Thing-maker, photo-taker, word-weaver, book-reader, music-writer, science-liker. Consume within four days of opening. https://teapaw.org/t.co/kpLuLnOrBo
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Here's my Mastodon account for if this ship goes down...
@[email protected]
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It is somewhat baffling, though, that the federal government – which has all of the resources it could possibly want, and could assemble teams of experts on any topic they wanted to – instead chose to use AI to produce what they’re calling a “transformational“ report.
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Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
ALT The moon with a rocket landed in its eye. The most iconic shot of 1902 sci-fi film Le Voyage Dans La Lune.
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All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.
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It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.
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That would be Sultan Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels dlvr.it/Szdlfd
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Receiving some feedback, along the lines of "why are you opposed to NHS privatisation if the businesses make things more efficient?"
We have been researching this for a while. We haven't come across a single example of a private company making things more efficient in the NHS.
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2003: We can't find Iraqi WMDs we told you were threatening us, because devious Iraqis hid them to make us look like liars.
2023: We can't find the Hamas base we promised you was under the hospital, because devious Palestinians "made off with" the base to make us look like liars.
Fantastic talk by @WoollyBenguin given at this year's UK MathsJam meetup about visiting European streets which are named after every single day of the year!
youtube.com/watch?v=MwRbr-Mj…
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One of my favourite random facts about London transport:
As a pedestrian, you can walk across the Thames through the Blackfriars station platforms, but... you need a special ticket.
It costs £0.10 and can only be purchased at the station.
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I’ve been bingeing on Golden Age mysteries for a while as they are the greatest and came across this from 1939, re a fascist plot to undermine democracy.. :-/
(Smiler With the Knife, Nicholas Blake aka Cecil Day Lewis) . So have you heard the US is a republic not a democracy…
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Apparently this post is the most drama the wedding photographers subreddit has ever seen
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Hold on… aren’t News UK, erm, journalists?
News UK asked staff to contact its most senior lawyer if they have any information… promised that all information would be treated in confidence, offered counselling services to anyone affected, & asked employees *not to talk to journalists*
theguardian.com/media/2023/j…
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Another great Fusion 360 Marblevator design by gzumwalt involves grippers that pass a ball between themselves before the ball goes down a slide and repeats the path.
instructables.com/Marblevato…
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Its all fun and games listing your dog and tortoise in the 1921 census but then 102 years later I have to spend time figuring out why there was someone in West Ham with the occupation "Eat Slugs"
