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Welcome to the home of BBC Micro Bot!

This is now the main, the Twitter account will be downgraded to a mirror in the coming weeks.

The bot ran its first Mastodon toot yesterday, I expect it to be up full time at the weekend.

Thanks for joining us on this journey 👾

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Bird site 

@Drunkenmadman I felt like I was the only one who did that.

Gaaaaaaaarlic Bread? 

@xtaldave Will it just be 2 hours of him shouting that line repeatedly in an increasingly histrionic fashion?

Me when I first learnt about type hints and type checkers:
Wow, so powerful for writing better, cleaner, safer code! Never again will I write
```
def f(x, y, z): ...
```
Instead, I shall write:
```
def f(x: Any, y: Any, z: Any) -> Any: ...
```
mypy reports no errors... we're good to go!

@lewishamdreamer “…walks into a bar; what would you like, Ms Braverman?”.

Thoughts on the sociology of Mastodon and Twitter 

```
DELETE * FROM twitter.tweets WHERE creation_date >= $now;
```

UK politics 

This is really worrying. Arresting journalists just for doing their job is something we would expect in Putin's Russia or Xi's China.

We should really not be seeing this in a western democracy.

pressgazette.co.uk/three-journ

@sciencebase I had an unused floating account on an instance years ago but never did anything with it. Now I have impetus.

Subtoot 

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a metric megashitload of opprobrium, snark and derision, apparently.

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

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