that break things and/or add unnecessary complexity?

🤨

Wow, nailed the topic right there. That’s awful!