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Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth. Alignment: Quixotic-Good https://binary-ape.org
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This style of Lenin statue always reminds me of Mary Poppins flying

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

On the other hand I saw a dachshund on a long lead run around a tree as fast as they could, winding themselves in towards the trunk, and then, just as their person got near the tree, reverse direction and zoom in circles outward, tangling and almost tying the person to the tree. Very life affirming

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I feel like Death has wiggled his boney eyebrows at me twice in the past hour. Almost got hit by a speeding man on an electric scooter, then got hiccups while eating a pasty with an imprudent amount of Carolina reaper sauce on the top and inhaled some of the sauce

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

‘Cognitive labour’, also known as ‘thinking’. Yes, let’s all celebrate no longer doing the thing that makes us people, let’s give up on being autonomous moral beings. There’s a lot of this going on in universities at the moment & it’s profoundly depressing, it deserves complete derision.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

"One Piece" risograph printed animation/tribute by Zack Lydon & Zine Hug. 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiN-... Prints >> zinehug.storenvy.com/products/369...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

This is a particularly bizarre clickbait title, as sysadmins and hackers won't bloody shut up about their favourite obscure command line tool (which most of these aren't - the list includes watch and time for goodness sake, time is over 30 years old)

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Percentage of European Adults Over 15 Who Smoke France really living up to its stereotype here. Which country surprises you the most (either higher or lower)? Stats for all countries in the world: brilliantmaps.com/european-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Fly-tipping escalates

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry Brendan but it's for the best

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm not totally against ID schemes, and some are much better than others - I'm not one of the people who refuse anything national ID related - but the long-running enthusiasm for ID cards from parts of the Labour Party has always been rather murky when you look beyond the marketing.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"I didn't expect public services to demand MY identity card", says person who believes ID cards make public services more efficient

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

He's one of the least authentic working class politicians. He's a very successful con artist, making the ill-informed vote for a party that doesn't give a shit about them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Also it will be run by someone like Palantir and be subject to a massive data breach. You cant have an electronic database that governs the rights you are allowed to have in this country. It is such a bad idea and solves no problem that isn't better solved by telling the Home Office to chill out.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I have a small additional grumble which is that "Britcard" is a bad name that sounds like it's from Judge Dredd, but also maybe not very inclusive of Northern Ireland

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Live footage from the Tony Blair Institute

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If I was selling compulsory ID cards I simply wouldn't make my pitch: "we are going to make you all carry compulsory ID that will cost you £100+ so we can give the police and immigration enforcement Trump-style powers. This is progressive." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

My hope is that they both continue taking stimulants in order to stay awake and have the last word, and then both die as a result. It's a simple, pure hope.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

not such a long process after all www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

If you didn't know that you can curl a live parrot then I think you need to reevaluate your priorities as an engineer.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

As a contrast, I've just had a random B2B email politely enquiring if I would like to advertise on buses in one Lancashire town, which I do not, but it did not make me pull a sour face or want to do the Darth Vader Force-choking thing.

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