Simon Widdowson

@xannov
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Did the teacher thing '93-'20. Now doing creative educational things at a college. Also enjoy being creative as an #afol with #lego.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing" ~ George Bernard Shaw.
'Brickston Life' Photoshttps://pixelfed.de/c/526170936505562294
Lego 'Life After Dark' Photoshttps://pixelfed.de/c/525680110076069944
This is fantastic news.
And announced without warning so that no dodgy last minute donations can be made. Well played šŸ‘
I’ve been collecting petrol price data for my local forecourt since 2022. I finally got around to charting it, and comparing it to Brent crude prices - so I could see how much the oil companies are fleecing us.
I was really disappointed with the resulting patterns and trend lines.
Turns out, they’re not. It only feels like it.

We’re only 3 of 10 reports in, but already the results are already what we knew at the time: years and years of tory underfunding had already brought the NHS to its knees and when COVID came calling it was the poorly paid staff who held everything together through superhuman effort.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/19/superhuman-healthcare-workers-saved-nhs-from-collapse-covid-inquiry-concludes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

NHS was ā€˜on brink of collapse’ during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds

Heather Hallett says ā€˜superhuman’ efforts of workers were at times the only reason health service survived

The Guardian
ā€˜Put him on trial’: pro-Kremlin loyalist turns on Putin in rare outburst

Ilya Remeslo sends Telegram post titled ā€˜Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin’ to his 90,000 followers

The Guardian
I modified my upscaled blue astronaut to make it more Benny like, as well as giving the head rotation.
I just wish there was a Benny face I could use as well. #lego #afol
Surely Pi day should on the 3rd of Dodekember, as that would properly be 3/14.
ā€œtargeting mistakeā€!
Sounds so much better than ā€œwarcrimeā€, doesn’t it.
Wait a minute. This isn't the tagline I remember.
Someone is rewriting history.
Does that warmongering orange manbaby have any shares in Liberty media? This might be the only way to get him to stop his reckless actions - hit him in his bank account.

The new rewards system from #PizzaHut is awful.

It used to be 1 ā€˜slice’ for every multiple Ā£10 spent per order. The ā€˜slices’ would last a year. So, 3xĀ£30 spends over a year could get you a free pizza. (3 x Ā£30 = 9 slices).

Now it’s 1 stamp ā€˜per transaction’ of over Ā£5 and they expire in 6 months.
So 3 £30 spends over a year now gets you 3 stamps, of which 1 (or 2) would have expired before the end of the year.

(6 ā€˜stamps’ - ie 6 orders - in 6 months are now needed for a same sized pizza)