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An elementary combinatorics exercise:

"Revelations 13:1 says 'I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name'. Assuming that the horns are indistinguishable, in how many ways could they be distributed among the seven heads? (Assume that the blasphemous names are all different.). What if each horn is different?"

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#2961 CrowdStrike

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#palestine #israel #icj #InternationalLaw

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Someone has finally been done in modern times for *checks notes* "Handling a Salmon under Suspicious Circumstances"

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1740…

Fisherman fined for hiding salmon up sleeve in 'suspicious circumstances'

Angler Stephen Samuel is punished for "handling salmon under suspicious circumstances"
Adam Hale (BBC News)

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Know the difference!

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Adam

Yeah, I read it first as "Thames swan counters hope; numbers recover…" (which is not supported by the provided orthography but people sometimes type sloppily) and then wondered what hope numbers were, then got the right parse.

PTC collects these things, ISTR.

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Just seen the best bit of commentary on transmisogyny I’ve seen in ages: if you want to know how a man treats cis women in private, look at how he treats trans women in public.
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it's fucking crazy to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works
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Chilling out on a shady bench passing time before I have to get a taxi to the airport. Absolutely loving the pictures of shocked and disappointed French right wingers that I keep seeing in my masto feed 🐂👍🦌😆

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Anyone trying to downplay or put to the negative what happened to France this evening probably doesn’t like democracy. This is an absolute win against populism and fascism, with a record number of people casting their votes. I’m more than happy with the result

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Transphobia, UK politics

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#transphobia #ukelection #partyofwomen

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Have nothing in your home that you do not
• know to be useful
• believe to be beautiful
• feel unaccountable vague fondness for
• can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
• firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
• can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
• feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
• fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
• miscellaneous
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Outside, people are out and about chilling and having fun. It's warm. I love Europe. Used to belong to me too and the idiots took it away.

Don't think I'll ever forgive that.

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With Meloni and the like and how is going on now, trust me, it's NOT "such a nice place to be" even trying to ignore all that is around. Italy is full of "many weird things" that make the day to day life there .. complicated .. I dare to say "if you want to move let's move to Parintins/Brasil" .. Italy has many nice things .. except the politics, the laws, the bureaucracy, the "too many everyday things that don't go as they should" it's tough even for who is born there like me.
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Today is a good day to cast your stoat! #pollingday
#pollingday

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My subconscious desire to push the envelope of what I could get away with laminating is the reason I donated my laminator to the ESE teacher...

Probably unrelated side note: Did you know that you can laminate Kraft singles sliced cheese without it melting if you freeze it first? 🌠

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folks developing web apps should be forced to use them on scotrail free wifi for a month before being allowed to release them

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We should have our own East Coast Liberal Elite, you know in England.

Conceptual art critics? Walton-on-the-Naze. Experimental film making hub? Filey. World Postmodernism Conference? Cleethorpes. Secret World Government? Gibraltar Point; third bird hide on the left.

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Europe is full of centre right and centre left parties who, rather than oppose far right scapegoating of minorities, have adopted a position of, “those guys are right, don’t vote for them”.

To their incredible surprise, this isn’t working.

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I knew Brewdog was a shitty company but I didn’t know they ran actual Nazi bars. theguardian.com/business/artic…

BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in bar

Company accused staff member of ‘aggressive behaviour’ after she raised concerns about far-right group gathering
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Quick Assange frequent misconceptions thread:
1) "Assange was merely wanted for questioning" - no, Swedish judicial process required that he be interrogated before charges could be made. Sweden arrested him in his absence (he'd already left the country) and filed a European Arrest Warrant. English judges concluded that he had been formally accused of the crimes, even if not indicted. See section 142 of wired.com/images_blogs/threatl….
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@HN414 The argument was that he conspired to gain access to classified material. To the extent that any plea deal sets precedent (which it doesn't really), this one sets no precedent around people who merely receive classified material from sources rather than encouraging sources to break the law to acquire that material in the first place
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See also being pulled into a random slack channel with no context…

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Digging out some statistics for my own edutainment

pewresearch.org/short-reads/20… Estimates about 1.6% of USAns trans or non-binary.

About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth

1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.
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This Instituto Camões application form has a drop down field where you can list your occupation. The choices are somewhat eccentric:

Astrólogos. / Astrologers.
Parapsicólogos. / Parapsychologists.
Toureiros. / Bullfighters.
Outros artistas tauromáquicos. / Other bullfighting artists.

The neighbours in Spain might explain the last two but I am at a loss as to why astrologers and parapsychologists make the cut for what is quite a short list.

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I am reminded of my dealings with the Job Centre, telling them that I was looking for a job as a lexicographer, which was not in their system. IT is rather a worse omission though!

(the job centre had IT but it didn't have specific subdomains that I was actually looking for like "natural language processing" so it was all a bit of a pointless exercise)

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Some points, and a question for uk politicians;

  1. There are around half a million trans people in the uk, including eggs.
  2. There are a few thousand TERFs.
  3. Trans people will vote for you if you treat us like human beings.
  4. Nothing you do will ever satisfy TERFs.

And so to the question: why are you so bad at basic arithmetic?

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UK Pol, Transphobia

I see that the press is once again trying to present terfism as nuanced: “we don’t want to stop trans women wearing skirts, we just don’t want them in our (SIC) spaces”.

Stop press, Joanne. They’re our fucking spaces too, because as we’ve been explaining for fucking years: trans women are women.

  • Trans women get breast cancer, therefore we need breast cancer screening.
  • Trans women get gynaecological problems, therefore we need gynaecologists.
  • Trans women get raped, therefore we need rape crisis counselling.
  • Trans women suffer disproportionate levels of domestic violence, therefore we need DV shelters.

And so on, and so on.

Do you fucking get it yet?

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