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BashStKid

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.

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BashStKid,
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@ivyfox @thearchers

Indeed, the Sausage Incident reaches its j’accuse moment.

jon, to random German
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The most significant infrastructure investment in Yonne (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) in a generation: fibre optic high speed internet is here! 💪

And I’m at an event starting shortly at Ancy Le Franc to find out about it

1000 MBit in the countryside is pretty good I think 😊

Altitude infra van
The event.

BashStKid,
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@jon
That is good, pathetically poor adsl rates (unless you live on top of the local exchange) have been the norm for far too long.

Mind you, not everyone will be happy; I recall La Roche en Brenil turning down a govt-financed high speed internet offer for the whole town ‘because they didn’t want it or that dangerous wifi’.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Giles is skritching Skippy whilst the llama observes, her ears somewhat askance.

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Never having kept llamas, do they ever need an equivalent of shearing (or would that be combing?)

GWillow, to random

Techie people! I need an Egyptian virtual number in order to use local delivery apps. What’s the best option? Does the Burner app work outside North America?

BashStKid,
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@GWillow
The simplest and probably cheapest option is likely to be buying a sim for whichever operator has the best coverage. Then there should be a bunch of call + data options you can buy for 30 days.

GWillow, to random

Here from the Threads salt mines to tell you that everything you’ve heard is true: it sucks

BashStKid,
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@GWillow
I read a nice article somewhere which compared Threads not to ‘the town square’ but to a soulless shopping mall with hollow attractions and ersatz engagements whilst the data pickpocket quietly robs you.

If only we were still EU, this wouldn’t be a question …

jon, to random German
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I’m in the EU so can’t confirm this about Threads is true. But it’s very funny! https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

BashStKid,
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@jon @craiggrannell
I’m not sure this will ever be resolvable as a tech problem. What might make a difference are privacy and IP laws, but they’d have to be really well-written …

mattgemmell, to random
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Nineteen years and 2 days ago, I met this girl in the Department of Computing Science.

My wife and I today. I’m wearing my Department of Computing Science at Glasgow University t-shirt, which I still have from back then.

BashStKid,
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@craiggrannell @llamasoft_ox
Reminding me of seismology research around Hengill & Nesjavellir … it’s a beautiful place.

Garwboy, to random
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Sat in the GP waiting room, because my knee seems to have... burst?

There's a vanishingly small number of things in or on the human body where its acceptable for them to burst. Knees are absolutely not on that list.

BashStKid,
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@Garwboy Commiserations, just come back from the Princess of Wales with similar …

jon, to random German
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Genius. Twitter has just messed up the user experience for non paying users with the rate limits… and now it’s going to make Tweetdeck limited to paying users too https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783092/twitter-tweetdeck-new-preview-force-legacy-apis

If Musk’s unpleasant views didn’t break Twitter completely, then this rapidly worsening user experience damned well should

(Link via @craiggrannell )

BashStKid,
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@jon @Peternimmo @craiggrannell
Leaning towards delusional incompetence as I can’t believe Musk’s ego would agree to being the patsy in a cunning plan where he looks stupid.

jon, to random
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Let's use hydrogen rather than diesel for the Zillertalbahn even though it's more expensive than regular electrification of the line

So as to be pioneers. Or something

Jeez

https://www.railwaygazette.com/hydrogen/tirol-endorses-zillertalbahn-hydrogen-project/64420.article

BashStKid,
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@jon Hmm. Maybe someone could look into whether the govt is making a backdoor deal with OMV for the hydrogen supply, and indeed if the hydrogen is guaranteed to be ‘green’ and not blue or grey.

Not forgetting that this is a dumb proposal from both the financial and engineering sides …

llamasoft_ox, to random
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The only trouble with this time of year is that it inevitably leads to lanolin all over your e-reader.

