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Courts, cats and cars; she/her

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Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · last wk.

A 2,050-ton machine named Diggy Scardust is grinding a 39-foot hole under Toronto with 23 million pounds of thrust, three and a half years into a drive specced at 49 feet a day, eight months of which it spent not moving at all share.google/xnCiiqUN6bzI...

A 2,050-ton machine named Diggy Scardust is grinding a 39-foot hole under Toronto with 23 million pounds of thrust, three and a half years into a drive specced at 49 feet a day, eight months of which ...

Toronto has been building subway tunnels in pairs for decades. One tube per direction, two smaller machines, two smaller holes, and a method nobody had much

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C20 Society@c20society.bsky.social · last wk.

Extremely concerning news that Jodrell Bank in Cheshire is facing closure, after UKRI announced the end of their funding from 2028. Though the Lovell Telescope is Grade I listed, the best strategy for preserving this internationally significant site is surely to keep the observatory in active use.

Image credit: UNESCO in the UK
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last wk.

The business of the British print press is the recruitment and promotion of malignant wingnut crackpots, to further their own horrible agendas.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

"The Liberal Democrats have been accused of softening their position on women’s rights after accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds from one of Britain’s biggest financial backers of transgender causes." [Times] Sex Matters, who are backed by JK Rowling, quoted.

Donation ‘shifted Lib Dem women stance’ Geraldine Scott Sir Ed Davey is accused of softening his position The Liberal Democrats have been accused of softening their position on women’s rights after accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds from one of Britain’s biggest financial backers of transgender causes. Sex Matters, the campaign group, said that the timing of a series of policy interventions by Sir Ed Davey and senior Liberal Democrats raised questions about whether the party’s position had shifted after donations from Simon Ruddick, a financier who has publicly described support for trans communities as a priority. Electoral Commission records show that Ruddick has donated more than £200,000 to the party this year. In an interview published by the LGBT charity GiveOut, he said that he had chosen to support transgender people because they were a “tiny and disproportionately oppressed” community whose rights were under attack. The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) code of practice, laid before parliament in May, gives guidance after the Supreme Court’s ruling in April last year that sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. It says that a service must be provided on the basis of biological sex to qualify as single-sex under the act, meaning trans women should not be admitted to women’s toilets, changing rooms and other female-only facilities.
Bill Stewart@billstewart.bsky.social · last wk.

The meeting for worship with attention to World Domination has found fairly strong consensus on which world to dominate, but is nowhere near sharing a common view of what sort of domination would be appropriate, nor on means to achieve that end beyond speaking truth to the powerful and powerless.

Freda Wallace She/Ra@missfreda.bsky.social · last wk.

The question of “what is a woman” is a witch finders trick. I allows the mob to join a public shaming of anyone who will not submit to a false premise. “Are you a witch” -“no I am not a witch” “ah so you believe in witches” - “no I’m just saying it’s complicated”- (looks to mob) BURN THE WITCH!

—>realhackhistory.org@bsky.realhackhistory.org · 2w ago

Periodic reminder that if you are being asked by a captcha to type any kind of combinations of keys & especially if they look like shortcut key stroke combinations it is an attack called ClickFix. Basically the prompt is to fool you into downloading & installing malicious software. Stay vigilant!

Nicolai von Ondarza@nvondarza.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is new and completely wierd. To proof that I am not an AI, cloudflare now wants me to enter something in the terminal, of unknown origin. Sorry, no way.

Cloudflare trying to prompt me to enter stuff in the windows terminal to proof I am not a robot...
Carl Bovis@carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you think photographing birds in flight is difficult, you want to try moths!😅 This is a wonderful Hummingbird Hawkmoth, photographed yesterday from my bedroom window, just as it banked around to change direction!😀😍 Just look at that proboscis 🦋 (The moth looks a bit like a fish doesn't it!)😁

A Hummingbird Hawkmoth banking around with its body turned but its wings and head vertical against a dark blue background of a neighbour's car
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

theguardian.com

Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer )@kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sad to hear that Jamie Urquhart has passed away. He managed the VLSI team at Acorn that created ARM1 and its support ICs and later co-founded ARM. I chatted with him at Steve Furber's Festschrift at Manchester University and he had so many wonderful stories about his time at Acorn and ARM. RIP Jamie

Jamie Urquhart is on the far right.
The Centre for Computing History@computinghistory.org.uk · 2w ago

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jamie Urquhart. We were honoured to welcome Jamie to our ARM1 at 40 celebrations last year. Here he reflects on his early interest in electronics. Our thoughts remain with his family, friends, and all who knew him.