Denny

Was a geek and fitness enthusiast, then a brain haemorrhage kinda ruined my day. Now I'm trying to get back on my feet and figure out who I am.

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2024-08-24 09:40:18

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Non-paywalled article here: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/08/23/how-lidl-accidentally-took-on-the-big-guns-of-cloud-computing/

2024-08-13 16:31:31

"Twitter has been ordered to pay over €550,000 compensation to a former senior executive in its Irish-based operations in what is a record award by the Workplace Relations Commission for an unfair dismissal case."
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0813/1464761-record-award-of-550k-to-former-twitter-senior-executive/

2024-08-10 13:44:49

"Details of new films including the title of the third instalment of Avatar, an addition to the Star Wars franchise and a sequel to Freaky Friday have been announced at a giant Disney fan event."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3gyq4y30o

2024-08-02 09:55:31

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@npub1r47…wytr Where I can keep a careful eye on it!

2024-08-02 09:05:05

Consumers in 'wise to your bullshit' shocker 😆
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

2024-08-01 17:18:12

On the bright side, I might not quite live long enough to see the AMOC collapse. Yay?
https://arxiv.org/html/2406.11738v1

2024-08-01 07:11:49

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@npub1r47…wytr Looks like a Half-Life decontamination unit. I like it. 😄

2024-07-25 15:50:39

Meanwhile, over on Faceb0rk, I have just been offered one post from a group I am in, followed by 40+ adverts and sponsored posts from groups I am not in and not interested in. Zero posts from the human beings that I actually joined the site for. #Enshittification

2024-07-21 15:05:53

"What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LXKA6FO
Interesting book about an intelligence very different from our own. 99p on Kindle today.

2024-07-19 10:30:36

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@npub1r47…wytr Huh. Well, never trust anything you read online eh? 😄

2024-07-19 09:56:10

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@npub1r47…wytr I just read that Crowdstrike floated on the stock market this month, so this doesn't smell like a stitch-up at all 😄

2024-07-10 09:21:17

"Data centers will use 8% of total U.S. power by 2030, up from 3% in 2022."
https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

2024-07-06 21:13:33

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@npub1r47…wytr I get the impression that a significant fraction of women would commit medium crimes to get a bidet.
I'd consider it myself for a wetroom since my brain blew up and stopped my ankle muscles listening to me.

2024-06-28 12:11:32

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@npub10zv…nz7m
https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/112/694/173/256/724/005/original/385f0ed5cb8667a7.webp

2024-06-17 18:46:56

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@npub1afz…wdvg Why secretly? I remember many late-night chats with my mum in the kitchen when I was about 10-12 maybe, where she was honest about her mistakes (to her mind) so we could try to avoid some of them.

2024-05-30 11:19:45

"We do not believe that the compensation is commensurate with the performance of the company." #Tesla
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musks-56-bln-pay-package-opposed-by-calpers-ceo-cnbc-reports-2024-05-29/

2024-05-17 11:25:00

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@npub1r47…wytr Xitter. "Like Twitter, only shitter."

2024-05-14 10:51:50

Can't remember who I was discussing this with recently, but Meta are teasing earbuds offering real-time translation, amongst other capabilities...
https://www.androidauthority.com/meta-ai-earphones-3442560/

2024-05-13 19:51:25

Just went to two tech talks which I kind of understood, followed by not understanding how to pay for my cab home. So, ups and downs continue. 🙄

2024-05-11 15:24:49

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@npub1r47…wytr Like miniskirts you mean? And Minis, for that matter 😆

2024-05-11 15:18:16

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@npub1r47…wytr Is it a two-parter? That'd be nice of them.

2024-05-11 12:31:50

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@npub1r47…wytr Some of my North London friends got fairly good photos of it, which did amaze me. Not as good as my sister in her motorhome in the middle of nowhere in the midlands though. 🙂 ❤️

2024-05-08 16:07:40

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@npub1r47…wytr A couple of years ago, one of my friends who's a porn star uploaded a heavily photoshopped copy of their passport with the name changed to their screen name. Which was accepted. 😆

2024-05-06 19:14:12

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@npub1r47…wytr Ouch.

2024-05-05 11:27:47

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@npub1r47…wytr Yeah, I assumed it was generally caused by ones perception of duration being relative to the time already ... expired, to pick a bluntly relevant word.

