AlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈

Ancient pixel-stained #technopeasant #wench and damned sapphist.

Happy to talk here about #Bread #Politics #accessibility #LGBTQ #Food #Coffee #Music #SocialJustice #Democracy and also being a former theatre/radio/audio engineer.

Other accounts for #FLOSS (incl #OpenSource #OpenHardware #Standards) #RedSox and #Transport

I'm also somewhat #Autistic #Disabled #BiPolar #Old & very #ProEU and recently into tenpin bowling.

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2024-08-05 20:03:41

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
That has also been suggested for the Commons, and would certainly stop them playing games with 'primary residence" etc.

2024-08-05 11:25:00

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
I'd question whether two years was sufficient and/or wasteful. Also disruptive of living arrangements and employment, especially for those not from London needing to find accommodation.

2024-07-26 19:19:26

I feel rather sorry for the hundreds of people on the north bank of the Seine as all the athletes are facing the other way!
#Olympics

2024-07-19 18:10:12

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that Y2K was imaginary.
No! No! NO!
We did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.

2024-07-13 15:12:59

Disgusted with everyone supporting the Israeli state in firing missiles and killing so many people in the are they called would be "safe" in #Gaza. These are not the actions or behaviour of good people.
Shame on everyone supporting genocide.

2024-07-12 10:22:05

I'm getting fed up with all this stuff about shops closing early or opening late, or an extra public holiday, because of some men's sport thing when this didn't happen when the England women *won* the Euros.
It's sexist.

2024-07-05 16:26:32

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@npub1fjg…m8gs
I run an ADS-B flight tracker node and suddenly thought to look up the first plane I flew. Hasn't been tracked since 2001 though. 😢

2024-06-27 09:31:25

An election reminder. If you can't vote for the candidate you want because they won't get enough support to win then vote against the one you don't want by voting for the candidate best placed to beat them. You don't have to like them personally, just want to take a step along the road.
#GE24 #GE2024 #VoteTactically
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2024-06-26 15:40:35

Dear Starmer,
Feck off.
("David Tennant should have been more respectful when criticising Badenoch over LGBT views', says Starmer)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jun/26/uk-general-election-live-updates-tories-labour-betting-scandal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-06-23 19:19:47

Reminder: The UK has no such thing as a 'supermajority', it's just the Tories being scared of being done to by others as they've done to us over the last 15 years.
#ToriesOut #GE24 #GE2024 #VoteTactically
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2024-06-19 19:20:08

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Alien eggs?

2024-05-25 23:28:33

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@npub1lhj…wrts
This is a Chilean Merlot which I buy every few weeks from Waitrose 😉

2024-05-25 20:23:35

Opened a new box of wine this evening. I think they must be getting smaller as they definitely don't last as long even though it still states 'equivalent to three bottles' on the pack.

2024-05-24 18:38:20

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@npub14x8…7fe6
Quite. Election night is going to be a bit less exciting now.

2024-05-24 18:32:56

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And good riddance to Michael Gove, who has decided to leave Parliament and spend more time with his Bolivian marching powder supplier.

2024-05-24 17:42:20

This bunch of charlatans have destroyed the UK we had, ruined friendships with European neighbours, and given billions of the taxes we paid to their mates.
They need to be shovelled in the shit they've put in our rivers and around our coastline.
#Vote for the candidate best placed to remove the #NastyParty MPs, whoever it is.
Change is coming, so long as you don't vote blue. #ToriesOut
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2024-05-24 10:19:10

If the Tories say that they want to be re-elected so that they can do something specific ask them why they were unable to do it during the last 14 years.
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2024-05-24 09:54:39

I note that the following all seem to be reaching boiling point around the same time:
* Gaza/Israel
* Taïwan/China
* Ukraine/Russia
* British/American/European political turmoil
* Parts of the world becoming too hot for life
We're in for a very bumpy ride ahead ...

2024-05-24 09:38:32

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@npub1a4k…l47t
Possibly it's just the case that I'm absolutely terrible at getting rid of old stuff (want any Dell 32-bit servers?) 😉
I did really like CP/M though.

2024-05-24 09:32:58

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@npub1a4k…l47t
I still have my Amstrad pcw CP/M machine in the loft!

2024-05-10 15:14:33

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@npub193r…dvlz
I did in my right little toe yesterday. Now all swollen black red and blue.

2024-05-08 14:34:25

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@npub18jh…phdn
That bottom brighter image definitely looks way more inviting.

2024-05-01 08:01:10

If religion is the opiate of the masses then the Tories have just become the biggest drug pushers around.
Schools need to teach facts not fiction.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-04-30 19:17:22

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@npub1y98…fhhs
Didn't Marne La Vallé previously have tunnel services?

