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  1. Snagged complete set of of Marshall Cavendish #CarMaintenance and #Motoring partwork "On The Road" from 1978-1981 (in 10 binders)

    If you are #GenX you may remember your dad buying at least some of these if he was into #cars (although to get the entire partwork would have cost about £300 (2026 money) in total, so relatively few people actually got whole set of 140)

    These were sold not only in #UK but across #Commonwealth countries where folk drive on the left, one cool thing is all units are #metric first (with Imperial equivalents added afterwards)

    Fair play to the previous owner, it looks like they did definitely make use of the section on changing #HeadGasket in #BritishLeyland engine 😁

    #OldTimer #1970s #1980s #WeirdCarMastodon

  2. Today’s top female lead singers of rock! 2026 Update

    The list below identifies the reigning female lead singers of today’s rock music scene. Please note that it does not include singers who perform under their given name like Taylor Swift or Phoebe Bridgers. In Phoebe’s case, she does qualify for the list under Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius.

    Cliffords – Source: instagram.com

    However, in some instances, the band name listed is the same as the singer’s stage name, such as Blondshell and Girlhouse. As more outstanding female musical artists are discovered, they will added to the list. Peace and rock on!

    Deep Sea Diver – Source: instagram.com

    Iona Lynch – Cliffords (Ireland)

    Julie Dawson – NewDad (Ireland) – added 12/2/25

    Ellie Rowsell – Wolf Alice (England)

    Jessica Dobson – Deep Sea Diver

    Hayley Williams – Paramore

    Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum – Blondshell

    Lily Aron – Florence Road (Ireland)

    Florence Road- Source: Spotify.com

    Ritzy Bryan – The Joy Formidable (Wales)

    Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

    Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten – Momma

    Florence Welch – Florence & The Machine (Ireland)

    Annie Clark – St. Vincent

    Phoebe Bridgers – Better Oblivion Community Center and boygenius

    Jane Fitzsimmons – Twen – added 4/4/26

    Twen – Source: songbyrddc.com

    Shirley Manson – Garbage (England and USA)

    Rebecca Lovell – Larkin Poe

    Jordan Miller – The Beaches (Canada) – added 4/4/26

    Venus O’Broin – Swapmeet (Australia) – added 4/4/26

    Swapmeet -Source: monsterchildren.com

    Emily Haines – Metric and Broken Social Scene (Canada)

    Lauren Luiz – Girlhouse

    Leah Fay Goldstein – July Talk (Canada)

    Karen Orzolek – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

    Maisie Everett – Belair Lip Bombs (Australia) – added 4/4/26

    Diana Suteu – The Palais (England)

    Wolf Alice – Source: thetimes.co.uk #Blondshell #boygenius #DeepSeaDiver #florenceTheMachine #FlorenceRoad #garbage #girlhouse #Hole #JulyTalk #LarkinPoe #Metric #Momma #music #NewDad #Paramore #rock #StVincent #TheAttachmentTheory #TheJoyFormidable #ThePalais #WolfAlice #YeahYeahYeahs
  3. @landley

    My government's favourite trick for gaming inflation numbers (also practiced by many other nations) is omitting "highly volatile" elements from the calculations. Specifically, food and energy.

    Because the average person spends basically none of their money on those two items, right? And the prices of those shoot up crazily, but their prices also drop like a stone the next month, making the consumer come out even, right?

    Goodhart's Law, etc, etc.

    #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #numbers #gaming #inflation

  4. "Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."

    This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.

    #Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users