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@Olivia@ms-olive.club My favourite comment on this was about Starbuck in the BSG remake - "Remember when a major character was gender-swapped and nobody gave a shit because it was awesome?"

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unix50.org lets you spin up and destroy many hysterical #UNIX systems. Would you like to write some tutorials? #unix50 #vm #retro

@rysiek@mastodon.social In England a local authority used them to enact surveillance on residents to check they were recycling their rubbish.

I was questioned outside an airport under the prevention of terrorism act because I was sitting down smoking a cigarette opposite the bus stop.

Authorities will do whatever the law allows them to do; legal pretext is merely a formality.

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I also just learned that store-and-forward packet switching was also referred to as "hot potato routing", which, why is it not still called that??

rand.org/pubs/research_memoran

mental health 

@dreadpirateyarr I hope you can get some quality rest.

@SeventhMagpie I can understand that. I've had some vision difficulties in the last year and it really highlights the different qualities of media. Paper and print still gives very favourable contrast.

mental health 

@dreadpirateyarr The black dog's a fucker. Keep your chin up, talk if you wish.

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Here is an photo wot I tooked last week.

Taken on the Palmiet trail at the Kogelberg Nature Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Nikon D7000, Tamron 18-400mm, processed in Adobe Lightroom.

#Photography

@welshpixie That's gorgeous. The Cape's a fascinating place. That could be somewhere in the British Isles.

Here's The MS flight sim trailer (h/t @tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org
youtu.be/ReDDgFfWlS4

@tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org There's a new one? I'm long out of the loop but that's an interesting development.

@fribbledom Curiously until you linked the instance I could not see that, and I don't think I have that instance blocked. I wonder why that's happened.

Enjoying a few beers this everning before realising I'm actually getting quite pissed

Plus they've got the same name as me, surely a good sign.

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