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Mark Armstrong
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Lettuce find out shall we?
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Business intelligence analyst and database specialist. Science is my first love, but I also enjoy SF, Fantasy & TTRPG's He/Him
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Mark Armstrong
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Lettuce find out shall we?
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Mark Armstrong
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That’s minerals that is, good for you.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
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A squire rushed in to the great hall.
"Someone," he shouted, "has taken the sword from the stone!"
The assembled knights halted their dinner.
"At last, a king?"
"Who?"
"I don't know," the squire said. "The sword is gone!"
Elsewhere:
"This," Indy muttered, "belongs in a museum.
#MicroFiction
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Mark Armstrong
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Technically it should have been replaced with a weighted letter opener.
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Christina, mother of spiders
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Me: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light! Stylist: Sooo covering up the white hairs. Me: Yep. The dyeing of the white. Stylist: Sigh
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Dan O’Sullivan
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
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Mark Armstrong
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I could definitely see that being the name of a Bounty Hunter.
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Mark Armstrong
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The cool thing is that the plural is famuli, so you can say to the lab group that everyone there is a part of your famuli (putting on a Dominic Toretto voice of course) and people will *think* you are saying family, when you are actually calling them servants.
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Mark Armstrong
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Look at that dummy up there with the rest of them! Also someone is holding a doll in a fetching white suit.
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Mark Armstrong
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I came across a new old word today in the trivia calendar my wife gave me for Christmas. Famulus. I think this is a good one to use for any PhD students working for you.
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Mark Armstrong
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Then I will have to look it up! Thanks for the rec :)
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Mark Armstrong
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No I haven’t. Is it good?
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Ketan Joshi
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One of the most head-spinning but largely unchallenged fossil industry lies in Australia is a monthly "warning" issued that there's a "gas shortage" which requires a million new gas fields to be opened up. More gas is burned *just to process gas exports* than is used domestically in manufacturing.
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Mark Armstrong
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As a descendant of English Catholics and Irish Protestants I feel an internal conflict on this.
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Mark Armstrong
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Is this because of the term 'welching' on a deal? All the fun traps for t he unwary posting openly on social media!
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Mark Armstrong
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Out of curiousity I looked up the history. It looks like fun fireworks came first and then more seriously inclined people had a good long think about what would happen if you stuck the fun explody powder in a tube with a heavy ball on top and pointed it at something you wanted to put holes in.
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Mark Armstrong
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All I remember about the movies is the banging soundtrack.
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Daddy Rex
@katyrex.meatjacker.social
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The kid next door just came over with a couch, a bed, and a nightstand that she and her friend made for the gecko after their parents helped them look up nontoxic materials??? 😭😭😭
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Mark Armstrong
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I read an urban fantasy novel called Kraken by China Mieville where (spoiler, but not a major one to the plot) one of the characters has created a transporter and is haunted by the ghosts of all his previous selves who used it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_...
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Mark Armstrong
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I was being tongue in cheek, but I think the server I selected aus.social had issues and seemed very quiet when I stopped going there regularly.
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Mark Armstrong
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Looks like you now have lounge lizards...
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Mark Armstrong
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Do you mean that literally because there are only two people left there?
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Mark Armstrong
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Yes they now have 13 seats, which is the number necessary for the Rites of Ascension, or so the prophecy goes.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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New study by Linsey Marr:
“We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 & pulled it through masks. After 1hr we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.” #MasksWork
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Mark Armstrong
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I thought it was a little speech flavour too.
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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)
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I have lowered my demands of political leadership from "actually help us" to "actually watch whatever you're trying to reference". I know, in my heart of hearts, that a better world isn't possible but I think, if we all sacrifice and bleed for it, they CAN finish a movie that came out 40 years ago.
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Mark Armstrong
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They should go with Biden being like the wise sea captain from Moby Dick and Trump is the white whale. I’ve heard good things about that book so I’m sure the analogy is relevant.
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Mark Armstrong
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I’m sure they have a lot of cunning stunts…
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Mark Armstrong
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I think the mechanism works with ropes and counterweights, but a huge rolling metal or stone ball (a la Indiana Jones) could work as well I suppose.
