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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I somehow never knew this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
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One of the best things about coming home from tour: the new 13th gen Intel core motherboard for my Framework laptop waiting for me. Last night's jetlagged mobo swap took 15 min (as ever, 75% of that was reconnecting the wifi antenna, ugh). Today, the machine is BLAZING fast.
My new mainboard case is due any day now. Gonna put the old mainboard in it and turn it into a bookshelf PC, running a Plex server for all my music so I can stream to my Sonos (no-mic!) speakers.
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Entirely predictable that Johnson making baseless accusations that he’s been forced out - he even uses the word “witch-hunt”. Trumpian rubbish. Privileges Cttee has Tory majority. He lied about the most serious of things & was held to account for treating us all with contempt
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1667257489237356544
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A scientist was convinced that his recent Time Machine invention could also double as a replicator. To prove this, he sent his pet duck 1 minute and 2 minutes into the future simultaneously.
After a minute, the first duck appeared unharmed. The second duck materialized and both ducks were instantly annihilated. The appearance of the second duck had created a pair o' ducks.
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Who's ready for lunch?
Skylab astronauts ate a much wider variety of foods than the Apollo astronauts. With over 70 kinds of foods provided, including some frozen foods, they could reheat portions of their meal in special trays that slotted into the ward room's table.
#NASAhistory
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@BBC BBC World Service Newsday this morning still playing "both sides". And Nova Khakova dam is now just "a dam burst".
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7/ These two US Army maps from 1950 show how the Dnipro looked between Zaporizhzhia and Kherson before the dam was built. It won't be quite the same now, but it gives some idea of its natural contours when un-dammed. (You'll need to right-click and view the images in a new tab to see them in full detail – they're very big.) /end
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A comic I drew five years ago while hunkered indoors next to an air purifier in Seattle as wildfires raged in the Northwest. Now the east coast has the ticks AND the smoke.
Here's an interesting 2016 report from the US Army Corps of Engineers (the organisation that attempts to control the Mississippi River) on the Dnipro, including assessment of the state of #Khakova Dam and other elements of water management and river navigation.
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The Best of Bette for the week - Jeff Sharlet, Tim Snyder, Sian Norris, Zarina Zabrisky, and Kash Patel, lol.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/bettes-weekly-roundup-the-age-of?utm_source=direct&r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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1/ Uranus appears to have run out of gas. Attempts to recruit Russian rocket scientists and engineers to become "Imperial Stormtroopers" fighting in a "Uranus Battalion" in Ukraine seem to have attracted few volunteers. However, they may still be forced to join. ⬇️
Regarding #reporting on the Ukraine Dam situation: Timothy Snyder has some recommendations that #BBC World Service could do with heeding. This morning they "could not verify" Ukrainian and Russian claims about who blew the dam up.
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1666480705637851136?cxt=HHwWgICxyerXw6AuAAAA
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Which Icelandic singer was named after a city in England? Was it:
A. Norwich
B. York
C. Leeds
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1/ This very good thread on Twitter from Tom Giuretis highlights the vital role that the canals fed from the Dnipro play in the agriculture of southern Ukraine and Crimea. But I thought I'd add a historical perspective to how the canals changed life there.
https://twitter.com/TomGiuretis/status/1666062460967690240
The account @Tendar doesn't post as regularly here, but has always been a good source of info and analysis on Ukraine.
Here's a great commentary the criminal destruction of the Nova Khakova Dam as a "Nero Decree" given by a dying regime.
Hitler and Putin's paranoid bathroom habits are well-documented.
This is common in Two Toilet Aryan Regimes.
- Location
- Mostly London
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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
