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re: ukpol, Labour, transphobia, whereas the Green Party

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@Alisdair Calder McGregor
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geekylou :transgender_flag:
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@Sarah Brown
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Trans actual challenge GnRH analogue (so-called puberty blockers) ban in court.

transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/0…

Press release: TransActual issue urgent court proceedings – TransActual

In partnership with the Good Law Project, today (18th June 2024), TransActual alongside an anonymous trans young person acting as Second Claimant have issued court proceedings against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
transactual.org.uk

I remember @Ben Harris complaining when I expressed appreciation of tea with "om nom nom". "You can't nom tea!"

Can you nom tea?

@Ben Harris

Just noticed that in DS9 the Dominion are first mentioned… in a silly Ferengi episode. Can’t decide if that’s better than Q waving the Enterprise at the Borg.

The radio tells me humans are force feminising frogs so they rasp femininely rather than emitting a masculine croak

Don't vote with your heart. It's very messy and may invalidate your ballot.
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sunflowerinrain
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I shouldn't have read that while being talked at on phone. Awkward to explain the inappropriate giggles. 😀
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I designed a 4-bit architecture (the TINY Machine), to give my students the experience of knowing a computer so completely that they can simulate it bit for bit on the back of an envelope. I'm still writing new programs for it, but one of my favourites is
4F5545745CAF3200<br>

which outputs
4F5545745CAF3200<br>

TINY's Quiney!

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Conor Mc Bride
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@typeswitch One year, I had a student whose (highly successful) Honours project was to make the TINY Machine actually happen on an FPGA. I was so happy to see it for real.
@lawless polymorph

#ukpol Apart from the nonsense of the Tories' blithering about handing Labour a "blank cheque", how many people still know what a cheque is or what a blank one means?
#ukpol

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Martin EA7KRC
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But they have taken it to a whole new level, not satisfied with millions, its billions now

Did you know the World Meteorological Organisation has a document on Sea Ice Nomenclature? No? Well now you do.

library.wmo.int/viewer/41953/


WMO e-Library

WMO Sea-Ice Nomenclature (WMO-No. 259)
library.wmo.int
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This week's #FailureFriday is MV Explorer.

Built to explore the polar regions, it explored exciting grounding opportunities in the Antarctic in 1972 and 1979. Definitely lost in 2007 after accidentally hosting a meeting of the Titanic Reenactment Society.

The accident report later suggested that the invitation for an iceberg to join the passengers and crew for an exciting evening of events had been extended rather too hastily.

Also Antarctic ice "is harder", apparently.

MV Explorer, pictured at an angle that strongly implies evening drinks will be cancelled tonight. Or at the very least sliding sideways along the deck. The red hulled ship is leaning at about 45 degrees.
#failurefriday
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@Peternimmo the accident report is available online, and the loss is pretty convincingly explained.

There's passenger video of the ice field, it rammed into a "wall of ice" without slowing down - maybe don't try that in future - and the speed of sinking implies the damage was far worse than the "fist-sized hole" originally reported.

The expert above was interviewed before the facts came out, I've just been unfair!

@Peter Nimmo
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Link Post: Just how ridiculous is politics in France right now threadreaderapp.com/thread/180…

Thread by @RnaudBertrand on Thread Reader App

@RnaudBertrand: These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵 So after losing big time in the EU elections to Le Pen's Rassemblement National (RN), ...…
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Watching the birds in the garden, I find myself wondering about their inner life. Why does a bird decide to do what it does? If it's sitting on the fence and nothing apparently changes, why does it decide at a particular point to fly away? They're not just instinct response machines, I think. Do birds get bored? Do they post on bird twitter about the blob sitting at the black oblong and why she suddenly gets up to do something else?
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Obv I have no insight into a bird's inner state though I'd be unsurprised if they had at least some emotional existence. But one can posit things that incentivise it to move without needing to invoke boredom.

