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Tag: brexit

  • Needed to renew my driving license. My new one doesn't have an EU flag on it. The sad reminders of Brexit just keep coming. πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ’”

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 September, 2026
  • A nearly-full roll of toilet paper perched atop an empty toilet roll tube on an open-ended spindle.

    A Random List of Silly Things I Hate

    Just a list of eleven random silly things that I hate, to various degrees.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 March, 2026
  • A model of the E-ELT made of 5274 LEGOΒ© bricks! The total cost of the model, which has a scale of approximately 1:150, is about 600 Euros. | Picture by Frans Snik of a LEGO version of the European Extremely Large Telescope. Yes, LEGO is a European invention too.

    Why there’s no European Google?

    Lionel Dricot explains why the big tech companies are mostly American, not European (and why that's a good thing). It's a cultural difference that also results in Europeans being behind so many of the most-important open source and open standards projects in the world.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 6 February, 2026
  • World map showing the locations of Dan, his immediate team, and its parent team. There's a cluster of nine pins Europe, a few pins further East in Russia and Indonesia, one in Cape Town, two in North America, and one in Central America.

    Automattic Privilege

    Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (664 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 February, 2022
  • GB sticker being affixed to a car.

    GB number plate sticker no longer valid abroad

    In light of legislative changes about 'GB' (now 'UK') stickers on cars, Dan adds a joke to his list of jokes that aged badly.

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    • Repost
    • posted 1 October, 2021
  • Chlorination Chicken

    Jeremy Keith makes a sad joke about Brexit.

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    • posted 4 February, 2020
  • Image representing post: Brexit Visual Video Explainer

    Brexit Visual Video Explainer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yht_zE_mT7U

    Information is Beautiful
    4-minute explanation of where we're "at" with Brexit, with the usual clarity that the IIB folks provide. Nice.

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    • Repost
    • posted 31 January, 2019

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