Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

@xanna That's the key question if you hold any event which is somehow exclusive. For that group, what is the topic or theme, or environment that is particularly beneficial? There must be some reason you want to specifically talk with women and non-binary people, right?

@LouisIngenthron Show me the child who enjoys a ciabbata and I'll show you a future hipster artisan baker.

@fulelo Difficult, as part of the purpose of universities is research output for the benefit of the world.

One of the more troubling developments is if state agents are infiltrating classes to monitor and intimidate students. Even so, hard to know if someone is just defending criticism of their home country in which they have been indoctrinated.

@clacke I agree, it's social filler, much as "Bless you" when someone sneezes. I guess it's recognition that a mistake or (loud noise) has been made in a public space, and it acknowledges that awkwardness and allows it to defuse. Same as loud yawns or burps (from either end).

@m0xEE Give yourself some time between each one! Lots to absorb.

When the trailer for #TheRegime came out, it seemed to be a fairly serious drama, but early reviews from bamboozled Americans indicated that it might be more along the lines of "Death of Stalin" or that Peter Sellers classic "The Mouse that Roared".
2 episodes in and chuckling all the way through. Fantastic costume and production design, and wrapped in an Eastern European shawl by Alexandre Desplat.
https://youtu.be/MilyCJRKX80

Yay, new episode of #Map Men! Undiscovering the world - in the age of satellite photography, we now know some islands on maps don't actually exist.
https://youtu.be/PVemGumEEgo

#cartography

@sellathechemist Thanks, am already home for kiddo collection, I'm afraid.

@jon That appears to be a swing bridge:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dQeFp1qFBh6KXwnb6

@jon Or get Keanu Reeves to drive the train across the gap.

@sellathechemist Thanks, will do!

@sellathechemist It's next on my project list, a method for keeping track of our room and desk allocations within/across buildings and groups. Telemetry is definitely a problem - we've had card swiping data for a while but it needs some work to be able to get some useful information on what days/times are busy in which buildings. Also want to avoid "Big Brother" tendencies.

Archvied here:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924032565990/mode/2up
Appears to be a comedic rant about capitalism and industrialisation, with some excellent engravings throughout (yes, it's *that* Eric Gill).

"Yes, until after men had toiled through collisions, accidents and confusions they did not learn that regulation was necessary ; even now the regulations they have reached are not uniform ! It is impossible to estimate the number of lives which would have been saved, and the trouble which would have been avoided, had the rulers arrived at a theoretical system to be enforced early enough."

This sounds very familiar!