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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 13h

I guess this is all:

a) Don't use your own website
b) Don't talk to your users.

Easy to do.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 1d

Was wondering. Daytime weather forecast is 59 of your degrees farenheit, no rain (at least until Sunday night). Enjoy.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 1d

There doesn't seem to be a very good reason, bar deliveries. It's better than it once was - one way - but...

Grey Street in Newcastle; road lined by 4-story ashlar buildings, now half pedestrianised and with a one way system implemented.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 1d

In partial answer to your question, part legacy of T. Dan Smith and Wilfred Burns, part very poor handling of east-west & west-east traffic above the Tyne, and part poor handling of Gateshead Newcastle traffic around the city centre.

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/tynes...

How Newcastle almost became a multiple motorway city

Newcastle's postwar dream of a motorway city left bold plans - and concrete scars - in its drive toward the future

northeastbylines.co.uk

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 1d

The most fun part is here where traffic coming in from Jesmond wants to move right to get onto the central motorway, at exactly the point that central motorway traffic wants to move left to get off onto the New Bridge Street exit, all at 50+ mph. Much hilarity and occasional death ensues.

OpenStreetMap image of the central motorway by the Northumbria University campus. Motorway running north-south, with an entry road coinciding with an exit road. What larks.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Work to begin to transform Sheffield Salvation Army Citadel

The Grade II listed building in Sheffield city centre has been empty since 1999, the council says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 2d

I can't even see the image.

Your site looks excellent; points geolocated on the map. Doing things as they should be done.

Scotlands People website which is meant to show a scanned page image, but instead shows a broken image icon

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 3d

The question, Sally, is whether as a journalist you strive to tell the truth, or whether you lie, distort and dissemble for reasons of personal advancement.

You need to make that choice - if the above post does not indicate that you already have.

bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 3d

Site has a bias against grifters and those who suck up to them. It is what it is.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 3d

So I have; my fault, though.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 3d

It's a Unix/Linux (i.e. computer operating system) command which removes (deletes) all files and directories on all filestores mounted on computer.

linux.die.net/man/1/rm

rm(1): remove files/directories - Linux man page

If the -I or --interactive=once option is given, and there are more than three files or the -r, -R, or --recursive are given, then rm prompts the user for ...

linux.die.net

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Come on man. By June 2024 Israel was at least 37,000 dead into the genocide, Bibi's government was being lambasted by his own people for using hostages as a tool rather than trying to retrieve them. Israel's mendacity long predates 7 October 2023. At no recent point was it sensible to believe them.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

What is the evidence that growth is needed to maintain the status quo ante? Is not the problem one of resource allocation - that the UK pursues a low tax burden so as to enrich the 1% and the 10%?

Tax burdens in the UK, G7 and EU14 since 1965; in short, UK rate mainly flat (if spikey) which G7 and EU14 has been increasing.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Then, respectfully, you're missing the bleedin' obvious: the power to do exactly as they please without having to give a shit about your critical judgement.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/dick...

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 4d

Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/dick...

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 4d

Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Dumb bot relying on the fact that someone had linked the item to a wikisource encyclopedia article on the Peninsula Wars.

Not for the first time, having been advised of the issue the bot owner did ... nothing.

Confusing the encyclopaedia article and its subject
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, can you check your bot on Q309719 and Q3140? It's adding instance of (P31)encyclopedia article (Q13433827) on them which they are not. They might be other qids concerned. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 12:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jahl de Vautban Hi, both items contains incorect link to en.wikisource - article in encyclopedia, so bot marks them as article. Correct solution is delete incorrect statements + remove incorrect sitelink. JAn Dudík (talk) 19:56, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Proper obelisk. Good job, Inverkip (and photographer Gregory Beecroft).

www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

White granite obelisk photographed on the oblique with one face lit, the other in shadow, on a square pedestal set in a circular cobbled area surrounded by grass, behind which is the Firth of Clyde, and beyond that, hills of the Cowal Peninsula and Bute in the background.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

About 1.25 miles of road. :(

1900 OS map of Edinburgh, with a line marking a path including South Saint David Street, Princes Street, Waterloo Place, Regent Road and London Road, measuring a distance of about 1.25 miles

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Easy when someone points it out. Again, very well done & thank you. I only spent, umm, quite some time not finding it.

