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The smallest (and most delicate) of discoveries from our ongoing dig at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset is this 40mm long Iron Age sewing needle Carved from animal bone just over 2,000 years ago 😍 📷 June 2016 #FindsFriday

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The best thing about Google AI copy/pasting from other websites and trying to pretend its version is just as good -- is that it doesn't understand satire.

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This is such an important video from @techconnectify.bsky.social It's a time investment to watch, but worth it. Look at the state of how we're presented information, and compare to the state of the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

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Happy Valentine’s Day to all my friends in cybersecurity

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Permanent decisions

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My Discord client, Discord Messenger, now runs on Windows 98! (And also, 95, but you need extra stuff. Win98SE runs it right out of the box.)

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Alongside the dice box, I made some glowing inspiration tokens for my regular D&D GMs. They have laser etched guild sigils in acrylic and an LED filament which is powered by a coin battery. @mattgrayy.es and I massively over-engineered a 3D printed battery case/built in switch for the back.

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#FindsFriday metal detected,mid 2020. Detectorist did the right thing so a friend and I went out to record and lift what turned out to be a scattered hoard. Excavation under pandemic rules was tricky. Better photos now exist but I like this one as it shows the crappy supplies which were all I had

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The Calanais Standing Stones have an extraordinary cross-shape. They were erected 5,000 years ago. They predate Stonehenge monument, and were an important ritual place for at least 2,000 years. #StandingStoneSunday

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#uksnow SP10 1/10 not settling, not falling fast but definitely snow.

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#uksnow SP10 3/10 A decent layer of snow on the ground, although it's now raining so it may not last.

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My new years resolution is 3840 x 2160 Yes, I'm upgrading to 4K.

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bill nye’s full name is william new years eve

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Despite the urge, remember the following are all none of your business to ask about: Their size, weight, or any other body changes When they're going to get a partner When they're getting married When they're having a baby Why they're not drinking Unless they've opened up to you about it first.

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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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One thing from my conversation with my MP this weekend - they thought the NHS GIC waiting time was 5-7 years. No, I explained, people now getting their first appts had been on the list 5-7 years. If you extrapolate the rate of first appts with the number of people waiting, you get 15-20 years.

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Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions From the new Private Eye, out now.

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(sound on!) everyone knows there's no more analog TV broadcasts, but i found a super mysterious UHF station! anyone have any ideas?

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#uksnow SP10 1/10 Visibly snowing but not settling. Almost sleet.

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I get a lot of weird, hostile emails related to the blog but never so virulent as when I suggest ejecting sex pests and joy-killing, hostile assholes from the optional fun things you do with people you like in your free time.

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I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

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Note to self. Absolutely do NOT buy a train on eBay when pissed.

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The decoy keyboard is working

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Virtually all cybersecurity breaches both by volume and by severity are via trivially preventable problems (reused passwords, failing to update, failure to use minimum standards), not anything particularly sophisticated

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hahaha

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Normalize this reaction #art #artists

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From Forum SARA - this is a 1957 vintage dual speed limit sign. Not only does it use the old version of the Caracteres typeface, it also has the drawing of a car with the love heart as a grille. This is a little detail I always liked, why a love heart? Presumably because the French loved their cars!

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The latest NaNoWriMo thing makes me so sad and angry because not only did that event help me break through my over-editing-never-finishing habit years ago, but also once upon a time, I spearheaded the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program at a school, which helped so many kids get into writing. (1/?)

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Today is Intersex Awareness Day.

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You can also say other words that people use euphemisms to avoid using. Like “kill” doesn’t have to be “unalive” here. You’re not trying to dodge Facebook’s keyword blocks.

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