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acobley.bsky.social
Retired lecturer at university of Dundee, specialising in Data Science Engineering. All for Scottish independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Sometimes builder and designer of synth modules.
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Seriously, it’s come to this, ice cream, ouzo and espresso

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Sometimes, as the world dies around you, maybe you’re lucky enough to have good food. And I realise I am

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I don’t know what this is, it’s presented at the end of a meal in this Cyprus taverna and is as hot as hell.

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If you're asking about elections in Ukraine, UK elections: "The election that would have been due by 1916 as a result of the Parliament Act 1911 was not held due to the First World War (1914–1918)." and "The election due by 1940 was not held due to the Second World War (1939–1945)." Wikipedia

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Jesus f*ck I’ve just overheard a pitch for a commercial website where the engineer said he would use a noSQL database because “he wasn’t familiar with MySQL”. God help that project

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@scotnational.bsky.social how am I supposed to sign in to read an article when the sign in box is covered by the “Subscribe to read box” ?

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Sounds like a plan

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Ex-Tory worker's £1m VAT and money laundering scam www.bbc.com/news/article...

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www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Rachel Reeves looks to have been a bit silly but for journalists of a certain age to profess outrage at creative expenses claims turns hypocrisy in to an art form. When I started out, one legendary character was reputed to have put a son through Eton via bogus receipts. But my favourite story...

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I was so pleased to be able to present initial findings from the research project which myself and Fiona Reid @bayfirth.bsky.social are doing into the history of women's cricket in Scotland at #CRN2025 We've been able to interview some of the pioneers of women's cricket in Scotland...

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What Europe would have looked like if we had frozen the borders 3 years into WW2 because we just needed to stop the fighting.

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Well, at least Bing Maps (Microsoft) is still correct

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NEW: Road signs that say 'Welcome to Dumfries and Galloway' are set to be replaced with new branding which will say 'Scotland Starts Here' instead www.thenational.scot/news/2492801...

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Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants www.bbc.com/mediacentre/... Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants

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So what is it, all day or just 10 hours of the day?

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

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If Scotland was independent we’d currently be enjoying the lowest electricity costs in Europe. Instead as part of the UK we suffer the highest energy bills in Europe.

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Managed to score tickets for hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...

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True.

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Time for refreshment I think ( Valletta, Malta)

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New fear unlocked, will my phone battery last long enough to order a Uber/Bolt to get home.

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This means you, Nick Ferrari.

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😂

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This pub, (St Julian’s, Malta) has a resident duck.

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Jeez. Trump has signed an EO to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council. Just think about that

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While the world burns, who wants to join me in a challenge?

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Several of my #rstats packages are temporarily down due to the removal of all US Census data FTP sites. This impacts: tinytiger, baf, censable, PL94171, and their dependents. cvap and ppmf should still work if you use the GitHub sources. Working on a fix in case the data stays down for a while.

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Musk's tactic is always to break the law first and use his money and lawyers to deal with the consequences. Musk should perhaps mull over the thought that in a dictatorship without the protection of the law, he would be the first to find himself falling out of a window.

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