2024-04-30 18:03:21

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@npub1r0j…r2s5
Yeah, that can take a while. Thankfully I have a little button I can push to turn the coffee machine on whilst I'm still in bed.

2024-04-30 18:01:13

Getting old is like being a dog:
The high points of the day are scratching, peeing, and watching for the postman.

2024-04-30 17:56:26

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@npub14x8…7fe6
Nope. It has one USB, one RJ45, one power socket, and one HD connection.
Now sorted (next post)

2024-04-30 17:22:19

Debugging an entirely headless-has-no-video-out-capability is difficult and annoying.

2024-04-28 15:59:28

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@npub18nt…3439
EEP! That's ... not a good discovery to make.

2024-04-03 12:07:43

Just saw a reference to requiring 50Gb and thought wow, such a lot.
Then realised I'm now living in 2024 and it's really not. 😳

2024-04-02 19:01:44

I realised this afternoon why I haven't received some government letters I'd expected to have received by now...
It's possible I didn't tell them I've moved.
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2024-03-29 18:17:26

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@npub1h8j…m0fw
Easter Monday collection? Seems unlikely ...

2024-03-29 18:07:26

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@npub1fjg…m8gs
"defrag" ... Now there's a name I've not heard in a very long time ...

2024-03-22 21:18:20

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Just checked. Lunar escape velocity is only 2.4km/s. Definitely need rails that hold not just to rest on.

2024-03-22 21:10:44

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Gravity being so much less wouldn't require full weight track anyway but if you went too fast you could accidentally reach escape velocity. Building rails like a roller-coaster would maybe more sense, and if tunnelled wouldn't have so much dust problem.
All theoretical anyway!

2024-03-22 20:54:58

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The feature of maglev though is that the track is powered not the train. Caterpillar idea would require carrying the power supply.

2024-03-18 15:31:39

If you break the impartiality rules but face no sanctions then what is the point of having 'rules' at all?
"This is the 12th time GB News has breached the broadcasting code in its short existence and it has yet to face a formal sanction. Eight other investigations are ongoing." 😡
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/18/gb-news-breached-impartiality-rules-says-ofcom-but-will-face-no-sanctions

2024-03-16 01:43:26

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@npub1wcu…9j6s
I support PEOPLE not politics. People who are being killed daily by armed forces attacking civilians who are starving.
But clearly you have no humanity in you if you think it acceptable.

2024-03-15 18:50:16

Is Israel guilty? . . . . Yes.
Of war crimes? . . . . Yes.
Who funds those crimes? . . . . The USA
Why? . . . . Because they believe appealing to the Jewish vote in America is more important than stopping genocide.
Is it really genocide though? . . . . Yes, the United Nations and others believe so.
#Gaza #Israel #GazaIsNotIsrael #StopFundingIsrael #BDS #PeaceNotWar #LetTheAidIn

2024-03-15 11:47:40

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
"Willis ruling" would have been sufficient description, adding "disqualification" seems to suggest his decision.

2024-03-13 22:14:20

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@npub1jvz…esfw
Depends on country and who you're targeting.

2024-03-13 20:14:59

Children are the responsibility of their parents.
Children are NOT the property of their parents.

2024-03-13 00:18:30

This is an absolutely terrible decision.
It's short-sighted, will cause immense harm, and is wrong as a point of fact as blockers have been a known safe treatment for decades for precocious puberty.
This is a transphobic choice by the #NHS
"Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics", says NHS England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/12/children-to-stop-getting-puberty-blockers-at-gender-identity-clinics-says-nhs-england

2024-03-12 18:31:30

Oh dear... "Audience reception was overwhelmingly negative" ... "A second season is in production"

2024-03-06 14:46:28

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@npub1mgu…5k75
But her pockets!

2024-02-29 11:57:49

It's very tempting to believe we live in the worst possible #timeline.
But do we?

2024-02-29 08:07:13

OK, so now I'm awake at stupid o'clock because of a delivery what is one supposed to do at eight in the morning? I don't understand.

2024-02-25 12:48:06

I could _really_ do with a Maplin or Tandy shop right about now.

2024-02-19 19:41:02

On principle if a machine breaks or stops working such that I need to replace it because I still need to accomplish the function it provides then I always buy _better_ rather than repeat.
Except at the moment I'm wondering whether a repeat might actually make more sense.
This is blowing my head up so I'm going to stop looking at possible alternatives and do something else.

2024-02-11 15:53:38

Discovery: When you have a three-part password it is most important to get the three parts in the correct order otherwise you will waste hours and hours trying to work out why the board is not connection.
Ask me how I know ...

