Queer programmer who reads far too much fanfic. (she/her)

Oxfordshire
Joined November 2017
The Wrong Trousers is 30 years old! The most pitch perfect chase sequence ever committed to film. I’m forever in awe of this scene. Long before you could fall back on CGI. Proper craft at work… AND it’s bloody hilarious.
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The comments are hilarious. "What if you <scenario right-winger thinks is plainly ludicrous>", to which Bragg replies "Yeah, I do that too"
Blimey, if the Daily Mail are this upset about ‘Which Side Are You On’ they’re going to be apoplectic when the find out how I’ve updated the lyrics to ‘Sexuality’
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Some friends @hearmyqueer @SunStarFlower and I were helping each other out and realised our advice might benefit others - these tips are aimed at anyone who finds themself learning to code, especially for work, study or research without dedicated training medium.com/@jmpumphrey/code-…
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(long) 🧵: • Noted climate physicist personally dives into cost-benefit Integrated Assessment Models (IAM's) - DICE and others. •Writes own simplified version! Derives *intriguing* results! A 🧵tour exploring his investigation and - slightly provocative? - conclusions!
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People keep complimenting the skirt @OddTypeOfDragon made for me, and it's great!
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If you were to do something like this to your stairs, could you resist slipping something by Chuck Tingle in among them?
"Staircase of Knowledge" Stunning steps at University of Balamand Library, Lebanon. #archaeohistories
Always limit your global variable changes.
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This is interesting. A bank claimed it couldn't use diacritics in a customer's name due to technical limitations. Customer sued… and won! Your name is personal data, and GDPR says it should be recorded accurately.
“The Market Court of the Brussels appeal court held that, in accordance with article 16 GDPR, the data subject has the right for their name to be correctly spelled when processed by the computer systems of the Bank.” gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=H…
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This feels like a pretty weak criticism based on guilt-by-association with regards to a couple of sentences. If there is criticism to be made of the actual science in the paper it would be good to see that, as it makes a fairly convincing case for an airburst.
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1. GP 2. Railway planning -> transport consultant 3. Farm labourer 4. Nurse -> Nursery care -> Teaching assistant -> Teacher -> Proofreader 5. Programmer
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You know this part was good because they deleted it from the article xitter.cf/sysid_ACE/status/14353…
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Over the last five years there has been an organised and concerted campaign mobilised against the trans community. My speech on Pride in 2021. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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This ship is problematic
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I've just watched a swan fail to take off two times. It made it on the third attempt, but it seemed like a close thing!
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Such a cute face!
This amber bear amulet was found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk, a city in northern Poland and has been dated between 1700 and 650 BCE. But you cannot eat it [read more: ow.ly/gVmv30n9YvO]