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kate, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

I had a lovely morning reading The Living Mountain while a wren sang on our balcony. Described by the Guardian as “the finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain”, it details Nan Shepherd’s lifelong relationship with the Cairngorms and her philosophy of life:

“So, simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”

kate, 8 days ago to random

I get that this door hanger is meant to be playful, but some of these are downright creepy — I suspect most room service staff have had sleazy guys say some variant on “Care to join us?”

kate, 8 days ago to random

I finally went to see the memorial to the patron saint of queer programmers, Alan Turing:

kate, 11 days ago to random

A stranger called me “stylish” today, which I feel vindicates my refusal to dress appropriately for the weather and ground conditions

kate, 15 days ago to random

Glen Sligachan, Skye:

kate, 22 days ago to random

British transphobia has now reached the stage of coercing young people into detransitioning using the threat of referrals to social services if they access treatment through private providers. The Good Law Project is crowdfunding for a possible legal challenge: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/nhs-cyp-guidance/

kate, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

Bristol came so close to having the first Green majority on a upper-tier English council.

Edit: Here’s what the results imply for the Bristol Central constituency in the upcoming general election: https://iamkate.com/data/bristol-central/

kate, 26 days ago to random

If you’re designing a programming language, please consider allowing hyphens in identifiers. Hyphen-separated text (kebab-case) is more readable than camelCase, and doesn’t require use of the shift key like camelCase and snake_case. There’s no ambiguity with subtraction if you require spaces around binary operators (which every style guide I’ve ever used requires anyway).

rooster, 28 days ago to random

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kate, 29 days ago to random

On 7th June 2020 anti-racism protestors tore down a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston and threw it into Bristol harbour. The statue that once looked down on the people of Bristol now lies, graffiti-covered and surrounded by placards from the protest, in the M Shed museum. I found the exhibition to be a moving reminder of that brief period when it seemed Britain might finally start to acknowledge and address the legacy of its history of racism.

A placard reading “Colston must fall”
Various placards, including one reading “BLM means gay + trans Black lives matter”
Various placards, including one reading “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”