Like it's got hungry enough that it's gone off to feed; or some kind of patrolling setup where it wants to check each of several territories at least so often. Or it's spotted something that you or I wouldn't notice - perhaps overhearing calls of another bird?

The cleaner and gardener are both here at the same time. I feel so middle class. (Obviously not upper class, or I'd have sent the butler to the Post Office rather than going there myself.)

File H and rank 8 are still empty

Bluesky

Bluesky Social

Step one of utility today: get someone to fix the front door so I can get in and out of the house easily.

I must know a few vets in these parts. What's this "strangles" that's infected the Stables in Ambridge? #thearchers
#thearchers
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Hornby's Zero1: The name reflected it was a Digital system. Unfortunately, financial issues resulted in little to no development continuing shortly after it came on the market. Zero1 became a market leader in command control despite this.
dcc.wiki/DK7ib
#ModelRailway #Hornby #ModelRailways #digitalcommandcontrol #modelrailroad

Hornby's Zero1 Digital Control System

Hornby Railway's Zero1 was the first Command Control system built around a custom microcontroller from Texas Instruments. The Zero1 name was chosen to reflect that it was a Digital system.
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#ModelRailway #ModelRailways #hornby #digitalcommandcontrol #modelrailroad

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I see Sunak has been winning hearts and minds in his dwindling core vote by buggering off home early from the D-Day commemoration.

Even Farage managed to stay to the end, and his side lost.

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Richard Gadsden
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Someone had to represent the Nazis, and the German government didn't want to.

What if Billy Bunter’s postal order was from Special Circumstances?

Pint or n with @Conor Mc Bride who is enjoying their pint more than the expression suggests!
Person in a golden dress holding a pint of golden fizzy beer.
@Conor Mc Bride
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Conor Mc Bride
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Also, you'd have got a much better photo if you'd just taken one and asked for permission afterwards. When I'm asked for a photo, I have an awkward tendency to pull a Lembit Öpik half-smile.

Dear brain, stop making stuff up. There’s no evidence; it’s just depression.

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text exchange between someone and their mother. mother: can you come out? response: yeah gimmie a minute, mom, i'm gay mother: i know that silly. come out to the car. response: car, i'm gay
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Product idea: Peril sensitive hearing aids.

Automatically shuts off if right wing politicians start speaking.

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@Zoë O'Connell Should be entirely doable in this modern era of machine learning and pattern recognition. Only snag is coping with Farage-induced deafness.
@Zoë O'Connell
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I'm guessing the punchline of all this Ed Davey stunt shenanigans is him whizzing down a zipline with one UK flag and one EU flag, but actually making it to the other end.

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Forget the brig, forget having a pip removed from your collar so you're the same rank as Kim... the absolute worst punishment possible on Voyager is Janeway's "disappointed" look.
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Dearest @CountBinface:

I don't know if you're registered yet as a candidate anywhere, but if you're not I would like to suggest you stand in Clacton and approach all the other parties to support you as a modern day Martin Bell

#UKpol #ge2024

#ukpol #ge2024 @Count Binface
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Modern day Martin Bell? I think @CountBinface is all for repealing bigoted transphobic legislation and letting foxes live in peace.
@Count Binface
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"Just look at my record stopping small boats."
Rishi Sunak, at a campaign stop by a river, as a small boat full of Lib Dems holding party placards sails by behind him.

The nation is now sharing an experience with many trans people.

We're all on a waiting list for Tory Replacement Therapy.

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and Starmer's Labour has adopted a policy of 'watchful waiting'?

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Me : Feel shit, must be hormones
@Zoë O'Connell : sure it's not Tories?

Fair point.

@Zoë O'Connell
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Do not 100% rule out pollen too. Though I'm pretty sure a lot of it is Tories. *hug*

Get up, fed, showered, sit down at desk. Then stare out of the window. Get coffee. Attempt to remember what I was doing on Friday. Stare out of the window. Cry.