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Mark Armstrong
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Sometimes I think about when I was a kid and milk was delivered in reusable glass bottles by people driving electric vehicles. That is the sort of distribution system we should have now, never mind 40 years ago.
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Mark Armstrong
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We have no influence over US politics, while the outcomes have an outsized impact on our lives. A guaranteed source of stress for the terminally online!
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Mark Armstrong
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I was a little sad to leave Twitter as I met my wife on there back in 2012, but we both found that BlueSky offered an experience very similar to Twitter of that period while X offered an experience similar to being tied to a chair with your eyes forced open and Nazi propaganda run 24x7.
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Mark Armstrong
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Loving the second season so far. The introduction video for Temporal Mechanics 101 was hilarious!
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jon rosenberg
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They dropped all of Star Trek Prodigy S2 on Netflix the other day. 20 new episodes of Star Trek. Yes, it's a kids' cartoon. If you can get past the first 5 episodes of the 1st season it's also good Star Trek. Some Star Trek series took a lot longer than 5 episodes to find their footing.
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Dr Brooke Magnanti
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I am not saying the allegations being promoted against Neil Gaiman by Rachel Johnson and Julie Bindel are by that fact alone untrue - but if either of them told me the sky was blue I would sure as shit walk outside and double check.
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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)
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Fired* from my job as a party truck driver. Sweet gig. I'd rent a box truck from U-Haul, fill the back with balloons, toss the party goers in, and race around. Swerving, taking corners real fast, whooping over speed bumps... A lot of people were badly injured. *Arrested by Health and Human Services
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Mark Armstrong
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Next time you should wrap the box completely in plastic. This should reduce the number of complaints and reported injuries. Also witnesses.
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Mark Armstrong
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Oh! Can you walk straight into a Nuclear Submarine Officer role? That sounds like a fun job. How many Nuclear Subs do we have right now?
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Mark Armstrong
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Hey, this reminds of something I read about a while ago.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
abcnews.go.com/US/white-sup...
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Mark Armstrong
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I wish I only had to stress about local and federal Australian politics and not have to think about whats going on in the Chaotic States of America all the time.
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Mark Armstrong
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Hey, did you all know that if you click on the screen during a Teams presentation it can pause the on-screen presentation just for you? I didn’t. I sat for 15 minutes listening to the presenter discuss new topics and wondering why I was watching the same animation keep replaying over and over.
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c0nc0rdance
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Well, I know what *I'm* making this weekend.
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Mark Armstrong
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This looks like a format that could easily be replicated by a scam artist using a slightly different link.
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Mark Armstrong
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Just rewatching The Lair Of The White Worm which is really elevated by the acting of Peter Capaldi and Hugh Grant. I completely forgot about the butler however - he is hilariously creepy!
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Matt Pogue
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1/In Doctorow's most recent post (pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/d...), he brings up the subject of tech debt, which I would guess, has played a starring role in the ransomware attacks of recent years. For non-IT folks, here's how it works, starting with in-house systems...
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Rose Schmits
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She’s a WRITER and this is the shit she comes up with fuck me jo its so joever you’ve crossed the glinner event horizon queen
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Mark Armstrong
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I was so lucky to be among the last group of students to get a free uni education. I came from a family living in council housing estates and it really made a difference to my life - I know I wouldn’t have gone otherwise. Many of my younger relatives don’t even see uni as an option.
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Mark Armstrong
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I last read her books back in 2007 when the Deathly Hallows came out. I thought the story was fairly basic but still seemed to be teaching the target audience to question authority and fight fascism. I liked that she seemed to actually want to pay taxes back then too. Sad to see the obvious descent.
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Mark Armstrong
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This is the old 4chan trolls posting about identifying as an attack helicopter meme, reheated. She has gone off her rocker if this is now her level of discourse. Of course she’s on Twitter so that’s probably how they all talk over there now.
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Calamity Caitlin
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This one. 😂😂😂
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