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Leftist Dad. Immigrant nerd. Musician, husband. Was @ian on Twitter. Is ian@mckellar.social on the fediverse.

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gentrification.

06.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9716 πŸ” 5126 πŸ’¬ 608 πŸ“Œ 615

The end of private property parts of it?

06.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Are we supposed to keep pretending that the ZTE and Huawei bans are for legitimate national security rather than transactional political reasons?

06.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Andrew McKellar - Wikipedia

He was an astrophysicist of some note. He predicted the background radiation levels in deep space. After he died, other people who worked on the same problem after him won the nobel prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

05.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What is this DWORD of which you speak? We have 16 perfectly good bits and segment registers if we need to address more memory.

05.03.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some randoms:
- When I was a baby we had a pet kangaroo.
- McKellar Crater on the moon is named after my great uncle Andy.

05.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

No, no, forcibly convert them.

03.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are *we* the proxy now?

03.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When the CIA learned about Russia's plans to invade Ukraine why didn't we preemptively strike Kiev?

02.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rubio says US β€˜preemptively’ attacked Iran after learning Israel was about to strike as Democrats decry β€˜Trump’s war’ – live State secretary frames strikes as necessary to protect US forces from retaliation; Chuck Schumer tells reporters β€˜this is Trump’s war’ and β€˜he has no strategy’

You learn that country A is about to illegally attack country B. On what planet do you use that to justify attacking country B rather than warning them, preemptively attacking country A, staying out of it, etc? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

02.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a policy of genocide.

02.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 1975 πŸ” 840 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10

Seriously the best.

02.03.2026 06:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They bombed a girls’ school.

01.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nazis have always attacked trans people.

01.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So we're assassinating religious leaders now. Watch out Pope Leo.

01.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fun Buffyverse Moments - "Cup Of Tea"
Fun Buffyverse Moments - "Cup Of Tea" YouTube video by nicitta's old channel

Every time I make myself a cup of tea I say to myself...
youtu.be/M5o_KtUmg5I?...

28.02.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

AI companies are the funniest bastards: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

24.02.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I'm remembering the ratio of Israeli Jewish ethnicities and conflating that in my head with global ratios.

23.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's also a whole lot of white supremacy. Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews probably outnumbered Ashkenazi Jews.

23.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Birders gonna bird.

22.02.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You need to get on board with the white supremacy.

22.02.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apple still manages to claim the "privacy" mantle while keeping their Chinese users' data in Chinese government DCs, censoring their app-store, blocking e2e encryption apps, etc.

I don't think Americans would have cared if Google treated Chinese users badly :-(

22.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy...

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

20.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 1708 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 30

McKillop's original pitch to me to work on Fuchsia was that I could do fonts right. I was ranting on twitter (RIP) about how totally fucking broken typography on iOS was. Anyway, I'm stupid, but not *that* stupid.

20.02.2026 05:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't that "omnishambles"?

20.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We did no dioramas in Australia. I learned the word from The Simpsons.

Now that I've lived in the US for >25 years I'm getting a sense of what they are. Having never lived in England I still have no idea what a pantomime is.

20.02.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not going to learn until the old syntax actually stops working rather than just printing a warning.

19.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's nice that we don't have to miss the Bush presidency anymore.

19.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, but we invented this horrible shit. Good old Aussie innovation!

19.02.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0