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[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

This has been going on in some form or another for quite some time. There is an excellent BBC documentary by David Dimblebly from a few years ago that is worth watching. He travelled across Russia and this was going on all over. Ex military in schools teaching weapons drill and love for the motherland. Nor sure when it changed from motherland to fatherland. Maybe when Putin decided to come out of the nazi closet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

'You can download Thunderbird Beta on the Google Play Store, or get the latest pre-release version from the Github Releases page.'

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Military with sigint and some long range radars. Quite a bit if info available online.

I'm probably on some sort of list now :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There are no plans to bring back other ancient freemen’s privileges such as the right to carry an unsheathed sword in public and to be escorted home if found drunk.

That's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Working my way through For All Mankind again. What a superb piece of TV that is. Magnificent. Also Slow Horses and lay night we started Bad Monkey. That's pretty good as well.

Got to give Apple credit, they do make some good stuff. The quality and attention to detail is superb, even if the show is naff. I was very excited to hear they were making Foundation, and the quality was outstanding. Never finished the first series, it was like watching paint dry. Likewise Silo. Dark Matter? I didn't even make it to the end of the first episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Eh?

On second thoughts, don't bother.

Goodbye.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Read the article - it's indoors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

She should buy something nice for Monkey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

A doubleplusgood book.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported plan will cost $6.99 monthly, with that price going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't say it would be easy. So we'll just give up then. Stick our heads in the sand.

 

Mum! There's a submarine driving down the road!

 

Rewatching The Expanse for the nth time. It always cracks me up to see Bobby Draper stuffing those cucumber sandwiches into her face. Do you want some?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Probably not what you're expecting - but the fact that the once iconic 'British' car is now made in China.

I spent many hours under the hood of my MGB GT :-(

 

😢

 

Am trying to make a dark rye loaf like you'd find on a stall or in a shop. Not the really dense 'pumpernickel' style but round or oblong tin shaped.

Have tried various percentages of strong dark rye, muscovado sugar and black treacle but the loaf is still not that dark. I did try some cocoa in one loaf but that just gave an odd colour.

Am using a Panasonic bread machine and in over 5 years it's only ever produced a couple of duff loaves - which were down to me (forgetting yeast, mixer blade or water) and often use it for the dough function and then finish in oven. Am not averse to resorting to full manual though if needed.

Any ideas?

TIA

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New budding author (atulipinacup.substack.com)
 

My daughter is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Birmingham (UK) University. She's put together some pieces on Substack. Most of them are over my head, but this one hits right in the feels. Apart from a couple of technical inaccuracies, it's spot on. Hope you like it ;-)

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Won't be doing any laundry just yet then.

Edit - pic didn't load

 

And now I know.

 

This was my wife’s new throw/ blanket thing. Daisy never used to get on the sofa. But now if the throw isn’t there, she’ll sit and look until one of us cracks.

 

Quite superb.

 

She loves these throws. And as long as I keep my ankles crossed and legs still, she'll stay.

Must admit I choked up a bit as our last two would never do this.

 

This will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.

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