Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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In the US, there's been a lot of talk & concern about foreign investors buying up US farmland.
And there is, in fact, a tech startup that helps them do that! It's like Robin Hood for buying US farmland.
And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?
J.D. Vance.
Who Trump recently chose as his VP to "represent rural America."
@CattleBaron @GottaLaff Ain't happened since 1973 so I'd say it doesn't count.
@Free_Press Good starter speech, great warmup tracks. Loved the mashup of Anderson.Paak / Jill Scott.
Video chat with ISS astonauts at last week's UCL Festival of Engineering. Not mentioned in the video, but the square devices on the side are Astrobee robots. Several UCLC academics contributed to the machine vision and navigation elements for these UAVs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnm_9eVNS8
Astrobee paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190027521/downloads/20190027521.pdf
@fulelo Online pricks definitely a factor but that Police report does not mention "influencers".
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Hey UK-educated #trans folk,
You can get your senior school/college exam certificates reissued in your new name for free, as long as you've had it legally changed.
Can confirm AQA, Edexcel and OCR do this, and very respectfully too. ☺️
@taylorlorenz "I think horny copypasta chain texts to break big news will be our generation's greatest contribution."
Noah, get the boats.
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"Our information system has split into an endless number of micro communities all learning about news and major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats." https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/the-pop-craveification-of-breaking
@jordinn Greetings from ex-Europe.
@tiffanycli MARK KELLY. Wtf am I thinking. Got the names of two twins mixed up. Mark's the tall one ;)
@tiffanycli Yes it's jarring that there has to be such a manufactured choice, but we know the misogynoir that's coming. Scott Kelly could be a great pick to deflect that, especially the 2A moans. And he's all set for the National Space Council, a key role that VP attends to.
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Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.
He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.
Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?
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THEY DID IT!!!!
My local library built the seed library!
The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!
The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!
Free seeds for everyone!
Timothy Snyder on "both sides" - a cult of duality which we should have learned from by now. Have seen people get sucked into fascist thinking because of this.
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US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.
We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.
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May all the rest of your times be boring and precedented.
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Here’s a question for you.
Why is it that advocating for universal healthcare or affordable education instantly earns you the “Socialist” stamp, while demanding mass deportation isn’t enough to get you called a “Fascist?”
(Hint: it’s not because you’re *not* a Fascist)
Today’s daily essay:
https://joanwestenberg.com/the-f-word-were-too-fucking-scared-to-say
@Free_Press Sadly, paywalled article.
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