Obvs, now, had I basic reading comprehension...

Aerial photo of Port Laing Wynd, a mansion by the sea at North Queensferry, with OpenStreetMaps markup including a commemorative plaque on the retaining wall.

Current Location data for the memorial - specifies it is "Adjoining and facing Fife Coastal Path at rear of address, 3 Port Laing Wynd"

tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

q. is, can you make pizzas?

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2521871...

Former Pizza Express up for rent after branch closes its doors for good

A former Pizza Express site in Lewes has gone up for rent after the branch closed its doors for good.

www.theargus.co.uk

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

All of these, for one reason or another, not tracked down at all, or sufficiently to map them on OSM. Text lists in the ALT image descriptions

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44635 - St Marys RC Cathedral - WW1 Stone of Remembrance
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/79035 - Lancaster TX264 Crash-RAF Kinloss Memorial
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81264 - RM Condor-Falklands
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81927 - The Black Watch in WW2 - Perth, no location
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/82073 - Scottish Insurance Corporation Ltd WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76603 - Montrose Academy WW1
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76604 - Montrose Academy WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81926 - The Black Watch - Dunalistair Memorial Home Regimental Crest
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/68972 - Montrose Air Station - Those who never returned home
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85704 - The Ben Nowak Centre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/78743 - The Burn House
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/86037 - Lethnot and Navar - plaque on churchyard wall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70806 - Lieutenant G C O Paton - Port Laing
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44456 - Madras College WW2
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85249 - Peace Garden, St Andrews
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85223 - Polish Parachute Brigade, Scoonie
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85231 - Katyn Massacre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8517 - Dunfermline Garden for Heroes
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85135 - Lochore
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/109589 - Methilhill
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/55231 - Wellsgreen and Rosie District - East Wemyss
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44673 - HMS Petard - Queensferry Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44671 - HMS Warspite - Queensferry Cemetery

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/97101 - HMS Tiger - Queensferry Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89103 - Broxburn Public Band
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/65514 - Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44642 - Scottish Horse, Edinburgh Castle
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76634 - Edinburgh Provincial Teacher Training Centre
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44694 - Archangel gun
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44695 - Haig Memorial Gun
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76625 - Merchiston Castle School Memorial Hall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76626 - Edinburgh Academy, Gymnasium
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/89293 - Fala
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53590 - Royal Scots Cottages - Muirhouse
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53628 - Royal Scots Cottages - Penicuik
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85649 - Dechmont Memorial Hall
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/88965 - South Queensferry - Vennel Cemetery
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/87474 - Canongate
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69230 - Kelso
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/76298 - Kelso
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/61062 - Edinburgh Wavereley
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/61949 - Glasgow sorting office
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/44630 - Edinburgh Wavereley
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/58006 - Fair Isle South War memorial
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/96221 - Squadron Leader P V Lloyd
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/85601 - Battle of Dunnichen (otherwise Nechtansmere)- Anniversary Stone
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/57861 - Montrose air museum
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/106522 - F…

tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Josh; good find. Estate agents (and you) ftw.

I have a list. Here's a lost retaining wall bearing a plaque, somewhere around Port Laing, North Queensferry...

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

* www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/1457042...

plaque on a retaining wall being unveiled by a woman, observed by a man in a kilt.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 5d

@bandrdt.bsky.social do you have any clue where in Blairgowrie the Scottish Veterans Garden City cottages are? IWM claims Emma Street, but I'm unconvinced / cannot find this tablet on Google Streetview.

* www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

Blairgowrie Scottish Veterans Garden City Association

Memorial type: Board / Plaque / Tablet

www.iwm.org.uk

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 7d

Only in much the same way that you can only imagine a good design "resistant to overreach" which "will only allow specific uses of data"

And that's a you problem. What are you smoking?

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