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 :)
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I think this captures most of my feelings on the Coronation. I get that symbols are important for national unity, but that rituals surrounding them need to reflect the past, present and future of the country.
There was an opportunity here to realign the monarchy, similarly to other European nations. But that would dilute the power of the many aristocratic types underneath them. There was an opportunity to recognise that the Kingdom was no longer United, that the bondage of nations under the (English) Empire has been weakening over the last century as people reclaimed their own regional identities in a post-Empire world.
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OK web experts. I need advice. I have an old website that was built in Dreamweaver >15 years ago. The content is useful to us but it hasn't been updated in over a decade… How can one fork the content out of the site and into something new? Any suggestions? There are about 150 pages and each links to 1-4 jpg files…
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RT @MrTimDunn
I’m at @LondonWaterloo to observe genuinely extraordinary scenes tonight as 6,000 armed forces staff arrive for #Coronation rehearsal. Scenes not seen for a generation and EXACTLY reflect Helen Mckie’s 1948 famous ‘War & Peace’ paintings pair. Some kind of glorious coincidence?🤔
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So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.
I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.
Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.
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Fuck off with calling all these anti trans and anti gay laws "controversial." They're hate laws. They're fascism. They're evil.
Journalists are going to "both sides" fascism until they are literally executed by the fascists.
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In blocking #Microsoft's acquisition of #ActivisionBlizzard, the UK #CompetitionAndMarketsAuthority has made history: they have stepped in to prevent a notorious, convicted monopolist from seizing control over a nascent, important market (cloud gaming), ignoring the transparent, self-serving lies Microsoft told about the merger:
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"No Time For Caution" played on the Royal Albert Hall #organ by #AnnaLapwood. Gorgeous lighting and photography of the Hall that does make it feel like the interior of a steampunk spaceship.
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Excellent piece on the Comment is Freed Substack about the short and long term impact of sanctions on Russia. https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the-impact-of-sanctions?r=3z6z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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@davidallengreen Open source, cross-platform game heavily based on the original Elite here: http://oolite.space
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Farmers in the US are getting sick of paying $80,000 for super-sized trucks that won't even fit into their barns.
They've been importing mini-trucks from #Japan that do the job and cost a lot less.
Sometimes you come across an article or documentary that you were not expecting to hook you in, that manages to combine a whole bunch of interesting issues in one amazing narrative.
This, from @ryanhoulihan is one of those, and covers AI, deep fakes, the music industry, culture and Britney Spears.
If you remember the Black Mirror / Miley Cyrus episode from a few years back, strap in, this is an even wilder ride.
https://mastodon.social/@ryanhoulihan/110135460306229895
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Coffey's complacency is shocking. Govt's been in power 13 years - not 1 English river is in healthy condition & not 1 meets good chemical standards. Privatisation has failed - put water back in public hands so investment goes where needed #SewageScandal @Feargal_Sharkey @We_OwnIt
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1650858512023703556
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That more people in the English-speaking world searched yesterday for Len Goodman than Tucker Carlson is perhaps a slight glimmer of a hope for humanity.
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My UK phone got the emergency alert earlier. I hope you’re all ok over there.
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>> Without Soylent Green, maybe we would have never got Strange Days or The Matrix, Snowpiercer, or even Jupiter Ascending. Because the truth is, all of the sci-fi dystopias that followed Soylent Green are, in fact, made out of tiny parts of Soylent Green.
https://www.inverse.com/culture/soylent-green-50-year-anniversary-1973
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A visual representation here:
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/
Write your own Brexit joke… --- RT @implausibleblog Rishi Sunak, "We just launched a campaign in Silicon Valley just talking about our companies a...
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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
