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Sharks are older than trees. 🦈

The first plant species which can be considered a real tree is known as Archaeopteris, and it evolved about 350 million years ago.

The first sharks evolved 50 million years before that!

#NoFoolin

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Driverless vehicle news: Circle Line trains are fully automated between Hammersmith and Latimer Road. diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/201

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The #StopBrexit petition will now actually be discussed in parliament, recognising the huge number of signatures it has received.

Please sign the #RevokeArticle50Petition if you haven’t already done so, and you are a UK citizen who doesn’t want #Brexit to happen!

petition.parliament.uk/petitio

To watch the numbers without overloading the site, use livefrombrexit.com/petitions/2

Re-potted a blueberry plant, which is picky about needing acidic soil (ericaceous). Mixed elemental sulfur with some compost: bacteria slowly convert the sulfur into sulfuric acid, making it acidic. rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=

The reassuring voice of Scott Manley talks about rocket fuel and Ignition! by John D. Clark youtu.be/_wLk2j7_KB0

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Returning to #drawing after a long break. Skipping the rest of the gel pens chapter as the prompts weren't inspiring me. Next chapter is "About Town" in pencil and black pen.
First up: a bicycle.

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UK remainers: Sign this petition to revoke Article 50, because at this point we need to do *everything* we can to stop this shambles, and though they're usually ignored, it's worth a few seconds. Also it's at over 600k sigs and climbing fast - maybe it won't be so easy to ignore this time:

petition.parliament.uk/petitio

review: A Fire Upon The Deep by Verner Vinge. Reads like a timeless sci-fi classic, with lots of space given to showing off the world and its ideas. But it's also well paced and builds up to be a proper page-turner by the end.

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here at the TelcoSecDay of @WEareTROOPERS@twitter.com I'm learning that in 2019, SS7 firewall/IDS products use a ten year old kernel (2.6.32) and are vulnerable to IP fragmentation bypass which are at least 20 years old. Is that the state of cellular security, OMFG!

Something wrong with the phone mast? No encryption, rejecting handsets, not advertised by other masts? SnoopSnitch is an android app which will tell you about it opensource.srlabs.de/projects/ Full list: opensource.srlabs.de/projects/

The crossing points at ate where collisions happen, and they're surrounded by detectors. But which important direction has no detectors? symmetrymagazine.org/article/a

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Shadows of the ancient ridge-and-furrow cultivation system appearing during the 2018 UK drought. Found this while mapping for @openstreetmap.

I'm in Seville! There is sunshine, seville oranges and seven-hundred year old buildings. ☀

briefly landed on (and shot at) an asteroid so that it could collect bits of asteroid to bring back to Earth. planetary.org/blogs/jason-davi

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