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A remarkable one-two punch of homophobia and transphobia from Radio 4 news's report on this, including: "The nurses believed Rose had a female partner and was sexually active" - Ok? What does that have to do with anything?

BBC Radio 4 should think of a cuddly name for that regular PM Programme slot where they cheerfully platform a facist.

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to £1.99 for one day only, get in there 🐆

Hey slightly serious post, please share if you can: if you are a #software developer in the #Australia area and are looking for a #tech job, please reach out to me. I'm looking for mid or senior engineers who excel at constraint based optimizations, typescript, and k8s. Sound like you? Get in touch.

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

What's gone wrong at Cambridge University? Flat departmental budgets (inflation-adjusted) from 2016–2025 Explosive growth in central administration spending The result is a university increasingly run around teaching and research rather than for them Dereliction of its core mission

I know when you think about GameDev you think about C++ C# or even rust! Welp, I'd like you to consider giving F# a chance Mibo aims to become micro framework on top MonoGame. It'll give you some ergonomics, and pathways for you to write your games in seamless F# 👇 #dotnet #gamedev #fsharp #monogame

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this enough or at all, so if you have a minute to help me spread the word I’d be so grateful… I’m taking Slinky to Australia this year! 🇦🇺 Adelaide 🐨 Melbourne 🦘Brisbane

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Don't forget that we've also got every single Ordnance Survey Landranger #map from 1975 already online for your delectation and delight. And remember that you can compare them to the 1974 editions (and the previous One Inch maps) using our Map Fader. buff.ly/6ToTdlJ

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

Another #fsharp checkpoint, more broadly articulated than the posit deep-dive in the previous link: speakez.tech/blog/fsharp-...

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

Recommendations for a couple of exceptional books I've read recently. For novels, Qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division is a stone cold cosmic horror classic about a department trying to combat anomalous beings whose very nature makes them

I heard Celine Dion’s version of Merry Xmas (War Is Over) and think everyone involved in the process from initial idea to it reaching my ears should be shot.

A project I am organizing is hiring a part time workshop coordinator. Applications due January 1. Do you have experience working with Indigenous young people? Do you have experience in creative writing? This job might be right for you! App link in thread -->

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

SqlHydra v3.2 big release today that builds on yesterday's release! Now includes DB-specific functions for all 5 supported DBs, custom functions, and adds .NET 10 support. Samples included in the release notes. github.com/JordanMarr/S... #fsharp

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A very Threads moment. NB there is no indication from their timeline that they are joking.

Trans rights are human rights and it's not negotiable, you fucks

Apologies to anyone who was enjoying being in my life but last night in conversation with someone in tech I mentioned several times the data storage amount "trilobite" until they placed there hand on my hand and very calmly said " do you mean terabyte" and I can't be me anymore

My regular PSA that if you enjoy working on developer tools, then Jane Street is kind of an amazing place. Apply here! There's no special posting, so just apply for the Software Engineering role, and express your interests in dev-tools in a note. janestreet.com/apply

i know most of my network is neteng, cybersec, & programming-ish folks, but if anyone out there is into hardware engineering, we have some senior & principal spots open at Blue! blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/j...

Just filled in my tax return and every single one of these issues I found last year is still broken. Self Assessment is such a mess

Pluribus: WHAT A PIECE OF WRITING!

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She won her case like you won the general election.

I’m going to start blocking people who use that Norman Rockwell free speech meme. Enough already.

This is not a pun, it doesn't make any sense 😡

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

WI branches with a conscience should disaffiliate.

Join in, download, get colouring!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Stacks of Taskmaster keyrings and Christmas tasks going out today! If you already have the official advent calendar this would be a lovely way to round it off on Christmas day... pixelgrabber.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

That’s … not how cybersecurity works. Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Playing around with presentation logic and CSS in SAFE Stack is *the* most joyful thing. #fsharp

It's Black Friday today, so you may be delighted to hear that we're offering absolutely no special deals or offers on our website. www.worldofmoose.com

It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too

Fable 5.0.0-alpha.15 has been released. Lot of improvements have been made for TS and Python target. It also include fixes for Nullable Reference Types hopefully making us closer to an official stable release. Fable 5 is already used in production by some. #fsharp #fablecompiler

Well this is wholesome: www.reddit.com/r/Tools/comm...

This is a beautiful story...

London meetup: Boosting F# Libraries with Automated-Agentic-AI for Performance and Testing www.meetup.com/fsharplondon... #fsharp

Introducing F# 10 #fsharp devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/intro...

Attacks on trans women are attacks on women. I'm not sure why we don't see this. It will affect us on all levels of society. I will not have my womanhood policed, nor will I have others policed. Why do we not see this? Why do I even have to post that cis women are affected for cis women to care?

Taskmaster Christmas orders are starting to come in thick and fast so I made a keyring designer to speed them up 💌

“Carol, if we may…”