Clouseau’s Road Trip. A general Mix Of Tracks I Have Been Sent
Blacklist Union – Up In SmokeCell Games – Let’s Go To TherapyBad Matrix – Taking it out on MeCRY WOLF
https://hardrockhellradio.com/2025/10/21/clouseaus-road-trip-a-general-mix-of-tracks-i-have-been-sent/
#ClassicRock #DeathMetal #doom #HardRock #HeavyMetal #hrhmag #metal #NewZealand #Rock #uk #World
#hrhrocks
Clouseau’s Road Trip. A general Mix Of Tracks I Have Been Sent
Blacklist Union – Up In SmokeCell Games – Let’s Go To TherapyBad Matrix – Taking it out on MeCRY WOLF
https://hardrockhellradio.com/2025/10/21/clouseaus-road-trip-a-general-mix-of-tracks-i-have-been-sent/
#ClassicRock #DeathMetal #doom #HardRock #HeavyMetal #hrhmag #metal #NewZealand #Rock #uk #World
#hrhrocks

This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales
The 20-year-old English singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro does not look or sound like other pop artists her age. But that’s because her greatest inspiration is the jazz great Etta James! Debutting at №.26, her soulful ballad “Die on this Hill” bests her previous UK charting single “Maybe”, which peaked at №.75.
№.26 in #UK
Sienna Spiro – “Die on this Hill”
Listen: https://song.link/i/1841769602
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxC9NhXv_1M
Chart: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20251017/7501/
The 20-year-old English singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro does not look or sound like other pop artists her age. But that’s because her greatest inspiration is the jazz great Etta James! Debutting at №.26, her soulful ballad “Die on this Hill” bests her previous UK charting single “Maybe”, which peaked at №.75.
№.26 in #UK
Sienna Spiro – “Die on this Hill”
Listen: https://song.link/i/1841769602
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxC9NhXv_1M
Chart: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20251017/7501/
This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales

Imagine a #thoughtExperiment where a #humanRights lawyer became #PrimeMinister of the #UK. The PM would order urgent responses to 135 #Palestinians tortured to death in #SdeTeimam by the UK's ally #Israel.
Public expressions of horror would be followed by diplomatic rebukes, prompt sanctions, and co-ordinated international action.
But the lawyer is #KeirStarmer. His rage is directed at British cops who banned vile #Israeli racist thugs from a football match. 🙄
Imagine a #thoughtExperiment where a #humanRights lawyer became #PrimeMinister of the #UK. The PM would order urgent responses to 135 #Palestinians tortured to death in #SdeTeimam by the UK's ally #Israel.
Public expressions of horror would be followed by diplomatic rebukes, prompt sanctions, and co-ordinated international action.
But the lawyer is #KeirStarmer. His rage is directed at British cops who banned vile #Israeli racist thugs from a football match. 🙄

The UK's Armed Forces veterans are being tasked with one last mission – proving the government can successfully roll out a digital ID card scheme.
The article brings together details and claimed benefits. Comment (some of them) are worth a read. A common thread is the use of the card to access mental health services - and the reaction ‘what mental health services for ex soldiers?’ Hence the #Kipling.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/uk_armed_forces_id/
#DigitalID #ArmedServices #MentalHealth #NonExistent #Inadequate #UK



The UK's Armed Forces veterans are being tasked with one last mission – proving the government can successfully roll out a digital ID card scheme.
The article brings together details and claimed benefits. Comment (some of them) are worth a read. A common thread is the use of the card to access mental health services - and the reaction ‘what mental health services for ex soldiers?’ Hence the #Kipling.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/uk_armed_forces_id/
#DigitalID #ArmedServices #MentalHealth #NonExistent #Inadequate #UK




The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.
We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.
#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK
The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.
We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.
#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

🚨🇬🇧 Surveillance in the UK is rising as it plans to roll out mandatory #digitalIDs for all its citizens.
Why is this deeply concerning?
❌ Increases state control
❌ Infringes on your privacy
❌ First step to creating a surveillance state

In 2009, Rage Against the Machine played live on a BBC morning show. They were asked to not cuss during their performance. And, well, it turned out exactly as you might have imagined.
I mean, the lyrics clearly state that they won’t do what you tell them. How they didn’t see it coming is beyond me.
(Warning: F-bombs in the audio.)
#Music #History #RageAgainstTheMachine #RATM #Metal #BBC #UK
🚨🇬🇧 Surveillance in the UK is rising as it plans to roll out mandatory #digitalIDs for all its citizens.
Why is this deeply concerning?
❌ Increases state control
❌ Infringes on your privacy
❌ First step to creating a surveillance state

If you couldn't tell, I've been photographing a lot of Scottish mountains lately. Here's one from a rather turbulent day on a remote peak in the northwest highlands. There's something about the folklore and history of these spaces that deeply interests me. Images like these where you are battling the elements seem to capture a little bit of that feeling and emotion.
#mountains #photography #LandscapePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #scotland #uk
If you couldn't tell, I've been photographing a lot of Scottish mountains lately. Here's one from a rather turbulent day on a remote peak in the northwest highlands. There's something about the folklore and history of these spaces that deeply interests me. Images like these where you are battling the elements seem to capture a little bit of that feeling and emotion.
#mountains #photography #LandscapePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #scotland #uk