Two German soldiers are hunting for a downed British airman.
"We'll never find him in this wood at night." One says, quietly.
"You're right." The other one replies, loudly. "BECAUSE I HEAR HE WENT TO ETON."
"Actually gentleman, I'm a Wykehamist." A nearby bush replies, annoyed. #histodons
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1. 'AND', the most powerful word in any language?
Sharon Astyk (a Jew by marriage) wrote the following rules for discussing #Israel / #Palestine / War in a FB group she administers.
"Hi Folks. I just want to set down rules for any discussion of Israel/Palestine/ProtoWWIII.
Here are the rules.
1. MORE THAN ONE THING CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:
#Jews were mass murdered over and over again and have a justifiable fear of being murdered again AND that fear has made us do horrifying things to the Palestinians over and over again that are not justified in any way.
Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years, and have a historic claim to it AND we use religious language and assumptions that may be mythological to most. AND real Palestinian people lost their homes unfairly. More than one people can have a historic claim to the same place.
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On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 would die. 340 would be injured.
That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since.
Because that disaster would help lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 #healthcare #history
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Newsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more.YouTube
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It’s ok to be confused.
It’s ok to not know where you’re going or who you’re becoming, whatever your age may be.
The honest and wise among us will say that they’re at least a little lost, too.
Everyone is.
#positivity #lifepositivity ..
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“HS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
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Vatican librarian talking about how to make your search for papal bulls hit. pouet.chapril.org/@chaprot/111…
Demande récurrente qui m'embarrasse le plus : "Bonjour est-ce que vous avez des bulles pontificales concernant le prieuré médiéval de Saint-Trucmuche ?"Alors.
Je vois pourquoi vous pensez qu'on aurait ça hein. On pourrait croire. Oui.
Mais. Est-ce qu'on a ça. Euh.
Peut-être. Ça dépend un peu de quand elle est, votre bulle. Et un peu de ce que vous voulez dire par "bulle". Ou de ce qu'ils entendaient alors par là. Et même si on l'a pas ça veut pas dire qu'y'a pas nulle part. Faut voir.
HER: You need to stop with the self-deprecating humor
ME: No can do, that is a load-bearing coping mechanism
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Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.Yasemin Saplakoglu (WIRED)
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I did a long run at an easy effort this morning. About half an hour in, I encountered this graffito, a clear reminder to do most of your #running at low effort.
Happy bimbling!
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Big uptick in new people here from Twitter - WELCOME PALS, I hope you enjoy it here as much as I am.
For those unfamiliar with the fediverse, the most important thing to note is that favs do absolutely nothing to help me pay my bills. Please boost my toots. Feel free to mock the way that sounds till you're blue in the face, as long as you still boost my toots.
My toots: boost them.
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i always appreciate it when you boost my stuff, and I always boost when I see yours, Molly's or anyone's.
I see those of us who are talking about sex in honest ways as conversation starters but damn it is a slog without the shares.
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Grr. You buy a ticket with Apple Pay on your phone and it turns out to be a paper ticket like it’s the 19th Century or something. So I have to collect it from the machine. Which wants the bank card with which I paid for it. Which is impossible since I used Apple Pay.
(Fortunately any bank card will do and the assistant put hers in, but but but)
Daisy Cooper on R4 Today repeatedly mentioned not using "top-down algorithms" for housing policy.
I never thought an undergraduate understanding of heapsort would be politically relevant.
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The Atlantic magazine has created a searchable database from the dataset 'Books3' used to create generative A.I. systems. This dataset was created from 'books free online' - in other words, pirated works.
Authors who write licensed work/tie-ins, please to check for your names. When you find work for Warhammer, Star Trek, Stargate, Halo, etc listed, do please inform their lawyers.
For example, I just looked up Dan Abnett (great writer, lovely person, do read his work!)
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Very cool tool by Atlantic. Their tool improves the transparency of the 'Books3' data set. It's something the creators of the dataset probably should have done themselves.
Related article: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)
Never thought I’d be grateful for Tory corruption… bird.makeup/users/pippacrerar/…
EXCL: Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Rishi Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line - by @breeallegretti theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line
Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester legAubrey Allegretti (The Guardian)
This is the main motorway from Gothenburg to Oslo. Happened overnight. (before 2023-09-22 02:00)
EDIT: rescue services commander is saying 4 cars & a bus drove into it.
And "half the Burger King" is part of the landslide.
Rescue efforts underway. Those cars & bus have been searched. 3 ppl sent to hospital. Seemingly no deaths, thankfully.
First person to call 112 was standing in the way to stop ppl driving into it, says same commander.
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Vägbanor har förstörts • Flera fordon körde ner i rasmassorna.gp.se
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Results of the Big Butterfly Count show that butterfly numbers have increased this year after the wetter summer, with numbers at four-year high. But habitat loss is still causing long-term decline
#savebutterflies yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/en…
Figures show the wetter summer was good for butterflies, with numbers at four year high, although, habitat loss is causing long term declineChat GPT (Yorkshire Bylines)
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Do you have a prescribed body?
(Yes yes I know)
ah, yes, the three genders
#genders #breakfast #waffle #foundATypo #forgotTheTags #notificationRevenge
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@DemocracyMattersALot you mean the 5 genders, as they come in all purpose or whole wheat, and once again, as in life, we see that women are at a disadvantage.
This feels kinda woke and I dig it.
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Yikes.. I recommend an employee retention seminar for bosses and board members..🤦♀️
Jamie
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@WOMUMP I have found the email of which that was the subject back in March 1998.
“I have bought a jar of Swarfega and placed it in the downstairs bathroom. I suggest we classify it as food (finacially).”
Ah, the joys of shared geek households.
Just finished @r_emrys's "A Half-Built Garden" and can't stop thinking about (among other things) her vision for actually-helpful technology: algorithm-assisted decision making processes that give explicit weight to human-defined values. *This* is what I wanted to build when I got into tech.
Good story, too. Very highly recommend:
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