kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
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Can you see your house from up there?
Ha. I have some emails from 1988 still.
But use the tumble dryer, that gives a much better finish. (And won't wash itself when it all goes horribly wrong)
Today's random interaction - a lady at the bus stop showed me some LLM slop on her phone. I think it was a woman making a cake in a washing machine.
Her: "Look at this! It can't be real"
Me: "Mmm, no, the Internet is all fake now. Burn your phone"
Nice run over the hill. Open University used to run Geology (3rd year hard rock course) Summer School field & lab work weeks at Kindrogan. No more, sadly.
“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”
“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”
Dear Morrissey. Here is a Top Tip courtesy of Viz: "Drill a one inch diameter hole in your refrigerator door. This will allow you to check that the light goes off when the door is closed."
Still have my ancient vinyl :-)
Iranian missile stuck in a field like an oversized lawn dart, with a surprised audience looking on to see what it does for its next trick. Possibly a unwise decision, to be brutally honest, but human nature is universal...
I'm old enough to remember when this was how German F-104s were delivered...
((burp))
Our first boxed copy of OS/2 was shipped with 5 1/4 floppies that were all factory write-protected. Smashing, except that Install Disk 1 needed to write config info back to disc.Scissors came in handy.
I haven't had enough coffee to figure that one out!
🌊🧪 Unlike most chemical plants, the sea has no advance operational blueprint. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea
⚒️ #WavyWednesday
On Waterfall Wednesday we're sharing this timelapse of a day at Janet's Foss, along the Malham Landscape Trail.
#YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday #Malham
So good that we've been twice.
Nah, it's cooked.
Remarkable. Scot Gov is paying Ipsos MORI £40k to write a literature review on wealth taxes because the civil service in Scotland cannot be relied upon to produce politically impartial analysis. I don’t doubt this is true, but I didn’t expect them to come out and just say it.
You can watch the author Rob Napier talking about the book and his time at Acorn here m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5yv...
Week-end (1967) dir: Jean Luc Godard a man and woman running away from an exploding airplane which has several automobiles piled on top of it
vibe check
If this goes on long enough we will eventually evolve not to trust statistical autocomplete software with medical decisions.
Yes indeed. My uncle brought one back from a business trip for me then.
VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED Out today!
How the BBC, Acorn & ARM Changed the World
The "barking mad" 1981 4-day build that led to the ARM chip in your pocket. From the BBC Micro to Raspberry Pi, meet the IT Royalty who built our digital world.
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Love this sign from the Glasgow-based street artist A Sign of Humour on Pacific Quay in Glasgow, with the Glasgow Tower and Science Centre in the background.
#glasgow #streetart #kingkong #hunour #glasgowsciencecentre #scotland #keepglasgowweird
Yorkshire. And some other stuff.
Eking out that last drop of battery juice as the tape transport slows...
Tick Bite Prevention Week takes place from 24th-30th March!
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Can you help raise awareness in your community?
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This is now on sale! A history of Acorn, written by Rob Napier (of Barson Computing) and with contributions from all the major people involved at Acorn and the BBC: amzn.eu/d/06qvLzW8
