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SIMON CASE: David.
SUNAK: It shows we're serious people.
CASE: David. Cameron.
SUNAK: We'll give him a Barony
CASE: Of where? Ham?
SUNAK: Well it's done now so-
ED MILIBAND <interrupts>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS!
SUNAK: Damnit! Who keeps letting him in?!
CASE: I think it's the cleaners
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Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?

image: @littlepuddins.ie

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

#actuallyautistic #AskingAutistics @ActuallyAutistic group
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Working aloft this weekend

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Superb!
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Four #prominent #Arab #Israeli #leaders were #detained in #Nazareth Thursday over planning a #protest that #police alleged could incite violence and threaten public order.

#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil ”

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#geopolitics #MiddleEast

#police #protest #MiddleEast #geopolitics #Israeli #Arab #arrested #detained #prominent #leaders #nazareth #balad #hadash #vigil
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One Way Out (Andor, Season 1, episode 10) was released one year ago today.

One of the great episodes, with two amazing monologues.

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Apple shortly introduces a much-needed feature for iMessage for users with a high degree of risk of having their communications intercepted or other parties impersonated: Contact Key Verification. At its heart, it's a way to shift the end-to-end trust in iMessages from Apple’s central servers to each party’s copy of Messages on their devices. I explain in short, medium, and long versions. @TidBITS tidbits.com/2023/11/08/upcomin… The feature should arrive in iOS/iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, and watchOS 10.2.

Upcoming Contact Key Verification Feature Promises Secure Identity Verification for iMessage - TidBITS

Apple has released details about Contact Key Verification, an upcoming option in Messages that lets you manually verify an iMessage correspondent’s identity without relying on encryption data managed centrally by Apple.
Glenn Fleishman (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)
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I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

#sysadmin #networking #japan #mb #gacha
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Looks like a BBC News intro from a decade or two ago mastodon.social/@flameReactor/…

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Winnitz wiggles.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#artBot


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So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.

The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).

They were not.

They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.

Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!

In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.

bsky.app/profile/danaweb.dev/p…

Jupiter ♃ (@danaweb.dev)

In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.
Bluesky Social

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#cambridge Guided busway claims more drivers who don’t notice signs. This car has lost one, maybe two tyres to the car trap. My question is, how are they rescued? Do ordinary rescue companies have vehicles that can get onto the guideway? Does the county council?
#Cambridge

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@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)

Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.

Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.

@Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸
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My butcher has started making sausages from seabirds.
Today he's taken a tern for the wurst.

(Sorry, so wonderfully bad I had to share...)

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Welcome to #MOVember, one asm MOV instruction each day.

The Motorola MC68000 has a BEAST of a MOV instruction.
Official assembler mnemonic: MOVE. Refreshingly clear!

You could move to and from registers and/or memory. 8-, 16-, 32- data sizes. Post increment, predecrement. Including memory-to-memory moves (*Ferris Bueller soundtrack voice*: Oh Yeah).

`*d++ = *s++` is a single instruction in 68000.

Officially destination on the right: MOVE A7,D0 copies the A7 register to D0

Please 🔁

#68k

#68k #movember

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Day 5 of #MOVember

The Z80 powered my first computer (ZX81), and was the first machine code that i learnt.

When is a MOV not a MOV? When it's a LD! The Z80 is a compatible extension of 8080 that, for copyright, has a different assembler syntax.

MOV, STAX, LDAX, MVI, and others have all been unified as LD (load).

A is the best register, and supports the most addressing modes:

LD A, reg ; from register
LD A, (HL|BC|DE|IX+dd|IY+dd) ; indirect
LA A, (nn) ; external addr

and the reverse.

#Z80

#z80 #movember
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Saul Cozens (he/him)

of all the different processor instruction sets I’ve forgotten, the Z80 was the easiest to pick up and then forget. And the 68000 was the one I wished I’d spent more time using.

The 8051 is probably the one most seared in my memory as I had to write code for it before the assembler arrived (i
n the post fro the US I think).

