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A decent time in Saturday’s race. Not a medal of anything, just nothing too embarrassing.

Three designs too - 19th century cantilever, 20th suspension, 21st cable-stayed. Also, the Forth Bridge is a UNESCO world heritage site. We love our bridges!

I’ve just realised that I haven’t viewed a single tiktok video since leaving reddit. So I guess I haven’t missed them. I never posted anything on reddit, I mostly lurked - as a passive consumer of other people’s content. That’s the biggest difference I guess. Here I have several different logins on various servers, and I’ve posted a few times in niche communities. It feels like a mini adventure!

I’ve just realised that I haven’t viewed a single tiktok video since leaving reddit. So I guess I haven’t missed them. I never posted anything on reddit, I mostly lurked - as a passive consumer of other people’s content. That’s the biggest difference I guess. Here I have several different logins on various servers, and I’ve posted a few times in niche communities. It feels like a mini adventure!

I’m part of a health study in the UK that recently did a poo study as well. I didn’t take part, but this week we got the results. So now I know what areas of the country have the most and least frequent pooing. There are also stats on constipation and diarrhea, and length of time sitting on the toilet. I’m happy to copy and paste if anyone is interested… though given the post title, maybe I’ll keep it to myself, lol.

Shackleton’s journey by open lifeboat from Elephant Island to South Georgia was in itself pretty astonishing. Captain Frank Worsley navigated using iirc a couple of pencils and a rubber band, and only caught a few glimpses of the sun to help his calculations. They landed on the wrong side of the island and had to climb a mountain pass to get to the whaling station. At the top of the pass they decided, what the hell, and slid down on their backsides. This didn’t kill them, phew, but it did shred their trousers, so at the bottom they carefully safety-pinned the bits together, “in case there are ladies”.