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Glaswegian nerdy type, former rocket surgeon, now doing controls & model based design. Massive fan of MATLAB, Simulink & test driven development (TDD). #MATLAB #Simulink #TDD
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This thread, and, it seems, the Oslo Natural History Museum, is magnificent.

Note to anyone who argues with transphobes. ALWAYS look up the obscure thing they are talking about as they are always, always wrong. Most of the time the example they give is a direct counter argument to their own point

The UK is failing fathers and families with its derisory paternity leave policies. 2 weeks is out of step with other countries and modern realities. A minimum of 6 weeks would allow families to bond and support one another through life-changing events without worrying about bills.

Board game helps autistic people share their stories www.news-medical.net/news/2025060... #BoardGames #Autisim

Who didn't hear "There's a moose loose aboot this hoose" when watching this?

this statement was made just yesterday

The only king I'll acknowledge..... Him GRIMLOCK! 🦖

This is one of the best - and most terrifying - images from my bird feeder. 😬

#StarTrek #TNG

As someone who survived the nineties RTS gaming with FMV cut scene era, this is giving me whiplash.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis

Today's #NoKingsDay in America coincides with Trooping the Colour!

I previously mentioned the idea of the right wing stealing "woke" and making it a bad thing just by ~*~vibes~*~, not even changing what it means. I think this is the same effect: taking a good thing and giving it bad vibes. No reasoning needed. What I can't figure out is why it works..??

"Estimates indicate that the shared South Pars gas field contains 14.2 trillion cubic meters of gas in place (equivalent to 8% of the world’s total gas reserves and 47% of Iran’s known gas reserves) and 19 billion barrels of condensates." en.shana.ir/news/647646/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdn... Nerdforge bound all the Discworld books into a single rotating book

Remember, we *had* a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear issue, thanks to the JCPOA that Obama put in place after years of hard work, but then President Spiteful Shithead withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2018 and everything fell apart. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

#Ad Rainbow Raveners anyone? 🌈 GW sent me Kill Team Typhon and I couldn't help myself. These were so much fun to paint. Thanks for featuring them in the article with everyone else's amazing work. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... #AdWIP #KillTeam #WarhammerCommunity

Exoatmospheric intercept just now over Israel.

I try not to be hyperbolic but this is the single worst comic I have ever seen in my entire life.

Isn't it ironic?

Gettin' real tired of living through actual history.

It’s not just Gaza. Attacking Iran is also meant to distract from annexing the West Bank.

Disney's big AI lawsuit includes some very damning images: aftermath.site/disney-univers...

War has changed.

It's James Clerk Maxwell's birthday, so please appreciate this unusually wholesome image of a natural scientist at work. He's the one at the back. (Jemima Wedderburn, 1843; www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...)

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

Stevie makes a really good point about the point of a software engineering job (and I think the point is generalisable): Coding is the easy bit www.dontpanicblog.co.uk/2025/06/11/c...

Yep. Now Iran *will* build a nuclear bomb.

Sometimes the universe sends a sign to take a deep breath, exhale, and trust the powers of nature. I needed this today more than ever, and am guessing some of you might too.

If you see this, share a skeleton 🩻 Captain Keeta model from @bteamminis.bsky.social 💀 #miniatures #minipainting #art #painting #3dprinting #d&d #warhammer #zelda #majorasmask

A great shonk from @fenrisgames.com Another fun commission done for @trollball.bsky.social

I told you we’d be back

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 To celebrate Pride month, I'm giving away the charity model I had done for the Art for friends project! If you like the model and want to donate as well, feel free to do so 🙏

I think this is something I've missed when talking about why the far right values attacking trans people so highly. It's not just that it radicalises people and teaches them anti human rights arguments, it's that it literally cultivates authoritarian thinking theconversation.com/antagonism-t...

Finally, a shower built using the v-lifecycle. No agile showers for me any more, no sir.

Also. If that was as bad as it got for you? Having to mask? Having to ask your children to mask? Lucky you.

"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

there should be a consumer electronics review site called does it beep dot com and the sole criteria it uses to judge kitchen appliances, cars, washing machines, etc is whether it beeps at you and if so how annoying the beeps are

Right now, nothing more punk rock than being kind. Also, this whole vibe is turning me into the biggest sweetie.

Go home, AI, you're so drunk you're hallucinating. (Actually, "drunk" and "hallucinating" are impossible because this class of AI isn't intelligent, it's just doing free word association across a huge statistical model of language: but it's a handy metaphor.)