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Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.

https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/

The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html

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Museum of Plugs and Sockets: home page

Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

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Metafilter comments on "What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?" by Sam Knight in The New Yorker.

(What is Metafilter? A community blog started in the last century. It's all about the comments, which are moderated to a decent standard, and tend to be thoughtful. Desparing, and thoughtful.)
https://www.metafilter.com/203181/Rude-Britannia
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Rude Britannia

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? by Sam Knight in The New Yorker

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Dave Mackey Dec 31, 2022

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While we gained much in this manner we also lost much. I think we can still see folks yearning for #HumanAugmentation in the popularity of #AwesomeLists, e.g.:
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https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
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