2024-05-05 07:55:33

My life used to move so slowly, because I crammed every week full of experiences - hobbies and people and what thought were passtimes but think maybe they were the whole point of time. Now I do nothing except go to the gym a few times a week, listen to audiobooks, and attend medical appointments, and people's birthdays are coming up again when it feels like they were only last month, not a year ago. At this rate it's going to be Xmas again tomorrow and the 2100s next week.
I think I might have got old.

2024-05-02 18:09:05

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@npub1r47…wytr I did a postal vote, then unexpectedly happened to talk straight past my local voting table today anyway, they'd put it in my gym's cafe this time 🙂

2024-05-01 19:26:23

https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/112/367/452/573/018/584/original/273d66d366ba4846.webp

2024-04-30 20:07:12

Ahahahaha, just heard on BBC news that Eire has passed legislation designating the UK as a safe place to send asylum seekers back to 😆 Cue vast outrage from the Tories.

2024-04-27 11:27:36

“Far from being the dystopian nightmares that we are used to, Banks creates a kind of flawed paradise, a society truly worth fighting for — rather than a warning from the future, his books are a beckoning.”
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tv-radio/news/amazon-are-adapting-iain-m-banks-culture-novels-into-a-series

2024-04-25 19:22:00

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@npub1r47…wytr My friend manages all her meds stuff (she's on enough that she should rattle) with Google Calendar and Alexa reminders. I guess it depends what the person who'll be doing it finds most intuitive though.

2024-04-20 14:55:29

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@npub198t…hasj Had, yeah. They all died battery death during the 5 years where work was eating all my time... the batteries in them don't handle neglect well, it turns out.

2024-04-20 14:40:01

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@npub198t…hasj I don't seem to have this one lying around on disk any more, sadly. I'll see if I can find a tool to liberate it or something.

2024-04-20 14:34:55

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@npub198t…hasj https://www.facebook.com/denny/videos/12474311046

2024-04-19 17:21:24

https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/112/299/026/041/153/719/original/61d2a0c7c06752c0.jpg

2024-04-17 14:59:56

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@npub1r47…wytr Zoomers already have a lot less reasons not to seriously consider that option, legal or not. 🙁

2024-04-17 14:56:58

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@npub1r47…wytr My last mouse had 5, 7 including the scroll wheel, and they all worked when it was plugged in. I was quite surprised. Never did find a use case for some of them, buy they generated the right events 🙂

2024-04-17 11:16:13

Bit late for April Fools isn't it?
"Those that splash out on the upcoming #Logitech Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated #AI prompt button."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/logitech_introduces_ai_prompt_tool/

2024-04-16 10:06:31

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@npub1r47…wytr Won't somebody think of the arms manufacturers?

2024-04-12 22:08:19

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@npub1r47…wytr Was the first one free?

2024-04-12 12:17:01

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@npub1r47…wytr If we had more boats we'd only put them in the bloody Channel anyway, with the media-driven policy agenda everyone has lately.

2024-04-10 14:25:09

"Elon Musk said his posts on social media might have had a negative impact on Xitter's bottom line."
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-may-have-financially-impaired-x-2024-4

2024-04-08 19:10:34

I really resent rooting for Zuckerberg, but here we are 😂
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-passes-elon-musk-on-bloomberg-billionaires-index-2024-4

2024-04-03 15:37:09

"According to J.D. Power, #Tesla ranked second from the bottom in 2023 when it came to initial quality — the quality of new cars based on owner impressions, with a score of 257 reported problems per 100 vehicles."
https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/an-etsy-entrepreneur-is-exposing-teslas-shortcomings-to-new-owners-taking-delivery

2024-03-28 17:47:10

"Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI. Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency into a real one, which was subsequently downloaded and installed thousands of times by developers..."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

2024-03-27 18:02:14

“Every single marine species that we’ve looked at so far is full of cocaine.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/uk-sewage-spills-treatment-works-b2519309.html

2024-03-10 12:23:22

https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/112/071/362/521/584/655/original/4a95d4f98b00ac52.png

2024-03-07 09:48:05

"In 2018 Musk told executives that the only path forward for #OpenAI was for #Tesla to buy it. The company refused, and Musk left OpenAI later that year."
https://www.citizen.digital/tech/openai-publishes-elon-musks-emails-were-sad-that-its-come-to-this-n338004

2024-03-06 00:13:24

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@npub1r47…wytr That screenshot was taken on Firefox Mobile, but yeah, not logged in.

