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re: apple thingy 

@kirby that's a Breitling Chronomat, one of the first watches to have a slide-rule bezel

Slide rules were used for quickly calculating things before calculators were invented and someone had the bright idea of adding a circular slide rule to a watch so people like engineers and scientists didn't have to carry one around with them

Later on the same idea was picked up by pilots

@InspectorCaracal also no reason to use 24 hour divisions, could use any number you like

apple thingy 

oh wow, the iwatch has a calculator function now!

how innovative!

*snarks in Casio*

wwdc 

@evie it's a thing in watches, goes back to the 1930's

not overly fond of them myself to be honest

If anyone was wondering if drawing cocks in fields to laugh at people is a recent thing in England, it probably isn't

Cerne Abbas Man is a 55m high chalk figure depicting a man with a prominent erection and brandishing a club and is theorised to have been constructed in the 17th century to annoy Cromwell

Picture below, not really lewd, more your standard cock and balls graffiti

@maple the sack race has been postponed because the maplebots are sleepy and napping in the sacks

@maple maplelympics is a bunch of maplebots having a sports day

Animal abuse mention, America, meme 

@sydneyfalk @Jo literal reality

no need to feel too awful about it though, the horse was a cop

literally, was a police horse

Trump, UK visit 

@Jo turns out nobody watching fox news when it was available over here was the first action of operation "make trump uncomfortable on his holiday"

Animal abuse mention, America, meme 

@Jo or for one of our finer moments:

@June@kitty.town not really any livestreams, it's sort of a distributed "that guy can fuck right off" rather than any centralised thing

big protests scheduled in london tomorrow though, complete with the trump blimp, will probably be covered on the UK news networks

@Jo I'm pretty sure these are the same people who'd need subtitles on them so probably not

@Anke bloke wrote a message for trump on his lawn which is under the stanstead flightpath in preparation for trump's state visit

twitter.com/born_eco/status/11

I'm seeing a lot of takes involving "Oh, I thought Britain was meant to be all about politeness and decorum!" post-stanstead penis and it's never been more clear to me that the vast majority of USAian's knowledge about the UK comes from downton fucking abbey

Reggie just had a good brushy brush and I swear to god there must be a second cat hiding in there with the amount of fluff that came out of him

uk/uspol 

someone's been very busy with a lawnmower under the stanstead flightpath for trump's visit

twitter.com/born_eco/status/11

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