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    Dumb phone recommendation

    Visiting https://catphones.com/, the SSL certificate expired on Sun, 07 Apr 2024 The magic keywords to search for are "rugged" "candy bar" "phone" https://www.sonimtech.com/products/devices/xp5plus/ Note that in the UK 2G and 3G will be phased out within the next few years, so make sure, if...
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    Best Ever Wildlife Song

    [Jollity Farm] The Bonzo Dog Band's album with that track is titled "Gorilla".
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    Dumb phone recommendation

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/bullitt_group_calls_in_pwc/ UK-based ruggedized phone maker Bullitt Group has called in PWC as administrative receivers after its management team seemingly failed to pull off a proposed restructure. Bullitt designed and sold ruggedized smartphones with...
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    Progress capture pulley. Which one?

    https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/micro-traxion-keeper-cord-hole.29293/
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    Best Ever Wildlife Song

    Flanders and Swann - The Hippopotamus Song, with a definite caving connection. "Mud, mud glorious mud" Also from them, another animal song:
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    Earthquake near Belper

    https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20240419014217.html ORIGIN TIME 01:42:17.2 UTC DEPTH 7 km MAGNITUDE 2.5 Felt Matlock (Derbyshire) and Belton (Leicestershire). The reports described, "felt a weak trembling" and "heard a moderate rumbling sound".
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    Caving artwork

    I'm pretty sure, given mutual friends and photos, that she's chrissy.price.77 on Facebook.
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    Small mammal to greasy slab

    There are previous answers here https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/small-mammal-pot.30554/
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    Hut Fees in the Dales

    Not the Dales, but I stayed at the weekend at the YMC's Coniston Coppermines hut. https://theymc.org.uk/the-hut/ The web page needs updating: member's guest's fees are now £10 / night. I've just received an e-mail giving more rates: *** From 1st January 2023 prices per night are increasing***...
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    AI Wezzit

    That's it exactly. The prompt was indeed "Aquamole Pot"
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    AI Wezzit

    Off to Coppermines shortly. Visits to this page will be intermittent.
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    AI Wezzit

    'Fraid not. Read my comment above the image.
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    AI Wezzit

    It's not pea soup, despite what the AI thinks it sounds like.
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    AI Wezzit

    On the subject of prompting AI, when asking it for "grey wife", I had to explicitly ask for it to add clothes. Before that some of the images were not only NSFW but grotesque. Asking it for "husband" resulted in this. The training images used from the internet are clearly highly sexist.
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    Lad - A Yorkshire Story

    Just in case of the very small chance that you aren't already aware, Sid Perou has a couple of YouTube channels of his caving videos https://www.youtube.com/@sidperoucaverescuechannel6247 https://www.youtube.com/@Cavingcameraman in particular - MOSSDALE CAVERNS AND BEYOND
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