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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 15h

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/r...

Linux projects line up behind the latest release

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Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, and Peppermint OS move to Debian 13

: Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release

www.theregister.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17h

Thread

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 17h

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/s...

Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses

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Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

: Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses

www.theregister.com

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 22h

Don't take vegan or plant based protein powder.

JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 1d

No, just certain plant and vegan based ones: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

what this appears to show is that something is going on specifically with plant-based and vegan protein powders, and in particular there are two that seem full-on dangerous

but there's very little to nothing wrong with any of the dairy- and meat-based ones www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

Right? It’s like the old Kevin Drum piece’s weird, afterlife coda.

America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead

The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.

www.motherjones.com

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The Deliverator @deliverator.bsky.social · 1d

Leaded gas has also done so so so much damage to the world

Study on childhood lead levels by mcfarland hauer and reuben, 2022

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

Man of the people, anti-establishment, courageous self sacrifice etc

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 1d

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/u...

Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

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Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier, Wayland-ier, but Flatpak broke

: Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

www.theregister.com

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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Addams cartoons that capture the vibe of post-war New York.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 2d

From the Larchives: "Midnight with the gang" is probably my most popular RHPS take. Certainly the most tees I've ever sold on RB. Enjoy :)

cartoon of the Scooby Doo gang dressed for an RHPS stage cast.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 2d

I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.

Heartbreaking.
Vale.

Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 2d

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

gene kelly is antifa

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 3d

Stoller made the very elementary mistake of trying to go after menswearguy

@dieworkwear -3h
not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the same year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted

@matthewstoller.4h
Replying to @dieworkwear
Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing vie...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. I bounced off that hard. Maybe this is why.

Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR

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Software archeology: running an obscure window system on vintage Linux

<- you know those Wayland boosters who say there's only one X11 server? Not only is that a lie, there are alternatives to X11, too.

I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR

Software archeology: running an obscure window system on vintage Linux

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 6d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 2d

Not really, because the original name is spelled Seán.

The title is the internationalised version.

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 2d

What about Eeyore? Depressed donkey from _Winnie the Pooh_. No clue how Americans pronounce the name though.

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 2d

I think this explanation would be much easier to follow for people from the British Isles if those who are presumably *not* from the BI stopped trying to explain sounds with letters.

It has never occurred to me that there might be folk for whom Seán, Shaun & shorn _weren't_ homophones.

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Michael ➟ 👨‍💻 🐍 @themeek766.bsky.social · 2d

OSI Model Explained Better

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_ to me.

We are definitely at one of the points in time when the Concents close their gates for a few generations.

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doop @doop.bsky.social · 2d

Never mind age verification: mandatory monochrome CSS and GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: SOCIAL MEDIA ROTS YOUR BRAIN on front page of sites, along with randomly chosen horrifying @thelouvreof.bsky.social screencap

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Idly wondering what a public health campaign on this would look like, and why stuff we tried for, eg, drink driving, isn't being used.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

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