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danielj.uk
Grant Wrangler, erstwhile evolutionary biologist and bioinformatician. Tinkerer. Knows some stuff about old computers. Quite likes to take a photo from time to time. Dislikes cryptobores.
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SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact [email protected]

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

I'm going to post this under every single "but what about xxx?" comment I see.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Czechia knows what it’s doing.

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

I do wonder what proportion of these people I see on social media saying "I've voted Labour all my life, I'll never vote for them again" have actually ever voted Labour.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Bit of a triumph this.

submitted 46 days ago • 17 comments

Back in the game! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble

submitted 60 days ago • 835 comments

No matter what you think of Dawkins, this was a smart prediction. It also, mutatis mutandis, explains cases of parosmia when ppl smell things they cannot describe or name, because a subset of smell have been damaged (eg by covid).

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

The great climbdown continues.

submitted 73 days ago • 88 comments

reallocating my whole portfolio into guillotine futures

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

📜

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Short paragraphs are the best.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

These days, every time I get a notification from BBC News, I withdraw £50 from a cash machine and immediately set fire to it, just to save time.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

JUST NOW: Bernie Sanders grills the Republican funding bill on the Senate floor: “Maybe instead of cutting Medicaid by $880 billion dollars, we should do what virtually every other major nation on earth does. And that is understand that healthcare is a human right.“

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

The memes have been great.

submitted 82 days ago • 26 comments

Europe is such a tough place to do business. Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.

submitted 85 days ago • 51 comments

Another version of my Victor 9000 hard disk tools released. github.com/drdpj/V9000H... - it can now cope with dumps from real old drives which have dead blocks marked out, and dump all MS-DOS volumes in one go. #retrocomputing #victor9000

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

For as long as VOA's website remains up-and-running, through a quirk of fate UK PM Sir Keir Starmer will be the star of its homepage. Advocating, in VOA's final news post, a position that may itself become timeless. www.voanews.com

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

A bit of idle tinkering in the #retrocomputing world of the #victor9000 - if you're using a PiSCSI/RaSCSI or equivalent as a hard disk emulator I've put a tool together to pull out volumes and stick a PC boot sector on so they can be mounted/manipulated on a modern machine github.com/drdpj/V9000H...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Conan is the absolute best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...

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submitted 92 days ago • 284 comments

Wow, just wow.

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Be me! Fabulous opportunity in Manchester! Zoologists apply! Pls repost. US folk might be particularly attracted…

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

We're very excited to be working on one of these projects with our Kenyan colleagues! @ruthlady.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

My sympathy for a company leveraged this far is essentially zero. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy's law is that everything that can go wrong will. Cole's law is shredded cabbage.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

submitted 105 days ago • 1493 comments