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Ilanin
@ilanin.bsky.social
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Definitely not a tiny twentysomething French racing driver. @putdorianedown.bsky.social, but not talking about motorsports. Probably gaming/puns/maybe coding who knows?
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 1d
I won't live long enough but it would be funny in 150 years' time to see guides explaining to confused pilgrims why the Vatican museum has a room full of baseball jerseys.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 3d
In possibly-related news to the daft thing that I just put on @putdorianedown.bsky.social, I'm really getting along with Positron, the new IDE from the RStudio chaps. Not tried to use it for Python yet but the R stuff flows better than it did in RStudio I think.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 3d
Can we schedule posts yet? Obviously need to schedule a bunch of posts to appear at 4am for your benefit...
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 3d
Also what is up with the ordering here? You'd like to think they'd present the recommendations in order of how strongly recommended they are but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason there.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 5d
abby be like: "Come, and I shall make you fishers of women". Except less creepily than that but y'know, reference etc.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 6d
The Royal Navy, having largely swept the seas of anything vaguely hostile at its outset, would spend much of the 19th century engaging forts. Unfortunately a ship is quite a large target whereas to do any real damage to a fort requires precise gunlaying and they never really did get the hang of it.
hanstino.bsky.social Hans Tino Hansen @hanstino.bsky.social · 7d
#OTD 24 October 1808 the Danish fortress at Christiansø island in the Baltic under the commandant Johan Henrik August von Kohl, beats off an attack by a Royal Navy squadron of 2 ships- of-line and 6 frigates.
#navalhistory
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 8d
Oh well in that case, Tycho. Which as well as thematic appropriateness means you can abbreviate to "tyke" which is the nature of most cats though I don't think that word exists in American English.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 9d
Friends make life more bearable.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 9d
One should always put Chesterton on a committee intended to provide recommendations on the removal of fences. It is quite likely that several current regulatory processes are unnecessarily bureaucratic but you can't determine that without bringing in the people who actually know why they're there.
adambell.bsky.social Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 9d
Such a bad way of doing this sort of thing. Business responds, "I don't like X," Civil Service responds, "But X provides important co-benefits Y and Z," in equivocal advice to a non-expert Minister, and nothing changes.
richard.hebditch.org Richard Hebditch @richard.hebditch.org · 9d
Nostalgia time for policy geeks - the Red Tape Challenge is back!
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 10d
That does sound like somewhere you might want to have a commitment to distance from.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 10d
idk this seems more like Darth Jenga to me...
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 13d
Or, I suppose, if the commander had had the appropriate level of scepticism for his briefing and turned around at full speed (which may not have been possible for the MTB in the prevailing sea state, of course).
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 13d
It seems like the strategy would probably have worked if the Admiralty had had a clearer idea of where the minefield actually was.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 13d
It should save a bunch of American right-wing influencers on the travel budget - they won't have to go to London to lie about how everything is terrible they can just go to New York.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 13d
Chess moves I'm proud enough of to brag about, an occasional series. This one looks bad for black, doesn't it? But....

16... Qc7!!
IRL my opponent failed to notice the main problem and the game ended
17 g5?? Qxc2#
But even if you do...
17 Rxd4 (or c3) Qxf4+
18 Kb1 Bxg5 and the Queen is trapped.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 13d
maybe there was a disagreement about how the Roc wasn't ugly enough to be on-brand.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 14d
Though sometimes the judge just wants to vent. I don't think this paragraph is particularly useful, he just wants to get the last sentence in.
In addition to not involving Mr Verdier in proceedings, there is no evidence that Ms Saunders uses the same aggressive and cruel language against Mr Verdier that she has used against the other lodge owners, although he did give unchallenged evidence that before he became friendlier with Ms Saunders she used to drive past him in her car and, for no apparent reason, stick both her fingers up at him. There seems no logical explanation for that behaviour, but it does align with the way in which Ms Saunders seems to interact socially.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 15d
Clearsky says you're in 21. I don't know that elaborating on this would be a good idea.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 19d
Possibility none of the secretaries are at work because of the shutdown and the Trump admin doesn't understand the meaning of the word "essential"?
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 20d
Wouldn't it be easier to just require mapmakers to write Greenland (USA) instead of Greenland (Denmark)? He's got form in that area.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 23d
It would be a useful feature of Windows if I could tick a box somewhere to inform it that a particular HDMI output didn't have speakers and sound devices should quit trying to output to it. Apropos of nothing in particular and definitely not Spotify trying to play to my monitor AGAIN.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 24d
You know the economy's bad when even the Volcanoes are going out of business.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 26d
I'm always impressed how England managed to transition from the extremely belligerent competence of the Protectorate to, well, this sort of nonsense being a regular occurrence practically overnight.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 27d
It was the first one that came to mind, but I feel like there's also a couple of chaps named Thomas who might be in the conversation.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 27d
Yeah I feel like this one probably won't cause any potential future Kings to decide they'd better be crowned by the Archbishop of York instead.
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