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A machine to turn coffee into documentation for space instrumentation.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦
8 months ago
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John Bull
about 1 year ago
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd
8 months ago
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.
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I suspect the chemists are more annoyed by getting the valence of carbon wrong... (a very rare nerd error in xkcd!)
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New spyder install on my machine. Why did I uninstall? Can't remember. IT may have done it for me... Nice to see that "pip install" now works from the terminal. Not nice to see that xlrd has removed xlsx functionality. Fortauntely I can resave the workbooks as xls and not have to re-write...
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If you are not following
@garius.bsky.social
, then you are missing excellent threads such as this.
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John Bull
9 months ago
Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵
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J. L. Westover
9 months ago
my personal favorite comic of 2024
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Thanks to an ifixit guide, I seem to have cured my old (10 year old) brother laser printer of paper jams. Hurrah! From the printer stats, it reports printing ~4000 pages in those 10 years, and everything has 50% life left.
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Not often I find myself on the same page as the Spectator...
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus
10 months ago
the perfect rating doesn't exi...... 📽️
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Niall Deacon
10 months ago
He's making a list He's checking it twice Of the fuzziness things that clutter the skies Charles Messier is coming to town
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John Bull
10 months ago
BREAKING: Jerry has a new jacket! He's drier! He's live again here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09f...
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Sausage!
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10 months ago
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Every time
@edzitron.com
does a podcast ranting at how fawning tech journalists are (and yes, I'm going through a back catalogue of his Better Offline podcast), I'm reminded of this comic from
@pennyarcade.bsky.social
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/0...
We "just" need the full revolution...
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The Partial Revolution - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/20/the-partial-revolution
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Meredith Rawls
10 months ago
I am so glad
@rossandersen.bsky.social
took the time to write this. It is a thorough and accurate summary of the
@vrubinobs.bsky.social
situation. I have MANY FEELINGS about each and every facet of said situation, let me tell you. This won't be the last you hear of "telescope vs crap in orbit" 🔭
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When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
How do you know what you’re not allowed to see?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rubin-telescope-spy-satellite/680814/?gift=vYviZ8TX5HwmE7Cds2wpbkgrfoZ1eOhZPCb4UDvmaKs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Stephen Bush
11 months ago
A terrific theory that pairs well with the Economist's terrific and terrifying chart of Musk's tweeting.
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Daniel Baumann has posted a link to his GR lecture notes on The Other Site. I've had a look at the first chapter, and the clarity of the writing is great.
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11 months ago
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I hear that China is going to increase tariffs by a percentage point for every US school shooting.
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11 months ago
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Really interesting listen to
@edzitron.com
Better Offline podcast about the at protocol underlying bluesky's tech. I had not realised bluesky was not a walled garden like FB messenger or That Other Site.
11 months ago
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Dr Jessica Parr
11 months ago
Heads up for US colleagues- starting Jan 8th, those of us flying to the UK on US passports will need a visa:
natlawreview.com/article/what...
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What U.S. Travelers to UK Need to Know About UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)
Americans traveling to the UK as tourists or business visitors are generally visa-exempt. Starting on Jan. 8, 2025, visa-exempt Americans traveling to the UK will need to use the new Electronic Travel...
https://natlawreview.com/article/what-us-travelers-uk-need-know-about-uks-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta?amp
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Colin
11 months ago
Just took my seat in the gallery at the Alex Jones bankruptcy hearing to confirm the sale to The Onion (and resolve half a dozen other issues). We just happened to be in the area for the holiday, so my wife and are on a date to bankruptcy court.
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Prof Anna Watts
about 1 year ago
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Astronomer: there are clear biases in our current observations that lead to the preferential detection of cups with value one half so we're going to need 10 billion dollars for a bigger telescope to extend our sample.
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This might be useful for new users (or old ones) not wanting crypto spam!
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11 months ago
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A lovely quote thread of fine Discworld quotes.
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11 months ago
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I suspect the snow is doing more to London traffic...
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Tim Onion
11 months ago
Very good outline of what’s going on here.
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Adam Sharp
11 months ago
My six favourite European Mr Men character names... 6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso 5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel 4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing 3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo 2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs 1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump
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Well, I'm not using that to get to work today...
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Matthew Highton
11 months ago
Look this place is great and all but does anyone else miss the sexy bots and their dodgy links? Not one crypto bro reply yet. No check out my pics. Not even one damn deal on Ray Bans. It’s just full of people talking to one another… gross.
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Berny Belvedere
11 months ago
Unwitting acknowledgment that Bluesky has succeeded: they now have to go off-site to fill their dunk quota, whereas previously they could fill it with content native to X.
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Just followed a bunch of people after
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recommended the Sky Follower Bridge browser extension...
11 months ago
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I would totally have bought one of these.
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almost 2 years ago
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Just finished watching Neil Gaiman's excellent Ocean At The End Of The Road on stage. Excellent production. If you ever get to the chance to see it, do. Or just read the book and wonder how the hell it could be put on stage...
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Well, this is new.
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