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  #locks #padlocks #locksmith I have two Squire CSL1 combination padlocks. One has become locked open and is no longer unlocked by its code and today the other has become locked closed and similarly won't unlock. I suspect we've accidentally performed the series of movements required to reset the combination, but now I have two dead, reasonably new, reasonably expensive locks and I really want to find a way back from this. Can anybody help?

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  I've just read the phrase "...American AI’s profit model is at stake if the Chinese start..." and I had to stop to collect myself. American AI’s profit model is already broken, Chinese competition has nothing to do with this!

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  I re-oiled our kitchen worktops yesterday. Consequently all of yesterday's washing up is stacked on every remaining flat surface (mostly the hob and the windowsill). I have to leave in 45 minutes, and I still have to wash & dry all the dishes, clean & dry all the worktops, apply another coat of oil, pack all my painting gear, have a shower, get dressed and leave. I just want to go back to bed. Edit: on top of all that our arthritic old cat has just now fallen out of his...

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  That animal Blundetto.

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  Believe me: the hammer is coming...down! down!

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  Well that's the first MOT of the year successfully completed. A 2013 car that's still dutifully operational.

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  A difference between VCs and civilians is that VCs give their money with the promise of having their desires met, while civilians have their money taken with the promise of having their needs met.

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  Some absolute legendary giant of a human decided that the funniest thing they could do today would be to spit chewing gum into my rear wheel as I cycled past.

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  It's 10:39am, I am in a terrible mood and now I want ice cream.

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  I decided 15+ years ago that life would be much easier if all my socks were identical. So I had perhaps 30 pairs of black socks. Turns out that after two or three years of wear & washing, identical socks are no longer identical and the cognitive load involved in matching pairs of black socks is somewhat higher than if they'd all been different colours & patterns.

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  I have had a tab open for about 3 months now, an article about PJ Proby. I've never knowingly heard a performance by this artist, and honestly I do not know why I care or even if I do. But still I can't bring myself to close the tab.

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  Oh dear. I've been using the word 'nonplussed' incorrectly all my life. Whoops.

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  The BBC are really doing the right wing's work for them here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cjd89jy7lp7o

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  Someone on this bus is deep, deep in the lore of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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  The Adjunct Ensemble. Wow. Awesome. #NewMusic #Sonorities

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  Are there no vulnerable demographics that the BBC won't throw under the bus in aid of the right wing project? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl19dzdd38o

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  I've just watched a piper hold a drone, a single unwavering pair of notes, in front of a sold out theatre crowd, for three, maybe four minutes. Hearing a pin drop wouldn't be in. The audience tension was serious.

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  #FensterFreitag #FensterFriday

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  Come to think of it, I've never seen Mozart and Blackmore in the same room.

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  I've just been relieved of my Saturday obligations and now I can look forward to a lie-in tomorrow. BOMPF!

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  It always astounds me how much personal information people are prepared to share without prompting and without purpose, in public places and to complete strangers. Is it from a place of wanting to have human contact? Or is it about feeling self-conscious and as if the contact is an interruption, and an attempt to justify or defend that? I mean: I have a man's address, phone no., email, holiday destination, date & duration, and GP's name & practice.

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  This thought occurred to me while on the trainer this morning: those DVD boxsets at the bottom of the bookcase that have been there for 10 years and will most likely remain unwatched forever, maybe I could rip them and watch them while training? I'm a little embarrassed that I've only thought of this now, in 2026.

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  I have....questions. https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/26007271.thief-jailed-stealing-gbp2m-faberge-egg-handbag-theft-soho-pub

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  I just looked at LinkedIn to try and understand something someone said. First time on there in years. I am so glad I am out of the tech environment and cut off from that kind of engagement and thinking. Reading some posts was like taking my winter gloves off to touch something very cold. No thanks.

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  Chagrin. I'm remembering why I traditionally get haircuts mid-week.

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  I do enjoy a good book review. Stanislav Lem had the right idea.

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  I did not know that a URL could (try to) open iTerm. Well well well.

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  I heard some mid/late '70s KISS earlier and I'm quite surprised at how similar it sounded to some early/mid 70s Blue Öyster Cult, Peter Criss' voice really puts me in mind of Al Bouchard too.

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  It's irritating and predictable how this article does everything but answer its own question. Not once does the author recognise that rent inflation is a choice or that supply outstripping demand is a choice, both made by no-one but landlords, individual and institutional. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vq3135p32o

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  Following interesting strangers on social media can be very rewarding but oft-times it's somewhere between reading the first few pages of A Clockwork Orange and listening to Prisencolinensinainciusol.