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It's now looking like the 2027 TDF Grand Depart will be in Edinburgh with a stage in England then a stage in Wales based on Cardiff. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/uk-spo...

salt and strange symbols at the pedestrian crossing. a ward against the Red Man and hasten the coming of ye Green Man to protect us all. Of course the next person along marked a ring too, I've already done it mate

It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines.. Any help spreading the word […]

"The attack on science in this country is just the opening salvo of a barrage that could take everything we love about America down." — Derek Lowe. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-vii-overview

DNS for all NIH sites appears to be down, including eg www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - where you go to read medical research.

The Cops is back on iPlayer! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0j0284z/the-cops ... if you don't remember this, it was like The Shield but in Manchester. It came out a little early for the craze for box sets so IIRC never got released on DVD (I asked the production company about this a […]

Out the window I can hear the tree at the corner going into the shredder. See that tiny tree at the corner of the block? That one. This picture was taken in 1908; now that tree is taller than the building. I guess it must have caused some damage during the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

@birb https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml

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Was just looking at an old comics site when this panel caught my eye... huh. Daredevil vol 1 #77, from 1971 - and yes it turns out this is where the band got its name.

[uspol] Apparently Trump won't stop farting for less than half the mineral rights at Pebble Beach

@euphemissed I saw your post over on https://bsky.app/profile/euphemissed.bsky.social/post/3liesix2lrk2g and it seems incredibly unlikely, I think Claude is making stuff up. Jaula??? I was expecting a pun on "Cagar" or "Caca" (verb and noun for poop); Maybe something more like "Voy a desvanecer […]

A reimplementation of Alan Sutcliffe's graphics for the Nostromo's landing computer from Alien (1979), closely following his description in "Landing The Nostromo" (Creative Computing, 1981 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Making a thing... not quite there yet, but getting close...(will post the code when I'm done, and it won't be Fortran like the original)

Rare good #news for #arts in #Glasgow www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/24898017.popular-glasgow-art-centre-announces-re-openning

At a hotel in Edinburgh and for a monent there thought @cstross had branched out into fragrant soaps. Need to clean my glasses.

Followed Raymond Chen's Old New Thing here using rss parrot @devblogs.microsoft.com.oldnewthing

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