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Dave T-W

@HannahHowe Oh this is a toughy.

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

For those of you keeping track of #NigelFarage's mendacity, in light of the shift of the UK's #steel industry into the recycling business (with the closure of facilities that produce steel from scratch), you may recall this tweet from Farage in advance of the #Brexit vote.

h/t DoctorMartinRemains (at the other place)

#PortTalbot

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Project Gutenberg

Eric Arthur Blair, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the name George Orwell died #OTD in 1950. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Homage to Catalonia (1938) are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. via @wikipedia

#books #literature

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Dave T-W

@neil Perfectly suitable for a work email. E.g.
🤬🫵.📉,⁉️.💡📈 📆,🦶🪣.

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯

Petition to bring back the term "Cybercrud" for what's happening right now with "AI" (from "Computer Lib", 1974)

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Sean Kelly

ME: We have a color named after you

SALMON: Really? Is it silvery-blue like my scales?

ME: No, uh …

SALMON: Wait why is it pink?

ME: …

SALMON: WHY IS IT PINK?!?

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Dave T-W

@Free_Press JAXA "Still checking status" - have you got contacts on the Moon or something?!

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Mike Landers

It occurs to me that if pressing the “On” button for the Large Hadron Collider doesn’t do the sound effect of the Death Star powering up, then they’ve absolutely missed a trick.

#cern #largehadroncollider

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@DreadShips I love this titbit from the story: in addition to the crew, who had been denied shore leave for fear of desertion, there were "100–200 ladies from the Point [at Portsmouth], who, though seeking neither husbands or fathers, yet visit our newly arrived ships of war."
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Dreadnought Holiday

History is curiously quiet on what "minor repairs" the Royal George required in 1782, but I'd cautiously venture the toolbox talk was inadequate.

I mean, killing up to 800 people and leaving the ship 20m deep at the bottom of the Royal Navy's most important anchorage doesn't *imply* a safe system of work...

After 60 years the wreck was removed - along with windows 6 miles away - by the traditional application of [checks notes] a shit-ton of explosives. Top work all round, lads.

#FailureFriday

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Dave T-W

@DreadShips As typical with such disasters, there's an unanticipated quantity of alcohol and a belligerent officer ignoring the warnings of an enlisted man.

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@Daojoan I think the heartwarming story of how they started was a giveaway. Though I think we can all identify with the trauma of having to throw your $20k life savings away at age 20.

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JA Westenberg

The next time, the so-called tech leaders throw up their hands, asking, "What more could we have done?" I'll point to bullshit like this - where inclusion takes a backseat, and even the fucking girls' club is run by the boys' club.

To Blackbird let me just say this: the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

When you read this investor memo, were you proud of where your money is going?

joanwestenberg.com/blog/dear-b

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@sldrant @neil I'm guessing that was more like £14 at the Astoria rather than $800 dollars at a giant NY Arena ;)
Yeah, they should definitely offered refunds after the first hour, but I'd definitely hang about waiting for my favourite artist. Smacks of entitlement and they should be banned from attending future gigs.

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mcc

Wait wait WAIT this just occurred to me, how did it take all the way until now for this to occur to me—

BitTorrent: Software Pirate

Bitcoin: Software Pyrite

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David Hembrow

Just switched on the TV. The BBC has an item about people booking holidays through a company called "On The Beach" and being disappointed.

Have none of them read Nevil Shute's novel ? They got off lightly...
#onthebeach #nevilshute

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Dave T-W

@db0 @KatyElphinstone @miaoue I have a growing sense that so many values, customs, habits, and rules are determined by the core NT for "reasons". But those reasons are subject to fashion and power dynamics, rather than intrinsic value, function or social contract. So we get marginalised and bullied because we recognise the rules are actually BS and don't blindly follow them.

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Caroline Lucas

Here we go again. Unbelievable that for *4th year running* this reckless Govt is giving green light to banned pesticide meant to be used only in an “emergency”. The real emergency is the state of our embattled nature & wildlife - these toxic pesticides will only destroy more
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nitter.cz/neill_pippa/status/1
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🐦🔗: nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status

[2024-01-18 18:35 UTC]

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@IanMoore3000 Agree with that esp re @fulelo
The old adage on twitter was "organisations don't tweet, people do" and that still seems to be paramount here.

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🇮🇲Dan

The BBC's 6 month trial of using the Fediverse will be ending soon.
They want to measure if they have enough reach and engagement for the effort they expend running their Mastodon instance.
Give these accounts a follow if you agree that public broadcasters should live in the Fediverse:

@BBCRD
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

👍

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