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President Donald Trump Rally – Hershey, Pennsylvania

10th December 2019 Swiss Bob 0

Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0

President Donald Trump Rally – Sunrise, Florida

26th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0

Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs, Going Postal

Cancel Your Telly Tax Now

12th November 2019 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

My previous articles on this site describing how I have stopped paying the Telly Tax for 10 years have been relatively benign and within a strict legal paradigm, much to the relief of Swiss Bob, [more…]

Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks

8th April 2019 Katabasis 0

We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]

Zuckerberg is coming to town

27th December 2017 Katabasis 2,285

(with apologies to John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie) You better watch out You better not cry You better not shitpost I’m telling you why Zuckerberg is coming to town Zuckerberg is coming to town [more…]

Shunting towards Spring

11th February 2018 0

Following the terrible van attack witnessed in last month’s instalment, I am pleased to inform you that the cyclists have survived and are in good health. A kink in the road at the top of [more...]
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th January 2020 2

Question Time 16th January 2020 Panel: Baroness Chakrabarti of Kennington (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Alyn Smith (SNP) Madeline Grant (Daily Telegraph Comment Editor) Laurence Fox (Actor) Venue: Liverpool To this reviewer’s recollection, Brexit was only [more...]
The Basel Problem

14th January 2019 0

One sometimes gets very interesting results when one turns divergent sums upside down. The Basel problem was asked by Pietro Mengoli in . He asked what is the exact summation of the reciprocals of the [more...]
Well it’s over then…

16th December 2019 0

We have had gaffes, and both the Tories and Labour have pulled back those people from the front line for the duration. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Diane Abbott come to mind here. We have had stunts [more...]
A Bear’s Diary – Part 28

30th June 2019 0

June 3rd, 1811. The city of New York lies in a broad river estuary whose wooded slopes give no hint of what will appear around the corner. The river is divided into several channels, forming [more...]