nullifidian @nullifidian@qoto.org

Listening to the ever wonderful Naga on #bbc5live . Mp Charlotte Nichols saying that when she first came to westminster (very recently), she was sat down and handed a list of about 40 mps she's not safe to be alone with, not in a lift alone with, not to accept a drink from, cross party. She says there's a well established #whispernetwork in Westminster to help women navigate life as an mp without assault. What the actual. #ukpol #politics

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

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 👾

For more information please re-read.

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!

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.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/three-journalists-locked-up-for-covering-m25-protests-police-force-says-the-arrests-were-justified/

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

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

Someone in a group called Twitter “$8chan” 🤣

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Hold up. We have a 512 character limit here on Mastodon! Can’t wait to see what people code with it