@GraemeWinter

Something something science something software cranky something (he/him) (words / opinions his own etc.)

 Wantage, England
Joined April 2009
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Familiar reading for Daresbury veterans
Jon Agar@jon_agar13 Nov 2022
Why, in 2000, did Blair approve the building of an expensive synchrotron at Didcot (Harwell, near Oxford) and not Daresbury (near Manchester)? Why the South and not in the North? Anyone want a thread on the story, with archive docs? I promise to be rude about Oxford profs…
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Twitter bans comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk theguardian.com/technology/2… Space Karen spends $44B to stop people taking the piss. Yeh glwt

Twitter bans comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk

Users adopt Musk’s name after he announces suspension of accounts pretending to be someone else

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Graeme Winter retweeted
rands@rands6 Nov 2022
If true, this is bonkers: xitter.cf/CaseyNewton/status/158…
Casey Newton
@CaseyNewton6 Nov 2022
Replying to @CaseyNewton
From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.
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An attempt to cross-post fediscience.org/web/@graeme/… (walkabout following the route of electron punches in our accelerator)
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Lots of people jumping to fediscience - kinda feeling left out as I pre-emptively set up @graemewinter@mas.to a few months back on a different neighbourhood
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@graeme@fediscience.org yeh so turns out you can still get decent names there too
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I'm sorry son, them yaks just ain’t for shavin’
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That was a commit; ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ would push again
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Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them theguardian.com/media/2022/n… So did I, but it is quiet over there. Toot.

Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them

The platform is home to a devoted base of left-leaning communities – and no one billionaire can control it

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The Java Programming Language
Madza 👨‍💻⚡
@madzadev1 Nov 2022
Give this book a coding-related title 👇👇
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Crossed the sarcasm event horizon, now in the sarcularity. Can no longer separate real news from the Onion
The Guardian
@guardian1 Nov 2022
Boris Johnson to be keynote speaker at blockchain conference in Singapore theguardian.com/politics/202…

Boris Johnson to be keynote speaker at blockchain conference in Singapore

Former PM will address meeting to discuss global ‘migration to the digital economy’

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It’s ****ing big and it’s ****ing clever: why swearing makes you fitter, happier and more persuasive theguardian.com/science/2022…

It’s ****ing big and it’s ****ing clever: why swearing makes you fitter, happier and more persuasive

A new scientific paper has confirmed the power of curse words – and not only to shock

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raspberrypi.com/news/the-ven… Well that sucks...
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Ah wait nevermind cp -X blink.uf2 /Volumes/RPI-RP2/ is like how I would have done it anyway because that's how you copied files in 1980 right? 🤣
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‘Sums up 2022’: Permacrisis chosen as Collins word of the year theguardian.com/culture/2022… Yeh in fairness that's a good call

‘Sums up 2022’: Permacrisis chosen as Collins word of the year

Dictionary defines word as ‘extended period of instability and insecurity’, with Partygate, Kyiv and ‘warm bank’ also making list

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Approve of Halloween themed @github contribution chart 👍
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Calling all men: this is what we can do to help women feel safe exercising in the dark | Chris Boardman theguardian.com/commentisfre… Short version: give people space
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theregister.com/2022/10/29/k…
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Word of the day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonis…

Agonism - Wikipedia

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Photograph of a mushroom growing in grass

ALT Photograph of a mushroom growing in grass

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