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ThisCJ, to random
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Today I went to Iona Abbey, founded by St Columba c560. The current building is C12, built by the Benedictines. It was left to ruin after the Reformation but restored in the C20 by an ecumenical group now called the Iona Community, who stand for diversity, peace and justice. P

Interior shot showing ancient walls with ferns growing out of them
A display about the Iona Community, details at Iona.org.uk
A High Cross - a Celtic cross with a circle, rendered in stone, about 3m tall

billbennett,
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@ThisCJ hope you didn’t run into any Vikings.

ThisCJ,
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@billbennett plenty, they are all normalised here. Check out the number of redheads…

ThisCJ, to random
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Northern hemisphere right now, outer suburb of London

ThisCJ, to random
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Why I don’t use the Oxford Comma:

“Flutter apps can work on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine, included with every app, translates everything to the OS layer.”

The Oxford comma before “and Mac OS” means that one can’t easily discern the end of the list. If, instead, it read “…Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine,“ one would know that the Flutter UI and rendering engine were not part of the list but a separate clause.

lightweight,
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@billbennett @leighelse @ThisCJ I dunno. The coder in me, for whom lists with clear relationships between elements are very important, thinks that an Oxford comma is always right. I haven't yet seen an instance where it's inappropriate, although I'm open to examples.

billbennett,
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@lightweight @leighelse @ThisCJ Yeah, but you grew up in America where the Oxford comma is everywhere.

ThisCJ, to random
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I remember when Stuff (the NZ news site) used to serve content as HTML. Those were good days. Since Stuff's latest "upgrade" I haven't been able to load it on any of my devices.

No, I don't fancy turning off my security settings or ad-blockers. If the price of that is not reading Stuff any more, I'll pay that. I wonder how many others are in the same situation?

zeborah,
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@BobLefridge It's getting worse all the time too. A few days ago it started loading a Google login option. 🤯 @ThisCJ

strypey,
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@zeborah
> It's getting worse all the time too. A few days ago it started loading a Google login option

One of the fascinating things about running in all my browsers is that I can see at a glance which third-party domains a website is loading scripts from, to run in my browser. I've been doing this for at least 7 years now, and what I see when browsing NZ news sites is often horrifying.

I suspect web workers cut corners with copypasta scripts they don't read.

@BobLefridge @ThisCJ

ThisCJ, to random
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Just went back to the Stuff website after a few days of not using it. It really is a dog, isn't it? And that's unfair to dogs.

Rjdlandscapes,

@ThisCJ its terrible

richardhulse,

@Rjdlandscapes @ThisCJ I would be interested to hear what you don't like about it.

ThisCJ, to random
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Brisbane is the same size as Auckland. This is how you get to the airport in Brisbane. In NZ we can’t even get political consensus to build a few km of line from Manukau to AKL.

ThisCJ, to random
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Just had a clear view of two of Jupiter’s moon through the 12x36 binos. @iangriffin would probably know which ones they are

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