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I have something to say to those who said to us, when we told you that cryptocurrency was a tulip mania style bubble built on bluster, bullshit and suckers, that we didn’t understand and were just bitter about missing out. It is as follows:

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SILLY FUCKERS TOLD YOU SO.

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what is fun is that I am surpisingly ignorant about [uncleftish beholding] and so when reading about it in any form it's always like learning not just reading, so despite being tired rn and unable to remember many of the words in English, I do feel like I learned something of the subject - familiar words are not necessary to advance the concept for me. The concepts, of course, exist regardless of our names for them and being able to learn from this demonstrates that beautifully.
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Crobinik and Gosso mated to produce Mabellan.
They are a Generation 12 fractal.
They have a lot to say.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#fractalArt

#fractalart

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.io considered harmful

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The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.

.io considered harmful

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Cariad Eccleston (beep.blog)

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I was talking to my son in the car about the FTX trial and it occurs to me that a whole bunch of folks who used to have “web3” in their LinkedIn headlines don't anymore. I never saw an apology for how much money they wasted. I never saw a mea culpa from any of them.

It's like I how I wish pundits had to keep a scorecard displayed on screen of how often they're correct. Your past boosterism for bullshit should stick to you and be harder to remove than just updating your profile.

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UK state overreach, misuse of abortion laws against patients

Reminder that abortion in the UK is actually illegal – we just disapply the legislation in most cases.

So, when The State can use this legislation against citizens, it can most certainly do so.

British police testing women for abortion drugs
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British police testing women for abortion drugs - Tortoise

Forensic reports seen by Tortoise show police requesting tests for mifepristone and misoprostol
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An interesting discovery this week: my Halifax credit card keeps a log of recent transactions and will serve it up over NFC on request. Here I am buying a tram ticket in Leipzig in May.

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A painting of a troll by Brian Froud (1976). The painting inspired Jim Henson to create the Mystics for "The Dark Crystal."

#JimHenson #BrianFroud #DarkCrystal #art #fantasy #troll #monster #31DaysofHaunting #OfDarkandMacabre #BookChatWeekly

#art #fantasy #troll #Monster #jimhenson #OfDarkandMacabre #brianfroud #darkcrystal #31daysofhaunting #bookchatweekly
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“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

“I’m sorry, Dave; I can’t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.”

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Pen fans! I have a Platinum Plaisir with some pink ink which keeps going scratchy on me even though the converter still has plenty of ink in it. I’ve tried cleaning everything out with water and letting it dry and it’s a little bit better but it still seems to dry out in use. Any suggestions?

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I have no advice, I'm just noting how autocorrupt has changed Platignum to platinum. Also, ironically, the old Platignum factory in Royston has long gone, having been roughly where the platinum refinery is

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Oh wait, there is a Japanese company named Platinum who also do pens, and no relation to the English company whose products were once so ubiquitous

Platignum - A Short History

http://hans.presto.tripod.com/scan/platignum02.html I find it interesting. Rather than copy & paste it I've given you the link.Platignum made the reai-life James Bond type pens for the British Government.
Ebberman (The Fountain Pen Network)
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Numerous individuals discredit and dismiss the loss of life in Palestine due to the source of the numbers being Hamas. Nevertheless, photographic evidence remains a reliable testament. When an entire area is razed, the casualties and loss of life are profoundly significant. Such actions are indefensible independent.co.uk/news/world/m…

Before and after aerial pictures show deadly Gaza destruction in full

Entire neighbourhoods destroyed in retaliation for attack launched by Hamas on Israel on 7 October
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Mess around Marx

This has been announced by high #Israel officials. Everybody could have read or heard it. Most politicians in the western world consented or ignored it, because they decided to unconditionally support #Israel and not to care about civilian victims of Israel's retaliation strikes, which are regarded as "collateral damage" of "legitimate defense measures" against Hamas.
We are witnessing a #genocide in progress.
#israel #genocide
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