If you like the numbers round in Countdown, you'll love https://c.eev.ee/digitle/ #math #games
Diamond Geezer visits the odd bits of outer London http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/03/tw15-and-tw19.html #london
Dinosaurs! A song by MelodySheep. https://youtu.be/ige2YBBJeh4 #science
Ghost Horse Bag by Simon Monk. It's not a real object. It's not a photograph. It's a painting. The holes in the board are also painted. From a set of paintings which need to be seen to be believed. On at the Beecroft in #Southend until the end of May. https://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/exhibitions/Jennie-Sharman-Cox-and-Simon-Monk---Double-Take #art
Morning!
I'm on #Strike today along with thousands of my colleagues across the public sector.
You can read more at https://prospect.org.uk/serving-our-society/
@admin Help!
Hi friends, I have been working on a service to help get RSS feeds into mastodon, and it's more or less ready for prime time. It lives at:
Basically, you:
1) create an account by sending a message to @admin with the word "help", and clicking on the link you get back
2) specify the URL to a feed, and a username for the feed
3) your feed lives at ____@feedsin.space, and you can follow it like any other account in the fedi
Blog post here: https://muffinlabs.com/2023/03/09/feedsin-space/
Tube and rail strikes this week in London and the UK:
- Wednesday 15 March: Tube strike
- Thursday 16 March: Rail strike
- Saturday 18 March: Rail strike
There is often disruption the following morning. National rail affects most lines, but Overground, Elizabeth and c2c are ok this time. #London #Strike
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/industrialaction.aspx
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/strikes
Fabled Lands look at AI and non-AI cover art https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/03/got-it-covered.html
Barbie have come a long way. This is ace news. Maggie Aderin-Pocock has her own Barbie! “The Barbie modelled on me is a space scientist with her own telescope. Girls should be shown that anything is possible”. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/doll-barbie-space-scientist-inspires-girls-to-dream-bigger?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #space #physics #women
In cold weather, #cycle in a slightly lower gear to keep warm.
Using python and your linter is complaining about consider-using-f-string? flynt will automatically fix them https://github.com/ikamensh/flynt #python
Newly published today: Detached from reality, a long read by Kayley Hignell at Citizens Advice. I've been working with Kayley for a while to help her get this written, and we're both very pleased with the result.
https://medium.com/@kayley.hignell/detached-from-reality-72bba55961f1
Map of number of cars per household, from the UK 2021 census. Zoom in to an amazing level of detail.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/housing/number-of-cars-or-vans/number-of-cars-3a/no-cars-or-vans-in-household #uk #statistics #map
The SCO Linux lawsuit, 20 years on https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/924577/e6c528eb683ab8a4/ #linux
Hello! I post something interesting every few days.