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Keeps those hands soft for typing, though?

craiggrannell, to random
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It’s starting to really get to me in the UK how many people are furiously angry about the prospect of more solar on fields when many actual farmers are enthusing about how great mixed-use fields can be. (Solar can shade animals and plants. In many cases, it can also be combined with rainfall capture. It’s about making better use of some land, not replacing one thing with another.)

BashStKid,
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@craiggrannell
Also an opportunity to cut some farm input costs by generating own power for lighting, heating, and fuel. Probably the only bit of food price inflation we can affect.

I would say I’m much more in favour of locally or consumer-owned cooperatives owning the solar and also benefiting directly from the cheaper electricity, rather than anonymous distant companies who pass no benefits onto anybody.

BashStKid,
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@craiggrannell
The biggest help in that direction would be to exclude the solar improvement from the rateable value.
Right now, any saving from installing solar is more than taken away by the business rateable value increase from HMRC. Wouldn’t be surprised if the next round of council tax revaluations put houses with solar up into the next band so that everyone is demotivated.

GWillow, to random

Eid Mubarak to all mastodonians. x

BashStKid,
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@GWillow
Khair Mubarak to you & your family.

IamHappyToast, to random
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Wondering about setting aside a social account to actually voice my mental health issues. Might be this one because it feels more secure. Also not the end of the world if people stop following here because it's suddenly not a stream of picture lols and is instead a constant barrage of self hatred and wanting to give up drawing because it's an overwhelming drain, a complete waste of my life and a financial death spiral.
Or maybe I'll just do the lols.

BashStKid,
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@IamHappyToast
Whatever you decide, hoping things improve for you soon.
As always, love your drawings.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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It's been a busy day for having people come round and cut bits off our animals. Farrier this morning, shearer this evening. 🦄🐏

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Take it that was a llama pedicure?

llamasoft_ox, to random
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dydy'r defaid ddim yn gwisgo gwlan!

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox That’s an accusatory look …

llamasoft_ox, to random
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boys are lurking

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Ice cream as well as biscuits?

flexion, to random

SiliconGraphics ONYX users know the answer to this..

BashStKid,
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@flexion Especially if your two or three 21” monitors turned the room into a sauna …

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Parcel fun!

  • start of May that colour e-ink e-reader was released
  • unavailable in UK at the time, I ordered one from a place in Germany
  • out of stock there, while waiting it became available in UK, so I cancelled German order and ordered in UK
  • received device from UK, order cancelled in Germany, received UPS notification that German shipment cancelled, refund in bank account, all good. 🐂👍

... received package from Germany...

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Had similar happen (on more prosaic items, it must be said). Suspect lovely Brexit has put so much delay and complication in ordering that the helpful sales dept don’t know what the delivery folks are doing.

helenczerski, to science
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Researching the physics of sandcastles and I have just found a paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00549) that says you can use hydrophobic sand to make sandcastles underwater, because the roles of water and air are reversed and the air makes bridges that hold the whole thing together. The picture is from that paper. Has anyone tried this? I’m pretty sure I’ve got some hydrophobic sand which I’ll dig out later, but I’m trying not to be too distracted now.

BashStKid,
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@helenczerski I’d be a bit surprised if they were equivalently strong, as the hydrophobic sand will have pore space filled with water, and air coating the sand grains - capillary pressure to a gas will never be as high as to water, and the wet quartz surface energy to water will likewise be different to the hydrophobic compound surface energy to air.
Just a thought …

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Distribution of morning Digestive biscuits and cuddles

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox a relatively subtle llamabomb today?

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Emergency run to the garage to buy Digestive biscuits.

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Bookers digestives are good for affordable stockpiling.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Yes we were at the cheese rolling. Found out about it one time when I happened to stop to charge in the village where it takes place. Good fun, although if we go next year we'll go earlier to get a better position, BIG crowds there!

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox There to watch the good folk of Glos bounce & break their way down the hill many years ago.
(These days it’s the only way to get a big Double, with the supermarkets all half-empty)

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Good morning Panda!

BashStKid,
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@llamasoft_ox Thanks that awful April weather has given over …

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