2024-03-06 00:07:14

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@npub1r47…wytr ?
https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/112/045/823/576/895/341/original/795e6d6972a17bf7.png

2024-03-05 23:14:01

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@npub1r47…wytr Definitely better than the last UI, I don't recall the original one too clearly but I think this is more similar to it? Other than the busyness around the text input box... lot going on there, which I shall explore tomorrow 🙂

2024-03-05 23:01:28

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@npub1r47…wytr Every single tearing-my-hair-out issue I had with Ruby systems has turned out to be a JavaScript issue.
Not that Ruby issues don't exist, but they generally make sense in a way that JavaScript takes perverse delight in never doing.

2024-03-05 22:36:43

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@npub1r47…wytr rubocop is a linter

2024-03-05 16:36:48

🤣
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/05/talktv-to-close-down-television-channel-and-go-online-only

2024-03-02 13:08:53

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@npub1r47…wytr 🤣

2024-03-02 11:51:15

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@npub1r47…wytr All our Prime Ministers are unexpected. It is fun to see Labour flanked in the huge gap they intentionally vacated on the left though 🙂
Although I have a vague feeling that Galloway is like Johnson - better at campaigning than governing.

2024-02-21 21:18:59

STATOY @npub1r47…wytr 🙂
https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/111/971/547/459/300/253/original/83b5f683845462eb.png

2024-02-01 15:41:13

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@npub1r47…wytr Oh that's pretty.
Possibly portentous, but pretty nonetheless.

2023-12-23 21:31:30

Got a letter from the ophthalmology department at the hospital regarding my recent visual field test (which I had totally forgotten going to, yay memory!)
Anyway, apparently my eyes are basically structurally/physiologically fine (or "unremarkable" as the letter put it, which in these circumstances I assume is actually a good thing rather than a mild diss). 😆
So if I'm not seeing things, it's probably not because I _can't_ - I'm just not bothering to retain the information after it reaches my brain. Lazy or what!
I'm not sure what I do about that now though. Maybe I should set up the Wii and start playing Geometry Wars again? What might encourage my eyes and brain to pay attention to my whole field of vision, or at least the entire central area?

2023-12-23 13:22:51

https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/111/629/927/044/546/678/original/d495160141dbb196.jpg

2023-12-23 12:57:17

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@npub1437…ranm I would consider sacrificing somebody's first born child for a good Calvin and Hobbes movie 😉

2023-12-23 12:16:26

#Caturday
https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/111/629/660/628/820/246/original/6876a73643b34ec5.png

2023-12-22 11:16:34

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https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/111/623/775/750/002/531/original/cf2602411c784214.jpg

2023-12-22 11:12:50

Big Xmas is a scam to get more boxes for overindulged cats, man.
https://boing.world/system/media_attachments/files/111/623/765/607/434/967/original/618b924aa60c59bf.jpg

2023-12-22 00:00:06

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@npub1r47…wytr The US has always been casual about murderous mayhem, while cracking down on porn.

2023-12-20 22:46:44

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@npub1r47…wytr Have you read his 'Bobiverse' books? Light reading, but pleasant enough for all that.

2023-12-18 18:56:31

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@npub1r47…wytr Not disagreeing as such, but I think it needs to join the back of the queue for things the UK should be embarrassed about 😄

2023-12-16 16:56:03

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@npub1437…ranm Innit. If somebody can get here I reckon they've already shown they're harder working than I ever was, let them in!

2023-12-16 16:32:34

“The Tories are in a bidding war to see who can make the most toxic contribution to the migration debate.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-migrants-overwhelm-uk-b2465290.html

2023-12-14 19:37:16

“I am concerned that the kneejerk response is to exclude children from digital spaces rather than designing them to support their flourishing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/14/rishi-sunak-considers-curbing-social-media-use-under-16s

2023-12-13 22:51:28

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@npub1r47…wytr I wonder what system the onVisionTV lot use/used... @npub1gd6…qnee, do you know if that project is still alive?

2023-12-13 22:26:18

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@npub1r47…wytr I think there's a thing called PeerTube isn't there, for FediVideo? Haven't looked at it yet.

2023-12-13 17:27:18

"Elon Musk is driving the platform formerly known as Twitter into the ground, and is one step away from it going completely under."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ed-zitron-tells-the-new-abnormal-that-twitter-aka-x-will-die-if-sports-leave

2023-12-12 23:15:29

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@npub1r47…wytr Ooh, pretty!

2023-12-07 18:21:04

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@npub1r47…wytr Or stop screwing people's finances so hard they can't responsibly afford to have kids.
Maybe stop setting fire to the planet too, while you're at it.