Boosting this as it's interesting: Medicines regulation is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998 (Sch. 5 (II)(J4)), so Holyrood cannot legislate in this area and Atkins is not stepping on Holyrood's legislative competence toes here.

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@Lisa DiFalco @Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ The subject matter of the Medicines Act 1968 (under which this Order was made) is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998.

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I’ve not shared this in a long time. How to plan a grab and go bag. If you’re reaching for a bag like this then you’ve probably left things longer than you ought to have done. That said, populism can turn things sour very fast and, whereas escape plans may be for long term or permanent exit, a grab bag may save your skin when suddenly you need an exit.
Annotated diagram of what to have in a pre-packed grab bag: Grab-and-Go Bag Pen & notepad Phone charger & battery bank Flashlight Radio Personal toiletries Seasonal clothing Food & water First aid kit Batteries Whistle Emergency plan
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@taatm I find it deeply disturbing that people need to know that. That information is for people who live in a borderline failing state.
@The Animal and the Machine
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As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.

Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.

If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.

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Daragh Ó Briain
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@amckinstry One of the best books I have read in business is this one amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burno…

Key principle: we need to allow for slack in processes so they can absorb delay, prevent burnout, but also have some reserves in the tank to deal with crises.

If @Tupp_ed wants to borrow my copy this can be arranged.

@Simon McGarr @Alastair McKinstry
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@DaraghOBrien @amckinstry
Another factor infecting taxpayer-funded public services is the Toyota Production Method (called Lean in North America).

It's predicated on minimalism in everything. Flat management. Limits on staffing. "Just in Time" Processes. Employee training replaced by manuals. Making the staff do the janitorial work.

Unpaid overtime to make up for inadequate staffing during vacations season, flu or hurricane season, or other "unexpected" events like pandemics.

1/2

@Alastair McKinstry @Daragh Ó Briain
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the perfect wikipedia paragraph doesn't exi-
Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic. However, his leadership style seems to strive for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects—a form of benevolent dictatorship.[citation needed]

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Revolutionaries come for Babar. #GuillotineWatch
youtube.com/watch?v=X6OQN3XDOA…

Robot Chicken | Babar and The French Revolution | Adult Swim UK

Watch all the latest episodes of Robot Chicken now over on All 4 🇬🇧: http://bit.ly/robchic#RobotChicken #Babar► SUBSCRIBE to Adult Swim UK: http://bit.ly/1...
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#guillotinewatch
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It’s also occurred to me that screwing up the country with the worst generational equality in history then training a bunch of young people how to use the guns you just gave them is… an interesting decision.

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Adam
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but the army needs lightly-trained poorly-motivated manpower, right?
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If the old people elect the Tories, young people will have (1) even more reason to resent them, and (2) military training.

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@goatsarah I hereby declare “guilloteen” to be a word, and I promise to continue doing my bit to educate them.
@Sarah Brown

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The three genders: with shoulders, with elbows, and handbag.

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So doge, very meme, I old; go bye now
Classic viral photo of Kabosu, the shiba inu dog behind the "doge" meme, who has just died.
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My enemy paid me a call
and though I'm not evil at all
I showed him the sherry
then got a bit merry
by bricking him up in the wall
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Funny how Brexit was the nation defining act we absolutely had to see through to it's bitter end (which will never be in sight) and now in General Election 2024 nobody wants to talk about it, and those whose identity is forever entwinned with the thing are shunned (like David Frost) or are fucking off out of politics (like Brexit 'Hardman' Steve Baker)

But don't anybody talk of undoing the mess, how dare you, ....unperson! unperson!

#Brexit #GE2024 #DavidFrost #SteveBaker #UKPOL

#brexit #ukpol #ge2024 #DavidFrost #stevebaker

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Space Hobo
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See also: places where LTNs got ripped out, and the streets became more dangerous and filled with cars. "Oh no, we can't try that again for another decade at least! Shhh! Don't wake the car-mad reform-dot-uk agitprop machine!!!"
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