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calmeilles

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tl;dr — Brit. Europhile. Gay.

60, no idea how that happened. Londoner for work rather than inclination. Professionally that would be IT hardware and data centres, but currently unemployed. Will consider all reasonable offers and most unreasonable ones.

Interested in books, SF&F history, physics. Transit/transport. Architecture, especially housing. Dealing with climate change. Politically lefish and small-l liberal. Oddly traditionalist in many things.

Wickr Me: nylonshirt

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calmeilles, to random
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Absolutely effin mental.

Suella Braverman interviewed on BBC "Keir Starmer has the charisma of a peanut... Labour is a party of hard left maniacs, who would undo brexit, who would open our borders & who would indoctrinated our institutions & schools with PC madness.. "

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Just an everyday story of lawyers conspiring to suppress evidence.

The recipient, Williams, is now a head of legal at the Post Office and responsible for deciding on compensation issues.

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-lawyer-advised-withholding-documents-inquiry-hears/5119416.article

calmeilles, to random
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You don't have to commit a physical genocide if you can kill a people's culture.

In China, new policies on education and "national language" are eroding the basis of Tibetan culture, according to some families and activists. Increasingly, children from Tibetan-speaking families are sent to boarding school, where all teaching is in Mandarin Chinese.

Also with Uyghurs and other minorities. Beijing's imperialism is insidious, powerful and deeply destructive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-68492043

calmeilles, to random
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½ whole wheat and ½ gram flour flatbreads spiced with coriander, allspice, pepper, cumin, cardamom, nutmeg, turmeric, ginger, cloves, cassia, chili and cayenne pepper.

calmeilles, to random
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« Chair of foreign affairs select committee Alicia Kearns said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/30/uk-government-lawyers-say-israel-is-breaking-international-law-claims-top-tory-in-leaked-recording

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« With something as excessive and egregious as The Line, even if it ends up being powered by solar panels, so much carbon is spent on constructing those buildings that you’ve already lost the game. »

https://archive.is/HCybb

calmeilles, to eagles
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Can eagles swallow fish whole in midair?

...

https://youtube.com/shorts/e8y8ynWgzSg?si=olR8toC2yiHpcIi7

calmeilles, to random
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What recourse do you have when the minister for equalities sets out to discriminate against people?

Twenty-five US states (plus Washington, DC), four Australian territories, and twenty-five countries have been cut out of the jurisdictions whose gender recognition processes the UK will honour.

https://rya.nc/activism/uk-slashes-foreign-gender-recognition.html

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calmeilles, to random
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Jackie Higginson organised mass North Sea skinny dip to raise money for Mind but the Department for Work and Pensions said she would be stripped of her benefits because the money raised counted as her income.

FFS This isn't "bad" it's actively evil.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xf8s

calmeilles,
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@Edent

Why wasn't it caught by HMRC to count against her tax credits in previous years then?

Only now that tax credits have been replaced by Universal Credit and HMRC by DWP.

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Government PLUNDERING public assets.

This is outright theft of community property for the benefit of private owners.

https://archive.ph/h992x

calmeilles,
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@junesim63 of course it stinks. They can see the end coming so they have cant months to plunder anything they can. No wish to be subtle about it just holding to the belief that any incoming government would observe the conventions and not immediately undo their thefts.

calmeilles, to random
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This applies to all current publicly available AI generators, not just those producing images.

calmeilles,
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@kinghaunst @pgcd

Teacher get paid for teaching.

Authors get royalties on the textbooks used in teaching.

AI training "theft" is because someone is making use of another's art without recompense or permission.

serenissimaj, to random
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BREAKING: Amazon will be banned from the European Parliament!

After weeks of mounting pressure by trade unions, civil society and Members of the European Parliament, Amazon's lobbyists will no longer be able to access its premises.

Our reaction: tinyurl.com/2y67bcr8

calmeilles,
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@serenissimaj Why do any lobbyists get access to the parliament?

Ban them all.

GottaLaff, to random
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“$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School

Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is making free tuition available to all students going forward.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

calmeilles,
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@GottaLaff The "Gift Article" isn't working for me, I'm getting a subsbcribe-to-read nag, so here's an Archive link:

https://archive.ph/aIJ8G

calmeilles, to random
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The Dreamies summoning spell is here somewhere, I'm sure of it!

calmeilles, to random
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It is increasingly difficult to see this as anything other than a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by concealing evidence conducted by Post Office senior management and perjury of some of that management in support of that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68146054

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You’d think that in 2024 you’d have an easier way to enter a true minus sign glyph (−) instead of a dash (-) in Linux.

And this isn’t just one for typography geeks either, it’s an accessibility issue.

Imagine you have a minus button in a web form. A screenreader would read it as a dash button unless you used the proper character. (The workaround, of course, is to use aria-label.)

calmeilles,
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@aral

How do you want to access it?

U+2212 is a bit clunky but with so many characters available how do you make a selection and which keystrokes do you assign them to?

I've no real idea myself. Computer keyboards are so damned inadequate for typesetting purposes.

calmeilles, to random
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calmeilles, to random
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Why an honours list in mid February?

Is the timing normal or is Sunak slipping them in before an election?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/political-peerages-2024

calmeilles, to random
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Bread happened again.

Dough tuned out onto a baking sheet ready for the oven
Dough starting final proof in a banneton
Dough risen after bulk fermentation in a bowl.

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