2023-11-30 10:13:23

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@npub1r47…wytr Big name in both escalating and finishing the Vietnam war, iirc.

2023-11-27 19:48:21

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@npub1typ…c8hh Oh, it works on my laptop, must be my mobile browser that's confused - sorry!

2023-11-27 18:35:53

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@npub1typ…c8hh Is that friends link banjaxed? Looks like a lot of it is duplicated, and it doesn't work for me.

2023-11-26 16:46:06

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@npub19lt…qfjk Should "impressioned" be 'imprisoned'?

2023-11-20 20:38:36

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@npub1r47…wytr Wow, yeah, that's chickenfeed to them! I guess the right palms got crossed there. 🪙🪙🪙

2023-11-19 20:29:54

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@npub1r47…wytr Ooh I like that.

2023-11-19 11:06:59

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@npub1r47…wytr The six vertical columns are "10s of hours, 1s of hours, 10s of minutes, 1s of minutes, 10s of seconds, 1s of seconds. Within each column the number is represented on binary.
You get far faster at reading it than you'd expect, but it's not quite as quick as glancing at the clock in the corner of your monitor 🙂

2023-11-19 11:01:30

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@npub1r47…wytr Binary Coded Decimal, in fact - even weirder 😁

2023-11-19 10:53:33

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@npub1r47…wytr I've got two of this type, one from decades ago and another from a few years ago, but I can't see any at a reasonable price currently (I'd expect £20-£30).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anelace-Powers-Binary-Clock-Display/dp/B0010SZZHE

2023-11-18 10:02:46

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@npub19lt…qfjk Didn't you get 1234 a few years ago?

2023-11-16 14:34:29

"Rwanda having a track record of killing refugees had made the court think there was something iffy about the UK deporting its refugees to Rwanda. Funny that."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/15/desperate-delusional-defeated-the-tory-right-are-coming-for-rish-after-rwanda

2023-11-13 09:28:38

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@npub1437…ranm I reluctantly think that my general principle of "someone's name is what they tell you it is" even applies to Tories 😄

2023-11-13 09:05:32

"Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as home secretary sparking a major reshuffle of his top team."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-palestine-protest-london-armistice-day-b2446176.html

2023-11-11 17:10:00

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@npub1r47…wytr Hopefully they'll continue to move farther and farther away from sanity and leave the majority of voters behind them for a few decades.

2023-11-11 16:36:20

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@npub1r47…wytr There's not really anything to back up, I don't think - I don't _use_ Gmail, it's just the underpinning for everything else.

2023-11-10 18:36:05

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@npub19lt…qfjk Wow that does not work for me. But it totally should exist for the people it does work for!

2023-11-09 17:10:05

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@npub19lt…qfjk I'm also side-eyeing "ma'am bonnet" and "ma'am settings" instead of "ma'am's bonnet" and "ma'am's settings", but I don't know what's 'right' there, it just catches my eye as is.

2023-11-09 16:52:35

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@npub19lt…qfjk Should it be "connecting _to_ me to watch" ?

2023-11-08 20:07:09

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@npub1r47…wytr That'd be good... all the filthy hippies could try it if it wasn't theirs any more 😄

2023-11-08 18:00:52

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@npub19lt…qfjk Ooh. I think I'm getting 2 out of 3? I see a CD, what I think is a unicode missing character block, and then something which is probably not a duck balancing a ball on its head sitting in a church pew 🙂

2023-11-07 19:39:54

‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/07/top-officials-call-boris-johnson-no-10-mad-and-poisonous-covid-inquiry-hears

2023-11-07 12:24:15

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@npub1r47…wytr And lay legislative landmines... things that come into effect just as they're about to go into opposition, that will be easy and popular to oppose, but hard to unwind.

2023-11-01 19:07:04

"Travis Brown, a software developer based in Berlin, alleges his X account was first suspended on July 1 this year, several months after his data formed the basis of New York Times and CNN reports claiming that far-right influencers featured prominently among Twitter Blue subscribers, and how thousands of previously banned X accounts, including members of the far-right, were being reinstated on the site."
https://www.wired.com/story/x-twitter-ban-critics/

2023-11-01 18:34:09

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@npub1r47…wytr https://twitter.com/sue_lees/status/1719756957253287964 🙄

2023-10-30 07:18:39

"The letter, which was obtained by the investigative journalism organisation Point Source, also said the Met wanted police officers stationed at schools..."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/met-increase-intelligence-gathering-london-schools-amid-gaza-tensions