2024-02-09 20:59:52

It's sorta annoying seeing people on here who look very fanciable indeed in photos but knowing that saying so to them would be very wrong. 😢

2024-02-09 20:46:40

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@npub13nj…f4rz
So far as I see it, the 1980s was the decade that good music ignored. The 70s were truly great, and I liked the late 90s when I was working in radio, but it's otherwise just noisy wallpaper.

2024-02-09 20:41:06

There were some good toons in the 80s, but also some absolute crap. #totp

2023-12-21 10:00:54

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@npub13us…qafs @npub1psd…9sr7
There are, indeed, massive hurdles to jump before drug research becomes profit, and even after a drug reaches the market there can be new risks (eg thalidomide), but raising the price of something just for increased corporate profit not for production reasons feels absolutely wrong.

2023-12-20 20:38:00

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Clearly there are valid circumstances for independent review but "we want more profit" shouldn't be one, imho.
Developing drugs is crazily expensive so it's not unreasonable to initially charge a lot.

2023-12-20 20:00:36

Proposal: Drug prices can never be raised after introduction, only reduced.
Reasoning: Stop profiteering; the greater the volume produced the lower the unit price.
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2023-12-18 18:51:47

The Guardian asks "Scientists are on the verge of a male birth-control pill. Will men take it?" but the far bigger question whether someone who could get pregnant would trust them?!
It may take 'two to tango', as it were, but only one actually risks the consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/18/male-birth-control-will-men-take-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2023-11-24 13:16:51

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@npub1ulm…hweg
So just the rear wheel assembly?

2023-11-10 14:16:07

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@npub18nt…3439
All my other machines (I operate on the box-per-service principle) have some sort of video output but this one, my media server, has an rj45, one usb (in use), and a power socket. As a box it's very stable and worked perfectly for years but it needed an OS update (was 2018 lts now 2022lts) which failed to complete in-place.

2023-11-10 00:20:23

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@npub18nt…3439
In the next room, but it has no video capability - ssh only or putting the mmc into another machine to edit something.

2023-11-09 19:59:23

box I effed up now reinstalled with a slightly more uptodate OS version. Guess who forgot to copy over the authorized_keys file before rebooting a headless machine :O

2023-10-22 14:45:11

Whenever I buy something I keep the box it came in, in case there's a fault with it, and put the box in the loft. Then I keep the box because I might need to pack the thing into it if I move home. Then I just leave it there.
This afternoon I removed some boxes from the loft and broke them down into cardboard sheets, removing all the tape. Now all piled up ready for next recycling collection! So much space! (notallboxesgone)

2023-10-18 11:00:39

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@npub1wkq…6q5j
I see humans never made it to Greenland, Italy, Greece, or the UK.
True.

2023-10-15 12:31:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Exactly. cf American support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan which led to the Taliban.
Don't ask for what you want; you might get it.

2023-10-15 11:08:34

It is difficult to not see the Israeli government's collective punishment of Palestinians as anything other than apartheid ethnic cleansing.
That Hamas wants to kill all Jews does not excuse Bibi or Likud from using their overwhelming military forces in this way. Not all Palestinians support Hamas, but they all want to live.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/15/condemning-hamas-does-not-justify-collective-punishment-of-palestinians?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2023-09-23 11:03:00

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Reminds me of those whistles that unwind when you blow them.
Except there's no feather on the end.

2023-09-22 16:39:49

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@npub19lt…qfjk
"+ gardener" You're selling a *person*? Ooer...

2023-09-14 13:39:22

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@npub1r47…wytr
Which, of course, is exactly the problem emphasised by FPTP. No way I want a continued Tory #NastyParty in power but that means I've effectively got to 'support' (sic) a Labour party which is, frankly, not a lot better (if at all?)
Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

2023-09-14 10:40:06

"Starmer insists there is 'no case' for rejoining EU"
The boy is an absolute fool. Brexit is a failure, as it was always going to be, and by not offering hope #Starmer is signing his and Labour's demise.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/sep/14/starmer-migration-channel-crossings-eu-labour-tackle-people-smuggling-europol-tory-rishi-sunak-humza-yousaf-scotland-china-security-intelligence-uk-politics-latest

2023-09-10 11:45:50

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@npub1psd…9sr7
I once spent a lot on a nice fountain pen (though not *that* much) but then I lost it.
Are you in KaDaWe perhaps?

2023-08-03 13:47:35

Love it!
Instructions in new cooker:
"Warning! Foods cooked in this appliance will be hot."
Well, gee, I sure hope so! 😂