I am thoroughly sick of offers of help in every bit of software I touch. I am now wasting about thirty minutes a day dismissing dialog boxes. As I used to say to my kids (a lot): If you weren't asked it isn't 'helping'.
Oh what tangled webs we weave, when first we start cloning Jira issues that have existing relationships.
Good thread. Preaching to the choir on here but rabble-rousing stuff with some philosophical fun on the way.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoThe greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
Playing today in my head for no discernable reason: Down Under by Men at Work.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d agoElon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
Boss of Thames Water: "we don't have enough storage"
Brett Hand: There Must Be A Solution on Netflix
Alt: Brett Hand: There Must Be A Solution
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Think I might manage two horses and a dog. Plus or minus a fence.
German proverb of the day: 'A fence lasts 3 years, a dog lasts 3 fences, a horse lasts 3 dogs, and a man lasts 3 horses'; life lessons on how how our time on earth is temporary and how we should pract...
Our time on earth is finite and it can come to an end at any time. Old German proverb reminds us that life is too short to obsess over negativity and teaches us to focus on positive experiences and pr...
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Cat in a donkey temple?
Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social · last wk.This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & depicts the town of Theodorias itself. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷@jonalendering #MosaicMonday
I have in-a-gadda-da-vida fighting for supremacy in my head with remember you're a womble.
NEW ANALYSIS: One of the most consequential discoveries of the 20th century is marked by a small blue plaque near my office. The lithium-ion cathode, Oxford, 1980. Grid batteries have since gone from one 5 MW project to 267 GW worldwide. New Bright Spots 👇 open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
Batteries are quietly rewiring the grid
From a plaque in Oxford to a third of California's electricity peak: how batteries revolutionise the grid.
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![... it is said that he [Babbage] sent the following letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a couplet in "The Vision of Sin":
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born
I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows:
Every minute dies a man,
And one and a sixteenth is born
I may add that the exact figures are 1.167, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre.
Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:naz63rywmgaxy2i5kf6yfd5m/bafkreidnjwepbac5hb47tm5jx4jbn5v4iyed6vjgugjsuc4hxr7jdpwote)
Just watching the highlights of Argentina Switzerland and thought when Messi chested it down and had a shot (which was saved), whether that weird Mr Bean expression he had is in fact his sex face.
England fans, you can relax 👌🏻. As before, I've accurately simulated Norway vs England in FIFA ‘95, CPU vs CPU and... ... England wins, 2-1! ☺️🤘 We score two, concede & then have some scares late on, but yeah. So, sit back & put your feet up. It's going to be JUST FINE. 😉👍
Just been classified as in a younger, irresponsible age group (50s) by someone on BBC Breakfast :)
Look again! 🤨 We have wildlife photographer Andreas Kay to thank for this video of the 'feather mimic moth caterpillar' in the rainforests of Ecuador. Protective mimicry is common in this family of moths, but this is an uncommonly exceptional job. 🪶😀 (📷: Andreas Kay)
