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Huh. I guess Makita really do make everything you could use an 18v battery with

This is a filter coffee machine that runs off a Makita battery like what you'd use in a drill

No idea why they make it, but they do

Someone buy the rights to the Sinclair C5 already so I can get a new version of it with modern motors and batteries

Preferably with ZX Spectrum-like livery in black with a rainbow stripe

This is a $360,000 watch that plays the theme from The Godfather on demand

Because that was a thing that had to exist for some reason

I like it when an instance gets mentioned as something to block and I find out we already blocked it a while ago

fun fact: chinese wheelbarrows are far more technologically advanced than european ones. like, you put them side by side & it looks like the europeans don't understand how levers work, it's embarrassing.

and there's a neat story about why!

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011

Australia's toddler goats can have little a milk drink

wondering if this is a thing in USAian as well, the phrase "full and frank discussion" as a euphemistic synonym for "massive argument"

Why yes BBC, this is exactly what I expected you to do with all that TV license money, 9 hours of a cat riding a roomba in front of a christmas tree

youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xkt1E7PJ

It's similar to wassailing where people go around door-to-door offering cups of mulled cider in return for gifts

And I guess trick-or-treating

But so much more metal

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This is Mari Lwyd (image cw'ed for skull)

In Welsh tradition, at christmas, Mari Lwyd will come around all the houses in the town with a bunch of mates and sing loudly that they want to enter your house

You are then obliged to sing back with reasons they can't come in and the argument continues until you run out of ideas and it then comes in with its mates and you have to give them ale and food

[throwing slices of cured sausage at the movie screen]
CATS CAN HAVE A LITTLE SALAMI!
CATS CAN HAVE A LITTLE SALAMI!
CATS CAN HAVE A LITTLE SALAMI!

Excuse me but "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it" has got to be the best take. theguardian.com/technology/201

what's heavier, a pound of water or a pound of butane? 

well, you see, butane is lighter fluid

In the UK we like to name our gritters (vehicles that spread grit on the roads to increase traction in icy conditions, owned and operated by the county council)

Lanarkshire just got Gritter Thunberg

duct tape a multirotor to your roomba

roomba can now go up stairs

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