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"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Ed Murro If you need something to uplift you, try this from Oxford’s Man Choir: youtu.be/8tioUZghMQY 🇪🇺🇺🇦🔸⧖⃝

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 6h

“If the sub doesn’t split, you must acquit”

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a bit Kenny 'Dalglish' Senior isn’t it?

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 9h

Well he said he was…

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 12h

🤨 mind boggled

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, true, but they used GPS to detect that the train was at a 3rd party depot and immobilised it

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 14h

This is probably a better write-up

www.railtarget.eu/technologies...

Hacker Intervention Saves Polish Trains: A Cybersecurity Drama Unfolds | RAILTARGET

After an overhaul, Polish Newag Impuls trains ground to a halt, and the manufacturer refused to help. The situation had to be resolved by a hacker group, which uncovered a secret security system. Howe...

www.railtarget.eu

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 15h

Not (in this case) a China thing but using gps to control and immobilise infrastructure is a serious issue:

www.404media.co/polish-hacke...

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.

www.404media.co

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 15h

Ok you’ve just reminded me of this old post now…

DR DOG: would u be willing to donate ur organs
PATIENT: ya
DR DOG: and ur bones?
PATIENT: my bones? Why?
DR DOG: (mouth watering): just answer the question

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 16h

“and with much less pollution”

Mmm, not sure about that bit. Air pollution from burning things is pretty awful.

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Evil Bat Witch @evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network · 1d

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

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Antony Hook @antonyhook.bsky.social · 1d

We're calling it now. Isabel Kemp (Chair of the Adult Social Care Committee) has left Reform

Reform in Kent are now down to 48 from 57 in six months.

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 17h

An important coda to your piece about social connection. Algorithms pervert what we see. They are designed to encourage ‘engagement’ (usually through rage-bait) to sell more advertising and make the site owner more money. They are corrosive and should be regulated or banned.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 28d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

evergreen

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing! 😎

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Not that it would guarantee anything. How they managed to burn down the Mac School of Art a second time still makes me sad

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Makes perfect sense. It’s a very delicate area and now most people (architects, M&E engineers, installers) won’t touch it with a bargepole without a fire engineer signing everything off.

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Surely the answer is using heat detectors (what you find in kitchens to avoid false alarms) rather than the smoke detectors you use elsewhere

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

As I have said (tongue in cheek) before, the way to do it is to separate the making safe from the refurbishment. Step 1, strip out the wiring, the gas, the asbestos, move the archives etc. Then, when they’re sitting in a freezing dark building see how quickly MPs agree to refurbish it.

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

#poppropriation #AdamandJoe

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

I n a similar vein, when I’m on the bus:
“Keep on, Mr Bus Driver, don’t stop ‘till I’m getting off”

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration.

Higgledy piggledy
Abigail Spanberger
Stormed the Virginian
Mansion with ease.

Stunning success with votes
Gubernatorial
Cutting Republicans
Off at the knees.

Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from anything else, "Abigail Spanberger" is a great name. If you're lucky enough to have a surname that's a dactyl and you don't give your children a first name that's also a dactyl you're wasting everybody's time.

Hats off in particular to Mr & Mrs Roosevelt for coming up with "Franklin D".

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webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

I bet if coffee expert James Hoffman tried it he’d say it was shit.

webweasel @webweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting these people are not ‘centrists’ (though they may claim to be), they’re bad-faith actors and collaborators.