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Oh no, RIP Margaret Hamilton
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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Russell Garner
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Happy Easter, yeah?
(German artist Michael Sowa, b. 1945)
Turnip occasionally looks like he's a proper grown-up boy but then when he starts shouting for food he's just a behbeh #CatsOfMastodon
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@purplepadma@beige.party I'm still hoping the petition against Meta glasses gains traction and we see legislation to stop abuse. Is there anything that company does that isn't wholly evil?
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@vaurora@mstdn.social @effy@social.effy.space I'm annoyed that this excludes those who are extremely non-binary
Took myself out to Almscliffe Crag earlier. Lovely day #photography
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I still have no idea who originally wrote this.
It's hard to allow every single piece of bad news to affect you, because if you let it, you'd go under.
But the report that every single person who was on a ventilator in a hospital in Cuba died the same night for want of power ripped from them by *that* dickhead? That one landed.
NASA and #Artemis II, sponsored by Tunnocks
It's hard to allow every single piece of bad news to affect you, because if you let it, you'd go under.
But the report that every single person who was on a ventilator in a hospital in Cuba died the same night for want of power ripped from them by *that* dickhead? That one landed.
Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods to which we resort to hide them.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Watching the Artemis live feed like a hawk. I want to be there when they spot the set for the faked moon landings.
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I suppose one thing it does do is unite a lot of Star Trek fans briefly in remembering what we thought hope looked like.
Nope, sorry, can't do it, even as it thunders away downstairs, and as much as I want to join in.
Noise-cancelling headphones it is.
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I mean this isn't sabotage, this is just my usual brand of anxiety-driven DIY
The fact that the song title is 'Ironic', and she sings about things which are overtly non-ironic makes her a master of irony don't @ me
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@lcamtuf this is me and I want this. I have a soldering iron, two multimeters, a bad A-level result in Physics and can repair other people's circuits, but I have voltage blindness
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk that's right, you've got to eat the books with the right kind of glue
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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @_slotek_@mastodon.social yes, agreed. It's just that it's off to one side of my desk and I need to use it like a module and kinda can't reliably
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This is quite true but now I'm not allowed to go within 300 yards of any of the 730-odd Texaco stations in the UK.
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@gairdeachas I've just had to ask people to please create new bug reports from the template rather than writing the bug report *in* the template
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@siin I want other people to remember what it is to be happy. This just seems like an alien (to me) way to do it, if you'll excuse the barely-a-pun
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@SteveClough maybe I'm wrong? Maybe it provides hope and a thing for thinkers to galvanise around?
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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @_slotek_@mastodon.social I've been through (almost) DAWless once
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@anthonybearles@mastodonapp.uk all I can say is don't go to Greece it will Blow. Your. Mind.
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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @_slotek_@mastodon.social my Sub 37 CV already has so many bugs in the editor that I now know are never getting fixed unless we reverse engineer everything and write our own
Someone in the other place said "this Bonnie Tyler song is like when Father Ted imagines himself in a casino"
That bassline was just resting in my account #totp
Are you a Khn or are you a Klek?
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@RainyDaze these people were doing Almscliffe Crag as 3/20 climbs they were trying to do in one day
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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @_slotek_@mastodon.social never. Ableton and hybrid over hardware-only always