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Went to an NHS vaccine drop in centre and said, “I had a single measles vaccine 49 years ago. Could I have an MMR please?”

No quibbles. I am now in the queue for an MMR.

I will not go blind because of Andrew sodding Wakefield.

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Please boost if you like French Fries, or if you feel like you're barely coping in a meaningless void of existence.
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The fandom doesn’t kid around.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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Carolin (Kamera-)Kram

Heather is truly one of the most amazing queer writers I've had the pleasure of discovering.

Fellow nerdy sapphics (or anyone else, really 😅) who want to read more of her stuff: Check out Cattywampus at theheatherhogan.substack.com – you won't regret it. 💪 Maybe start with theheatherhogan.substack.com/p… or theheatherhogan.substack.com/p… or

Soft Stories

My life is not a soft story, but my heart is a soft heart.
Heather Hogan (Cattywampus)
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Anxiety is my constant companion. I’m always anxious and it only varies in degrees. It’s been this way my entire life. Nothing really changes that fact.

Do you deal with anxiety?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

image: @worrywellbeing

#actuallyautistic #AskingAutistics @ActuallyAutistic group

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I try to be aware emotionally and physically which is difficult so when I feel 😬. I used to try to hide it from myself. Mostly because most things I tried didn’t work. Probably those memories were shaped when I was a different person. So if I take my old anxiety’s and acknowledge that happens and I wasn’t so aware I try and be incredibly kinder in general to myself. I also try to see what I was doing before the emotion sets in to process what came before.🧐
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I’m pleased to announce that almost all of the episodes of Just Plain Sense from Jan 2009 (episodes 52-90) have been archived on the Internet Archive. Approx 170 snapshots of the web site are also available through the WayBack machine. Access the audio content at archive.org/details/jps-90-ali…

Just Plain Sense Episodes (Series 2) : Christine Burns MBE : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Interview episodes from the Podcast 'Just Plain Sense' produced and presented by Christine Burns MBE from 2008 onwards. Original license CC-BY-NC-SA
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Many are asking this

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How to implement GPT in 500 lines of SQL: explainextended.com/2023/12/31…

Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL - EXPLAIN EXTENDED

A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
Quassnoi (EXPLAIN EXTENDED)

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well written explanation that no in fact this AI emperor has no clothes. Pattern matching. Yes. Getting quite good when scope is limited. But this is blatantly obvious because none of these AI firms particularly google are using these tools in their core business. Like detecting gmail spammers. And where used horrible results. Like current google search. Which is worst ever.
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Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"

"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648"
"Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."

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Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:
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Out on the old SUP, GoPro mounted on the front, remote control shutter release on the paddle. Contre jour.
A picture taken from the bow of a standup paddle board, which we can see in white at the bottom of the image. The sun is bright and centre in a clear blue sky causing massive lens flare over a calm blue lagoon. In silhouette in the distance is another paddle boarder and a twin masted sailboat (a ketch) at anchor.
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Did you know you can't use 'Beef Stew' as a password?

It's not stroganoff

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Dear Lady Chief Justice....

Open Letter to the LCJ: HMCTS guidance on public access to courts
courtobservers.org/2024/02/18/…

Open Letter to the LCJ: HMCTS guidance on public access to courts

Dear Lady Chief Justice, We write on behalf of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network, a UK-based initiative focused on how the public can be supported to observe courts and access court infor…
Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network

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people say the big class one railroads don't do innovation, but here is norfolk southern demonstrating their new folding trainset on the acela mainline

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There are a few weird differences between opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, and civil partnerships. In particular, in the grounds on which the partnerships can be annulled on the application of one partner.

The first is that same-sex marriages aren't voidable for reasons of non-consummation; basically it used to mean "PIV sex" and Parliament didn't fancy trying to define consummation for same-sex couples in legislation.

The stranger one is that only marriage is voidable for reasons of venereal disease.

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it's my birthday give me boosts :toot:

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patreon.com/posts/98498779 has leaks about the Hugo censorship thing. I’m not convinced self-censorship is the whole story and there’s almost certainly more to come out. However if it is accurate about Kat Jones’ involvement she probably ought not to be involved in Glasgow’s Hugo admin.
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The Ukrainian navy is just trolling now: the original Major Kunikov died on February 14th, 1943. They literally waited until the anniversary of his death to sink his nautical namesake. kyivindependent.com/media-russ…

Military says Russian landing ship sunk in Black Sea

If confirmed, it would be the fourth landing ship from Russia's Black Sea Fleet that has been sunk since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Nate Ostiller (The Kyiv Independent)
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-dsr- (minifigurally literate)

@graydon @rabidchaos

There are, I think, 4 Virginia-class SSNs under construction.

hii.com/news/hii-arkansas-ssn-…

... although they do have six vertical tubes for cruise missile launch.

Note for potential use by Charlie:

"The third ship of the [Seawolf] class, USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23), has a 100-foot hull extension called the multi-mission platform. This hull section provides for additional payloads to accommodate advanced technology used to carry out classified research and development and for enhanced warfighting capabilities."

That's nicely vague.

HII Marks Arkansas (SSN 800) Construction Milestone at Newport News Shipbuilding - HII

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., (Sept. 27, 2023) — HII shared today (NYSE: HII) that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has reached a significant milestone in the construction of Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800).
HII
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I can only hope that one day the UK does similar to trans people. theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

‘This is where I apologise’: Polish state TV presenter says sorry to LGBT+ viewers

Activist Bart Staszewski hails ‘meaningful and necessary’ apology as opening new chapter for state broadcaster
Ashifa Kassam (The Guardian)

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Sometimes I love negative reviews: "While the inclusion of non-binary and lesbian characters was great to see, the sheer volume was disproportionate" 😂

If you want disproportionate queerness go buy A Fire Born of Exile
geni.us/AFireBorn
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A Fire Born of Exile: A Xuya Universe Novel

OUT NOW
geni.us

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My doctor told me I needed orthopedic supports in my shoes. I didn’t believe it, but now I stand corrected.

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WHAT—

github.com/djanderson/aho

GitHub - djanderson/aho: A git implementation in awk

A git implementation in awk. Contribute to djanderson/aho development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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I piloted a starship, and I can’t figure this out either.

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